Guild Wars 2

In games like the Aspect Arena and Keg Brawl, you have the red team and blue team. But friendly players are also labeled blue and hostile red.

That’s OK if I’m on the blue team. But gets confusing when I’m on the red team and because we end up being team switched by the system between games, it can sometimes make the difference between victory and loss.

Perhaps, consider using other team colors? Or put uniforms on everyone? Or use a different way to label friendly/hostile players?

I know Activity probably isn’t on the forefront of A-net’s priorities but since its something we all have to do sometime (due to LS or daily), it would be nice to get this corrected.

I also have this perception problem, so I added it as Feature 26: Option to display player names and armour always in their respective team color instead of “blue=ally/red=enemy” in PvP and WvW. I’m totally confused every time a red enemy comes from a blue base and captures a blue point – this is a consequence of transferring from a different PvP game which always persisted team colors, and I’m sure I’m not the only one with this problem. To make it worse, /team channel is of an enemy-red colour instead of current team color. – in this list.

With you on this. Also found it rather confusing in aspect arena.

Lishtenbird’s suggestion would work well for WvW (perhaps neutral foes would have to be yellow or some other colour to indicate their neutral-but-hostile stance) and for activities too.

Alternatively activities could work with an “always blue” set up. That is to say that each player see’s himself, his team mates and his objectives in blue and all the opposing ones in red. Strangely enough the other team think they are blue too, it’s just a convention on how the data is displayed on screen. This means you are never confused if you switch sides between rounds!

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Teams should be purple and orange. There would be no confusion then.