Guild Wars 2

I first noticed it in the cutscenes after claw island, and I’m seeing it again in the trailer for new capricorn map.

Big ships do not sit so low in the water!

Whenever I see a ship in GW2 traveling anywhere, all I can think about is how quickly that thing would be taking on water and sinking. Please get your animators to take a look at some reference pictures of real ships on the water. It’s horribly ugly to see these big ships of the line embedded halfway into the water, gliding around perfectly level.

Haha, yes.

I’ve done this arc so many times and I’d always giggle at the clumsy-looking boat as it sailed away.

Funnily enough, I’m not sure if it has always been like that. I distinctly remember seeing the cutscene a while after playing through it a few times (maybe half a year after launch?) and thinking that it looked a lot lower than it used to. But perhaps I’m just imagining things.

Regular looking boats on the outside, Asurans commanding golems with buckets on the inside.

This is why there was a push to invent air ships… less water.

~EW

The heavier a ship the more water it displaces. If they were any higher, they could capsize.

Do you know what the ship is carrying?

Loosmaster.8263:

Do you know what the ship is carrying?

I do, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy.

Loosmaster.8263:

The heavier a ship the more water it displaces. If they were any higher, they could capsize.

Do you know what the ship is carrying?

If memory serves me right, the water level was incredibly close to the portholes/or where the cannons come out of the side of the boat. If there were any waves or if the ship leant to the side, water would come flooding through them.

I appreciate that ships high in the water would be unstable, but the water level on this one is just a little ridiculous :P

Here’s a video to demonstrate the point. https://youtu.be/CPo5pdLcJCo?t=20m45s

The only thing missing is Jack Sparrow…

The only thing to remember is this is just a game … it is not real life and few things are just like in real life …..

In other news, four of the five races in Tyria do not actually exist, there are no dragons and you can’t shoot pink lasers from a greatsword.

It depends…

Modern ships and ocean-worthy vessels of the 15th century were higher. Still, there were ships that were really low. Ships of antiquity in Mediterranean Sea weren’t high! Ancient Greeks had really low ships and that why they didn’t travel that much during winter.

Then again, as others mentioned already, there are soooo maaany exaggerations in Guild Wars universe that the height of sea worthy vessels is the least.

I think that the ANet artist mostly knock it out of the park. But two areas seem weak for them: felines and boats. My feline rant’s been made elsewhere.

Boats, yeah, I absolutely cannot immersively imagine myself on a sailing vessel. I’m sure there were mechanical and game play constraints on the design, but these wallowing tubs shouldn’t stay upright and afloat, nor is their internal design anything like that of a working vessel rather than a themed linear dungeon crawl. Plus somehow when the wind fills their sails the aft pennant can still stream off the stern, pointing its flapping self into the wind.

The airships likewise are annoying platforms without plausible interior layouts, but perhaps thanks to their being more fantasy objects they don’t grate nearly so much.

Hehe the ship design has always bothered me too for exactly this reason. They look like they’re sinking. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

Why can’t they be like for example this ship in Fawcett’s Bounty puzzle:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/a6/Fawcett%27s_Bounty.jpg

Ilias.8647:

It depends…

Modern ships and ocean-worthy vessels of the 15th century were higher. Still, there were ships that were really low. Ships of antiquity in Mediterranean Sea weren’t high! Ancient Greeks had really low ships and that why they didn’t travel that much during winter.

Then again, as others mentioned already, there are soooo maaany exaggerations in Guild Wars universe that the height of sea worthy vessels is the least.

Well you’re talking about ships of a different design. The problem isn’t that the models aren’t realistic, it’s that they aren’t internally consistent. Even just based on looking at the ship model in-game, there’s no way they would be riding that low, and if they were they would be sinking.

They got the one on the Frostgorge loading screen spot on, though.
That is just a still image though and no animation.
Might be because it was a simple photo shop from a google image of a real sailing vessel (image on the right).