Guild Wars 2

the camera is so bad and i cant handle it anymore. executing what you want to do is impossible with the camera being affected by any object on the map. spending most of my gw2 time in pvp since beta, i have come to the point where i cannot tolerate the camera getting epileptic seizures every time i pass near any object (that ore cart and the little fences surrounding the quarry on legacy of the foefire make me particularly happy). getting an accurate and quick aim on ground targeting spells with the camera bouncing around is not possible. this results with you teleporting to a random wall and spending a few seconds figuring out where you are while spinning the camera arround. i am not going to go on and on about all the issues that the camera can cause you in pvp because there are a LOT of them. the point is that you cant execute your trained and practiced plan in a quick and precise manner because the camera wont allow you to do so . allowing the camera to wall hack and make objects between you and the camera transparent (them trees between my char and my camera) would make our life in pvp much easier and would alter the tactical situation on the battlefield insignificantly. now i dont care much about wvw since it is laggy and the performace is bad and i do realize that this would affect wvw more significantly than pvp, but giving the camera wall hack could be a pvp only thing. i want to know is this problem going to be addressed or should i play something else?

Welcome to playing games post-OGL.

kitten , do I miss sprites :/

One thing I especially don’t understand is why the camera switches to first person when you have your face right up to an object (like wall). In other games the camera moves forward when you have something behind you, but in this game the camera switches to first person when there’s nothing behind you but something in front of you.

O.O The word “LOT” really stands out of your Wall’o’Text

Yes, the camera was the first thing I complained about in PvP.
I had ‘switched’ from WvW to PvP very late and was sooo used to the open space of the WvW maps that I had constant rage when playing PvP the first days.
You simply cant see kitten at some spots. Your camera is blocked by some stupid tree or whatever really.
I died often because I was unable to read the battle due to the camera movement.

Eventually you learn to avoid those spots, if you can.
Its not something easy to fix at all so I am not really expecting any fix either.

true gw have extreme bad focus on the camera iv start notice them more and more since im playing wow now

The camera can be bad but I can’t think of a time when the worse thing in the situation was actually the camera.

For me the camera issues are very present when I play big characters like a charr or a norn, especially when doing jumping puzzles. For humans, sylvari and asura, the camera problem is not as noticeable.

Malkavian.4516:

For me the camera issues are very present when I play big characters like a charr or a norn, especially when doing jumping puzzles. For humans, sylvari and asura, the camera problem is not as noticeable.

i have some fairly small chars and in pvp it makes no difference. once you have an object in your vicinity it becomes impossible to quickly aim ground targeting skills, like teleport for example, and not being able to teleport and/or wasting your teleport can mean that you die/loose the game.

i notice that you are able to ignore such major issues, like the camera being completely crap, as long as you like the game and consider your lack of experience with the game as the major factor that causes you to make errors and bad plays while playing pvp. once you get better at the game and start making mistakes very rarely, you notice every single time the camera or a bug causes you to miss a skill and die and you start being really, really annoyed because you cant just get better at the game for the problem to go away. oh well, there are plenty other games for me to play, no point playing and getting annoyed because gw2 has deal breaking issues. it is a shame because gw is the only mmo i know about that lets you pvp immediately without grinding pve. i hope that gw3 wont have those issues, i will make sure that i check the camera before i decide to buy gw3. does anyone else know about any other mmorpg that will let you do pvp without forcing you to grind pve for gear and levels?