Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this is in-game or if has been talked about before, but what I am proposing is to toggle the transition animation when opening the world map.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, its the animation that takes place when you are on your character and you open the world map, it doesn’t instantly show on your screen but the camera zooms back into an aerial view and then the map appears. When you close the map, the reverse thing happens.

Reasons
1)It’s fairly obvious why I would want this as it slows down the time checking the map especially WvW..

2)The camera angle induces vertigo. Not a serious case of it, but most of the time I want to go from exactly what I am looking at, to the map, back to what I was looking at. I don’t want to have to look at the ground in a sweeping motion over and over.

Effects
1) I think it would be crucial in getting non-seasoned players to look at the full map before making positioning decisions. An example of this is when a player is running in the open world and toward a destination( event, point, etc..) they constantly update their heading based on their offset. In the same realm of PVE, players will be able to check the map easier for events taking place throughout the zone (i.e. silvewastes, temples, wvw)

2)In addition to the personal decisions, it will allow “leaders”(commanders, group leaders) to check the map faster when they want to command people where to go while they are fighting especially in WvW.

3) Less camera angle changing going on. When I am pvping I am constantly changing my camera angle and there is so much pitch and yaw (z and y axis rotation) rotating taking place. I could be looking behind my character, open the map, the camera will rotate around and above my character, I’ll close my map and I won’t be facing where I was before hand.

Conclusion
I understand the choice to make certain constraints such as how far you can zoom out, but I think this animation should be able to be toggled off as it could improve the quality of life for players like myself. I don’t think it would be difficult to implement and it wouldn’t really disappoint any players as they can keep the animation if they enjoy it. Please speak if you feel the same way or have any other suggestions. Or if this is already in game and I’m just blind.