Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if it’s a bug, but ever since the patch the image on my loading screens is further up with a large blank space beneath. I remember seeing a post by that shaman a while back which had short passages that were originally going to be put into loading screens to give the player more lore on the area they were entering, but this idea was scrapped. Do you think this feature will be returning in HoT or in a near patch?

Xandrian.8304:

I don’t know if it’s a bug, but ever since the patch the image on my loading screens is further up with a large blank space beneath. I remember seeing a post by that shaman a while back which had short passages that were originally going to be put into loading screens to give the player more lore on the area they were entering, but this idea was scrapped. Do you think this feature will be returning in HoT or in a near patch?

Actually I think that is a bug with the new camera options. Did you raise the camera level at all?

had the same issue. i havent adjusted the camera at all. Addition of lore would be really cool.

my camera options are all on default i think :o
but if it is a bug… god kitten i got so excited! XD

I had (have) the same thought. Didn’t we have lore down there in the past? (Maybe it was only during the BWEs…)

I am not sure it has to do with the new camera options, as I noticed before I entered the game the first time with this patch. Then, again, it may be. /shrug

I havent changed my camera and the loading screens are shifted up… But they dont seem “bugged” as the loading circle is in proper place and the top end properly (ie fade texture).

Having a little text beneath it seems very logical. As long as its not something stupid like “Press the jump button to jump, jumping lets you reach place you otherwise couldnt without jumping!”

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I had (have) the same thought. Didn’t we have lore down there in the past? (Maybe it was only during the BWEs…)

That’s what I heard. No idea why ANet removed it, seems like a nice enough little addition to the game.

I can +1 the return of the Lore screens. I KNOW Guild Wars has a massive amount of lore, but ANET has this compulsive need to hide their lore from the general public, that I do not understand. Are they scared people will discover the lore and hidden deep inside it is ANET’s plan to take over the internet world?

Idk but it looks gross the way it is right now. I hope they are able to address all the issues people are having in the next couple days, because this patch is a PR nightmare.

Lore during the loading screen would be cool, but I don’t think you can update the lore every time you load up the screen. Like if you load up The Grove there is lore about the pale tree. Then the next time you load up The Grove the lore is about the first born. That would be nice, not reading the same lore over and over again.

The images seem to be below 1920×1080 resolution, they always looked upscaled and bad on my screen. I guess they decided to show them at native res with black bars for higher quality. Looks sharper now.

The reason it’s put higher up is for the download bar to be displayed when using the streaming client.

Syione.3046:

Lore during the loading screen would be cool, but I don’t think you can update the lore every time you load up the screen. Like if you load up The Grove there is lore about the pale tree. Then the next time you load up The Grove the lore is about the first born. That would be nice, not reading the same lore over and over again.

Eh what? Text would not be baked into the image, obviously it would be picked from a string list. Its easy to have a loading screen in the grove with 10+ different grove lore texts being randomly chosen.

Unfortunetly, the post above this make more sense than lore.

What about the sides of the screen? Why is it blacked out? Is it because they were not that ultra widescreen pics and to cover the side area will require the loading images to be stretched out?

I am hoping an update to loading screens all in all as well. Because this looks bad.

I’m speculating that the extra area will be added for the new mastery thingy..

UnknownRH.4592:

What about the sides of the screen? Why is it blacked out? Is it because they were not that ultra widescreen pics and to cover the side area will require the loading images to be stretched out?

I am hoping an update to loading screens all in all as well. Because this looks bad.

The sides of the screen blacked out is indeed probably due to preserving the aspect ratio.

They seem to be back to normal again, I think it was just a bug with the new camera positioning (though I’m not exactly sure how that’d affect it).

EDIT: Nevermind, I booted up the game like an hour later and now it’s back to that extra blank space

haresean.3856:

The reason it’s put higher up is for the download bar to be displayed when using the streaming client.

What download bar? I use the -streamingclient, and the only bar it has shown has been in the actual map at the lower-left side of the screen, and only shows when you mouse over it.

No bars showed up in the actual loading screens for maps, whether I chose to ‘download in background’ or not.

I noticed that too. Had to redo my screen settings, but the black ‘window’ around the loading screen is still there. I’d love it if they added lore.