Guild Wars 2

(Sorry for broken english, not a native speaker)

The Issue
When I jumped off of a cliff, most of the time I was wondering after a few seconds “should press space already?” or “do I need to calculate when i need to press space to maximize height for glyding…?”.
Yes, the yellow button “press F to glyde” appears, but it appears like fading away and it’s confusing. Honestly, glyding is fun but starting to glyde was a bit annoying to say the less.

The suggestion
Make that your character automatically glydes as soon as it’s possible if you keep the spacebar pressed down. It will be easy, intuitive and we’ll appreciate that little detail.

I agree with this suggestion.

Also the general experience of gliding was hugely disappointing. I have enjoyed flying in many earlier ga,es, including some old home computer games of 1980s and Nintendo 64 games, but here the gliding in HoT just felt meh. I cannot put my finger on it, just the feeling of flying in air was missing.

Try modeling the same type of deployment they used in Just Cause 2 with the parasail. Timing had a delay that was perfect. Good model to follow.

I agree. Perhaps auto gliding instead of having to press a key to do it. I highly doubt anybody will just fall to their deaths.
One issue I noticed is that when I pressed the key to glide it took a second to actually start and at other times it took a cpl presses in order for it to take.

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

I agree. Perhaps auto gliding instead of having to press a key to do it. I highly doubt anybody will just fall to their deaths.
One issue I noticed is that when I pressed the key to glide it took a second to actually start and at other times it took a cpl presses in order for it to take.

Yeah, it’s really confusing at the moment.
In my personal experience: Sometimes, due to lag and other issues my key wasn’t recognised and I had to press again the key desperately to not die just because of the lag. This suggestion should fix that.

I agree. I was really struggling trying to get the glider up – I fell quite a bit before I even had the option to glide.

It would be nice to see some sort of automatic-glide-when-falling option. Even if it’s put in as high level gliding mastery. I think it’s really needed.

I think this is a great suggestion that would make it feel a little less clunky.