Guild Wars 2

During the first two beta weekends, I managed to get my gliding mastery up past using updrafts, but I was never able to actually find more than one.

I noticed in the TwitchCon video about maps, that the updrafts all seemed to be red. That certainly will make it easier! I hope that remains in place and isn’t just a thing for dev testing.

Well actually i found them immersion breaker. A soft windy like would be better.

I’m kinda hoping the opposite way, for it to just be a dev thing :p

I agree with rhodoc and desslive.

While the Red Spike out of no where was a lot easier to see, I rather they just come up with a better “in-game” look for them to show off the updrifts.

Maybe sparkles? Everyone like sparkles!

for visibility’s sake, I’m glad they have a bright color easily seen from a far.

Maybe like a “strand” of wind that is bright red, and not just the whole thing?

See? Compromise!

They do feel like an immersion breaker, but considering how often the community has complained about visibility of things, they obviously decided to use that feedback here. If they are in BWE3, they might be collating feedback about this.

I agree it’s kind of out of place, and maybe could be a little more subtle. Or maybe when you are gliding you could activate some skill to detect them if you choose to, so those who want can see them more vividly. (Or even just something in options).

just have them turn from the small windy gust into a sizable tornado thing when you’re actually airborne?

Immersion breaking isn’t a valid excuse in a game with wings, the dreamer and bitforst.

silvermember.8941:

Immersion breaking isn’t a valid excuse in a game with wings, the dreamer and bitforst.

The Bifrost (i assume you mean that) has every right to be a rainbow-themed staff.