Guild Wars 2

“The cities will be more vibrant and bustling than ever”. too bad I won’t be able to witness that because the character models wont load before I leave lions arch

That’s the whole point, this speeds up character loading

zallis.2138:

“The cities will be more vibrant and bustling than ever”. too bad I won’t be able to witness that because the character models wont load before I leave lions arch

You do know that the fact that they don’t load IS culling, right?

zallis.2138:

“The cities will be more vibrant and bustling than ever”. too bad I won’t be able to witness that because the character models wont load before I leave lions arch

Culling and loading character models are two different things.

Culling removes things to speed up rendering. Character models does not appear instantly because of your hard drive latency. They just need time to load. The new culling algorithm also fixes that issue by showing fallback models instead of the model that’s still being loaded!

So you should be happy either way.

If you’ve ever done wvw before and after culling you’d know what a difference it will make. I just hope they make it adjustable like wvw. I personally don’t care what everyone else’s armor looks like most of the time. Seeing generic purple people running around is somehow satisfyingly amusing to me.