Guild Wars 2

A long time ago there was talk about adding a toggle/slider for the camera smoothness/inertia. There were even some threads that developers commented on. A developer raised the “tension” of the camera to fix the issue somewhat, but to this day, the camera inertia is still in the game and greatly affects the feel of the game.

I believe that the reason not many people care anymore is partly because they learned to live with it, but the problem has not gone away. If you play Gw2 for a bit, then swap to another game (cs, wow, any game almost), you will notice the huge difference in Camera responsiveness.

The camera in Guild Wars 2 feels like constant mouse acceleration or like the camera a console game would use (they do this to improve analog stick control). Maybe it doesn’t affect all players, but for me and probably other too, this is one of the major issues with the gameplay in Guild Wars 2. It would be amazing if a developer could chime in on this! =)

Agreed, this topic has been brought up a lot when this game first launched.

Guess noone is interested at discussing a big flaw with the game. Here are some links to a time when even devlopers joined in on this chat:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/48100-unresponsive-camera-mouse-acceleration/
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/59951-camera-control-issues-summed-up-for-you-reading-enjoyment/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Camera-control-issues-a-documented-list/first
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/48374-need-a-disable-camera-smoothing-option/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Give-us-an-option-to-remove-the-smooth-camera/
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/43746-camera-smoothing-is-annoying/

Devs:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Camera-Smoothing/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Camera-control-issues-a-documented-list/page/3

Sure, many of these were long ago, and while the issue was later improved upon, it is still in the game!

Bumping this thread, I’d really like to see an option to turn off the smoothing. Can’t think of another competitive game which MAKES you play with acceleration of any sort.

Very much agree with the camera inertia being a problem. I’ve always felt the game somehow felt sluggish and couldn’t put my finger on it until today when I finally realised it was the (lack of) responsiveness from the camera. Hope this gets seen and addressed ASAP, it has a big impact on my enjoyment of the game.