Guild Wars 2

I like this idea. It would make more people feel they had to be more map aware. And even possibly help their teammates in solo queue.

Would be helpful.

Yup. Also improve map pings and create quick text options.

My first +1 ever. Great idea.

Isn’t there still the problem that it sometimes does not even show all your team mates at map and ui(health bar and stuff at the top left) if they are too far away? They first should fix this.

Of course then add stuff like “quick text options” maybe with voice commands. Map pinging also sounds like a good idea.

I don’t agree about showing all the enemies that are in combat with you. If some enemy is running away and running around a corner and you can’t even see him anymore then allies also should not be able to see him at the minimap(he might still be in combat with you cause combat needs some time to end… also if he is being hit by your conditions combat will not end).

Now line of sight might be an idea… but I don’t think this will work for Guild Wars 2. A “noob” might not even notice all the enemy players for example being in melee with someone and getting hit by some ranged guy… it should not just display all their positions at the map.

This might work for other games(where it just makes the map like with a fog of war giving every own person from the team a radius they can see and uncover the fog of war) but not for Guild Wars 2.

Either that or chat commands like Smite.
Oh, and release solo queue.

Right now we can see on minimap not only our teammates but also Jagged Horrors and other minions. Fixing this is a must.

Pesonally i think that Luthan is right:
-We should see our whole team on map, meaningless how far from us they are.
-Seeing every enemy in combat mode could be too much

Ideal solution for me would be some chat commands i.e. 1 .. 5 on close | mid | far , writing this during fight sux

Yep, they are detrimenting solo play by not showing all your teammates on your screen at times. As a roamer, I’ve honed my skills down to shift pretty well, but I will still not be nearly as effective of a player (or anyone for that matter) if our teammate’s positions arent shown. Same goes with enemy players, although that would be a plus, the first is necessary. There is also no reason why there cant be keybinds for notifications when someone needs assistance on a certain point.

Luthan.5236:

Isn’t there still the problem that it sometimes does not even show all your team mates at map and ui(health bar and stuff at the top left) if they are too far away? They first should fix this.

IIRC they said this should be fixed with the spectator mode coming out.

I hope so. This will also help you a lot to decide where you should go even without communication. If all guys are at full health and 1 point is contested by 1 of your guys you probably don’t need to run there to help.

Would even be much better if it showed the class icon instead of the green dot and if you could hover with the mouse over the icon to see the name.

It would be nice if they added the “BEEP” sound played when calling out a target. In gw2 voice overs replaced the sound, but you don’t hear the player speak if you aren’t in range and sometimes the voice over doesn’t play at all.

Thank you very much for your reply.
Are there any plans to add Voip or Voipless comunication to the GW?

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

As someone who solo q’s alot: Thank you! This is amazing!

Nice improvement, but I still say quick commands (like in TF2) would help a lot.

Even more so once you guys get the solo que done.

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

Yay!

Is this why my mini map is in the top right of my screen? I never changed any kind of setting…I logged in and my mini map moved to the top right of my screen.

wow, that’s great. really looking forward to this change! great stuff and thanks.
will add more layers to gameplay i feel. : )))

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

Excellent. So instead of fixing the solo que to prevent premade roflstomps, you decided to let these guys draw genitalia representations on the mini map.

/golf clap

Firebaall.5127:

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

Excellent. So instead of fixing the solo que to prevent premade roflstomps, you decided to let these guys draw genitalia representations on the mini map.

/golf clap

Perhaps a bit harsher than I would have said it, but there were certainly more useful things (quick text, betting pinging, etc) that surely couldn’t be too tough to implement. I’m having a hard time visualizing how icons will help people in pugs decide whether they should help close point or stay at mid.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Firebaall.5127:

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

Excellent. So instead of fixing the solo que to prevent premade roflstomps, you decided to let these guys draw genitalia representations on the mini map.

/golf clap

Perhaps a bit harsher than I would have said it, but there were certainly more useful things (quick text, betting pinging, etc) that surely couldn’t be too tough to implement. I’m having a hard time visualizing how icons will help people in pugs decide whether they should help close point or stay at mid.

-You see that a warrior from your team is on mid point, quick look to the team rooster shows that he’s got tons of conditions on him and his HP is dropping rapidly thus you conclude that there are at least 2 people trying to take him down.
-Your ranger is on close point, his HP is full, no conditions nor pre-combat boons on him -> close point is most likely safe atm, move to the next objective.
-Your thief is constantly bunkering mid point, while your guardian has moved to close point. Tell the thief to roam and let the guardian take care of the mid point.

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

thats good, but how can i draw on minimap when i have shift binded to something else? i dont want to dodge everytime i want to draw… how about configurable setting?

MaXi.3642:

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

thats good, but how can i draw on minimap when i have shift binded to something else? i dont want to dodge everytime i want to draw… how about configurable setting?

Story of my life.

Showing icons sounds nice. But drawing? I don’t think there will be much time or people will pay attention. Maybe if you are dead?

I think this fits better into WvW(let players/servers chose their commanders by voting and give the option to draw something on map to commanders and make it also who on the big map you get by pressing “M”).

I remember this from another game(dead game only 100 players are still playing it) where you had teams of 16 vs. 16 fighting and each team 1 commander with rts view and he had enough time to “command” and he also could draw at the mini map.

Luthan.5236:

I remember this from another game(dead game only 100 players are still playing it) where you had teams of 16 vs. 16 fighting and each team 1 commander with rts view and he had enough time to “command” and he also could draw at the mini map.

Savage 2, hm? Fun game, though good commanders were rare :P.

JonathanSharp.7094:

For this patch: drawing on the minimap is working.

When playing, you now your teammate’s profession icons (you don’t just see a green dot, you would see a Warrior, or Ele, or Thief, etc.).

Any way we can customize this to show group member and guild mates as a different color. Would love to see the functions in the old UO Automap added.

Use smite voice commands!

VF1: enemy missing close!
VC2: Be careful middle!
VRR: Retreat!
VGG: Good game!
VGN: Nice job
VVG: Gank!

GW2 would be:
“Enemy incoming close point!”
“Trebuchet is shooting!”
“Attack svanir!”
etc