Guild Wars 2

Am I the only one that wants to be able to see what the actual player sees? A lot of the way someone plays is in how they control their camera, and I often find the current camera that pans behind the player really annoying. Would this even be difficult to implement and why didn’t Anet do it in the first place?

No, you’re not the only one.

You can currently control the view point using your mouse, I personally don’t see the need for anything more. But, custom arenas are still in BETA, so more features are on the way. This could be one of them.

Having the game allow you to view what the other player is viewing could cause horrible amounts of motion sickness:

Watching someone play s/tPVP in real-time is much different than watching a nicely cut youtube video of select footage. High mouse speed + constant view spinning to look for incoming players is not fun to watch. Also, the camera spazzes out quite a bit when you’re near a wall or cc’d.

Kharr.5746:

Watching someone play s/tPVP in real-time is much different than watching a nicely cut youtube video of select footage. High mouse speed + constant view spinning to look for incoming players is not fun to watch. Also, the camera spazzes out quite a bit when you’re near a wall or cc’d.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking. But that said, it should still be a choice in my opinion. I mean, I’m still curious as to what people are looking at/ how they view the field — it would be quite interesting, wouldn’t it?