Guild Wars 2

My real question is… If the following distance is already in the game, why can we only use it during predetermined encounters?

My camera (as well as probably everyone else that ran it) bugged out after completing the Mad King dungeon right after the event started. It remained at the zoomed out distance it was for the boss fight even if I changed maps.

I recorded a video in the Mad King’s Labyrinth. This is how I would prefer to play all the time… I understand you probably want people zoomed in to see all the pretty textures your artists worked so hard on. Some of us care more about gameplay than graphics. To me this view provides better gameplay and I actually have more fun instead of being frustrated from not being able to see over my big Norn’s shoulders.

They should adapt the zoom factor to character size, I dumped my huge Norn and rerolled a smaller character for the better overview (and because it felt so slow), but this zoom level was insane. As other people already pointed out, it would be a huge advantage in any PvP mode. They should add a first person view, but that bird perspective somehow feels wrong.