Guild Wars 2

Anet! do something with this problem please! We cant do anything becose in big fight we cant see enemy!

20-30 sec later…they are loaded.

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It’s quite an annoying issue and I’ve had it to a large degree since the previous patch.
It’s annoying running into a zerg you cannot see.
It’s annoying seeing arrows and fireballs spawn out of thin air making it difficult to target the enemy.
It’s annoying when coupled with a thief that can effectively perma-stealth and kill you in seconds.
It’s annoying when zergs can use it coupled with portal and you cannot see them until too late.

It’s just plain annoying and I do feel it’s ruining WvW even more than most other issues. Seriously needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

Maybe they could do what other games do and use placeholders, for instance Rift uses blue cylinders to at least show there is someone/NPC there whilst the data on the model, etc is being sent.

I will no longer bother with WvW. Today, our zerg of 30 odd was completely wiped multiple times before we saw any effects, players, anything. What’s the point in playing like that?

My true wish: make it so that more than 15 allies within a set radius = movement speed debuff. The more allies, the more severe debuff. It would get rid of the stupid need to be in a zerg in the first place (so you can actually feel like you mean anything), and then solve the graphics issue on top. Oh, and make mesmer portal max 5 people too, put that as wish #2.

Invisible bug suxxs! Fix this Anet

I agree this needs to be addressed.

With a mesmer portal on to a door, a dozen golems can tear it down before you even see them.

Other games use gradual loading – you see ‘outline/ghostly figure’ then rest of the model works. It also works on per-player basis.

GW2 appears to load everything at once. This results in invisible zergs. This gives insurmountable advantage to attackers. This in turn promotes formation of roaming invisible zergs.

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Other games use gradual loading – you see ‘outline/ghostly figure’ then rest of the model works. It also works on per-player basis.

GW2 appears to load everything at once. This results in invisible zergs. This gives insurmountable advantage to attackers. This in turn promotes formation of roaming invisible zergs.

O nice.

Even if the enemy were just placeholder sprites, at least we would be able to see them.

My computer is old and while fighting i have a lot of issues with lag and with the system rendering the enemies. YET as soon as i die (without releasing), everything loads perfectly and the game runs smothly. I dont get it.

I don’t know why they don’t load names first, then characters. The most important information is knowing something is there (ally or enemy) and how many. This alone would solve the general issue.

Today 2012-10-21 I have been seeing invisible players again. No where near what it was a while back but just a few random invisibles here and there. In EB I had fireballs coming down at me from up on a cliff top. Was an invisible Ele up there attacking me.

I have also experienced some delayed load times along with seeing a player however they have no name tag over their head. I click on them and BAM, red name tab appears. So now when I see that I’m freaking out because I don’t know if they are friend or foe.