Guild Wars 2

Just a small set of changes I wanted to suggest to get rid of the annoying practice of corpse scouting, which is to say leaving one person dead at key locations to track enemy movements and report on them.

When a player goes into defeated state in wvw, have their screen go black, leaving only the minimap, and only allow their minimap to display nearby allied players. That will permit them to know if there is a chance of a revival coming sometime soon or not, without allowing them to infinitely camp at key areas to watch for enemy movements.

People need to stop crying about this seriously. It’s part of the game that you can do as well. Didn’t once ever see somebody in daoc complain about it, and it happened all the time.

Either block corpse scouting, or let us drag enemy corpses to where we want them to be. AKA the bottom of the nearest pit.

corpse scouts aren’t a big deal when you can send a free transferee to do LIVE scouting.

Which is presumably part of the reason why they’re reducing free transfers to one every 24 hours.

for a dedicated guild and those that will win at any cost – including sportsmenship, 24 hour is cheap price.

There should be a forced return to start waypoint after some time. You should get like 10 minutes max you can lay dead, and gain 1 more minute every 10 minutes you spend alive or something. This way if you die and someone is coming, you can lay and wait, but you cannot abuse it like currently.

i personally think they can stay as long as they like.. but the screen should fade to black and sounds start to dim starting at 30 seconds and dims to pitch black after 1 minute after dying.

This one i actually agree with. DAoC had an auto rel timer so you could corpse spy for a while then that was it, back to your gate. The way it is now you can just leave your dead self in a lord room or in a court yard and relay back defenders, amount of siege, where the siege placement is, etc…

You get kicked from the server if you lay dead (or afk) for too long. Not sure how long before you receive the message but it is under 10 minutes. I was dead in front of a keep for a while waiting for my server to push back and thus rez me so I wouldn’t have to trek the 5-10 minutes back. I received a message stating I had 60 seconds to resume fighting or be kicked from the server.

The POV is really bad as well when your dead so I didn’t really see this as an issue.

You already get penalized for doing it. If your dead and just watching the enemy team – maybe reporting their movements etc, your gonna get bored real quick. Great way to spend your time in wvw after waiting in that generally long queue.

Yes, please! If you want to scout, drag your character to the place.

This was happening to be in the jump puzzle in a borderland. I was running through and saw a few corpses. After about five minutes the corpses disappeared and a huge wave of players came rushing in to kill all of us in the puzzle. It’s very annoying. I’ve also seen people do it after we take back supply camps. One or two people will stay dead until everyone starts to leave, then they poof away. Pretty soon the area becomes contested again.

They are dead, how can they see anything?

I have to agree. Even with the 10 minutes to an afk kick, that’s a good 9 minutes too long that somebody can continue scouting a location that the defenders can do absolutely nothing to stop.

And does it even kick after 10 minutes if they are communicating? I didn’t do it while dead, but I did stand around at a tower as a sentry for more than 10 minutes before, with no activity except the odd update in /team, and I wasn’t punted out.

It should indeed slowly start to fade to black and white/black when a player dies… and forces a respawn at the waypoint.. after about 10 mins.

Keep in mind, my guild uses this as a way when the zerg rolls us at a tower, to just die, let a ninja stealth up and hide. and retake the tower when they leave.

Agreed.

I would like it so that as soon as you die:

1. For 5 seconds you can see everything, thus allowing you a brief moment to figure out what killed you.

2. Then fade the 3D view slowly to black over 5 seconds, allowing you to still see the UI and be rezzed but unable to gain any advantage by what you can see after death.

3. Fade out local sound to mute in proximity of your character too.

This is psuedo-realistic dying too, in that your vision and hearing is slowly fading after mortally wounded.

Solution: 3 Norn Shoulder to Shoulder.

or give us the option to drop one of those houses on top of them but make it big enough so it obscures all their view lol, you wanna sit there forever staring at the floor beams of my house? go ahead be my guest

Actually, I just thought of a better solution… rather than having the screen go black, which would be rather annoying for most people; Just have the camera slowly pan to a vertical top-down position on your character and have it locked there. This way people can still see their character but not anything around them.

I like the idea that opposing player/team could literally carry the dead player’s body to a specific location.

You could abuse/grief with that too much.

hahaha, people arnt going to do it just because you say so. Put this in the suggestions forum, this is something Anet needs to deal with. Expecting people to not do it is ludicrous.