Guild Wars 2

I keep hearing about how culling is being changed and this and that, but I can’t find what culling is. So what is it?

It’s basically the server deciding which people around you to tell you about.

You are standing in a field. There are 75 people around you. Rather than send you 75 people’s data it decides to save itself som ework and your client some work and only send yo information on 50 people.

Your computer only knows about 50 of the people, you can only see 50 people, but there are others around you just cannot see.

They tried to write the server so it would do this intelligently and show you the people you would most likely want/need to see, but it doesn’t always work very well.

Edit: Porky beat me to it =)

Not hard to find, but for your benefit I will give you a brief explanation. It has to do with the issue of other players rendering and showing up on your screen. Mostly noticed in WvW with huge zergs when it all looks clear ahead of you and suddenly you’re in the middle of a 40 man zerg from the other server. And at times, as quickly as they appear they will disappear. As you said though, the issue is being worked on and hopefully resolved in the near future.

Thanks, now that I see the definition I get it, and I have experienced the “what just happened to me” thing.

This is culling, notice the amount of people we are fighting :P