Guild Wars 2

Ok as title says here’s the reason why i personally avoid the mode:

The map is ugly.

Yes, that. If I’m to spend hours on a map it has to something beutiful that enchants me and basically feels great to roam. PvE maps raise up to that challenge, at least maguuma jungle & wastes + shiverpeak zones. Even charr lands have their bright moments.

But WvWvW? Some generic medieval european looking countryside that has absolutely nothing enthralling about it for me. So in short a-net, do consider making someting …less reserved for World vs World if you want to lure yours truly in.

Nothing major i know, as i’m one guy, but with all the profession balancing topics, i thought it might be good to let you know there are other reasons asides balance some people just don’t wonder in there.

Seconded, although I do actually roam.

The maps feel empty and like I am in a box. Much less so in other places.

First time I went to another BL I was kinda surprised that it was exactly the same as all others. I know it would be a balancing nightmare to make them different but they managed to do it on EB.

Would love to see more variety in the maps, especially the borderlands. EotM was quite nice in that aspect, and I would like to try the map in normal WvW (for that, and other reasons).

Off topic: OP we seem to have very different tastes for maps, I can’t stand most of Shiverpeaks, find most of Maguma boring as heck. But do love the Ascalon and Kyta maps. But nothing is as horribad ugly as Orr. I also love the borderland map, but hate that it is 3 identical copies, and no fan of EBG.

Welp the blandness of the maps may be due to the issue with frame rates when large zergs collide.

I wouldn’t expect any new maps to fix this. Maps have been brought up due to other reasons, and we almost never get a reply.

Yes, maps are time/work/cost intensive, so ANet definitively wants to make as few new maps as possible, especially considering the reception EotM got, which actually did do what the OP mentions. So new maps are highly unlikely.

And between EBG, EotM, Borderland (and also the old Borderlands with Orbs btw), they have enough big 3 way battle maps anyways, so if they did make more maps, I’d wish to see them make something different to encourage/reward different play styles (Roaming, Havoc, Siege, etc and not just Zerging). But now I’m even more off topic.

The borderland map already have a shift from winter landscape in north to more temperate in the rest of the map, EBG has swamp areas around south west etc. I think just changing some more of the maps like this would likely help a lot, like slapping on different tiles sets on each of the 3 borderlands (except that that to would be a lot of work for ANet).

Ah well, would love to see it, but really don’t expect it. Think I’ll play a bit more EotM just because I like the map.

Well this is cool. Everybody should post why they dont do something. So much interesting… bullkitten.
If u dont play it, dont do it. But why u are telling us why u dont play?

GG

Am I supposed to go into General Discussion and talk about why I don’t give a flying kitten about the Living Farmville content? Is that how this works?

Hmm… i dont like Pepsi… where can i post this…

msalakka.4653:

Am I supposed to go into General Discussion and talk about why I don’t give a flying kitten about the Living Farmville content? Is that how this works?

Actually that would probably be better in the living story forum.

Also I wouldn’t be able to play unless I dropped a few tiers if it was any more rough on my rig.

schnitzel.9018:

Hmm… i dont like Pepsi… where can i post this…

On the Mountain Dew forums of course.

The only way i can think of them being able to add new maps is a map rotation. Wherein the borderlands maps would still be the same 3 maps for balance reasons, but the style of these 3 maps would be different. So one week the bl maps are in the jungle, and the next week they’re in the Shiverpeaks. That would add variety and mystery as you may not know which borderlands maps your game will be on this week.

How about taking a copy of PvE maps and fine-tuning them for WvW use? PvE copies intact, of course.

Map design contest? E.g., use free Blender for modelling.

You’re worried more about how a tree looks than the blob that is about to stomp you? smh

I think they could add some more “food for the eyes” but the wvw is not about graphics.

My computer isn’t bad but I like to play with low-medium settings… I don’t care about flowers and birds and butterflies! I want to see the animation of the enemy as fast as my network lets me!

You cannot dodge a RideTheLightning if you are staring at clouds or nice fireflies around you

As for changing the maps:

They are identical for a reason… You have to know one map and you know all the three. So if you fight on blue then hopping to red you can take the same route, use the same shortcuts and flash-teleport to the same place (or not).

If they change the maps they have to make them absolutely different. Like jungle-desert-arctic. Or whatever…

In wvw we need big, open spaces with some choke point. Fight in the trees is the most annoying thing example.