Guild Wars 2

Ive been away for about a year and finally decided to come back and give heart of thorns a try. I was really disappointed when i started using grenades with my engineer and found that the effects have mostly been removed. All i get now is a whooshing noise which sounds stupid and removes any feeling of impact that my grenades used to have.
Is this change intended or what ?

Afaik there has never been a change to nades o.O Dunno what you mean :o

Grenades were visually nerfed some days ago. Also fire bomb and orbital strike.
I hate it… the new effects and sounds are just pathetic.

OS and FB is a long time ago and they were simply too noisy. Didn’t notice anything ’bout nades tough :o

All explosion sounds are softer. It’s something they did 8-14 months ago. Like you know crab tosS? or the similar crabs in southsun the stalk you and explode on your head? Those used to make heavy impact sounds. They made it ultra soft. Same for the air aspect in dry top, skyhammer, etc. Same for grenades. Same for fireball. Same for bombs.

All got a lot more soft. And almost all the people don’t realize it, for me it’s a huge difference (worse play experience).

Was hoping someone would say it was un-intended and soon to be fixed… oh well
Engineer doesnt feel the same without those effects

lol i dont think we should ever throw around “soon to be fixed” with regards to superficial and nongamebreaking bugs

ah, so you’re saying its a bug? …lol

idk if it is, i play with sound off, and whether it is or isnt a bug i havent been doing too much or too little damage (to either mobs or my computer) because of it so dont get your hopes up for a fix if it IS in fact a bug. thats all i mean!