Guild Wars 2

I’ve been refreshing to see if anyone reports this too… but it seems I am the only one to get this bug or whatever?

After installing the latest patch (today 20th August) I was surprised to realize my husband’s PC, who was in the same party than my PC before the patch, and which is a female mesmer, looked like a faceless male stranger… in pink

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/232/3/8/captura_de_pantalla_2013_08_20_a_la_s__18_52_3_by_soniacarreras-d6iz4sw.png

Then we switched to our sister elementalists (again female human)… and that male stranger was here again!

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/232/8/7/captura_de_pantalla_2013_08_20_a_la_s__19_12_3_by_soniacarreras-d6iz4ya.png

(But at least he kept his cute quaggan backpack).

Then we went to Divinity’s Reach and… Oh the horror!

All people had been cloned!! All player character’s were cloned into stranger male characters with a default armor (which changed depending on their class, but nothing else) which looked all the same!!!

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/232/3/2/captura_de_pantalla_2013_08_20_a_la_s__19_39_2_by_soniacarreras-d6iz535.png

I wonder if this is due to the new Anti-culling feature or what. Anyway it is disturbing and uncomfortable and I don’t know what to solve it.

I’ve tried so far to:

- Reboot the game
- Reboot the computer
- Change resolution settings to all combinations (mainly smaller ones, less memory-consuming)

But no changes :/

I’ve also realized I get the name of the foes and ambient creatures in the distance, which is also bothering when there are too many, and I also tried to set all the “Show NPC/Enemies/PC names” options off, without them dissapearing (this can be seen also in the second screencap)

(and I can’t seem to make the images appear as images either, so I have to leave them as links. Oh well…)

Shhhh! It’s a new cult taking over Tyria.

The Order of It’s Not Pink, It’s Light Red.

OK forget it. This post gave me the answer and it is fixed now:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Character-limit-quality-PvE-is-now-WvW/first#post2663667

Of course, the only combination I didn’t try was making the WvW resolution higher because… well I didn’t think it had anything to do with PvE. But it was.

And mtpelion, you made me laugh!!! XDDDDD

Well they still appear when I arrive to crowded places like Dwayna’s square… but slowly they get their real appearance. And it is scary… all those cloned guys in not-pink-it’s-light-red!!!!

Any chance we’ll be given options for the following in the (near) future?

- Seperate PvE and WvW character quality settings.
- Turn culling on/off option.

The latter was suggested by a friend, who currently cannot play effectively due to the removal of culling. It’d be very kind if these things could be looked into.
At the least, an official statement (forum, wiki, social networks) for all the people lost on where to go to fix these issues would be very, very much appreciated!

I have the same problem…changed WvW options didn’t even help -.- and yea I got this problem after 20 august patch…It’s really annoying

The same for me @fantasyangel, and I don’t know what to do to fix it, even if I have tried change wvw settings. It means I will have to play with such issue?
And one thing, why did they remove that culling? In my opinion it was better than now, now is one huge mess.