Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but it’s making gameplay very frustrating. I purposely turn all names off because I prefer to see the environment around me – this is so frustrating, that it’s making it hard to keep playing.

Essentially, all ambient creature names are permanently showing up on my screen, and I can’t shut them off. I know the location of every rat, sparkfly, frog, mosquito, and rabbit from the moment I enter a map.

I’ve tried turning GW2 off and restarting.

I’ve tried restarting my computer.

Can’t get rid of the names. See the attached screenshot.

Please help. This is very annoying.

Do they go away if you turn player names off? Or if you get close to them?

Oh, I was just showing this one as an example. They all appear, though. Just like this. I’m on a map right now where I just see raven raven raven raven raven all over the place.

ETA: And no, they never go away.

Perhaps it is a bug, I honestly had not thought about it before.

I thought maybe they were acting similar to player names when they are at a distance affected by “culling” or view distance and show up regardless of setting at said distance.

Other players were experiencing issues that NPC names would disappear when the player names tick box was unticked, hence my question about player names above.

Hopefully if it is a bug, Josh will make note of this and it could get fixed sooner or later.

Was it like this before or is this a new issue for you?

This is a new issue for me – last time I logged on was the 20th, and the ambient creature names weren’t all over my screen at that time. I mean, it is definitely something I can live with, but I’d rather not, you know?

Kinda ruins the feel of something when you’re looking out over a snow-covered field that says ‘rabbit’ all over it. XD

It was mentioned in another thread (from the same OP) that these Frogs are not ambient but are linked to the heart..

Again, I was using the frogs as an example – AND they shouldn’t show up at all like that.

As I also said in that thread, at the time, I was standing on a map looking at a whole bunch of ‘Raven’ text that was all over my screen.

Whether or not a critter is linked to a heart doesn’t matter. It’s still a critter, and it’s still showing text when it shouldn’t be.