Guild Wars 2

I love the magic carpet, my Asura looks Mack Daddy while cruising around.
But, I’ve had quite a few people msg me in-game saying it often looks bugged, apparently looks as if I’m running around with the carpet, not actually riding it.

Anet, could you please look into this, as it’s a bit of a let down to the “cool carpet” factor, and I’ve noticed a lot of chatter about people not wanting to buy it from the Gem Store given the issue.
P.S – My character is Asuran, as I know there are a few different poses according to race.

Anyone else seen this, or got any screen shots?

Huh what; I didn’t even know those carpets exist. I’ve never seen one, and I must have missed the point where they got added. =0

This actually sounds a lot like those people have their graphics settings very low. Did any of these people mention if they always see the carpet this way, or if it is temporary/situational?

There are settings at which weapon animation effects are no longer being displayed. People using those low settings instead see a static un-moving weapon (probably often without noticing that other people see movement where they don’t).
I suppose those people probably also would see an awkwardly un-animated carpet that looks like you are running around with it.

PS: Saturn I guess you may be excused – they have only been added yesterday

Was playing pvp yesterday, and when I got back to HotM, I saw a person with the carpet not flying (looked like normal running around), with the carpet fixed at their feet.
Did not take a screen of it tho. And running highest settings, so not a settings issue.
The issue may be happening due to rendering settings (low poly loading mesh → your preferred settings)

I’m actually having a different issue with the magic carpet while on my asura. If you check the screenshot attached, you’ll see that while on the magic carpet, my asura’s eyes are rolling out of its sockets. It is… freaky…

this bug happens when you waypoint in and someone already used the carpet.
It’s not the graphic settings because I play on high.
Can be fixed if the carpet person reuses it.

So when using carpet, remember to refresh it every now and then so other ppl wont see the bug

I also submitted a thread about this with pix
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Carpet-bugged-when-waypoint

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I’m actually having a different issue with the magic carpet while on my asura. If you check the screenshot attached, you’ll see that while on the magic carpet, my asura’s eyes are rolling out of its sockets. It is… freaky…

Deek. what’s wrong with rolling eyes, duh

Edit: here are my pix

Hey Guys, thanks for all the feedback on this bug.
I think there may be a few different glitches happening too.

I play on high settings, and yesterday saw a friend have the same issue people have been noticing about me when flying sometimes.

We were already in the map for a little while (hadn’t just WP’d in, but then again not saying it’s not related), and when he activated the Carpet, is looked like he was running along the ground, with the Carpet flapping back and forward around his mid torso level.
It looked fine to him on his side, but not to everyone else.

Interestingly he was an Asura too, so wonder if some race animation\poses are affected more.

Cheers,
LEGO

It is the same thing as with /sit /sleep, etc emotes. You see others sitting only if you have been in the same zone when they used the emote. If you WP in or switch character after they have used it, they just seem to be standing to you even though they see themselves sitting. Same with carpet, they only see it correctly if they have been around when you mounted it.

I haven’t seen all races on these carpets yet, but my norn is always sitting on it. I have seen charr and asura standing on the carpets however.

I can understand the asura standing, given their small stature, but not so the charr. Don’t know about humans or sylvari yet.

I have been standing by the bank in Divinity’s Reach and saw people sitting on their carpet hovering in the air and someone that looked like they were running with the carpet stuck to their feet and clipping the ground. Both were visible on the screen at the same time. I did not pay attention to the race of the various carpet riders so I do not know if that contributed to the glitch.

My graphics settings are all high running on an NVIDIA GTX780.

I’ve seen this as well and all my settings are on high.