Guild Wars 2

so… with this new camera change you can see over walls..
i say remove this, PLEASE.
field of view increase… FINE
but.. looking over walls? HELL NO
casting lines of warding on top of a wall? PFFFF

you used to be able to ambush people, suprize the enemy by charging around the corner.
this camera change completely removed that VERY good part for good organized guild groups.
the stability change makes it harder, or at least it’s a bigger challenge, but this suprize effect gone.. makes it even harder.

im listing this under bugs, since it’s kind of an exploit. it really is.
you should not be able to look over walls unless you are standing on a hill.
i am adding a picture as attachment, you will see me standing next to a wall, and i am looking inside bay. you can see over the wall, onto the bridge AND you can see the enemy on the inner gate.

the second and third pictures will be, me placing a line on top of a wall with this new camera change.

the camera change is nice for PvE. but it ruins a big part of WvW.

fix asap? please?

Indeed this is bonkers. Needs disabling in WvW at least. FoV is great though – loving it on my 21:9 display

In a Friday POV, they said they were aware of this, but were okay with it because people were already able to see over walls by going to windowed mode, and then increasing the size of the window. This evens out the playing field for everyone.

(What I took this as, was they couldn’t figure out how to stop people from doing it an unintended way, so they are just allowing everyone to do it an intended way.)

never heard about this windowed mode though. pretty sure A LOT of people dont.
now every one is able to do it easy. VERY easy.

The FOV is not a problem. It’s just bullkitten that you can see over walls now. Spam skills ON walls. Even arrow carting is easy.

the only reason you can place a guardian line on-top of walls, is due to it does not need LoS. Add it to the skill, and it’s fixed. (More or less)

I agree with you. Though I don’t know that “most people don’t know how to do this” is a justifiable reason for allowing only a minor few to do it.

ok, so field of view might not be the worst thing of all.
the biggest problem seems to be the vertical up thing.
it removes a big part of WvW. suprizing the enemy. removes tactics..
just look at the picture, im standing outside of bay. and i can see all the way to the lords room, i can see people on that gate, you can see people coming from miles away BEHIND an obstackle

GG, now I can’t even portal bomb anymore.

maybe disabling just the vertical up view for WvW only would make this A LOT better

It’s an intended change.

You used to always be able to turn your window extra wide to get an insane FOV that goes way beyond what is the maximum now and look over walls for your zerg.

The upcoming wvw map is -all- about the towers being more defendable and defenders having several approach angles to give the zergers serious problems from above. And those will be replacing the borderlands with occasional, possible rotations.

i will keep it simple it sucks big time it has made wvw very un enjoyable