Guild Wars 2

I’m guessing this has come up a lot, but I did some searches and really couldn’t find much about it. So here, feel what I feel whenever I go into any kind of small space with my Norn.

Doing any jumping puzzle that takes place in a tight space with this guy makes me nauseated, I’m not saying that for dramatic effect, it literally does make me nauseated.

The recent patch which removed camera smoothing helped a little, but didn’t remove the problem. It only made it less frequent when in a open environment. Even in an open environment though, pressing up against objects and trying to jump up them has the camera spazzing in and out as shown in the video.

It is my hope that this thread brings some awareness of the problem to ArenaNet. I understand this problem might not take precedence over every other problem and only the developer has enough information to make those judgment calls, but we are now 2 months in to release and I was really hoping this sorta stuff would have been sorted out by now.

It’s not just a Norn phenomenon. It’s a general camera issue. I love this game — but, like you, the camera is preventing me from playing the game for too long. I am not prone to motion sickness in video games or in the real world. Guild Wars 2, however, has made me dizzy several times. As seen in this video, when your character hits an object (even tiny doodads like a fence or a rock), the camera will zoom in and out really fast. Some people don’t notice it until you point it out.

You can replicate this by having any character stand on a boulder (or any object with collision regardless of size) and then having that character walk off the boulder. The camera will push towards the character and then pull back within a split second as your character walks off the object. Sometimes when you have a more complicated object like a staircase, the camera will zoom in and out repeatedly, trying to seek a stable distance between it and your character.

ArenaNet acknowledges the issue in response to a larger post. Hopefully we will see a full fix soon.