Guild Wars 2

I am running across an issue where all Norns except me are all human based models and have a default armor skin. Some do, some don’t.

Is there a fix to this? My fiancee who is playing a Norn as well in the same room, same IP, etc is not having this problem. Do I just have a bugged client? Earlier today this issue wasn’t happening.

You have your model settings on low quality, because of this the normal models are replaced by those black males you see in that picture.
The difference between norn and human in this low graphics model is just the size.
(you can test this by putting the setting on something like medium/high)

Have you checked your Character limit in the graphics section of settings?

Because that gives everyone a generic skin, and armour, in order to decrease machine workload.

When did this change take place? I’ve been off of GW2 for about 3-4 months and prior to this issue I didn’t have anything like that happening.

Also I haven’t changed my settings for the game in 3-4 months.

Very recently, culling was removed and replaced by this.
Culling is a system that you don’t see fellow players cause your client and your internet connection is still loading them. To solve this they replaced those fellow invisable players with ‘placeholders’. They are all pink colored and have the same armor. After a while (if you and them stand still) they change to their normal armor. Nortmally you would have never seen them. As suggested, in your settings you can tweak things to have them less notable.

I changed everything and can now see other players. Thanks everyone. Felt odd playing GW2 with only humans… -_-