Guild Wars 2

Many people have found that since the patch, they can no longer see any aoe, neither effects or rings. This also carries onto other skills like, marks and lines of wardings, veils etc… Alongside this siege is also going invisible, so you can be sat there, firing an invisible catapult, with invisible projectiles. And this also effects enemy siege.

This has been brought up on the WvW discussion forum, and the amount impacted is obviously quite high: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Graphics-update-06-08-made-WvW-unplayable/first#post2570486

This is affecting everything. Effects and AOE rings aren’t displaying properly or are delayed. This really needs to be fixed.

Yup, destroying wvw. Unplayable.

While I appreciate the work Anet is doing to reduce graphic lag (especially in large scale battles/ highly populated events) this update has thrown previously stable graphics all out of whack.
I’ve tried repairing, tried resetting my settings, checking directx, etc.
I’d almost rather the occasional lag and inability to move when I zone then this, because my screen is constantly flickering when the light changes/ I can’t see certain things.

3 hot fixes for the crappy festival though, epic.

Have you tried setting your graphic options back ? The patch reset them to the default ones.

it is unplayable, i dont see anything. its worse than culling, its super culling. i’ve reset my graphics right after the patch and now i don’t see any aoe, idk where waterfields,nullfields are,idk where any enemy fields are, i either die, because i stepped on something i didnt see ore we win and watch a firework slideshow 20 seconds after we are done. and btw if u have done the new pve event, check the centaur champ and im sure u are wondering what killed u…well it was his aoe which u didnt see at all!

please anet fix this asap

I played on high setting before with no lag, not with the setting the exact same… it is hitching and stuttering. Definitely vastly worse for me because now I am forced to turn settings down when I did not have to before.

Suddenly I don’t regret taking this week off from WvW. xD

I’m having a miserable time, and a friend of mine who has a slightly worse machine just decided to stop playing this new patch until it gets fixed, for him especially it’s just unplayable.

He suffered from some bad fps in the past when with a large number of people around, but could always play fine. Now he’s forced to turn his settings drastically low just to be able to see the names on the enemy’s heads – although he still can’t see enemies, allies, enemies attacks, etc.

It’s miserable, I’m just dying constantly and for free without knowing what killed me.

Exact same think happens to me with certain skills when participating in a zerg on the new Legendary creatures in the new zone.

When there’s about 50 people or more, my veils and fields will not display until up to 4 seconds after I have cast them, including my reflect bubble.

If this is happening to other players, using reflect fields could easily be exploited.

selan.8354:

it is unplayable, i dont see anything. its worse than culling, its super culling. i’ve reset my graphics right after the patch and now i don’t see any aoe, idk where waterfields,nullfields are,idk where any enemy fields are, i either die, because i stepped on something i didnt see ore we win and watch a firework slideshow 20 seconds after we are done. and btw if u have done the new pve event, check the centaur champ and im sure u are wondering what killed u…well it was his aoe which u didnt see at all!

please anet fix this asap

Yep. Both pavilion events and WvW are pretty unplayable because the aoe shows up a good 10-20 seconds after it actually goes off. Luckily for the pavilion there are a lot of people rezzing, or the champs would never die.

Also, I’m having to target mobs by their health bars now, because they’re often invisible for 10-20 seconds also until they pop in.