Guild Wars 2

Hi

At the moment, it seems that you can’t hide helm and shoulder in character selection screen. I’m not sure whether this is a bug or working as intended. But it doesn’t make sense that this is working as intend. If the player choose to hide helm or shoulder when he/she play the character, the character in character selection screen should be display in hide helm mode as well. It’s just my own personal preference but the character selection screen is like my showroom and it’s sad that I spent several hours to adjust the character face details and I can’t see it in my showroom. Oh and I think some helm is really ugly especially the Mesmer mask.

Signed. I think that the helms/masks are subjective, but I believe that if you have an option hidden in-game it should be reflected on the character select screen. There is a reason we hide them to begin with.

I agree, it’s annoying to see the helmet or shoulders on you character in the login screen if you set the option to not see them in game. There should an easy fix to just reflect the options you set ingame. Now that i think of it, I don’t believe they ever bothered to fix this issue in GW1.

I agree, I have no idea why it has taken so long to implement this when the game has to load your character anyways to display it. I did make a ticket about this already a while back, but alas..

I reported this a LONG time ago, before the game was even out. They already know about the selection screen showing all armor, but as this is only a minor cosmetic issue, it is LOW on totem pole of things to work on.

I 100% agree to all above posters.

This is one of the few things i really dislike about GW2. I hate to see the ugly mask every time i log in.

Please fix this as soon as possible, as it should not be very complicated to do so, nor should it require to much QA.

Thanks for your efforts
Regards

DoofDilla

PLEASE DO THIS! I HATE my helm… its ridiculous and no im not wasting a fine xmute stone on a yellow =P

I definitely agree. I put a lot of effort into my character’s faces and hair selection and I almost always hide helmets/masks in-game, and sometimes even the shoulders if they’re too crazy. However, on my character select screen, they look really wacky and I really wish I could just see their hair and faces like I can in-game. This really seems like a bug, as I cannot imagine ANY reason why Anet would intend on forcing the showing of helms and shoulderpads on character select when we can turn them off any other time, even in PVP.

Yeah, please let us the option to display or hide them. I really like my characters without helmets, masks and so on..
It should not be that difficult to implement this?

I too would appreciate this a lot.

Hi,

looking at today’s game updates notes this bug seems still unfixed. Are you going to fix it in one of the next updates or are you not recognizing it as a bug? It would be very kind if we could get some information if it is recognized as a bug or if it is going to stay that way.

Thanks for your efforts
regards

DoofDilla

Heh, reminds me of how when WoW first came out, all of your characters were in their underwear on the character select screen.

The difference, though, is that starring at my Night Elf half-nude was enjoyable. Looking at my ugly hat, isn’t

Yeah. And the mesmer masks look really such things I would absolutely not wear.

Agree! Is a bit daft this isn’t already done…especially since its exactly how GW1 worked was it not?

Spider.5347:

Agree! Is a bit daft this isn’t already done…especially since its exactly how GW1 worked was it not?

If i remember correctly, it was the same with GM1 at first and was fixed later on.

I wonder why they did the same error twice? Hopefully this time it will get fixed much faster

There are other issues with character selection screen that need to be fixed first.

Lauren Hotson.5068:

That little character selection hair issue is known and we are addressing it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Seeing-map-armors-stuck-weapons-or-other-art-issues/first#post108650

Liliana Moore.4237:

There are other issues with character selection screen that need to be fixed first.

Lauren Hotson.5068:

That little character selection hair issue is known and we are addressing it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Seeing-map-armors-stuck-weapons-or-other-art-issues/first#post108650

I wish we would get an red post on this thread too. Even better with the same statement :]

This really isn’t a bug – I’m pretty sure it was like that in GW1. Working as intended, I think. However, it’s displeasing aesthetically to a lot of players and probably would be an easy thing to do. Regardless, considering there are far more pressing things to worry about (half of Orr being bugged, tons of skill point, gameplay, and story bugs, etc), this is so far off the radar that anet probably couldn’t be paid to care right now.

I do like my character better without, but seeing as how it doesn’t hurt anything I don’t really care.

It was like that in GW1 at first but was changed eventually.

Even though there are far more pressing things to worry about, it should be so easy to change it, like a few lines of code, it could be done in a matter of minutes.

This is something I’d definitely like to see addressed. I know it’s minor, but some of my characters look so ridiculous at character selection. That’s where they should be looking their coolest.

Sadly, the above issue is still present after today’s (17. September) update. Maybe it will be addressed in the next one?

I agree with all of the above.

If you got time to fix things like

“Fixed missing female voice over lines that were not playing during some story cinematic sequences”

maybe you could spare some time to fix the hide helmet bug as well?

I have my character’s helm hidden in game (it’s ugly but has good stats.) So I would like to see the fact that it’s hidden in game reflected on the character select screen too.

fix the game first please, then worry about trivial things such as the login screen >.<

Please don’t forget to address this issue It’s still there and it is still very annoying.

bump for this getting some recognition

Another Patch without this issue being addressed. Can we get some information, if it is considered a bug or working as intended, at least please?

bumping up, this maybe not the top priority but needs to be addressed.

Although this is listed as fixed/addressed in the update notes of 07/10/12, the hidden head gear of all my characters is still shown on the character select screen.