Guild Wars 2

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Who made this?

Sorry to tell you but it’s just disgusting to walk on this… My graphics are set on max, the rest of the game is just awesomely beautiful and then… THIS. O_o

This horrible texture covers Brisban Wildlands. I took a screen of the most awful part (it’s big there) but the smaller version is really everywhere.

It could be a bug. Did you file a bug report(with automatic screenshot) while you were there?

I don’t think it’s a bug. It’s really everywhere in Brisban Wildlands and even the asura starting zone :S and I’ve always had this since beta, even if I’ve never complained before.

EDIT: Found a video about it. I’m not alone.

Oh wow…who cares…

Pustulio.8207:

Oh wow…who cares…

Who cares?! It makes it the least attractive zone of the game. It’s just horrible to walk there. People don’t even notice it but that’s why they love Queensdale and they hate the maguuma part…

It looks like they have taken flowers pictures from the web and used it as a ground texture.

Pustulio.8207:

Oh wow…who cares…

I’d be embarrassed for my peers to see that work.

This is totally game-breaking. Every time i log in, i can’t do anything but think about this texture. I want a refund! :>

This texture has ruined my marriage and made me lose my job.

It has become the bane of my existence, the destroyer of worlds, the eater of souls, and literally the worst thing to have happened, ever.

xiv.7136:

It has become the bane of my existence, the destroyer of worlds, the eater of souls, and literally the worst thing to have happened, ever.

Finally someone who understands me!

Couldn’t find the specific spot that you were at in the screenshot. This is the closest I found, doesn’t look that bad.

Edit Never mind, yuck (2nd screenshot)

Avengersoul.8256:

Couldn’t find the specific spot that you were at in the screenshot. This is the closest I found, doesn’t look that bad.

Edit Never mind, yuck (2nd screenshot)

That…. looks pretty fugly. Least they could’ve done was reskin using plain grass and sprinkle some 3D flower/shrubs.

As soon as I saw the thread title, I knew what texture you were groaning about. Yep it’s pretty fugly. I kinda look up in the trees when I go through there.

Avengersoul.8256:

Couldn’t find the specific spot that you were at in the screenshot. This is the closest I found, doesn’t look that bad.

Edit Never mind, yuck (2nd screenshot)

That second screen looks like it’s calling an incorrect texture and so it’s stretched to fit the area. Where on the map is that exactly? I have never seen that in the game and really want to see it for myself.

God that is horribad. It has to be a glitch, even in GW1, with low system reqs, they never got things quite that bad even with the limitations.

Not even in the realm of Anet environmental standards.

It’s not really half bad. If you haven’t seen Aion, you haven’t seen horrible textures.

Ah thanks, now I know what bugged me the whole time in Brisban Wildlands. It is for some reason a area I don’t like to visit, even though usually love the Maguuma Jungle zones…
So yeah… Please fix that texture, it is horrible.

Oh wow- I had to go look since I never noticed, but it is really pretty bad in places, I wonder what is up with that?

Go look at the railing in the grove, and laugh. Truly circa 2012 graphics

Looks like a very stretched texture to me, usually applied to edges and looks very bad.
Skyrim has a few of those too (look at wall connectors in Whiterun for instance), all games do.

But yeah it looks ugly nonetheless.

I’ve seen this area and I wondered this myself. It looks like mega-squashed flowers rendered onto a piece of cardboard.

It does look bad from many angles lol.

Keiran.1896:

Pustulio.8207:

Oh wow…who cares…

Who cares?! It makes it the least attractive zone of the game. It’s just horrible to walk there. People don’t even notice it but that’s why they love Queensdale and they hate the maguuma part…

It looks like they have taken flowers pictures from the web and used it as a ground texture.

You care too much….they make pills for that i hear

Zeldain.5710:

Pustulio.8207:

Oh wow…who cares…

I’d be embarrassed for my peers to see that work.

Why?….

You’re a snarky little one, aren’t you? The reason is clear: it looks like kitten. This isn’t the nice “artsy” style (the vast majority of) the rest of the game offers. It looks just like a placeholder texture you might see in a pre-alpha demo that’s intended to show off some other aspect, and it’s that or flat gray.

Perhaps you wouldn’t be bothered by your own shoddy work and not understand why, but others might. While it’s nothing compared to the various important play-screwing bugs that exist, it IS something that could be easily, and I mean EASILY, improved tenfold. No reason not to smack ANet’s relevant dev around a bit for being sloppy/lazy.

Brisband Wildlands; The zone with over-sized textures and where your downscaled character has more problem fighting a normal mob than what it has soloing a veteran in Orr. (At least in my experience, the scaling has been so off that I have rage quit Brisband so many times before completing the zone)

Keiran.1896:

I don’t think it’s a bug. It’s really everywhere in Brisban Wildlands and even the asura starting zone :S and I’ve always had this since beta, even if I’ve never complained before.

Just because it’s “everywhere” and has been there a long time doesn’t mean it’s not a bug. I’ve known of server and client bugs (not affiliated with ArenaNet in any way) that existed for years before being fixed. It’s about priority, resource availability, etc.

Seeing as how this thread was moved into the game bugs forum, me thinks this is a bug.

It’s where jawmag sleeps ofcs it’ll look crushed

Spam like this keeps actual bugs from being posted and noticed, thanks OP.

(Btw, I agree w/ you- it is pretty blotchy-looking and has no place in a game of this caliber – but there are more appropriate threads/forums to note that)

Kruhljak.2705:

You’re a snarky little one, aren’t you? The reason is clear: it looks like kitten. This isn’t the nice “artsy” style (the vast majority of) the rest of the game offers. It looks just like a placeholder texture you might see in a pre-alpha demo that’s intended to show off some other aspect, and it’s that or flat gray.

Perhaps you wouldn’t be bothered by your own shoddy work and not understand why, but others might. While it’s nothing compared to the various important play-screwing bugs that exist, it IS something that could be easily, and I mean EASILY, improved tenfold. No reason not to smack ANet’s relevant dev around a bit for being sloppy/lazy.

So now your calling them sloppy and lazy for this ? Did you ever see any other textures in this game that look like this ? ( yes please go spend 5h looking for them to proof there is,please do ! ) No reason not to smack you for this.Theyve created a beautifull world,someone finds an ugly spot and suddenly anet is lazy and slobby.Maybe they have bigger things to work on then a piece of ugly ground texture that only people like you will get worked up about and blame anet for being lazy and slobby.

Whichever dev left this in rather than using an appropriate texture for the job is lazy/sloppy in this instance. I didn’t brand them so for anything else. Consider the context of the post.

Regardless of what you think, it’s an obvious issue—again in it’s context. People that make textures for various purposes spend a lot of time tweaking and adjusting various aspects so it looks awesome for its purpose. This isn’t a good example of that. So some people that notice it will point it out. Simple as that. If it doesn’t bother you, then perhaps you should just look the other way, both in the jungle and in this little corner of the forum.

If this thread is noticed at all, the issue will be sorted into an appropriate priority level and not affect anything else above it. Nothing gets hurt by pointing it out; and it’s possible it’ll get tweaked for the better at some point. And I’d hope, that if the art dev that gave this texture the greenlight gets wind of it, they’ll do a facepalm and say, “Oh ****! I missed updating that one! Put in on my to-do list!” rather than, “These little ****s whine about everything!”