Name plates and no culling

Name plates and no culling

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Posted by: Aenaos.8160

Aenaos.8160

What is wrong with name plates appearing all over the place,
even when they are all turned off,and model limit and quality
settings are set to high?
Isn’t culling supposed to be removed,and if so why are there still
invisible characters on my screen that force their name plates on?
For players like me,that avoid using nameplates as much as possible
(I only use them in WvW,since everyone is playing the same races and
classes)this is a huge degrade of game quality.
When I choose to have name plates off,it would be nice if that meant
that they stay off.

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Name plates and no culling

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Posted by: Sanctus.8350

Sanctus.8350

Working as intended, not a bug, but it does need to be changed. If you switch model limit from high to low, you trade invisible names and visible models for visible names and invisible models; this is just stupid.

Off should mean off, regardless if the model is culled or not. I do not need to know the name of every single player and npc at once. Having hundreds of names really detracts from the quality of the game experience.

We need…
• A key to hold down to show all names (much like the alt key to show interactables)
• The current check-box should disable names the way they used to, regardless of model limit (or possibly a non-intrusive translucent symbol over a culled model).
• An additional check-box (or default behavior) to enable “essential” names such as party, guild, commanders, etc.

Name plates and no culling

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Posted by: Aenaos.8160

Aenaos.8160

I don’t get this.
If there is no more culling,and character detail and limits
are set to max,then all the characters in my visibility bubble
should be rendered normally,and there should be no
invisible chars forcing nameplates on.
And even if there is still some degree of culling going on,
I would prefer it if there were no name plates at all.
If a char is invisible for whatever reason,so be it.
As for a key that shows name plates,I’m pretty sure that alt
does that.If it is not alt is must be ctrl.
I tried to play in WvW like that,but after a while I noticed that I had
a situational awareness handicap over my team mates that
had name tags on,so I just turned all enemy names on.
It looks horrible,but what can you do.
There is no need for that in PvE though.

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