Hey everyone. This is a fix that is working as intended. As these armor types were never designed to be worn together, it resulted in some graphic issues when previewing them.
We are aware that these armor types were not meant to be worn together because it isn’t possible outside of preview. When I do notice a clipping/graphical issue I don’t think twice about it. I just remove a piece of armor so it allows me to see the item more clearly. There are far more things to worry about that players have been requesting to be fixed that haven’t been attended to since launch. Minor graphical issues in preview isn’t one of the things that keeps me from enjoying the game.
The game is only 4 months old and there’s going to be a lot of changes to be made Guild Wars 1 went through a lot of changes. I remember when you guys added dye preview a year after launch and that made it easier for people who like to mix dye to see what it looked like before applying it. That game still has clipping issues and nobody really complains. I feel like not being able to see another classes armor is a step backwards.
Never have I heard a player complain about being able to preview armor, it is a total step backwards. They really need to start beta testing future updates on actual players if they want to get real feedback, that could help them from getting so many kitteny posts on the forums. Totally disagree with this hidden update.
From a player’s point of view this “fix” is entirely unnecessary and hinders game play. Please revert it. Clipping happens anyhow and isn’t going to go away either in this game.
Now almost everytime I want to preview something, I have to exit the game. I thought developers and designers wanted to limit these kinds of interruptions.
I guess we’ll be seeing much more ping spam in /say, as instead of previewing something, one will have to relog and subsequently copy the code from GW2DB.
I used to play with previews all the damn time. Like ALL THE TIME.
Give it back please. Why are you hurting your own game? I dont care if some textures get messed up every once in a blue moon. I want to preview all armor types!
There are so many actual clipping errors in the game with long hairs and shields or greatswords, that this is really a bad excuse to remove this feature.
EVERY MMO is awesome until it is released then its unfinished. A month after release it just sucks.
Best MMOs are the ones that never make it. Therefore Stargate Online wins.
i really see no point of removing it, please bring it back.
some times i loot somthing, and i want to preview it to see if its good for my other char or not. and now i need to put in bank every time so i can transfer it to my other char TO PREVIEW IT, that’s make no sense!!
This needs to return. There was no call for it’s fixing or removal from the playerbase, so why remove a good feature?
If you are so concerned with clipping and texture issues when previewing different armor types together, then simply force it so that the window only displays armor of one type of armor at a time, either light, medium or heavy.
Armor of the same type already causes graphical errors.
This change was made at a terribly inconvenient time for me as I’ve been wanting to roll an asura character lately but didn’t know which armor class I best like the look of on the snarky little geniuses. Now, to preview that armor in the Heart of the Mists, I have to take three different characters through the tutorial? Blegh.
Also, this change does hurt the game in demonstrable ways. As Guild Wars 2 is aesthetically focused, if I pick up an exotic item, I need to be able to preview it to help determine its price. The skin of item absolutely affects its value.
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