Guild Wars 2

Since the Clockwork Chaos update people have been appearing as male silhouetted people with fully whitish amour. This is no problem on my end because this only started happening since the update. Anyone using the same armour type (heavy, medium or light) all look the same.

In the screenshot you can see a party member of mine that clearly does not look like that from their avatar.

It’s related to the culling update, the lower your culling settings, the smaller the radius of people wearing their own armour around you. It sucks. I have to have them low to keep my game playable, so I’m stuck with everyone looking butt-ugly.

Put the character model quality setting to something you deem acceptable, probably med+, and lower the character model limit (how many people will appear) until the game runs good enough to your liking.

The default for mine threw them both on high if I recall, and it made LA almost unplayable. Mess around with these settings until you find a sweet spot. I run character model limit on lowest since I don’t care to see a billion people stacked on a boss, yet run the quality on high so those that do appear look as they should.

OMG, thank you. I had my character model quality on the lowest setting. So I put it on low BAM people look normal. Wow, I can’t believe it was that simple.

If this is going to create such an issue for people, why did they do that in the first place? I thought there was something wrong with the client I installed and dumped it to re-install. That was a big mistake on my part. For me, the game was running fantastic just the way it was. Feels like it took three steps back with the removal of culling, imo.