Guild Wars 2 Forum

We need culling back

Personally, I love the removal of culling. The game now feels like a real world that breathes life into it. For the cost of little FPS drop I like the fact that I can see all the npcs in towns and all players as they should be.

I wouldn’t like it if I roamed alone in ghost towns and only see running nameplates around.

Now on a side note, for Anet to cater to both parties is just impossible. I don’t want to be rude but this is the PC industry. If you want to play the new games you must dish out money (if not a lot, a little) to upgrade your PC and enjoy your game to the fullest. Everyone knows this, even the system requirements stated that they will change after release and might make you upgrade your computer.

I also understand people who are upset with buying the game thinking it would run fine and after this patch they can’t do anything about it anymore and cry for culling to be brought back so they can be happy again. But I disagree to some extent. Why would you want culling to be brought back if the same amount of people (I don’t have facts but the coin has two sides) are actually enjoying it or other people (who have stated in previous comments) either don’t have problems or have better performance. I am not trying to offend anyone here, I’m just answering to the name of the topic’s title. Of course I understand that people want an optimized option that controls the level of culling.

So what does it mean? It solely depends on YOUR pc’s capabilities.

Now there are 4 ways of TRYING to solve it:
-close other background applications
-lower graphic options/culling slider
-wait for a possible patch/fix
-upgrade PC (last resort but even then it’s not a definite solution)

So in the end this is the PC gaming industry. It has always been like this. It’s a trial and error thing if I might add. Personally I am kind of tired of people trying to expect a 2012 game to run perfect on a fairly old computer (3 to 5 years) New tech comes every year and raises the bar. The best safe option? Buy a console and be done with it for years to come. if you want to play an mmo? Deal with this^.

tl;dr When something doesn’t work for you, don’t blame others. Try and find the best and optimal solution for YOU because IT’S ALWAYS THERE. It just needs to be found.

PS: By no means have I meant to offend anybody. Be it the low-end PC gamers or someone else. If anyone finds something in my post that offends him then I’m sorry for doing so.