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So…Anet is gonna have to seriously throttle down on spell FX if they turn off culling.
They haven’t addressed the over the top spell graphics which is a huge contributor to lag…the more ooh ! pretty lights ! your video card has to render..the more it’s gonna choke on it.
And did I mention that there are times when you need sunglasses just to view a full out battle in say..the castle’s lord room (good luck locating your target or your ground target radius in all the visual clutter…)
The game needs a FX slider and the ability to turn off some spell effects or reduce particle count. None of those currently exist. And yes, you can use spell FX to choke other player’s video cards to your benefit..has Arenanet ever realized that ?
Let me tell you a story on how video works: On Second Life there’s some PvP. I deliberately dressed my avie in as much flexi and bling (combat is mouselook) knowing that I have a pretty good video card. So what happens is that I zoom into mouselook and I don’t have to render my own avatar. The opponent HAS TO. So what happens ? All the stuff I’m wearing..it counts against the other player’s video card’s rendering ability. So what happens ? I get a huge FPS advantage on him and that’s big in a FPS game. Alot of people don’t realize how that works..so I whip the vast majority of them..skill doesn’t make much of a difference when their computer is choking on trying to render my avatar and I’m strafing in circles at their sluggish avatar trying to react to my own. Rule of thumb: If I have at least 10 FPS advantage on them, it’s no contest since the human eye limit on FPS is 60.
I wouldn’t call it stealth at all. I’d flat out call thief stealth INVISIBILITY.
Stealth should work the same as it did in DAOC…you cannot stealth once you are in combat…or anyone has you targeted.
Problem solved..and that forces thieves to be far more careful and it’d separate the bads from the good ones.
Your spell FX are frankly over the top, Arenanet. I’d like to play the game without running the risk of epileptic seizures everytime there’s a big battle in WvWvW…and I can’t even see the opponents in that glorious (with all due sarcasm) display of bright lights that put even Tokyo’s shopping district to shame.
And I need sunglasses to play GW2 during those times.
Please think of the children. The bunnies. And humanity when you finally come around and place the power/ability to reduce the absurdity that is spell FX in Guild Wars into the hands of the PLAYERS. Not you. Not the devs.
Otherwise someday you’ll get hit with a lawsuit for possibly causing epileptic seizures or retina burnout. You know how ridiculous the U.S. court system can get with awards those days, gentlemen.
Love, with much sarcasm.
Just shorten up to www.palomides.net bozos. You can’t miss the GW2 forum. And it’s nearly dead.
This sums up what’s wrong with WvWvW now.
http://www.palomides.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=41857&p=594509#p594509
Originally, Palomides was supportive of GW2 in general but it’s safe to say that support has drastically waned. Step up now, Gw2 AND take a nerfbat to assassins and AOE’s to make melee viable in WvWvW !