completed all the achievements except the defense one, no chest as of yet, SoR native. I have never transferred servers. I got the achievement for finishing the meta and placing in the WvW season 2 Tourney, but no chest…
it has to do with your character model limit setting under graphics. if you can set that high enough then the names are farther away. still there, just farther away. basically any entity that is being culled by the graphics system is now represented by a nameplate. the check box for turn nameplates on/off does next to nothing now.
merged thread on this issue (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-Player-and-npc-names) – hopefully the dev team is looking into this. it affects everyone whether they realize it or not. some people have the settings high enough to not notice nameplates off in the distance. if you have a lot of nameplates up close on your screen you should try turning the character model limit option under graphics as high as possible – it will push the names farther away at least.
It has to do with culling settings and fade distance. If your computer can handle it try turning the character models limit option under graphics to highest (and if possible character model quality to medium). The issue is when the character models aren’t loaded (I.e. culled according to that character models setting) they get nameplates instead, regardless of whether you have those nameplates enabled. Observe the amount of nameplates with character models and their distance from you when you cycle the character models setting from lowest to highest. ANet merged a few threads earlier about this(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-Player-and-npc-names/first#post2681530), it has a dev response stating that they are looking into it.
there are a few other threads about this on the forum, ty for merging these together. I really want ANet to fix this, it breaks immersion so hard for my wife and I.
the big issue with this is on lower end PCs. all you can see is a sea of nameplates. the setting says turn nameplates off, it should mean off not just outside of my viewing/fade in distance…
Having the same issue here. After a little investigation I discovered that the amount of names/range that it shows the nameplates outside of is proportionally tied to the character model limit option under graphics. With it set to highest and the model quality set to medium it is almost back to where it was pre-patch for me (I still get some nameplates very far away). If you set that option to lowest – there is a sea of names right in front of you (but almost no character models). Attached is an example of the character model setting at highest, followed by the lowest setting.
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