Oh kitten I wanna cry
:( No game has ever come close to Guild Wars. Actually, Guild Wars was not a game at all, it was art, it was a lifestyle. ArenaNet created the most genious combat system ever, and now it’s all gone… Oh ArenaNet, you can’t even realize what Guild Wars 2 could have been…
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I don’t know about you but I’m quite fed up with the way ArenaNet has been making their decisions. Here are some examples.
When ArenaNet decided to remove the camera smoothing, they didn’t seem put much thought on it. Only a small group was complaining about the smoothing, but ArenaNet still removed it. What about the people who liked it and who were already used to it? No option was left to enable it. ArenaNet did a favour to one group of players but turned their back to the other players. This isn’t how decisions should be made.
Another great example is the narrow field of view. At it’s current state, the game is almost unplayable for many players because the low field of view can make people feel very uncomfortable. I’ve seen Jon Peters, a game developer, say that increasing field of view would cause performance issues, texture tiling and fish-eye effect. He also told that feeling nauseous is caused by the camera smoothing and not because of the narrow field of view, which is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. If you are watching your monitor from a small distance (like most people do when they play with a PC), the field of view should be higher than if you were further away from the monitor. Otherwise you might even get a headache. Also I can’t imagine why the developers decided to have such a narrow field of view in the first place: all the amazing sceneries and art goes to waste when you can’t see it properly. There is an easy solution to this whole problem: make a field of view slider, like every single modern 1st/3rd person game should ALWAYS have. This way people who have low-end machines would have the ability to get better performance by lowering the field of view if needed, while people who feel uncomfortable playing with low field of view would be able to increase it for a much, much better game experience.
And one more thing. In some situations the increased field of view is actually present in the game. In boss fights like The Shadow Behemoth, the field of view increases automatically. I didn’t see any texture tiling or performance issues there. Instead the game looked amazing during the fight. Since it has already been proven that the higher field of view works perfectly in the game, why not make it an option for those who can’t even play the game otherwise?
Personally I will not play Guild Wars 2 at all before these two mentioned issues are fixed. The game is simply unplayble for me right now, and I’m not the only one. Once the issues are fixed, I will come back and enjoy the hell out of the game.
Here’s a video that Jon Peters should watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDq_qvsKUA
A perfect idea.
Very nice, this is how it should be!
Thanks very much, now they removed the camera smoothing (which has been a part of Guild Wars since the release of Prophecies) which I was totally used to. Now I’m at the point of giving up playing it because the camera is absolutely terrible and there’s no option to enable the smoothing.
ArenaNet, you NEED to add a fov slider. YOU’RE LOSING PLAYERS because of an issue that could be fixed in 10 minutes! This is madness! And this is not Sparta!!
In GW1 if someone used WASD to move, it was a sign of noobness. All good players used click-to-move to maximize moving speed and to have better view of the field. But it just doesn’t work like that in GW2. You need to keep turning when playing a melee for example.
No more excuses please, just give us a fov slider! It’s absolutely necessary.
We absolutely need a fov slider!
I couldn’t agree more. Camera smoothing has been a part of the Guild Wars since the release of GW1. I’m so used to it that I just can’t play without it. It’s the new players who didn’t want the smoothing to be in the game, because most other MMOs don’t have it. By changing it however ArenaNet turned their back to their most loyal fans. Please give an option to either enable or disable it so that everybody wins. I will not play the game before this happens.