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I’ve noticed this happening to me since the patch, when I check task manager GW2.exe is running after the game exits. The first few times it was running at minimal memory when I noticed. Today when I checked it had not unloaded most of the memory it uses getting stuck at exactly 827,252K.
I agree it was a missed opportunity. The original design had too human-like textures, but the second design has too human-like shape. (All my comments are based on female characters as I don’t play male characters and ended up being almost entirely about the visual design aspect.)
Especially the ones that cater to pure sexualization where you turn the model sideways to the profile view and find a simple extension of the butt and breasts to be further from the body but not filled out in proper buttox and breastses shape.
Granted they do this on Humans as well and probably Norns on top of that as a lazy shortcut in the skeletal attributes which is a slightly related but slightly different issue that bothers me. But the point is plant people don’t need breasts or junk in the trunk in the first place. The wider hips are also lacking in sensible proportion which again, a beef on a human, an eye-sore on a Sylvari. It’s less like wider hips and more like the waist was pulled in with an elastic. Ouch.
They took the high road when they designed Charr to not mimic the abomination of Blizzard designs which add humanoid proportions to every race in often disturbing ways (Tauren& Worgen boobs), then took this step back for their sequel for some strange reason.
The faces are also disappointing, compared to humans you already start out with next to nothing in variety, then if you want an actual treeish face you have 5 choices. This is another problem with two sources, as lack of facial variety overall in non-human races is a huge disappointment to boot.
I get that a lot of people for some reason want to be the human hero in the nonsensical fantasy world, they don’t care the first fig about immersion and would never RP, but Anet isn’t the company I expected to cater to them so hard while leaving the rest of us with more of a tease. It seems like the Asura designer was either more committed to his(her? iirc his) vision than the Sylvari designer, or was given more free-reign, or Asura were given more time on the whole because they do a much better job of coming up as unique and fully realized. The Charr are just a generic anthro race really, and were realized in GW1, so I don’t feel the need to compare them to Sylvari at the moment… although their skeletal proportions are decent aside from somewhat unnecessary slim waists, I like that they don’t run on two legs and some unique feature like that would have been nice for Sylvari instead of, you know, sharing animations with humans.
Sylvari is still my favorite race given the completion but they just share too much with humans which makes it seem like they were rushed and not full realized as they could have been.
A good example of comparison I would say is Star Trek(bad) versus Star Wars(good) aliens(not the games, the universes on the whole). There is very little outside of horned and scaled humans in the sentient Star Trek universe. Star Wars brought some specially-featured human types, such as Twilek, but covered all other spectrums as well. When you look at Ewok can you tell the difference between male or female?
Maybe in a game with 5 races, when 2 of them are human, 1 of them is “alien” and one of them is animal, Sylvari just got stuck with the in-between. I dunno.
Square-Enix decided to add female counterparts to their male only buff/muscular races when FF14 ARR comes out, even though 1% of the playerbase at most is like to use these combined and probably only 5% or so even uses the male. It’s a commitment to realizing the vision of the universe which again I just didn’t expect ANet to be the kind of company to falter on something like that. One of 2 new races in a game they spent how many years developing by taking the lazy way out? I’m sorry if the Sylvari designer feels we’re wrong about this but sharing human skeleton and structure exactly is l a z y and nearly takes away the awesomeness of the skin and texture that they worked so hard on after the initial design. Sharing attack animations extensively throughout all races really is another facet of this problem. If I keep thinking the problem just gets bigger and veers more away from Sylvari disappointment!
Anyway that’s a lot of complaining BUT I had high expectations for this game to be the most immersive fantasy MMO experience in terms of design, lore, etc and in my beta account Rose-Colored-Glasses I really thought it was, but it just doesn’t beat Final Fantasy 11 or 14 in that respect(gameplay completely aside and not in consideration or comparison) when it all comes down to it.
Slight necro post but I agree, I want to know how they get to choose their colors to be black and red like that. Is it just a stylistic choice ANet took without considering immersion? That seems so messy for them.
I hope to see the developers expand on Sylvari culture and factions in later expansions;
Ok so the “High Resolution” option is gone but I’m still having the low quality bmps issue. For now I got a separate app just to take screenshots in order to get the full quality of the textures and shading :/
Adding on to what Krypto said as I came to post similar information, I was hitting it with Ele Trident auto attacks in Earth which also apply bleeding stack to 10 so it didn’t take that long at all to kill.
I’ve seen plenty screens from other people that show the full quality of their in-game graphics. I used the command line to make mine take as .bmp and it just made a larger low quality file. I got a new gfx card for Christmas so I only really noticed it when I took my first ss with it on (it was still on jpg), and then tried the .bmp feature which I thought would help. I remember in beta making gorgeous super high rez screenshots. What happened?
It’s absolutely ridiculous that this kind of thing is still an issue, and it’s one of the many things failed to be fixed over time that is starting to make me regret recommending this game to as many people as I did.