Guild Wars 2

(supressing quotes I made to make my opinion more obvious)

For each argument against the “zoomed out” FoV above there’s obvious ones in favour. ANet should let players themselves sort the compromise out.

1) Player’s can easily decrease other performance settings to compensate or to own tolerance levels of lack of performance.

2) Cropping vs Distortion: take your pick! (“distorted” art vs no art at all)
And to call it distorted at 90 degrees field of view is an exageration, it is equivalent to a 20mm lens which is recurrently used in architecture photography to great positive effect – where straight lines abound and distortion is more sensible. And to mention this argument in regards to a mostly “organic” world is just not suitable.

3) … and that by, one supposes, unbalancing PvP. Wider FoV would only make it easier to those which would adopt it indeed. On the other side is the requirement to keep constantly adjusting camera direction, making all players suffer. But all players would have access to changing it, turning it into a false issue in terms of balance, while forcing a gratuitious effort on the way. But if we widen the issue to PvE, then the issue is totally uncaled for.

Please ANet, lift my restraining order already.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

There is a retroactive fix planned, and I’ve also been told that we’ll be using a GW1-style token system so you can choose a better reward item when you complete the story. (We agree that three green items isn’t cool enough.) I wouldn’t expect to see the new rewards and retro fix until the 10/28 update, though, because the upcoming holiday content is eating up our precious testing time.

This is appreciated! It does not exacly wipe the bad taste i had in my mouth yesterday. How could I be forewarned not to do the end story quest without spoiling it? Shall I tell my friends, which still have to go through it, and tell them to wait? I am inclined to ask them to wait, that’s what I would like to be told.

But it is not just the loot issue…

pricer.5091:

So, I did actually complete the final quest and I got 3 lvl 80 greens which I promptly sold for a grand total of about 4 silver. That plus the rare (unusable) 80 item I got for killing Zaitan and the rewards for the rest of the dungeon netted me about 6 silver.

Now, I got lucky with my group who were all good players and we had NO deaths in the main dungeon. Up until the stupid, ill thought add and badly broken zergfest which is the last section…on the airship, you know, the stupid one with the stupid camera angles. At which point we all died many, many times in circles that cover the entire platform you are standing on and are unavoidable, racking up repair bills of over 20 silver. This is the most annoying, boring and pointless climax to any story in any video game I have ever played.

Disappointed.

Jesus, that camera is already too “tight” and “claustrofobic” enough, the end quest just ups it a notch by cornering itself in the most unorthodox and unconfortable places it forces your eyes to lay themselves.

Not to mention that in the previous quest against the Eye of Zeithan (where Trahearne ends his Wyld Hunt) you’re shown that the camera can indeed zoom out to suitable degrees (apparently due to the Eye’s size – which is a fraction of Zaithan himself).

I am incredibily disapointed. Specially since i find this game so great technically but also art wise and gameplay wise.

It just seems stubborness to force the audience to “enjoy” one’s character close up while in the same stroke “cropping” his main opponents out of viewable FOV.

Get this sorted out please!

… given that i have not inserted any item originaly soulbound.

Zommoros just bugged me off because it gave me a Soulbound Medium armor piece to a Light armored character. I won’t tell the exact skin, but it is totally worthless no matter what.

To have this issue present in the back of my head anytime i go to the forge, scares me.

Has anyone stumbled into this?