Guild Wars 2

Evilek.5690:

Next time click ESC-OPTIONS-GRAPHICS OPTIONS-CHARACTER LIMIT and QUALITY low->lowest.
And WOW you play with 40+ FPS in zerg.

How does that help with the nametags?

I also received the mail on a character I don’t use or ever plan to use for WvW. I’m guessing this will happen to quite a lot of people.

The only time a zone (Sparkfly Fen) didn’t count for me, was when I disconnected during the invasion, even though I managed to get back to the same zone instance by travelling to a partymember.

It happened on an overflow. I have not tried the same area again since then.

The only time a zone didn’t count for me, was when I disconnected during the invasion, even though I managed to get back to the same zone instance by travelling to a partymember.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

You can. It is listed in options under “WvW character limit”.

That option has been renamed to “Character Model Limit”.

Lowering it leads to exactly the kind of experience as shown in the OP’s screenshot. That’s because the game displays a nametag for every unrendered character model, regardless of the player nametag setting.

Yes, it’s a choice between rendering all character models, either in pink pyjamas or glorious detail (neither of which are appropriate options on a low-end system) or having your entire screen crammed with nametags that completely blot out everything worth seeing, as shown in the OPs screenshot.

Edit: the OP seems to have the player nametag setting turned on, so he’s seeing more names than necessary. I’ll add some screenshot of my own later.

Desecrater.3579:

Now on a side note, for Anet to cater to both parties is just impossible.

With regard to the whole culling thing, of course it’s possible. That’s why they put in controls. Turning player nametags off and chosing a system-appropriate value on the Character Model Limit setting should allow people to tune the game to run smoothly on their machine. Compared to how it was with culling, this should be great for everyone.

Low-end machines can run with the lowest setting, and have the game perform just like it used to when there was still culling. High-end machines can run with the highest setting and display everything in glorious detail. Anything in between can run with a setting somewhere in between. Everyone can be happy.

Only, it doesn’t work right. Every character model not rendered now displays its nametag regardless of the nametags settings, resulting in people running with a low Character Model Limit having their screens flooded with hundreds of nametags, rendering the game ugly and unplayable.

If the nametags settings were respected for unrendered models, all would be well.

Well, we do know sounds can be altered. The wintersday toy weapons had a couple with their own sounds. The slingshot and the pop gun if I remember correctly.

Distance only indirectly has anything to do with it. The nameplates that ignore the nameplates setting are for avatars that haven’t been rendered because of the “Character Model Limit” setting. Because the closest models are rendered before far away models, it’s the more distant ones that show up as nameplates.

With that set to “Lowest” you’ll see nameplates for almost every player/NPC in sight, instead of their model.

It kind of defeats the purpose. People who set it to a low value do so to increase playability, and covering the whole screen in a jumbled alphabet soup of many dozens of nameplates doesn’t help at all.

Or they could implement it with all settings working as advertized.

Like, not show nametags when the settings to show nametags are turned off.

Don’t they just revive at a waypoint when defeated, just like we do?

Szamsziel.5627:

One more issue : there will be free play weekend for the game. Question : how many of the new players will be able to participate in the LS? They cannot go to pavilon until they do the Chaos and will not see Chaos because they under lvl 25 without waypoints.

Well, at least the free access guests will be able to play in Queensdale without getting ran over by the champion train. Seems almost by design that the veterans are lured away from the starter areas.

I can confirm Timberline Falls having come up at least once.

edit: Oops, ninjad

After a bit of testing, I found that the only way to have no nametags (PCs and NPCs) in a busy LA, is with the Character Model Limit set to “highest”.

Brother Grimm.5176:

The nameplates ARE a big off-putting, but they can be turned off (and I do at times). I’ve never seen a player nameplate with that setting turned off (unless you mouse over the player or target them).

My screenshot begs to differ.

(Note: Screenshot taken with “Character Model Limit” setting set to lowest, to enforce a maximum number of unrendered avatars.)

Unrendered avatars always show nametags for me, regardless of the player nametag settings. This turns busy events into splashes of alphabet soup completely covering the actual game graphics. The alternative is to set the “Character Model Limit” to higher values, leading to FPS loss. It’s a no-win situation: ugly game or slower game than I was used to.

Not happy about how this works.

In places with extreme numbers of players, the game now enforces either an FPS drop compared to what I used to have, or having to put up with an ugly mass of nametags (even though I have the nametags for players option turned off).

These floating nametags for unrendered player avatars serve no purpose whatsoever in PvE other than to make the game more ugly. It’s not as if they’re going to attack you like they might in WvW.

Some screenshots:

Poledo.3256:

Turn off those nameplates folks!

Nameplates for players not yet rendered always show up, regardless of the nameplates option setting. It’s completely horrible and I want it gone.

Well, unless this is changed, I can only hope that she has a fixed spawning point in every area, so I can go camp there just before the invasion is thwarted.

I have a monthly achievement in the ‘Nearly completed’ column of my achievements summary that doesn’t actually appear to be a part of the monthly achievements for August. I can even click it for a more detailed view, which says:

Monthly Masterwork Crafter
Tier 2 of 4 26/30 Items Crafted

Craft items of masterwork quality or higher.
Only quality work will do.

Mystic.5934:

SSD should help here. WPing takes like 1/3 the time. hopefully she’s close to one.

If she spawns when you happen to be in combat, and if in that situation you do your very best to get out of combat as fast as you can, you might miss her just because you couldn’t WP for too long.

I don’t suffer from particularly long load times, but when her 3 waves were done and the Scarlet event started, I was in combat, and couldn’t use WP travel for precious seconds.

When I finally arrived and spotted her (and the zerg) on the horizon, she was at half health. Three seconds later she was dead. Very frustrating, after battling it out all over the map for 40 minutes. There was absolutely nothing I could’ve done to make it to her in time, just because I was in combat when she spawned.

This seems fixed! I didn’t see a mentioned of it in the patch notes (maybe I missed it), so I was pleasantly surprised when I logged on.

She accidentally sold her shoes to a merchant. She could buy new ones, but she has a ticket open with support to have them returned.

It’s not a bug.

Your mantle appears to have a level 70 requirement. The ruby orb has a level 80 requirement. The problem is, you can’t put upgrades on equipment that has a lower level requirement than the upgrade itself.

After successfully doing Deadeye Dunwell with the On Fire gambit active, not only did I get the Risk Taker achievement (the one I was aiming for), but also the Humble Victor achievement. I’ve never had either Frailty or Squeamish gambits active at all.

It happened to me as well. When you’re skipped that way, you can’t requeue because the ringmaster says you’re already queued, but you seem to never get your turn, making a log off/log on action the only recourse. (Wasting tickets in the process.)

I looted a max tier tuning crystal yesterday. Drop tables apparently got more interesting.

Well kitten … I destroyed a great many of them because I couldn’t be bothered with all the clicking involved with voting.

One of my characters had a look that I was pretty happy about, but I wanted something new. So, I bought and applied one of the new gemstore armors. Bad decision! The new armor has horrible clipping and I’m not happy with it at all.

Now, to get my old look back, I can do either of 2 things

• Reacquire the old skin and put it over my current armor that has the gemstore skin. Cost: 1 armor (with the skin I had before), 6 transmutation crystals, and let’s not forget I’d be throwing away 800 gems worth of gemstore merchandise.
• Keep the armor I’m unhappy about in storage, hoping the clipping will be fixed someday, and meanwhile, get a new exotic armor with the stats I want, and another armor with the skin I had before to apply over it. Cost: 2 armors, 6 transmutation crystals, 6 storage slots.

Neither is very appealing. Count me as not being very happy about the armor reskinning system.

Electro.4173:

But I really don’t understand why NEW armor sets can’t be adjusted for Charr (and other races to some extent as well, they only really fit “perfect” on humans).

Oh, how I wish they did fit perfectly on humans. My phoenix armor sure doesn’t.

I’ve just seen this armor on a female sylvari. Not only was there no clipping at all in the hips/thigh area, but the chest piece and the leggings seemed to connect much better than on my female human.

Added a screenshot of my own for good measure. I marked 3 areas.

Top left area: odd lines separating chest piece from leggings.

Bottom left area: armor disappearing into thigh and hip, varying from just a little to huge pieces when cycling through the idle animation. The situation show in the picture isn’t the worst instance of it, the gap in the armor can get almost twice as big.

Right area: similar situation to what’s happening in the bottom left.

I really like this armor, but not like this.

That’s how it works.

edit: You’ll need a stone per armor piece and crystals when you get level 80 armor, so frequent armor upgrades may get expensive.

I hope this comes with a brand new “Fat Wallet” title.

Rika.9705:

I noticed the same. I really love the skin, but clipping on the legs in the idle animation annoys me.

Annoying is the right word. I hope this will be fixed at some time. I’ve come to terms with some weapons clipping badly with some armor, it’s the price of having great varieties of basic shapes. But armor badly clipping with the body itself, in idle position no less, that really shouldn’t be happening.

The next storymode dungeon I did, did count. (Ascalonian Catacombs)

I’m assuming the OP means that the Gnashblade dungeon achievement didn’t trigger after finishing Arah storymode. I had the same issue.

Edit: OP beat me to it with the clarification.

This change sucks. The one key I earn every few weeks while playing now has a significant chance to drop something I need a large number of before they have any use at all. It’ll probably take me a year to get enough scraps to change for 1 ticket, and then I’ll need 4 more tickets…

This change might be interesting for people who actually buy keys, but it’s awful for people who just open chests with random keys they pick up here and there.

Silver.3284:

@ Manasa: You are missing the point. The issue with the forum whining about things being “too hard” is that unfortunately, if too many ppl whine loud enough, sometimes things get changed and up to now I do not think this has not been to the better. Not to mention that what is often meaningful critisism and suggestions are lost in the noise of meaningless whining.

If you can’t make a point without first telling people how tired you are of their whining, your point is likely to be completely ignored. Personal attacks don’t contribute to a conversation. Attack the opinion, not the people putting it forward.

Silver.3284:

No. There are those who are frankly tired of the constant whinig and people feeling entitled to complain and scream and cry about anything and everything that is not to the PERSONAL liking as if they are the center by which everything must be measured: “If I can’t do it/don’t like it then it must obviously be nerfed/removed”.

How do people let themselves get tired of something they don’t have to pay attention to?

Obsessive/compulsive reading of offensive sections of a forum? I never realized this was such a pervasive and quality-of-life affecting issue. Health authorities should look into this.

douceline.2741:

Manasa Devi.7958:

The interface for transmutation stones/crystals has a warning in red letters:

“Warning: Transmuting an item will make it soulbound.”

kitten it! I wish I had seen that. But is the same warning on the skins? Because it happened when I used a skin

You read my post before I edited it to add the bit about the wing skin. I accidentally posted instead of previewing. I thought my edit was pretty fast but you were faster checking for replies.

The interface for transmutation stones/crystals has a warning in red letters:

“Warning: Transmuting an item will make it soulbound.”

The same text appears with the transmutation interface for the wings.

It’s Demmi.

Quote the first letter: "I’ve heard whispers about a threat to the Ship’s Council and, if left unchecked, to the city itself. I’d intervene myself, but circumstances prevent it. "

Whispers? Clearly an Order of Whispers reference.

Circumstances prevent her intervention? Demmi is in hiding and can’t show her face during a festival.

And why the “E”? This is a bit tenuous. In music, “E” corresponds with “mi” in standard fixed-c solmization (do-re-mi scale). “Mi” as in Demmi.

The evasive opening line of the first letter, and the mistaken gender (Mr. E) are just measures to ensure her anonymity.

The dragon coffers are definitely an improvement over the ticket distribution in the previous two events.

During Secrets of Southsun I had to cross my fingers and hope not to get a ticket, every time I opened a crate I got as a drop. I’d have felt horrible about getting something realIy rare that I would just destroy because I wouldn’t want to be caught dead with one of those terrible looking sclerite weapons, while most people who would like one couldn’t get one despite spending heaps of cash.

With Dragon Bash, I can just sell the coffers and make heaps of in-game cash from those same people. Hurrah!

Kain Francois.4328:

When the crates go down to 10c each, the complaints will slow down.

When they do, that’s when I’ll start complaining. I’ve been getting a lot of extra cash from selling them and would like to keep doing so for a while yet.

Why not just have the mines give audio/visual clues when they’re being manipulated by Canach/Null? They’re all around you, so it would be easy to pick up on, and far more immersive than yellow lines of text in a box that most people keep tucked away so it doesn’t distract from playing the game.

I opened 9 boxes so far, all monster drops. I got nothing but karka shells, passion fruits and flowers from them. Luckily, I didn’t get a ticket. I’d be rather annoyed if I’d get a ticket that has no other use than to get an unsightly piece of kitten weapon that I wouldn’t be caught dead with.

Thinking we had 4 days and planning accordingly, and still the blame is put at our feet? Puh-lease.

Would if I could.

Ayrilana.1396:

Manasa Devi.7958:

Ayrilana.1396:

Sometimes things in real life get in the way. It’s unfortunate but happens.

And sometimes it’s bad communication by ArenaNet.

They had dates in patch notes and the guide stickied in these forums.

Indeed, and one of those stickies had the final end on May 16 until just a few hours ago, when it was changed to May 14. Reducing it from 4 day to 2 days, with 1 of those days halfway over, leaving a single day to get the final achievement.

Ayrilana.1396:

Sometimes things in real life get in the way. It’s unfortunate but happens.

And sometimes it’s bad communication by ArenaNet.