Was this water dragon statue always in DIVINITY REACH?

[erion.6104]

I donțt know how to add an image here, but if you enter the city and then under the brige then make left you will see an enormos water dragon statue

[erion.6104]

I post it on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/jngt0y/was_this_water_dragon_statue_always_here/

[LaidGenie.3259]

If you mean the one in Western Commons then i believe it is new as i have not noticed it before.

[Fueki.4753]

I definitely have never seen that snake statue before.

[mezuzel.4987]

:o

Selbbub is coming!

[Teratus.2859]

Can't say I recall ever seeing/noticing that before..

[Solanum.6983]

I wasn't sure myself thought it might be a secret nod to the expansion so I checked some old videos, turns out it's always been there.You can see it at the very start here.

[Fueki.4753]

I don't see how a video from 2019 is any proof that it had always been there, if the game is from 2012.

[Donari.5237]

It can be seen in images here from 2015 http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/minas-target-shoot/90352/

So it's not very new. I'd have to scour my old screenshots to see if I happened to get a shot of that spot around launch, and I have other things to occupy me today :)

[Sobx.1758]

@Fueki.4753 said:I don't see how a video from 2019 is any proof that it had always been there, if the game is from 2012.

Well, he gave the proof it's not anyting recent, so now you can do the legwork and prove it wasn't there before I guess ;)

[Palador.2170]

I'm pretty sure I remember it from fairly early on, and was disappointed that I couldn't actually climb on it.

[Randulf.7614]

Lets hope it is a statue...

[Ayrilana.1396]

13:40 into the video you see it. This video is from 2012.

[Danikat.8537]

@Palador.2170 said:I'm pretty sure I remember it from fairly early on, and was disappointed that I couldn't actually climb on it.

Yeah that disappointed me too. Bits of it have collision, but mostly around the bottom and it doesn't match the artwork so you end up standing inside it and falling through in random places. I guess they thought as long as you couldn't run right through it that was near enough, especially since back then climbing on anything that wasn't designed for it was much harder.

[firedragon.8953]

Yeah, I guess it was always there. Just like the artwork for the 3 headed dragon or triple dragons (can be seen as the background on the client downloader page). I bet the Tengu are really gonna be pissed when this thing goes rolling up on the Dominion of the Winds and whatever the Tengu place next to Lion's Arch is. Dragon(s) is probably taller than their wall. lol

Both their head designs (concept art and in-game statue) are similar. Both also resemble the heads of saltspray dragons. Also the wingless and more serpent like form definitely seems Canthanesque. Weird how things have stared at us in the face for the past years, but only now we begin to notice them.

[Antigravity.4083]

Of course it's been there the whole time, who says we humans have no object permanence!? lol, jokes. ...It's too early for me to be on the forums probably.