Maulclaw.4365

I just came back to the game recently and I couldn't help but notice that Minis have gotten a lot more... intrusive, compared to how they were handled in the past. Not only have some grown in size, but others have also become flashier and even have special sound effects. It's getting to the point it has become distractingly jarring, and there's been hundreds of posts complaining about this all over the forums and Reddit since launch. This is even more egregious whenever someone uses a mini of their Jade Bot. I hope ANet adds a feature in the future that allows us to disable or silence them all together, similar to how we can mute projectiles. The game already has too much visual vomit, and this is just adding more on top.

How am I supposed to do it then?

Then I don't understand why it would just start behaving this way...

Was this a recent change or something? Last year I was playing just fine.

I haven't heard anyone bring this up, so I can only assume it's happening to me. Out of all the online-based games that I have, GW2 seems to be the one that is constantly experiencing spikes in ping. It'll go to from the default 120-180 ping (I'm from the EU playing on NA and never really had any issues) to values as high as 500 and even 1,200 every few seconds non-stop. It's made the game practically unplayable for me, especially during the evening. This is not an issue in any other MMO that I've played like SWTOR, ESO, FFXIV, TERA and even online matches for fighting games. Any ideas? I'm really at a loss.

I've been looking into the "Motion Blur" thing for a while now, and I can't seem to find it affecting anything. At least not in the traditional sense. I've looked into older Forums and Reddit posts, but people seem to have a different opinion on how it's supposed to work. I don't suppose there have been clearer examples down out there. And what exactly does "Environment Zone Intensity" does? I've messed around with it for a bit on different areas and haven't noticed any changes. At least every other graphical feature has an obvious change.

Please revert Banners to the way they were before. I really don't wanna stop using the build I've stuck to since 2016.

It is pure quality, all right. Just not in the right places.

Lol, no.

Every single time I come back to this game, crap like this pops up to remind me why I left in the first place. Good to know I'm better off wasting my time somewhere else.

Still bugged, apparently.

There's been an apparent spike in bot activity (in both PvE and PvP across both regions) and it seems to be only getting worse. The same bots that have been running around since the start of this ranked season are still around and kicking... despite numerous people reporting and sending in feedback and/or proof through Tickets. These bots are ruining the game experience for pretty much everyone involved and might potentially worsen the economy as they supposedly make up to 4,000 gold a season from an old estimate (which is outright ridiculous) on top of all the materials they keep farming. Back in 2019 there were these group of bots that were running around farming PvP for almost three seasons in a row. I even saw them interacting with NPCs and other vendors by the end of a it, spamming emotes against players who recognized them as there was a player using them in order to wrap up their profit. Why isn't ArenaNet doing anything about this? Or better yet, if they are... how come it's still such a big issue? They did once deal with all the gold-spammers, but these PvE-PvP bots are getting out of hand and it's rather upsetting to see... especially since they're only getting smarter (as in bigger broken builds that are nearly impossible to counter in a competitive scene). There's even been in a rise in websites and forums dedicated to botting and hacking in GW2... And the real kicker is, people are making actual money out of this.

SWTOR's Steam launch was pretty good. The game peaked as high as 30,000 players. It has obviously gone down since then, but it was a great sight to see. Normies will criticize old games despite everything, and I'm sure GW2 would get its fair share of backlash even if the game didn't run like garbage. And the fact that existing players won't be able to migrate is incredibly moronic. SWTOR and TERA did it without breaking a sweat.

The animation is not the same as the censored animation. Human females are using the same animation as human males. Asura feel really robotic and norn are all about clipping. And it's yet another grind to get. Ugh. Figures.

Core (Prologue to Level 30), Season 1 (for its action and set pieces) and Season 2 (for its story).