Shadow.4792

You can find more than enough people having the same issue with top of the line computers, but for some reason u choose to ignore it.I'm not the only one having this and u theres even a couple in this post claiming to have the same issue and they're running with a more than capable machine.

Wish we could get a comment on this matter from arena-net's developers

and there you are wrong. Your computer's performance means everything. I have a beefy machine, I don't see the issue. And I play on LINUX. But since my Gw2.dat is on a m2 ssd, loading models is not a problem. then upgrade your hardware. Default is default. Always loaded, always in memory. Your gemstore item is not. Either get more memory, put gw2.dat on a ssd or best: do both. Voila, no more loading issues. I agree that having a good machine minimize the issue. my problem is that it shouldn't be the way for us to fix it, i think its fair ask from the developers to create a decent code that doesn't require the majority of the play base to have good computers so that skins will actually load like they should, if my computer can load default skin no reason it wont load the premium skin just as fast , if others games can do it no reason Guild Wars 2 should fall behind.

Never tried to compare them, Gave WoW as a example for how mount "skins" should be implemented, not the mount itself. I think gw2's take on mount is exceptional and other games should take it as an example as to how mounts should be.If you wish to discuss more on this subject feel free to PM me in game, but quite frankly i'm tired repeating myself over and over.

Haha I guess your right.Its all a matter of perspective, When you see how much time and money we're investing to these "small things" suddenly they become not so small Firstworldproblemshaha see if u can catch me

Haha I guess your right.Its all a matter of perspective, When you see how much time and money we're investing to these "small things" suddenly they become not so small

I'll make it clear in case it wasn't, i'm not trying to disrespect the craftsmanship of the developers i'm simply asking for an upgrade where it fits, Considering the amount of focus this game gives to skins i think its pretty standard to ask for a better solution here.You mentioned other games so lets take a look at WoW where each mount is treated as its own "item" and not an over-lay.

great idea, wont work gw2 community is too casual for this to work

And this whole entire post isn't? You're demanding drastic changes to game code because you have to see a default skin for one second or two before your computer loads in models and textures. I just feel like they're cheaping out here and it annoys me to see, especially in a game so heavly focused towards skins and shiny and whatnot

How does this feel like a troll?Seeing the base mount is about the game not loading the fancy skin before more important things. If your computer can load faster it will show the mount less often. An SSD makes the game load much faster and as a result would make you see the base mount instead of your fancy skin less often and few fewer seconds.Because as i've already mention in previous, comments, people with a more than capable machines experience the same issue, and therefor the performance of my computer is not the matter here... and ive said it like 3 times already

People like you are the reason i made this post tbh, i hate that the community just accepted this fix

and to all this, why cant we can a respond from official source explaining exactly what is going on and how they plan to deal with it?

idk i guess i have some sort of OCd over this cuz i cant help but notice default skin even if its only for a brief moment, you are right tho it gets less distinctive after you load the map, so they basically fixed an older bug by delaying overlays.im no expert here but i did get to play multiple mmos before and this solution that they found just feels cheap, it feels like they covered a more serious problem behind a smaller problem in a game with skins are like the only reason people play..

I don't claim to know everything, What I'm trying to say is that the performance of my computer makes no difference and I've also mentioned this in the OP. Bottom line is I paid for a premium skin it should load just as fast as the default one.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/27987/mount-skin-delay-on-summon & https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/7yd6n7/mounts_taking_some_time_to_show_the_proper_skin/the links above will answer your claim that models load based on how fast the computer is(funny to see you've posted there too), and there shouldn't be a delay at all, i paid for the skin cuz i didn't like how the default skin looks. if i wanted to see the default skin when i mount up i wouldn't have bought the item in first place, and if i'm posting about this then for me one second is obviously more than enough.i have decided not to post this on the bugs forum mainly because i wanted more people to see it and raise a discussion,

Hi everyone,I would like to raise awareness for this issue with the mount skins not loading up as they should.So basically aNet is selling us a skin for 2000gems and this should be a topic by itself but never-mind that i wouldn't have mentioned the price of the skin had it worked like it should. What happens is you mount up and most of the times you'll see your default mount skin for like a sec, Before the actual skin you have on decides to show itself up. I tried asking around in map chat to see if anyone else is have this problem hoping this is something on my end, And to my disappointment the map chat made it very clear that i am not in fault here. Now i don't know about you but i don't think it fair selling people a product that doesn't work properly, you might see it as exaggeration but i honestly feel like I've been scammed. contacted support team within the hour trying to get an explanation hoping they'll give me some new information, tl;dr no new information and he also mentioned that refunding is not an option. The nice support team member asked me to post about this to "help expedite a fix" for a bug that has been around for more than a year now and you can easily find several posts about this.While looking around the forums I couldn't find any response to this issue from aNet's developers side in similar older posts, correct me if i'm wrong tho. I'm sure that there are bugs that are more severe than this but its such a cringe and a disappointing thing to find out after i finally decided to get it.In this case the Gem store is where we spend our hard earned money for ingame extras, i think its fair to demand at the very least they'll work without flaws. The Shimmerwing Skyscale was my first mount skin purchase and most certainly the last, at least until this issue is fixed, for now i'll just keep using the default Skyscale skin. Came out longer than i wanted it to be and i'm not the type of person who rants like this on forums but i felt the need to share this. I want to mention that I've been playing gw2 on and off for around 6 years now, Showing my support overs the years and bought a good amount of gems and never felt bad about it, until today.