Deaeira.2651 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 We have a new chaos storm animation that looks like this: https://imgur.com/RRQDf7X(imgur chaos storm image) Do you like the new one or prefer the old one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 I don't get it. You mean the circle? That's a change on every ethereal combo field, not just chaos storm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genesis.5169 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) I don't know how far back you guys were playing but there was a GFX nerf way back because anet thought to get more numbers people who played on potatoes should be able to play. Now that tech is moving forward it seems to me they are slowly but surely reverting those changes. Man hindsight in the game is a series of avoid anything of risk sadly they coulda been in ff14's spot but they chose to walk the path of least resistance. They reverted there amazing Map making in HoT sadly. They reverted underwater combat. They reverted pvp a few times. A series of trying to cater or save face i don't know which but whomever Anet is trying to please its lead to some wild choices. Edited August 21, 2021 by Genesis.5169 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curunen.8729 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 I find the darker outline confuses me a bit as it can almost look red under certain lighting. And the gap between that pretty solid boundary and the inner circle is a bit weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaeira.2651 Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 On 8/20/2021 at 9:03 PM, Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 said: I don't get it. You mean the circle? That's a change on every ethereal combo field, not just chaos storm. I'm missing the "electricity" effect - don't have a good way of explaining but you can see it e.g. in a WP video at 24m14s: Now it's just the circle with the inside pretty flat. And your'e right my first thought was that it now looks like Null Field now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 55 minutes ago, Deaeira.2651 said: I'm missing the "electricity" effect Mine still has it, tested it just now. Maybe when you cast it it hadn't fully loaded the particle effects. Try casting it some 2 or 3 times, then it'll remain loaded until you exit the game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraconusShade.4590 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 I remember a time when Chaos Storm had a mirror-like bubble effect with violet electricity inside it. I don't know why they changed that to this nonsense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 57 minutes ago, DraconusShade.4590 said: I remember a time when Chaos Storm had a mirror-like bubble effect with violet electricity inside it. I don't know why they changed that to this nonsense. It's a bit hard to see in a screenshot, but did it look anything like this? https://imgur.com/a/H3p1L3V It still has the sort of distorted glass effect aswell as the lightning. The only thing different from my Chaos Storms compared to the video on the mesmer page in the gw2 site is the reduced fog effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaeira.2651 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 21 hours ago, Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 said: It's a bit hard to see in a screenshot, but did it look anything like this? https://imgur.com/a/H3p1L3V It still has the sort of distorted glass effect aswell as the lightning. The only thing different from my Chaos Storms compared to the video on the mesmer page in the gw2 site is the reduced fog effect. Hm perhaps it is only the fog... it looks very similar to your screenshots on my machine as well. Thanks for comparing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraconusShade.4590 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 On 8/22/2021 at 4:11 PM, Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 said: It's a bit hard to see in a screenshot, but did it look anything like this? https://imgur.com/a/H3p1L3V It still has the sort of distorted glass effect aswell as the lightning. The only thing different from my Chaos Storms compared to the video on the mesmer page in the gw2 site is the reduced fog effect. Yeah that's how mine looks as well. For some reason it doesnt always show that though. Sometimes its just a purple ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirosama Nadasaki.6792 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Just now, DraconusShade.4590 said: Yeah that's how mine looks as well. For some reason it doesnt always show that though. Sometimes its just a purple ring. Like I mentioned, depending on your PC it may take a while for particle effects to load, especially if you just opened the game. For me it takes about 2 casts of chaos storm for the particle effects to fully load, counting from the moment I logged into the game, the first couple casts are just a purple ring. During large crowd events they may also not load sometimes, it's really a matter of what your PC can process and how much stuff the game is throwing at it at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Handler.4816 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 On 8/21/2021 at 11:48 AM, Curunen.8729 said: I find the darker outline confuses me a bit as it can almost look red under certain lighting. And the gap between that pretty solid boundary and the inner circle is a bit weird. This has to be a bug. Its also just flat out wrong on time warp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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