Pointy low contrast cursor

[Zek.8374]

Dear Arenanet employee.

The "low" contrast cursor was a great addition to the game, although it is not pointy, please make the tip sharp and use the tip for actual clicking instead of the inner part of the cursor.

 

Best wishes!

[Vash.2386]

Trying to resize things like the mini-map, party size, chat box etc is a nightmare with the low contract cursor.  It definitely needs a sharp tip.

[LSD.4673]

It's literally just the cursor with a lazy border on it. The tip is where it is without the border.

With this patch, looks like i will be going for a third party cursor after all. Expected better. Rookie mistake.

[fable spirt.8465]

Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me.

[Myror.7521]

Idk i like the New cursor alot even while i dont rly need it but its good to have it 🙂

[Artemis.8034]

1 hour ago, fable spirt.8465 said:

Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me.

So much this! 

[Zek.8374]

https://imgur.com/a/wCv7yys

I made a quick edit to the low contrast cursor, the red pixel represents the clicky part

[Nash.2681]

5 hours ago, fable spirt.8465 said:

Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me.

100% this, thanks for pointing this out!

[Fozzie.5370]

14 hours ago, Zek.8374 said:

Dear Arenanet employee.

The "low" contrast cursor was a great addition to the game, although it is not pointy, please make the tip sharp and use the tip for actual clicking instead of the inner part of the cursor.

 

Best wishes!

..... ^^ SO THIS

AND THIS >>> Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me. @fable spirt.8465  Right on point mate, idk why this has been actioned in 10 years, the amount of times in hectic Raid or Frac CM run, engaged camera and completely lose the mouse pointer its kitten annoying !

@ Anet: Please fine-tune the low/high contrast mouse cursor pointer, that activates at the actual tip, and is finer as per original.   Until this is actioned, it wrecks my emotional health far too much to use either low or high contrast as they are just too annoying !!!! 

Edited June 29, 2022 by Greg.7086

[Sylvi.8372]

9 hours ago, fable spirt.8465 said:

Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me.

 

THIS

[Farohna.6247]

4 hours ago, Zek.8374 said:

https://imgur.com/a/wCv7yys

I made a quick edit to the low contrast cursor, the red pixel represents the clicky part

Yeh that's much better.  That would make it less visually odd.

I like the visibility of the current one, but would have preferred just a slightly larger cursor or different color. 

[ctorrezan.3498]

I was surprised by the quality of the art from the GW2 team and the quality of this new cursor, did anyone really approve of this and thought it was good or did they just release it without anyone seeing it? The idea is great, but it was very poorly executed, it looks like it was done in a hurry.

[Vavume.8065]

Visually I like the low res cursor, but clicking stuff with it feels off, there is to much deadzone in it.

[ShroomOneUp.6913]

9 hours ago, Zek.8374 said:

https://imgur.com/a/wCv7yys

I made a quick edit to the low contrast cursor, the red pixel represents the clicky part

THIS

[Artemis.8034]

57 minutes ago, ShroomOneUp.6913 said:

THIS

Oh yeah that kinda sucks dont it. And really I never had a problem with the cursor outside of it disappearing all the time when i needed it to be there. Can you fix that Anet? 

[Cuks.8241]

Got to test this for the first time today. Funnily this was one of the most anticipated features. 

Anet cmon. You botched it. Did you even test this? Clicking small buttons, menus on high resolution is wonky.

On 6/29/2022 at 10:40 AM, Zek.8374 said:

https://imgur.com/a/wCv7yys

I made a quick edit to the low contrast cursor, the red pixel represents the clicky part

This.

[godfat.2604]

It’s a fat finger simulation feature.

[Sugar Min.5834]

Indeed the pointy head is too big. It is hard to use click on drop down lists, always have to click more than once.

[Tearthy Flame.1463]

Sometimes the cursor quality in games eludes me . . . it's all mostly very basic images and not too many devs care about making the cursor user friendly. But I like that ArenaNet is trying, even though it's not too practical. To me it looks like Anet attached a sprite/image under the cursor (the cursor is probably a .PNG), so that's why the Hotspot (Click) is not moved from the Cursor's tip. Colors and shapes make the big difference in visibility!

Edited July 1, 2022 by Tearthy Flame.1463
Correction

[Donari.5237]

6 hours ago, Tearthy Flame.1463 said:

Sometimes the cursor quality in games eludes me . . . it's all mostly very basic images and not too many devs care about making the cursor user friendly. But I like that ArenaNet is trying, even though it's not too practical. To me it looks like Anet attached a sprite/image under the cursor (the cursor is probably a .PNG), so that's why the Hotspot (Click) is not moved from the Cursor's tip. Colors and shapes make the big difference in visibility!

That makes sense.  To fix the clumsy feel, they could render a different shape, maybe a little more egg shaped if not outright pointed, offset instead of centered on the base cursor so the clicky part is on the end of the point.  I definitely am avoiding the highest contrast one as it masks too much of what I'm trying to click on, but even the medium one makes precision very difficult.

I'm also one that hasn't had any trouble seeing the cursor except that it outright vanishes a lot.  When it's visible, it's big enough.  I'm sticking with medium contrast for now because I really like not losing track of it but goodness it's hard to precisely click anything.

[crazycookie.3247]

they should allow to select the bigger cursers which are already in the game, but are just used when the UI is scaled cuz of a high dpi display. On the picture are the default high dpi curser and the default normal (tiny) one.

 

https://i.imgur.com/tlK8Pcf.png

Edited July 1, 2022 by crazycookie.3247

[Sugar Min.5834]

After two days of using it, I reverted back to using the default sharp pointy one. The HD one is just too clunky.

Edited July 1, 2022 by Mil.3562

[SinisterSlay.6973]

Why don't they just give the option to not override the cursor and use the windows cursor? Then people can use the high contrast inverted cursor in Windows if they want to?

[Veprovina.4876]

On 6/29/2022 at 5:20 AM, fable spirt.8465 said:

Honestly, I didn't really need the contrast, What I could go for is my curser not disappearing when I engage my camera. That would probably solve like 75% of the "dude where's my mouse" in the game for me.

You can do that with BlishHUD, though, it looks weird, the cursor disappears, while the overlay cursor stays.

You get used to it though...

 

But yes, this would definitely be nice to have a default option, without overlays.

[Silverpoopoo.1476]

Agreed.

I like the idea of a white highlight on mouse cursor, but it feels clunky as hell right now.

Edited July 1, 2022 by Silverpoopoo.1476