Feedback:User/Hyugi/Greater Graphic Settings Customization
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| User | Hyugi |
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Hello! I thoroughly enjoyed the open-beta weekend for Guild Wars 2; however, I did have a suggestion regarding graphics settings. I think it would be a great idea if more options could added to further reduce and/or shut off certain graphics completely (i.e. rain, foliage, spell particles, lighting, draw/viewing distance). Possibly something along the lines of being able to establish an absolute minimal graphic settings option(s), or at least reduce some of the more graphic intensive in-game effects/weather?
I ask because I, along with many friends/guild mates from Guild Wars 1 experienced a rapid decrease in our framerate even when our graphics settings were turned to the lowest. Generally this would happen either during outside events with excessive weather effects or during PvP with many spell effects going on at the same time. Our system requirements, collectively, range from having the minimal system requirements to the middle-to-high end of system requirements for Guild Wars 2 - despite this, our framerates are affected almost uniformly to the point where PvP is almost unplayable. During some cinematic cutscenes as well - i.e., the ghost of Duke Barradin death during the Charr tutorial - a framerate decrease is apparent, albeit not so much as PvP. Again, this is across all of our systems regardless of our performance specs.
Consistent framerate drops were the only thing holding me, my guild mates, (and I would also assume many other open-beta players) from experiencing Guild Wars 2 fully both in PvE and PvP scenarios. In some big name games (with coincidentally large player bases) such as World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, League of Legends, etc., generally provide a greater array of graphics customization and/or lowered graphics requirements to begin with. This is apparent and allows many earlier computer models (although not necessarily outdated) to run newer - and obviously more graphics intensive - games such as this. Therefore, I feel as though if more graphic customization/options were added, it would eliminate the question of whether or not to hold onto a pre-order of GW2 simply based on the grounds that no options are allotted to the player to even run it to begin with without having to invest heavily into new computer systems/parts.
Aside from this, however, Guild Wars 2 seems to have a lot going for it and personally speaking, I think it's absolutely the most badass game yet and just want to say keep up the awesome work! Thank you, and any response would be greatly appreciated!
