Via Negativa.1059

It's honestly more of a shame that they are rendered at all.... This game used to have full stereoscopic 3d support and for those who experienced it, with the right hardware it was mind blowing. Over time support broke. This support included the cutscenes which where rendered completely in 3D instead of the low res FMV's we mainly get now

After gearing up for the change and sitting in self 100 percent crit most of the time with dread I don't want them to revert what they have done, I want them to fix it. If the DPS is to remain mediocre then they really should up the classes survivability and lean into this aspect of the class and give us Viable tanking buffs. What I find funny is they said they would look at feedback and do something but there has not been a peep about necro instead of more nerfs then silence. To the point they actually think the change they made to death perception is a quality of life change lol. A melee Dps that needs to put themselves at risk for the worst DPS... They either need their priorities straightened out or they simply just don't understand their own game at this point it seems.

I'm running a Dread build right now, pretty much near 100 uptime on fury and hitting crit cap most of the time, it's alot of work and comes with downsides, probably not worth the loss in power damage though. Dunno. I'm playing it still cause I'm stubborn and its the only class I like. I pretty much only do open world and Fractals with some friends cause living in NZ it's just not really tenable to take this game seriously at 200+ ping.

Doesn't help the guy quoted above is in Australia, I think I'm technically located further away from him and my ping is better. Australia might have the worst internet in the first world.

I think for the US it's in Texas, could be wrong though but it's definitely not in the west coast like it should be, I would say this is one of the major reasons why this game is not very popular outside the US where connecting to Europe is worse.

Cries in Oceania. (212ms average ping to the server which pretty much gates me out of pvp content.)

I'm far from having optimal gear, but I actually gained DPS with this change, not enough to be significant but it it was higher. Swapped out for precision trinkets and I'm back at 100 percent buffed and DPS is actually higher than it was before, but a bit glassier. Still is kinda odd and a questionable change. Not sure what the guy above is talking about the warhorn lost unblockable so its a nerf and the GS skill cooldown is only in wvw

I've actually got more damage but I had to readjust my gear to lean even more heavily into crit to make sure it maxes out so survivability takes a hit... kinda wierd changes I am more annoyed about the Warhorn change though will have to test a bit more.

First, thanks to Anet for fixing this issue. I am very happy with the prompt response this got addressed. I can now play again! (because I am serious when I say I cannot play it without 3d. ) Which brings me to have to address this puzzling comment. You do realize there is a very active community, and modding scene for 3dvision that fixes most high profile games for perfect 3D support? I find it really hard to find in this day and age that someone could have a 3d gaming setup capable of running GW2 in 3d and not knowing about this. Which leads me to wonder if many owners of these setups even comprehend how amazing this technology is. And because it is a 3dvision quality of life adjustment only, and due to the nature of correcting things in a stereo space never actually manipulates the game code proper, meaning I play a lot of games and I would say about 85% of what I play these days has flawless support. Including for example the recent Divinity: original sin 2, or Tekken 7 for example. Yes it's a shame it does not get as much love from developers as it should. But thats why we have computers. ;)I do not really want to go into it here but google is your friend. because the reality is, there are practically a 1000 fixed titles alone that work flawlessly in 3dvision and due to the problems Anet has introduced over the recent years to their client, unfortunately often to a much more complete level. GW2 was at one stage the absolute best game in 3d in my opinion as all assets were actual 3d objects and the game was created with stereo in mind. But over time as they have updated lighting models and such and new shaders support was lost. (hint: light shafts through canopies, UI elements, circle markers, action reticle, shaders setting issues above medium.) Hopefully this thread has brought some attention to this and we regain 3dready support for this game again.But, once again. Thank you again ArenaNet for getting on to fixing this so quickly. It's a breath of fresh air in a development environment that for the most part pretends 3d gamers do not exist. Now i can finally enjoy the expansion...

Lets try to keep this reasonable, we have confirmation from a developer that he is looking into it. Give them some time.

Yes I think 3dvision is the only one with true support. Tridef is not even real 3d as far as I know, it's like the fake 3d they use in the movies. The name plates are at depth, the cursor is as well for that matter in 3dvision. Forget 4k 3d gaming really is the single most impressive graphical improvement you can make to your system., and the Helix warapper and 3dmigoto with community support gets hundreds of games working perfectly. The fact it's overlooked in the gaming sphere is criminal. The only naysayers have usually never actually seen a real 3d supported game in action, and Guild wars 2 is one of the best in 3dvision. As for VR unfortunately, nvidia promised full 3d integration and then mysteriously just stopped talking about it. I think certain games work with Vorpx but I believe that's depth buffer 3d as well. I can confirm as of the latest patch, the game still crashes on startup =(

Thank you for the response Jon. I know this is probably not a widely used feature but its very important to those of us that use it, and it's the one thing that keeps me coming back to this game, and getting the new expac. I just submitted a bug report on this as well, as I can confirm game now crashes with 3dvision on. Please fix this, game is amazing in 3d. (people have no idea what they are missing out on. While we are on the subject a while ago you guys updated the graphics and created light shaft/ god ray problem in certain areas and you cannot use high shaders. If these two things could be resolved along with the crashes it would be perfect again.