Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

I'm a 3d artist! I work on a variety of things including: weapons (and legendary weapons), backs (and legendary backs), gliders, chairs, minis, props (objects that you see used to decorate the maps), and rarely, a couple armor pieces. My work on these consists of modeling, texturing, animating, rigging (setting up the skeleton for them to animate with), setting up the physics for parts that wiggle, and some minor fx. I've made a million different models over the 15 years I've been here - way too many things to list! But some of my favorite things I've worked on have been legendaries and my Zharra cape/hood (named after my main character!)

Yes! Mine is on this side, upper middle, just to the left of the silver one from Kirill F.

It warms my heart so much that I played even a small part in all of this. To have something you worked on mean so much to another person...being able to do that for someone is the best thing in the world. Grats on the awesome present! Merry Christmas!

Some history on this: these boxes with the signatures from everyone were signed before launch. We had a big room with rows of tables covered in tons of these collector's editions and everyone stopped work for a bit to go walk up and down the rows signing them all. Most of them were for devs to keep but a few were given away at events and stuff. Some dev boxes have likely made their way into the wild as well, so this may have even been previously owned by a dev! Boxes you see with way fewer signatures were signed post-launch and were set out on a table for people walking by to sign them.

(And my signature is indeed on the box! You can see it in pic 4, top middle, just to the left of the big silver signature from Kir...

Sure thing! Yeah, each dev has a mental list of the things they'd want to be updated or added to the game. Often that stuff gets discussed as a group, triaged, and backlogged for future analysis. We (as individual devs) don't comment publicly on things like this as a rule because we want to be careful about setting proper expectations. Very often, the things players might ask for on reddit or the official forums are things we've wanted or talked about for a long time but that haven't aligned with our goals, directives, or plans for various reasons. Thanks for the chat and for the kind words. Means a lot.

What resolution display are you connected to? 1080p? 1440p? 4k?

Gonna try it this weekend. Thanks for the heads up.

I've been using SamCW's soulslike layout for about 2 years, with minor edits to it. I like it because it keeps my fingers on the shoulder buttons and triggers for combat so I can use my right thumb to move the camera around in action cam mode. But it relies on the extra buttons and touch pads as well for shifting on the skill bar and accessing menus so it wouldn't work docked (unless Valve were to come out with a separate Steam Deck controller, which would be rad).

Good luck finding one you like.

Thanks for confirming. Yeah, it's actually been something we've kicked around internally for years. No promises, of course. I can't say either way if this is something that we'd ever do. But it's good to know that folks might be interested in an update that could make the quality of life better should we have the opportunity. Understanding pain points and collecting data is always the first step.

I'm going to paraphrase the OP to make sure I'm understanding the feedback:

* The existence and quality of in-game books and lore pages is fine
* The implementation of finding books and pages in the middle of a combat zone or scattered in and between open world events creates unneeded time pressure which prevents someone from actually reading it during gameplay
* OP is suggesting/recommending a way to "unlock" or "bank" books and pages for reading later

Is this an accurate assessment of the feedback? Or am I missing something?

Actually perfect