I'm in that one.Īlso I like to see the absolute maximum amount of visual fireworks my graphics card can show me. There's at least a third category: people who don't care what they look to others but are fascinated to see how other people choose to dress. The first group don't care about appearance (that much), and the other group will be annoyed if they know they can't brag about their costly skins because players just turn that stuff off which makes them look as generic as everyone else. That's because there are two very different categories of players - the ones that don't care much for the fluff of others and just want to be able to play as efficient as possible, so they want to tweak their game to maximum visibility (like what many people do in fps games like Quake, CS and so on).Then there's the Fashion Wars category that want to show off their stuff to others. How many 'other player characters' because I would like to rather see my friends at least because they're not incompetent fools who think a bright yellow flaming griffon with a red and blue face is 'Good looking'.

It has no impact on your own character and on the NPCs, but other player characters and their mounts will be replaced by generic, standard skins. Then, pick the graphics settings (the second icon, with the little sun and the two mountains), and, on the option 'Character Model Quality', pick 'Lowest'. To activate those settings, press F11 to go to the Options menu. For those who are worried that the extra particle effects from mounts are going to slow their systems, or those who just would like to avoid the visual pollution, this is an option.

The settings that hide other player characters' armor and general appearance also hide mounts' skins. It's a nice gesture of them, and I applaud it. Said:I'm amazed that ArenaNet actually added this feature to the game.

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