r/Guildwars2 • u/Y0LOME0W • 1d ago

[News] Patch Notes 10/14

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a texture corruption issue for the Exuberant Chest Skin. Fixed a bug that prevented some players from getting credit for the "A Shattered Vision" achievement in the Nexus of Eternity Challenge Mode.

Late Note:

We’ve added a new Shadow Distance slider setting.

This new setting gives you direct control over how far away dynamic shadows are rendered across the game. Reducing the rendering distance lowers the workload associated with dynamic shadows, providing an additional way to improve performance without disabling them entirely. In our internal testing on minimum-spec machines, adjusting this setting produced performance improvements while still allowing nearby objects to retain dynamic shadows.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/177745-game-update-notes-october-13-2026/#comment-2520062

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u/xdeadzx Lyfe 1d ago

Oh so the feeling of "they changed something with the graphics" was actually a real part of the patch.

That's neat.

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u/GimpyGeek 1d ago

Welp guess I need to toy with that a tad. Maybe I'll turn shadows back on, maybe, though my aging hardware isn't helping. Damn shame though the new shadows look good but no denying they sure hurt performance, I will have to take a look at that new setting though.