Old Player Returning with some questions. - Guild Wars Forums

Brakkis · Oct 23, 2009, 05:19 AM // 05:19

So I stopped playing Guild Wars just prior to the release of Eye of the North. Now I got bored recently and re-installed the game on my comp, loaded it up, and was extremely confused.

Many of my characters skin colors have changed drastically, as well as their gear appearance. I'm still downloading the zone I was in last so I haven't been able to check anything else but I'm wondering if they did something that changed character skin colors and such while I was away.

IrishX · Oct 23, 2009, 05:24 AM // 05:24

Your characters will have their appearance once you log in with them. There was a bug in one of the updates that caused everyone's characters to look different on the login screen.

bsoltan · Oct 23, 2009, 06:23 AM // 06:23

You are probably experiencing what IrishX has explained. Seeing as you have not downloaded all content yet and have just used the disk then the chracters will be showing placeholder armour. As soon as you login to a character it will download the necessary information and will update their apperance.
There have been no updates that change what you originally picked for your character's apperance, or any updates to armour etc.

Falkin · Oct 23, 2009, 08:53 AM // 08:53

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Originally Posted by bsoltan

You are probably experiencing what IrishX has explained. Seeing as you have not downloaded all content yet and have just used the disk then the chracters will be showing placeholder armour. As soon as you login to a character it will download the necessary information and will update their apperance.
There have been no updates that change what you originally picked for your character's apperance, or any updates to armour etc.

Im pretty sure that what IrishX is talking about, is the update where we got the ability to change the apperence of all out charaters, where all of our chars looked weird untill we logged into them.

Never the less, a login on each character should fix it

jonnieboi05 · Oct 23, 2009, 11:01 AM // 11:01

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Originally Posted by Falkin

Im pretty sure that what IrishX is talking about, is the update where we got the ability to change the apperence of all out charaters, where all of our chars looked weird untill we logged into them.

Never the less, a login on each character should fix it

Correct. It was merely a bug that was introduced when Arena.Ner implemented the ability to change one's character's appearaence. Logging in with each character once will restore the way they originally looked on the log-in screen and in-game.

~LeNa~

Quaker · Oct 23, 2009, 02:20 PM // 14:20

I'm not sure that it was a "bug" as such. I think it was purposely done to get people talking about their changing character looks and to promote the new make-over kits. But either way, you just need to log in to each character to turn their appearance back to what you had. And, there's no rush (obviously).

Iuris · Oct 23, 2009, 03:23 PM // 15:23

My my, how conspiracies fly...

In order to allow changes of looks, Anet had to recode the way faces were stored. Side effect was that the old characters look weird until you log in with them. Once you log in, and after, they will look right.

So, just say the characters have been having a party while you were gone

Oct 23, 2009, 05:19 AM // 05:19	#1
Brakkis Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Jul 2006 Profession: W/Mo	Old Player Returning with some questions. So I stopped playing Guild Wars just prior to the release of Eye of the North. Now I got bored recently and re-installed the game on my comp, loaded it up, and was extremely confused. Many of my characters skin colors have changed drastically, as well as their gear appearance. I'm still downloading the zone I was in last so I haven't been able to check anything else but I'm wondering if they did something that changed character skin colors and such while I was away.

Oct 23, 2009, 05:24 AM // 05:24	#2
IrishX Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jan 2008 Profession: W/	Your characters will have their appearance once you log in with them. There was a bug in one of the updates that caused everyone's characters to look different on the login screen.

Oct 23, 2009, 06:23 AM // 06:23	#3
bsoltan Site Contributor Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK Guild: [SoF]	You are probably experiencing what IrishX has explained. Seeing as you have not downloaded all content yet and have just used the disk then the chracters will be showing placeholder armour. As soon as you login to a character it will download the necessary information and will update their apperance. There have been no updates that change what you originally picked for your character's apperance, or any updates to armour etc.

Oct 23, 2009, 02:20 PM // 14:20	#6
Quaker Hell's Protector Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Guild: Brothers Disgruntled	I'm not sure that it was a "bug" as such. I think it was purposely done to get people talking about their changing character looks and to promote the new make-over kits. But either way, you just need to log in to each character to turn their appearance back to what you had. And, there's no rush (obviously).

Oct 23, 2009, 03:23 PM // 15:23	#7
Iuris Forge Runner Join Date: Nov 2006 Guild: Crazy ducks from the Forest Profession: W/	My my, how conspiracies fly... In order to allow changes of looks, Anet had to recode the way faces were stored. Side effect was that the old characters look weird until you log in with them. Once you log in, and after, they will look right. So, just say the characters have been having a party while you were gone