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Mammoth · Sep 30, 2008, 07:50 PM // 19:50

I found out what it is, and it's quite literally nothing!

If you look at the order of the screenshots in the gallery on that archive, this is the news post that refers to it when it was added to the gallery.

Quote:

Female Character Presented 06 February 2004

e are pleased to present a new screenshot with the first-ever look at one of the female character models in Guild Wars. Visit our Gallery to see the latest in-game image.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/200405270...guildwars.com/

I'd wager this was removed before the big E3 for Everyone event that made a name for this game in 2004, at best it was an elementalist or an npc at the time, mesmers didnt exist back then

HawkofStorms · Sep 30, 2008, 09:54 PM // 21:54

I'm more interested in something else in that screenshot.

Notice how long that person's hair is? No character's model has hair that long (probablly due to clipping issues) and its one thing I've wanted for my female characters for a while.

Taisayacho · Sep 30, 2008, 10:08 PM // 22:08

Ooh you're right.
This comes close, but not as long:

(Rit)

**cosyfiep** · Oct 01, 2008, 04:18 AM // 04:18

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

I'm more interested in something else in that screenshot.

Notice how long that person's hair is? No character's model has hair that long (probablly due to clipping issues) and its one thing I've wanted for my female characters for a while.

....until the made dervishes...there are a bunch of female dervish hair styles with long hair. wish they had done that for some of the other professions.

Nessar · Oct 01, 2008, 06:00 AM // 06:00

Wow..Im kinda glad that wasn't put in o.o; Slut r us

Faer · Oct 01, 2008, 06:28 AM // 06:28

Female Necro model. Discarded facial features and armor design.

SERIOUSLY GUYS. COME ON. NOT HARD.

Tyla · Oct 01, 2008, 06:31 AM // 06:31

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Originally Posted by Nessar

Wow..Im kinda glad that wasn't put in o.o; Slut r us

Most of the Elementalist armoursets are already like that.

pamelf · Oct 01, 2008, 06:42 AM // 06:42

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Originally Posted by Tyla

Most of the Elementalist armoursets are already like that.

At least they have a feminine shape. That's my gripe with mesmer monument armour as well...it looks like she's wearing a cardboard box.

RedStar · Oct 01, 2008, 06:52 AM // 06:52

Hawk, there is a ranger's haircut that is almost as long as that (I think it's from NF).

By the look of how she's dressed I think that it would have been a mesmer.

And some skirts are shorter (ie: the hydromancer's skirt).

Alicendre · Oct 01, 2008, 06:53 AM // 06:53

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Originally Posted by Faer

Female Necro model. Discarded facial features and armor design.

SERIOUSLY GUYS. COME ON. NOT HARD.

Me think this, she has the same stance as the female Necro.

If it is that, I'm glad it has been discarded, it's not Necro-looking at all...

4thVariety · Oct 01, 2008, 06:59 AM // 06:59

My two cents. It's not actual knowledge, but based on what we heard in interviews of the past, it can make sense.

On Bloom:
Arenanet said that at some point of development they hired an artist to fake screenshots, which were then given to the programmers who were instructed to make the game look like this. The screenshot might be a result of that process at some point. Besides, if you only need one screenshot it doesn't matter if the game only runs at 3 frames per second. Later they dialed back the bloom and fidelity to get more frames out of peoples computers. To this day there is no option to turn off sprite pop-overs in the distance and a special mod is required to give people in outposts high texture details.So it's a screenshot from a non-release version, big deal.

On long hair:
Guild cape + long hair = clipping issues.
Sure, the cape has its own fair share of those, but imagine how bad it would have been with long, animated hair. Especially since people will see their character all the time and guild capes could not be turned off in the beginning. The long hair had to go.

On the model:
It's the first female model ever made public. It's most likely the first decent one they had. Who cares what it later became. It could have turned into an NSC for all we know.

On the armor
Again, with the release more than one year away, she got what was available at that time. Some (later to be) Mesmer boots, some (later to be) Ele cloths. Even the texture design was not final. But the 3d mesh looks familiar. Funny thing that people would want to have this armor, at least as many would hate on it for being just a reskin. But since it has 3D meshes from multiple classes, this armor would not pass Arenanet's own rule of "being able to id a class at first glance in PvP".

Necrotic · Oct 01, 2008, 08:22 AM // 08:22

Wasn't in the beta as far as I can remember....probably never made it.

Numa Pompilius · Oct 01, 2008, 08:32 AM // 08:32

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Originally Posted by garethporlest18

Definitely would bring out the ho/I want boys to e-hit/e-perv on me look.

You say that like it'd be a bad thing...

ZenRgy · Oct 01, 2008, 10:37 AM // 10:37

This game lacks long hair.

Avai · Oct 01, 2008, 12:36 PM // 12:36

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/552148...42203_004.html

GW screenshots on IGN date back as far as 2003. Look through these, starting from old and going forward. It's pretty cool to take a look at how the game looked two years before most people started playing it. Dev's came from WoW and that's pretty apparent in many of these earlier screens.

Pesky Tundra Giants and their large rocks!

I'm quite certain this link has been posted on this forum in a few other threads as well.

Clarissa F · Oct 01, 2008, 01:52 PM // 13:52

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Originally Posted by Avai

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/552148...42203_004.html

I like a pic of the warrior earlier in the game development. It wasn't the 'roided out linebacker look we have today.

MithranArkanere · Oct 01, 2008, 02:21 PM // 14:21

It looks like Elementalist armor for me.

Paloma Song · Oct 01, 2008, 06:35 PM // 18:35

What's with all the slut and street corner cracks? Sometimes I think all the accusations of promiscuity are merely wishful thinking on the part of the accusers. Dream on, boys.

Have you seen what people wear in real life when clubbing? Have you ever been to a beach, for that matter? Gone into an anthropology book to see what indigenous peoples wear even today? This is overly tame, not to mention pretty ugly. But even if it weren't, get this through your heads: the cut of a skirt has much more to do with comfort, climate, culture, and couture than her interest in sex - or in you.

Reconsider your own shame and modesty hangups, and yes, your own sexism. Don't take them out on a cartoon.

Shadowhaze · Oct 01, 2008, 06:38 PM // 18:38

I like the designs on the armor and the long hair.

But yeah, interesting find.

MagmaRed · Oct 01, 2008, 06:41 PM // 18:41

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Originally Posted by Paloma Song

What's with all the slut and street corner cracks? Sometimes I think all the accusations of promiscuity are merely wishful thinking on the part of the accusers. Dream on, boys.

Have you seen what people wear in real life when clubbing? Have you ever been to a beach, for that matter? Gone into an anthropology book to see what indigenous peoples wear even today? This is overly tame, not to mention pretty ugly. But even if it weren't, get this through your heads: the cut of a skirt has much more to do with comfort, climate, culture, and couture than her interest in sex - or in you.

Reconsider your own shame and modesty hangups, and yes, your own sexism. Don't take them out on a cartoon.

I would agree with you on part of that. However, one thing you seem to forget is that people in today's society wear clothes based on how they look in them. Women wear short skirts that hide very little for one reason in most cases. It makes men look at them. True, there are those that wear them for comfort, but most know that even the comfort is clouded with the 'sex appeal'. Try taking a short skirt like the characters in GW wear to a catholic school and convince the nun's to wear them as it would be more comfortable in the hot weather.