Can I go there in this game?

Or does it have backdrop images like SWTOR?

I don't mind loading screen between zones, but I hate seeing something interesting in the distance and then being stopped from getting there by invisible walls, etc.

Also, in a zone, when I enter a building, do I get a loading screen or is that seamless?

This tower? *jumps up and down on it* 

From the 2 hardcore weekends of beta I can say From Asura and Norn Level 1-35/38 I saw none of what your saying. EA hath not touched a hair on this game! 

there is a movie floating on youtube where a reporter saw a building in the distance, after a solid hour of jumping crawling swimming he got to that point in the distance and it turned out to be a building that looks the same as Anets logo :)

if thats what you mean ?

So ye the background is not pixels in the distance but real buildings and mountains.

Originally posted by tuppe99

Can I go there in this game?

 

Or does it have backdrop images like SWTOR?

I don't mind loading screen between zones, but I hate seeing something interesting in the distance and then being stopped from getting there by invisible walls, etc.

 

Also, in a zone, when I enter a building, do I get a loading screen or is that seamless?

Most of the time you can go anywhere you can see. Some places, like Divinity's Reach as looked from the outside, can't be reached from the outside, you first have to switch to the different zone. Also, some floating "rocks" in the Asura area are pretty much unreachable (can't jump that high)

When you enter a building there is no loading screen, it is seamless, unless it's a building related to a story, like the Queen's Chambers in Divinity's Reach.

Originally posted by tuppe99

Also, in a zone, when I enter a building, do I get a loading screen or is that seamless?

Yeah. How about this?

most building interior you can enter without loading screens, except those that are for personal story instances (like the Queen's castle room, level with the pale Tree avatar...)

there's 100X more freedom of movement and exploration, proof to that are the amazing jumping puzzles. but there are of course boundaries in the world.

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Originally posted by Nefera
There is a tower at least kessex peak that you can see but you can't get to (I think?). It's not just a backdrop image though, it's an actual tower that you see hanging in the air so close but yet so far...In general though, yes you can get to majority of things you see in the distance. And no, the world is not seamless. There are loading screens, however the maps are large enough that you can spends hours without running into one, unless you purposely travel to and from a city a lot. Or do your personal story.

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yeah i saw that wizard's tower too and bumped into an invisible wall when i was swimming under it. Again it's perfectly acceptable that a themepark game have boundaries.

btw im crossing my fingers that the achievement for jumping puzzles & exploration, Vizier's Tower, actually pertains to that floating tower in Kessex, and may finally be explorable

From what I have heard the tower in Kessex hills is not currently accesible, though it most definately is not a backdrop. There is a lot of speculation that the tower will be in 1 of the expansions so fingers crossed.

Oh yeah and it the tower is currently not accesible cos there is currently no way of reaching it, however the Azura may well be working on this :)

Originally posted by 7star

Originally posted by tuppe99

Also, in a zone, when I enter a building, do I get a loading screen or is that seamless?

Yeah. How about this?

Seamless.

Originally posted by seridan

Originally posted by tuppe99

Can I go there in this game?

 

Or does it have backdrop images like SWTOR?

I don't mind loading screen between zones, but I hate seeing something interesting in the distance and then being stopped from getting there by invisible walls, etc.

 

Also, in a zone, when I enter a building, do I get a loading screen or is that seamless?

Most of the time you can go anywhere you can see. Some places, like Divinity's Reach as looked from the outside, can't be reached from the outside, you first have to switch to the different zone. Also, some floating "rocks" in the Asura area are pretty much unreachable (can't jump that high)

When you enter a building there is no loading screen, it is seamless, unless it's a building related to a story, like the Queen's Chambers in Divinity's Reach.

good news :)

Just a question on the instancing, trying to give a scale of on which you can rate it.

10 - A lot = EQ2, as all zones, dungeons, housing (not houses, i know that a lot of houses you could walk into uninstanced) being instanced.

5 - Not very = WoW  with its continents (Kalimdor, Northrend etc) and dungeons being instanced

1 = Vangaurd seamless(some may disagree with it being seamless with its chunks and travelling to other continents but lets say its seamless as if vanguard really achieved what it set out to, as of brads vision)