Tone down spell animations

Glad to see the game coming along. I’m hoping for the best. This game could be what we all have been waiting for. Anyways, one criticism I do have from the gameplay footage I’ve seen so far is that the spell animations are too flashy. An example of how this could be bad is when you have several people in the same area casting spells how will anyone know what’s happening. I believe lower profile spell animations should take up the majority of abilities for all classes and major abilities that require cooldowns should be the extravagant looking animations. I haven’t played ashes but from my experience from other games it won’t be fun if my eyes are incapable of processing what’s happening on the screen due to over the top animations.

PS if you could make some parts of the game look grim and dark that would be awesome too. Again I haven’t played ashes but from what I see I don’t get the feel of any evilness in the world. And yes I am a warhammer fan in case you were wondering.

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Therealnightblade

WMC51

I agree with how flashy the spells were. I think its okay for big spells that are used less often or finish a combo etc but doing a whirlwind into the air every 5 seconds and shooting a fireball is a bit much.

CaptnChuck

Its personal preference. I like flashiness during combat. They should just include an option to reduce spell effects in the settings, kind of like in league of legends.

Current

Based on the 4k footage id have to agree its a bit much atm. But some like it flashy, others dont, happy either way tho, minor problem for loving this game.

VexednPerplexed

I like flashy - unique spells to an extent, but I think if there's an option to tone them down in the graphic settings, it'll be helpful. That way people who like flashy have it and those who don't, or want to save their computer can still play comfortably.

Verus

The animations and bloom shown in the recent video are definitely over the top, and multiple people laying those down would result in a chaotic mess. From what I heard in the Q&As, though, many of these effects are temporary and will be corrected.

Cool and unique effects are nice, but overly wide, bright, and bloomy flashes on standard abilities is too much. I expect they recognize this.

jsolo

I like the flashy spell animations, saying that prove the point what some don't like other will have the opposite opinion.

DarkLorde

With regard to flashy animations, I believe he mentions them in the pre-alpha game play footage released about a month ago and says that the spells will be toned down.

MrScrewtape

Haven't they said most of the animations and such are placeholders / barebones? With the feature of defaulting characters to a default look/appearance for big battles for optimization, I imagine they will/should do some type of spell effect scaling setting so people can turn them down.

tugowar

I like basic too

akabear

screwtape wrote: »

Haven't they said most of the animations and such are placeholders / barebones? With the feature of defaulting characters to a default look/appearance for big battles for optimization, I imagine they will/should do some type of spell effect scaling setting so people can turn them down.

Correct, in one of the most recent streams it was stated that they are honing the animations to improve the visuals so they are not overdone.

Wiplasher

I will also say you do eventually get used to the effects for the most part.

My most recent experience was the new smash bros. Jesus are the particle effects insane when you have 8 people in a game. It took me 10 hours of game play until I was able to track my characters the entire time on screen.

Shoelid

Like others here are saying: as long as the flashiness mirrors the impact of the ability. In fact, if somebody wants to fight and they use their mega supreme gigablast once-a-day explosion to kill me, please let it be epic.

grisu

Which videos are you referring too? If it's Castle Siege preview or the BR then it's already confirmed that it will be tuned down for the mmo. Those are 2 different enviorements with different guidelines.

Exzear

Steven have said its just placeholder and that it will be toned down alot so we just have to wait

Anonymous332

Agreed with all. Awesome concept of a game so far absolutely love it, but for players like me who wants 'cleaner' screen while playing need toggle options for spells and effects in options preferrably.

HiddenDaggerInn

as long as it doesn't effect performance, I loved them, really stood out.

Therealnightblade

If we have a toggle option the devs should make sure the players who have it at max settings don’t have a pvp advantage. For example in wow if you have the settings all the way low you can’t see a paladins consecrate effect which will break a rogues stealth if they walked over it. Bottom line though is if you have 20 people spam spells then it’s HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE to understand what’s happening. It will be a disco light show

Marcet

Agreed, I guess they will change most things but at the moment is too bright, red and monotone for what I see in videos.

Dakar1425

I have this same concern with the level of brightness. I can see 200 people on a battle field using these crazy effects and you be completely blinded. I instantly think of the Epic NPC Man skits: Holy Nova and Magic

https://youtu.be/bwxkz0dePQw

https://youtu.be/8NbwizzxQ_s

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