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Game Graphic
Atash
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Hello,
will the game graphic be better at launch or it will be the same as we see on your preview vods? if this game graphic is not as good as for example new world or hogwarts legacy it will be a big disappointment for most of us include me since we are in 2023 and we spend money on our pcs to exprince the games with high graphic and get a better look, no deny this game and what you made is amazing and look promising But i just want to know how much better graphic will be compared to what we see in recent vods and how much better the world will look like?
Please answer.
thanks
will the game graphic be better at launch or it will be the same as we see on your preview vods? if this game graphic is not as good as for example new world or hogwarts legacy it will be a big disappointment for most of us include me since we are in 2023 and we spend money on our pcs to exprince the games with high graphic and get a better look, no deny this game and what you made is amazing and look promising But i just want to know how much better graphic will be compared to what we see in recent vods and how much better the world will look like?
Please answer.
thanks
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This is a silly post and it's why nobody has responded.
I'll do it anyway. This game may never satisfy you graphically.
So, wait til release and then make the decision. It will only cost a subscription fee.
Ashes graphics as they stand now are just fine.
i posted it a few hours ago and its sad to see ppl like You, you cant say that just bec u love the game so much or whatever it wasnt just made for ur taste to like it as it is with this low graphic.
Game is in alpha, it is a work in progress. That is how alpha tend to be textures, lighting, shaders, etc are made but not in polish phase.
This is pretty much development before Beta, early access, etc.
You also need to keep in mind what the game is going for with a large seamless open world with large fights. If you are new to mmorpgs you should not expect like a God of war, The last of us, kind of element as those are single player games.
Mmorpgs have a ton of players on all at the same time so resources need to be shared so it plays well.
No it not gonna be on the level of single player games like Hogwards legacy.
The game use different engine than New World so its hard to say how close graphically will the game be at release.
This game going for big open world with big battles. Potentially up to 500 vs 500 players. Graphics will have to be sacrificed in order to achiev this.
If graphics are so important to you, sadly this MMO might not be for you, but wait until its closer to release to decide if it looks good enough. For a lot of us, we would rather play game that looks like its from 2000, but have amazing gameplay, than another game that looks pretty, but have no substance, so not many people takes this questions seriously.
To be honest, it all comes down to the art style and texture quality which I am assuming you mean by graphics since graphics is such a broad term misused to describe things quite often. Probably not going to see too much more of an improvement from what you have seen in the trailers and monthly update video's.
IIRC steven usually has the graphical settings turned up unless specified otherwise.
I didn't say anything unreasonable. Plenty of other people have posted other points that reflect the same sentiment.
Graphics are subjective and not indicative of a good game.
few things to consider which you brushed over:
- Uploaded video's are usually capped at 60 fps and usually based on the resolution it was uploaded/recorded at.
- the actual recording from the internal engine is usually better but similar to final product.
- then you get into PPI and resolution paired with hardware. (Fidelity and Resolution).
- VFX and additional layers
It is safe to assume it wont look much better than that even with the best GPU on the highest setting as the GPU wont improve the textures considering how DLSS works from a high resolution sample. It's why DLSS/xeSS usually has to be partnered with the company for enabled feature at the cost of performance. GPU's generally improve the performance based on resolution. 1440p is the new 1080p. Statistically more pc gamers use 1440p than 1080p and the 4k margin is still quite minimal in comparison.
There wont be new xbox or PlayStation 6 consoles until 2028 which means there is going to be a plateau in games and performance for the next 4-5 years before 4k gaming becomes a practical standard in terms of performance and cost.
Which brings up the question... are mmorpg's going console in the next generation?
But honestly, don't even know why people defend AoC as if it had bad graphics. I think it looks great in comparison to A1 which had lacking graphics, as alphas should.
Even in comparison to NW and Hogwarts, imo. Grey-scale Skyrim graphics does not equal best graphics. Also, holding any other MMO to the standard of NW's empty unfinished hurried mess is almost laughable.
The hard truth is that OP is a minority in the opinion that AoC got bad graphics. But hey, there's always Crysis. /laughs in millenial
This is MMO, it will probably never reach level of details on graphic and model animation as some upcoming AAA UE5 single player games although it still look better from vids then anything there is out there on market atm and the world that they create is something never experienced in MMO before.
Meanwhile, there is Archeage 2 trailer that looks out of this world in graphics... We have to see if it's not just pre-generated or literally the game will have those insane graphics... If so even if I paid the 250$ pack I will switch my hype and focus to Archeage 2, which should ''come out'' this year as well
Edit: Honestly if there is something I dislike about Ashes of creation it's the armor design... Interpret decided to go with medieval style while for me the game looks more ''fantasy style'' I think even some modded Skyrim armors look much better than the ones shown so far in the live streams (Even from old Tera)
Few issues 1. you are comparing an alpha to a game.
2. Please use gameplay if you are going to compare, why are you linking marketing footage??
*Edit Doing a bit of comparison you are saying tera looks better?
Tera looks old unsure how you are suggesting that is better.
Hype is always foe things far away and what is closest, though being ready to write something off so quickly on your hype list is questionable in itself.
I'm interested in Archage, though my hype is 0 since there is 0 information on a game, and thinking it is going to release this year just because a trailer said so is find of funny if you look at games the past few years.
watched the first min. he missed the point I think, when he said there wont be a faction pvp system. regardless of the game being a solo mmorpg or not, non faction, guild base pvp means you can attack everyone, not just the enemy faction, aka more pvp, not less pvp, especially when people start joining the bigger, winning side to avoid pvp xD
Posts like these just make me shake my head. Did you only look at twitch vods? Yeah things look pretty bad in those due to low bitrate and compression. But even if you check the 4K footage on Youtube, it still looks worse than it does when you're actually in the game playing.
Even Alpha 1 of Ashes was close to New World and Hogwarts Legacy in graphics fidelity once you were in the game. It was a beautiful game in UE4, especially if you zoomed in a little so you could actually see all the detail. With UE5, unless the devs really mess up, it'll surpass both those games.
You might not like the art-style and such, but that is a different topic. That is completely subjective. It also has little to do with how good the graphics are. If you don't like the art-style it doesn't matter how good the graphics fidelity is.
1st there isn't a game yet to compare on both sides, I compared to a trailer of a ''game'' that not even alpha 1 was released yet from that game
2nd There isn't gameplay to besides what is in the trailer, which shortly shows some gameplay that looks better than Ashes so far so how am I supposed to provide something that doesn't exist? lmao
Did you even read what I said? the line ''We have to see if it's not just pre-generated or literally the game will have those insane graphics''
3rd Yep I still think it's better, not in texture quality but on design, but OBVIOUSLY I didn't say that armor specifically, the one you choose yourself to compare, but still yep, better design, worse quality textures
There isn't even an alpha, to begin with, everything could be subject to changes since they are building the game for the Western public, and also I played Archeage since it's Korean close beta 4, it's a game I've played over years and even ashes wouldn't exist if wasn't for Archeage since it's a game based on it... Anyway you said yourself, 0 information about the game whatsoever, my hype again was on the gameplay shown in the trailer and due to Archeage being the best MMO I ever played in my opinion (which the list goes to more than 30)
Market trailer is not an exact indication how combat will be or play. you are filling in blanks and assuming a lot.
It doesn't look good to me so its subjective at that point. Even more so you are trying to say the style is why it is better which makes 0 sense since you were talking about graphics earlier. You got called out and double downed imo.
We might get fsr or dlss but these technologies also reduce graphical fidelity - upscaling will never be as good as pure native rasterisation. We should have better graphics overall because the game is windows only right now, thus, consoles are not forcing a graphical downgrade.
I ONLY MENTIONED the trailer of a different game and said that IF THE GAME HAD THE SAME GRAPHICS OF THE TRAILER I would change my hype towards that game instead Ashes of creation because it's based on my favorite game, I don't get why you got so butt hurt by me saying I'm hyped by a trailer and I got to see if the trailer would be real or not, so I never made any assumptions that the gameplay shown in the trailer was real
And about the armor stuff I wrote it down as an ''Edit'' in the last thing I wish to complement is that I dislike the armor designs of the game I didn't write together in the same paragraph that I was saying about the graphics in all, but obviously, design/graphics are on the same page, but I guess you are unable to comprehend since it makes ''0 sense''
Anyway It's not just me but many YouTube channels pointed out that Ashes lacks some ''its own art design'' and looks too generic sometimes, but I guess no one is allowed to have different opinions on graphics or anything else besides you, otherwise it's questionable lmao
Edit: I highlighted some stuff so maybe you will manage this time to understand simple English
ok you are from asmongold I'm good lol.