Major Graphic Upgrade Needed.

1970merlin

The game is horrible to look at long term.

When I first started testing on Dec 20, I thought the graphics where ok. But after playing a while I think they are pretty horrible and I never cared much at all about graphics. If I, a person that cares little about graphics find them bad, I wonder what others think.

This needs to be fixed before launch. Maybe it doesn't matter right now, but really it has to be upgrade. I hope there is a plan for this.

Ludullu

I think you DO care about graphics, otherwise you, well, wouldn't care.

I, for one, truly don't care, so even though I've been playing at the minimal settings I've still highly enjoyed my 130+h of gameplay and have still found several spots in the game that looked really nice to me.

Also, from what I've seen/heard, the game looks quite nice at max settings. But those are obviously nowhere near optimized, so you need a beefy PC to play the game at those. And the visuals would only get better with time (and more optimized).

1970merlin

I guess your correct, after a month of blah graphics I do care. I want to play the game a lot so I guess I do want to have something nice to look at. I will continue to play the game regardless, but I think the developers need to be more aware that graphics do matter to enough people that they need to do something about it.

Pyrolol

They did change from unreal engine 4 to 5, which delayed the game
You should have seen it before 😂

1970merlin

You would think they could do better with UE5.

Pyrolol

Maybe it’s because the world is so big? Higher resolution would affect fps especially if you’re in a big area or a war for example

1970merlin

The resolution seams fine. I think is needs to be more colorful and have more style.

daveywavey

Maybe upgrade your machine so you can play on better graphics settings. My game looks beautiful

Ludullu

1970merlin wrote: »

I think is needs to be more colorful and have more style.

Once again "graphics" is equated to "style". Those are not the same thing.

If you have style preference, share them here so that Intrepid at least now your frame of reference in giving feedback.

Noaani

Ludullu wrote: »

1970merlin wrote: »

I think is needs to be more colorful and have more style.

Once again "graphics" is equated to "style". Those are not the same thing.

Indeed.

One of my pet peeves is people not knowing what it is they are complaining about.

Ashes has a specific feel to the art style. The world itself has a kind of gritty realism to it. This is the style Intrepid were aiming for, and the quality of the graphics within that style are actually really quite good.

That specific style may not be to everyones taste, but that is no different to how WoW's graphic style isn't to everyones taste, or Breath of the Wild had a graphic style that wasn't to everyones taste.

Caww

I do prefer a lovely graphical setting and think the AoC style, as others have referenced, is fine. I just want more, more and more beautiful settings with lots of detail which will push a rig.

CROW3

UE5 has a lot of potential, and I’m with @daveywavey - game looks great so far. I think I get OP’s point though. I don’t feel like I’m in a forest in Ashes yet. I’m surrounded by trees, and the trees look great, but it doesn’t feel like it comes together as a whole.

For the wow fans. Darkshire v. Elwynn v. Stranglethorn. Or the forests in Witcher 3.

It may be that because every tree (mostly) is harvestable, we only see them as units and not a whole. It would be good to see some greater comnectivity so that sections of the biome had a more definite character & mood.