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.

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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.

Chicago

I thought the same, however after quite a bit of testing I feel this is not really going to be an issue with the work intrepid are putting into the graphics, we are early days but I would suggest going to the tropics and setting your graphics on ultra or cinematic, for whatever reason this zone feels the most optimised and you can run the game pretty smoothly at these settings, however I can't run the Riverlands in anything other than low

What I would rather than a graphics update is to see some optimisation of the Riverlands as it's very choppy even with above recommended settings

lukedawuke

i dont think theyll make this run with ue5 considering the map size theyre planning. should have gone with wow graphics

SmileGurney

The game uses UE version 5.x, it won't get any prettier, unless we are talking about getting a more distinctive art style. In which case its too late, as those decision has been made and a lot of assets have been already produced.

Terranigma1

The engine isn't the issue here, but thus far the lack of a distinct and memorable art style that makes you say "Yeah, that looks like Ashes" after seeing two screenshots. I don't think the game is ugly in any respect, but - similar to the bland skill trees thus far - feels rather bland, artistically speaking. While animations and spell effects are very flashy and partly over-the-top, the overall world design feels very down to earth. This isn't a bad thing per se, but it makes the game feel very familiar too soon, e.g. I haven't had any "Whoa!"-moments in the Riverlands thus far, opposite to what I've experienced for example back then when WoW or GW2 released. Both games were already dated at their release, but they managed to present memorable and atmospheric sceneries.

Speaking of Ashes, the issue might currently be simply:

The riverlands look what you might expect a riverland to look like. I think there's much more you could do with this location, but I also don't think the Riverlands are the best case to judge the general competence of the world design.
Character models are meh, especially the faces are very rigged, hard and and simply unpleasant to look at.

Regarding the character models and especially faces, I'm quite positive that this'll change in the coming months. With regard to the world design, I'd wait until we've seen the Ashes-version of a forest. Getting forests right in a way that it actually feels like a forest and not simply a bunch of trees is tricky. Similarly, I'm curious to see whether the final desert will resemble what they've shown in their showcase two years ago or the tropic zone. If they nail that then I'm fine with the Riverlands being ... well, a flat land with rivers and little more. But I do hope we'll get more vertical and dense areas in general. Running across flat terrain is classic MMO, world design but it's also very dated.

But all of that is a matter of art direction and design, not about graphics in a technical sense.

nanfoodle

Key systems then you work on stabilization then graphics. Last polish. We still adding systems.

Veeshan

graphic part of polish u wont see any changes there till late phase 3 when system and all that are in, but i dont think it looks terrible tbh

Glir

The graphics in Ashes look like S-tier and D-tier. The grass, lighting, and rendering range are excellent. But the buildings look very weak for our days. Will see what will node 4-5 stages will come with.

TheDarkSorcerer

I am a fan of AoC. But games like New World are way ahead in graphics over Ashes. I recently started playing New World on console. The world is beautiful and so lush. Ashes look very flat in this Alpha stage and very different from previous showcases.

nanfoodle

TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »

I am a fan of AoC. But games like New World are way ahead in graphics over Ashes. I recently started playing New World on console. The world is beautiful and so lush. Ashes look very flat in this Alpha stage and very different from previous showcases.

Sure let's compare NW that's on Lumber yard engine and released to Ashes on UE5 when it's released lol. We're not even in the middle of A2. They are focused on adding all the system, not graphics at the moment.

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