How much i try to like this game, whenever i log in i see no Bump Mapping or any other great Grafic effects. My 9600GT runs this games with Max FPS all time which means the Engine is simply some years to old.
I was pretty dissapointed after paying 49 Euro (far to much), installing and then watching the grafics of this game
I think that even DAOC has a much better Athmosphere than Warhammer. This game feels cold.
The Textures are low-medium quality, theres no Texture setting. Instead high quality Models like Vanguard or AoC has i see horrible WoW grafic again.
Grafic is importand to me and Warhammer doesnt deliver good Grafic
p.s i know its all about gameplay for many of you guys, for me too, but i couldnt imagine that the grafics are so extremly bad....
You gonna get flamed! The fanbois jumps on you bad if you comment the graphic in anykind of negative way, even if its good feedback for Mythic. I am having fun in the game but would like better graphics and a moveaway from the wow cartoonish style.
They had to stay true to the WAR IP. I agree though that some classes could very well have been designed in a better way, got flamed for saying this too though. But the general iconic, overstyled design is inherent to Warhammer and has to stay...
How much i try to like this game, whenever i log in i see no Bump Mapping or any other great Grafic effects. My 9600GT runs this games with Max FPS all time which means the Engine is simply some years to old.
I was pretty dissapointed after paying 49 Euro (far to much), installing and then watching the grafics of this game
I think that even DAOC has a much better Athmosphere than Warhammer. This game feels cold.
The Textures are low-medium quality, theres no Texture setting. Instead high quality Models like Vanguard or AoC has i see horrible WoW grafic again.
Grafic is importand to me and Warhammer doesnt deliver good Grafic
p.s i know its all about gameplay for many of you guys, for me too, but i couldnt imagine that the grafics are so extremly bad....
I agree mostly. WAR isnt a graphical beauty, but it has some nice vistas here and there, but it needs a 3rd glance. My encounter with WOW was very brief, and yet I felt many places in WAR looked VERY familiar. I travelled up into the tier 4 zones and some felt almost like 1:1 copies of WOW zones in design and atmosphere. It really will never be a world you admire the vistas in, which is a shame for me, since I too am a very visual person.
I agree on that gameplay and gameflow, (no stuttdering graphics or lag) is more important than flashy graphics. but they can work pretty well hand in hand if you balance them. But now both of them are poor sadly. But hopefully it will get fixed, on both ends. If they just can get rid of the memory leaks. Im using cement atm to try to patch all the mem leaks, my flat looks like a parkinglot after covering all holes I could find.
How much i try to like this game, whenever i log in i see no Bump Mapping or any other great Grafic effects. My 9600GT runs this games with Max FPS all time which means the Engine is simply some years to old.
I was pretty dissapointed after paying 49 Euro (far to much), installing and then watching the grafics of this game
I think that even DAOC has a much better Athmosphere than Warhammer. This game feels cold.
The Textures are low-medium quality, theres no Texture setting. Instead high quality Models like Vanguard or AoC has i see horrible WoW grafic again.
Grafic is importand to me and Warhammer doesnt deliver good Grafic
p.s i know its all about gameplay for many of you guys, for me too, but i couldnt imagine that the grafics are so extremly bad....
Although I have to agree the graphics don't suit *my taste* at all I also feel that gameplay is more important than graphics (up to a point lol).
I'd at least give it a week or so, unless it obviously disgusts you, then it's probably better to move on
WAR is similar to both WOW and AoC - what would suit your taste ?
Anyone that thinks thye can pick up a new MMORPG and feel at home straight away is naive - you can barely pick up any game and do that let alone something as grandscale as a virtual landscape full of freaks an mythology.
What's naive about saying they don't suit my taste? I can see something and say whether I think it looks nice or not. I think it doesn't and I make perfectly clear that's my personal opinion. I don' t like the style, I don't like the colors, I don't like the way the characters look. I do like some of the scenaries.
Do i need a reason for feeling that way? No, I didn't like EQ2 either back in the days, I thought it looked completely crap even though it was probably the most technical graphically advanced MMO at the time back then.
Some things suit my taste, some don't. The next person will feel completely different, this is however how I feel.
Think what you want. But facts are that graphics are GOOD.
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How much i try to like this game, whenever i log in i see no Bump Mapping or any other great Grafic effects. My 9600GT runs this games with Max FPS all time which means the Engine is simply some years to old.
I was pretty dissapointed after paying 49 Euro (far to much), installing and then watching the grafics of this game
I think that even DAOC has a much better Athmosphere than Warhammer. This game feels cold.
The Textures are low-medium quality, theres no Texture setting. Instead high quality Models like Vanguard or AoC has i see horrible WoW grafic again.
Grafic is importand to me and Warhammer doesnt deliver good Grafic
p.s i know its all about gameplay for many of you guys, for me too, but i couldnt imagine that the grafics are so extremly bad....
The game looks fine, just set the settings to max, resolution to max and set some Anti-Aliasing (have to do this outside the game) and it will look fine. I'm sure your 9600GT can handle it.
I agree on that gameplay and gameflow, (no stuttdering graphics or lag) is more important than flashy graphics. but they can work pretty well hand in hand if you balance them. But now both of them are poor sadly. But hopefully it will get fixed, on both ends. If they just can get rid of the memory leaks. Im using cement atm to try to patch all the mem leaks, my flat looks like a parkinglot after covering all holes I could find.
They probably did balance it well. It isn't balanced for the high end, it is balanced so that it can run well on a mid end gaming rig. Optimizing graphics for the high end machines is automaticaly making a game that only a certain group of people can enjoy, thus making it niche right from a start.
One of the greatest comercial moves WOW did, is making their graphics engine be able to run on a toaster, plus making their graphics almost timeless. In 5 years AOC will be probably hard to look at, while wow will stil be ... well ... wow.
Probably the only thing bad I would say about WARs graphics is that the ground textures up close look rather low-res, bland and lack depth ... other than that, the buildings look awesome, characters look awesome within their distinct warhammer style limitations. Ofc I didn't see alot of them zet so I might be wrong.
the problem is an mmo is just that. its a massive multiplayer online game with the emphasis on massive to actually attract a large number of people you have aim the graphics at people who dont nessesarily have a high spec gaming pc . it needs to be able to be played on pcs that are a few years old . i would however say 5 years might be a little to retro but thats assuming the op is correct in his assumptions . its a difficult balanceing act for a developer and extremly hard to get right . this wont be the first time or last such a critism is leveled at an mmo .
The graphics are excellent considering the fact that there can be 100+ people fighting on screen at once, without a hitch. If you want a game with excellent graphics, and shit gameplay, Age of Conan is for you. And actually, while AoC has higher res textures, I think the artwork and equipment detail is way better in WAR.
So why does it stutter when 20 people fight at once?
Even the fanboys are noticing it. And certainly Mythic knows it too, because they still have the very low population caps on the servers.
Heritage of DAoC....
Not sure i dont get any stutter when im in RVR to be honest i get rarely any stutter at all in this game i thought it would stutter a bit but i honestly get none.
I don't think this game would run with a graphics like the games Fallout3, Crysis, or even Doom 3.
People are never happy. Its just a fact of life. You either have graphics that destroy every setup out there and people complain it doesn't run on Grandma's computer and the avatars look like plastic dolls. You do what WAR and WoW did and you have people complaining that their SNES had better graphics.
It truly is a vicious cycle.
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No I think you are trying to avoid the truth with excuses for gameplay, no one expects or needs this game to have very high standard graphics ~(no we are not talking about design here..thats different, cartoon looking guys are fine).
But when they set the standard i am affraid it is just too low, and with no option for those with better machines to get a better experience. The ballance is just off, its not right, not if they wanted to keep this game alive for a long time with a large player base, i think they got it wrong...sorry (or they got it right on the money..in terms of profit for effort and projected longevity, you know..those decisions those white colar a holes make)
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You can't have hundreds on screen with badass graphics. You either have instancing and good graphics with a max of 20 or so on screen, or you lower the graphics for larger battles. If you want graphics then you have AoC. If you want large battles then you have a game like WAR.
No I think you are trying to avoid the truth with excuses for gameplay, no one expects or needs this game to have very high standard graphics ~(no we are not talking about design here..thats different, cartoon looking guys are fine). But when they set the standard i am affraid it is just too low, and with no option for those with better machines to get a better experience. The ballance is just off, its not right, not if they wanted to keep this game alive for a long time with a large player base, i think they got it wrong...sorry (or they got it right on the money..in terms of profit for effort and projected longevity, you know..those decisions those white colar a holes make)
Take a deep breathe now. . .
If you don't like the graphics don't play the game, its as simple as that.
I think Mythic made the right decision with their graphic's implementation. They have already mentioned they were working on including AA, AF, and better clip plane settings once everything settles down. Until then people will just have to force it in their video settings.
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I don't think this game would run with a graphics like the games Fallout3, Crysis, or even Doom 3.
People are never happy. Its just a fact of life. You either have graphics that destroy every setup out there and people complain it doesn't run on Grandma's computer and the avatars look like plastic dolls. You do what WAR and WoW did and you have people complaining that their SNES had better graphics.
It truly is a vicious cycle.
I don't know..is it just me..WoW is in a different league here...don't put them side by side. As before, not talking about plain simple cartoon characters, its all the animation, the way they interact with the world, how they look when preforming actions on other players..the PvE monsters the same, static, uninteresting..it just seems cheap, shody, basic.
Maybe they are rose tinted specs..but i am still pretty sure my SNES did have better graphics.
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The graphics are excellent considering the fact that there can be 100+ people fighting on screen at once, without a hitch. If you want a game with excellent graphics, and shit gameplay, Age of Conan is for you. And actually, while AoC has higher res textures, I think the artwork and equipment detail is way better in WAR.
So why does it stutter when 20 people fight at once?
Even the fanboys are noticing it. And certainly Mythic knows it too, because they still have the very low population caps on the servers.
Heritage of DAoC....
I don't know, I run on max settings, with 4X AA and 8X AS on top of that, and I did a keep defense with around 50 people and there was no glitch, lag or stutter at all.
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No I think you are trying to avoid the truth with excuses for gameplay, no one expects or needs this game to have very high standard graphics ~(no we are not talking about design here..thats different, cartoon looking guys are fine). But when they set the standard i am affraid it is just too low, and with no option for those with better machines to get a better experience. The ballance is just off, its not right, not if they wanted to keep this game alive for a long time with a large player base, i think they got it wrong...sorry (or they got it right on the money..in terms of profit for effort and projected longevity, you know..those decisions those white colar a holes make)
Take a deep breathe now. . .
If you don't like the graphics don't play the game, its as simple as that.
I think Mythic made the right decision with their graphic's implementation. They have already mentioned they were working on including AA, AF, and better clip plane settings once everything settles down. Until then people will just have to force it in their video settings.
Hmm..
I will persevere with the game anyway to get the most out of it and see if the gameplay can win the day, but that does not change the opinion that i beleive they could have done a better job and not affected perfomance from the off.
I am not here to bash WAR as a whole...just commenting on the thread topic, the graphics are poor to what i would expect and think they could have pushed it more..that is all.
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
Blizzard (not talking about just WoW blizzard) has always done outdated graphics. And they always sold at the top of charts.
High graphic games while they might be the big word around the internet, the market doesnt always warm up to them. Look at Half-Life compared to other fps. Or Baldurs gate is another one.
The majority of gamers (sorry comp nerd brothers we arnt the majority) dont upgrade there system to play the latest and greatest. They also dont build there comps but buy em pre made. And alot of em have intergrated gfx cards.
Gfx and mmorpgs dont mix. And while some devs are trying to add it to the genre there finding out that tech demos dont get sales like in other markets.
The graphics are excellent considering the fact that there can be 100+ people fighting on screen at once, without a hitch. If you want a game with excellent graphics, and shit gameplay, Age of Conan is for you. And actually, while AoC has higher res textures, I think the artwork and equipment detail is way better in WAR.
Lets get some perspective here.
I in no way am saying War is a bad game, or that the art sucks. They boath have very sound and strong art direction, but AOC wins hands down in the Detail catagory. And its not "Just higher rez textures" working here.
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I love how the OP and every other naysayer saying they're above it all in reviewing a game says things like:
I tried to like this game...
I couldnt get into this game...
I attempted to like this game....
This game game good except........
and mostly the 1st thing they bash is the graphics or the art design....
If you dont like the game dont play it. The art is Warhammer. It's been that way for years. I've been a fan of the tabletop game for years. The game's isn't WOW or even close so stop the comparisions.
As for the gamplay i rarely have any issues or problems with the game. I have a very high end comp to run it which helps also.
The OP has a right to his opionion but you would think that after seeing several posts "attempting" and "trying" posts that someone would get a clue that bashing that dead horse is gonna get you flamed or called a troll. Sometimes keeping your opionions to yourself is the best way to go.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR. Playing EVE Online and AOC. Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
Comparing the both WoW and War in textures and polygons is stupid. Both games have different art directions.
Now in the future Blizzard has already stated that this won't be the case, the next big MMO will push the limits of most videos cards out there on the market. So the good ole days of low res textures and low polys are over.
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You gonna get flamed! The fanbois jumps on you bad if you comment the graphic in anykind of negative way, even if its good feedback for Mythic. I am having fun in the game but would like better graphics and a moveaway from the wow cartoonish style.
They had to stay true to the WAR IP. I agree though that some classes could very well have been designed in a better way, got flamed for saying this too though. But the general iconic, overstyled design is inherent to Warhammer and has to stay...
I agree mostly. WAR isnt a graphical beauty, but it has some nice vistas here and there, but it needs a 3rd glance. My encounter with WOW was very brief, and yet I felt many places in WAR looked VERY familiar. I travelled up into the tier 4 zones and some felt almost like 1:1 copies of WOW zones in design and atmosphere. It really will never be a world you admire the vistas in, which is a shame for me, since I too am a very visual person.
I agree on that gameplay and gameflow, (no stuttdering graphics or lag) is more important than flashy graphics. but they can work pretty well hand in hand if you balance them. But now both of them are poor sadly. But hopefully it will get fixed, on both ends. If they just can get rid of the memory leaks. Im using cement atm to try to patch all the mem leaks, my flat looks like a parkinglot after covering all holes I could find.
LOL! What game are YOU playing??
WAR's graphics are immense on highest quality....
WAR is similar to both WOW and AoC - what would suit your taste ?
Anyone that thinks thye can pick up a new MMORPG and feel at home straight away is naive - you can barely pick up any game and do that let alone something as grandscale as a virtual landscape full of freaks an mythology.
What's naive about saying they don't suit my taste? I can see something and say whether I think it looks nice or not. I think it doesn't and I make perfectly clear that's my personal opinion. I don' t like the style, I don't like the colors, I don't like the way the characters look. I do like some of the scenaries.
Do i need a reason for feeling that way? No, I didn't like EQ2 either back in the days, I thought it looked completely crap even though it was probably the most technical graphically advanced MMO at the time back then.
Some things suit my taste, some don't. The next person will feel completely different, this is however how I feel.
Think what you want. But facts are that graphics are GOOD.
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The game looks fine, just set the settings to max, resolution to max and set some Anti-Aliasing (have to do this outside the game) and it will look fine. I'm sure your 9600GT can handle it.
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They probably did balance it well. It isn't balanced for the high end, it is balanced so that it can run well on a mid end gaming rig. Optimizing graphics for the high end machines is automaticaly making a game that only a certain group of people can enjoy, thus making it niche right from a start.
One of the greatest comercial moves WOW did, is making their graphics engine be able to run on a toaster, plus making their graphics almost timeless. In 5 years AOC will be probably hard to look at, while wow will stil be ... well ... wow.
Probably the only thing bad I would say about WARs graphics is that the ground textures up close look rather low-res, bland and lack depth ... other than that, the buildings look awesome, characters look awesome within their distinct warhammer style limitations. Ofc I didn't see alot of them zet so I might be wrong.
the problem is an mmo is just that. its a massive multiplayer online game with the emphasis on massive to actually attract a large number of people you have aim the graphics at people who dont nessesarily have a high spec gaming pc . it needs to be able to be played on pcs that are a few years old . i would however say 5 years might be a little to retro but thats assuming the op is correct in his assumptions . its a difficult balanceing act for a developer and extremly hard to get right . this wont be the first time or last such a critism is leveled at an mmo .
Man im getting old i guess. I remember the days of atari. And for that reason I have to say WAR looks great.
In the olden days we used imagination instead of GPUs and SLIs. And games were just about having fun.
Well sucks to be you kiddies. I can have any graphics above 8-bit and they will impress me.
So why does it stutter when 20 people fight at once?
Even the fanboys are noticing it. And certainly Mythic knows it too, because they still have the very low population caps on the servers.
Heritage of DAoC....
Not sure i dont get any stutter when im in RVR to be honest i get rarely any stutter at all in this game i thought it would stutter a bit but i honestly get none.
I don't think this game would run with a graphics like the games Fallout3, Crysis, or even Doom 3.
Groovy.
People are never happy. Its just a fact of life. You either have graphics that destroy every setup out there and people complain it doesn't run on Grandma's computer and the avatars look like plastic dolls. You do what WAR and WoW did and you have people complaining that their SNES had better graphics.
It truly is a vicious cycle.
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|X| \*........*/ |X|
|X|_________|X|
You wouldn't understand
No I think you are trying to avoid the truth with excuses for gameplay, no one expects or needs this game to have very high standard graphics ~(no we are not talking about design here..thats different, cartoon looking guys are fine).
But when they set the standard i am affraid it is just too low, and with no option for those with better machines to get a better experience. The ballance is just off, its not right, not if they wanted to keep this game alive for a long time with a large player base, i think they got it wrong...sorry (or they got it right on the money..in terms of profit for effort and projected longevity, you know..those decisions those white colar a holes make)
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
You can't have hundreds on screen with badass graphics. You either have instancing and good graphics with a max of 20 or so on screen, or you lower the graphics for larger battles. If you want graphics then you have AoC. If you want large battles then you have a game like WAR.
I would take gameplay over graphics anyday.
if WAR had the graphics of AOC, and had AOC's performance as well... WAR would be a sinking ship right now. But it's not
Be happy they put performance and quality of substance before flashy failing emptiness.
Take a deep breathe now. . .
If you don't like the graphics don't play the game, its as simple as that.
I think Mythic made the right decision with their graphic's implementation. They have already mentioned they were working on including AA, AF, and better clip plane settings once everything settles down. Until then people will just have to force it in their video settings.
_______
|___
\_______/
=
|X| \*........*/ |X|
|X|_________|X|
You wouldn't understand
People are never happy. Its just a fact of life. You either have graphics that destroy every setup out there and people complain it doesn't run on Grandma's computer and the avatars look like plastic dolls. You do what WAR and WoW did and you have people complaining that their SNES had better graphics.
It truly is a vicious cycle.
I don't know..is it just me..WoW is in a different league here...don't put them side by side. As before, not talking about plain simple cartoon characters, its all the animation, the way they interact with the world, how they look when preforming actions on other players..the PvE monsters the same, static, uninteresting..it just seems cheap, shody, basic.
Maybe they are rose tinted specs..but i am still pretty sure my SNES did have better graphics.
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
So why does it stutter when 20 people fight at once?
Even the fanboys are noticing it. And certainly Mythic knows it too, because they still have the very low population caps on the servers.
Heritage of DAoC....
I don't know, I run on max settings, with 4X AA and 8X AS on top of that, and I did a keep defense with around 50 people and there was no glitch, lag or stutter at all.
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Take a deep breathe now. . .
If you don't like the graphics don't play the game, its as simple as that.
I think Mythic made the right decision with their graphic's implementation. They have already mentioned they were working on including AA, AF, and better clip plane settings once everything settles down. Until then people will just have to force it in their video settings.
Hmm..
I will persevere with the game anyway to get the most out of it and see if the gameplay can win the day, but that does not change the opinion that i beleive they could have done a better job and not affected perfomance from the off.
I am not here to bash WAR as a whole...just commenting on the thread topic, the graphics are poor to what i would expect and think they could have pushed it more..that is all.
"Trump is a blunt force, all-American, laser-guided middle finger to everything and everyone in Washington, D.C." - Wayne Allyn Root
Blizzard (not talking about just WoW blizzard) has always done outdated graphics. And they always sold at the top of charts.
High graphic games while they might be the big word around the internet, the market doesnt always warm up to them. Look at Half-Life compared to other fps. Or Baldurs gate is another one.
The majority of gamers (sorry comp nerd brothers we arnt the majority) dont upgrade there system to play the latest and greatest. They also dont build there comps but buy em pre made. And alot of em have intergrated gfx cards.
Gfx and mmorpgs dont mix. And while some devs are trying to add it to the genre there finding out that tech demos dont get sales like in other markets.
Lets get some perspective here.
I in no way am saying War is a bad game, or that the art sucks. They boath have very sound and strong art direction, but AOC wins hands down in the Detail catagory. And its not "Just higher rez textures" working here.
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I love how the OP and every other naysayer saying they're above it all in reviewing a game says things like:
I tried to like this game...
I couldnt get into this game...
I attempted to like this game....
This game game good except........
and mostly the 1st thing they bash is the graphics or the art design....
If you dont like the game dont play it. The art is Warhammer. It's been that way for years. I've been a fan of the tabletop game for years. The game's isn't WOW or even close so stop the comparisions.
As for the gamplay i rarely have any issues or problems with the game. I have a very high end comp to run it which helps also.
The OP has a right to his opionion but you would think that after seeing several posts "attempting" and "trying" posts that someone would get a clue that bashing that dead horse is gonna get you flamed or called a troll. Sometimes keeping your opionions to yourself is the best way to go.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR.
Playing EVE Online and AOC.
Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
Comparing the both WoW and War in textures and polygons is stupid. Both games have different art directions.
Now in the future Blizzard has already stated that this won't be the case, the next big MMO will push the limits of most videos cards out there on the market. So the good ole days of low res textures and low polys are over.
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Making game with less consuming graphics is hard not easy. I am glad they decided so, i can play it on my ultralight passive cooled laptop that way.
It is gameplay and animations that really matter.
Also realistic graphics would not make world more immersive, rather more plastic looking.