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RE: Update 3 and DDO's Art Department
Doctorwhofan
Member Posts: 72
AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME!
THe winter effects are great, and it FEELS like a winter festival. No other game before (including DDO) had the feel. Hope they do it next Christmas.
STormreach feels awesome! Day and Night are AWESOME! House D is AWESOME! I am blown away. THe Art Department wins for Update 3 and deserves a bonus!
Good job, guys!
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show me some footage kido.
Art department = win, other departments = epic lose. Way to ignore those bug reports Turbine, keep showing your fanbase how much you listen and care. Those first couple of relatively smooth updates were clearly due to the near year they had to shine them, this time when on a tighter time budget Turbine fumbles again. But kudos to the in game art work, looks great from what I saw before work.
ive seen better
The Harbor just looks like they upped the gamma and bloom and let snow fall... nothing more
they didnt add snow on the ground , trees and buildings
but the ice games looks fun though
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I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
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I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory?
Lol.
Its a game. Its not a wether simulation. In short they have with very simple effects made the harbor area, which will exept this short period have a summer'ish area, feel rather winter like. TBH I havent seen any other game do it better.
The harbor area has not been changed to winter forever, this is an even. Do tune your expectations in accordance.
When you see gradual snow in another MMO, come back and give me a poke....
Lol.
Its a game. Its not a wether simulation. In short they have with very simple effects made the harbor area, which will exept this short period have a summer'ish area, feel rather winter like. TBH I havent seen any other game do it better.
The harbor area has not been changed to winter forever, this is an even. Do tune your expectations in accordance.
When you see gradual snow in another MMO, come back and give me a poke....
I could care less about other MMOs. Thank you.
So your theory is since it is an event the snow will not stick? So in your world when it snows it does not stick? Or are we making excuses? All I said was I was disappointed in the snow effect. Too bad if you dont like my opinion.
Lol.
Its a game. Its not a wether simulation. In short they have with very simple effects made the harbor area, which will exept this short period have a summer'ish area, feel rather winter like. TBH I havent seen any other game do it better.
The harbor area has not been changed to winter forever, this is an even. Do tune your expectations in accordance.
When you see gradual snow in another MMO, come back and give me a poke....
I could care less about other MMOs. Thank you.
So your theory is since it is an event the snow will not stick? So in your world when it snows it does not stick? Or are we making excuses? All I said was I was disappointed in the snow effect. Too bad if you dont like my opinion.
Lol. (Again.)
My theory is that it's just a game, and I think you should try and make your expectations match that. Thats not an excuse, thats called beeing realistic. The alternative is that they dont do stuff like that at all, and that would be kinda sad, be course there will never be economic sense in using the resources you suggest they should have used on some small event.
So my oppinions is that they have done wonders with small clever effects, and I admire that. You don't. And there we are.
I have to agree, with the bloom effect settings on it was just too bright.. for snow all they did was take the effect from the starter area, and the "ice"(if you can call it that) for the rink doesn't look very good either, especially when compared to the quality of the water near by. The slide motion&animation is pretty lame too..
All n' all I was only disapointed, and that's without even taking the ammount of major bugs they created into consideration.
I have to agree, with the bloom effect settings on it was just too bright.. for snow all they did was take the effect from the starter area, and the "ice"(if you can call it that) for the rink doesn't look very good either, especially when compared to the quality of the water near by. The slide motion&animation is pretty lame too..
All n' all I was only disapointed, and that's without even taking the ammount of major bugs they created into consideration.
Yes ignoring bugs they were told about from day 1 on the preview server is the part that annoys me most. But the artistic changes to the house areas and all look to be an improvement and the quest Delirium is hilarious and well done.
Lol.
Its a game. Its not a wether simulation. In short they have with very simple effects made the harbor area, which will exept this short period have a summer'ish area, feel rather winter like. TBH I havent seen any other game do it better.
The harbor area has not been changed to winter forever, this is an even. Do tune your expectations in accordance.
When you see gradual snow in another MMO, come back and give me a poke....
I could care less about other MMOs. Thank you.
So your theory is since it is an event the snow will not stick? So in your world when it snows it does not stick? Or are we making excuses? All I said was I was disappointed in the snow effect. Too bad if you dont like my opinion.
Lol. (Again.)
My theory is that it's just a game, and I think you should try and make your expectations match that. Thats not an excuse, thats called beeing realistic. The alternative is that they dont do stuff like that at all, and that would be kinda sad, be course there will never be economic sense in using the resources you suggest they should have used on some small event.
So my oppinions is that they have done wonders with small clever effects, and I admire that. You don't. And there we are.
Done wonders with small clever events? Have you played the game DDO? Missing in game events has been an issue for many since the game went live, there have been so few. The funny part being they hired a player(Tolero) who was known for running in game events and said they hired her to run official ones and then made her a forum mod more or less. I know a lot of people who thought her hiring was a sign of great in game events to come, but it never happened.
[quote][i]Originally posted by hfztt[/i] [b][quote][i]Originally posted by Rokurgepta[/i] Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory? [/quote] Lol. Its a game. Its not a wether simulation. In short they have with very simple effects made the harbor area, which will exept this short period have a summer'ish area, feel rather winter like. TBH I havent seen any other game do it better. The harbor area has not been changed to winter forever, this is an even. Do tune your expectations in accordance. When you see gradual snow in another MMO, come back and give me a poke....[/b][/quote]
wintersday in guild wars! complete with snowmen henchmen, christmas tree and winterdays day charmable pets! guild wars always has the best events ever :P
Have fun storming the castle! - Miracle Max
Just to point out the blatantly retarded obvious....It CAN snow and not accumulate on the ground.....Jesus people do you EVER go outside?
They are not allowing for a Wizard did it either.
It does not snow for days on end and not accumulate. You may want to go outside a little more often.
They are not allowing for a Wizard did it either.
Has Turbine said a Wizard made it snow? Or are the defenders of Turbine looking for an excuse for this? It is a small little detail that I would have liked to see. It is not important overall, but it does speak to the multitude of little things Turbine misses or ignores all the time. THis is why huge bugs get into their game in nearly every patch. This is why quests get closed all the time and stuff like True Reincarnation is shut down for now. Anyh one of these in an of itself are kind of trivial, added together they show a glaring lack of QA. Defend it all you want, if I did this kind of work in my career people would die from the lack of QA.
Using your excuse everytime Turbine makes a mistake we can all just pretend a Wizard did it. For months when Shroud part 4 was bugged I bet a Wizard made him stare off into space and get his ass kicked. Thanks for that great excuse, I will use it more for them now.
Please name a game where the snow actually piles up? Now I can understand the negativity on the fact there's no snow textures added to the ground and its left in its natural state but piling up? Not even Simulations do that its rather expensive and how would you account for snow finally filling up the city? You'd have to add even more code to make the snow stop piling after time and then people would bitch more? Yes? Really snow not piling up on the ground?! Come on its a game not reality.
Please name a game where the snow actually piles up? Now I can understand the negativity on the fact there's no snow textures added to the ground and its left in its natural state but piling up? Not even Simulations do that its rather expensive and how would you account for snow finally filling up the city? You'd have to add even more code to make the snow stop piling after time and then people would bitch more? Yes? Really snow not piling up on the ground?! Come on its a game not reality.
The snow does not have to pile up on the walkways, but green grass after all this snow is kind of silly. I am not asking for a Buffalo winter. Snow covering the grass would be enough.
I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory?
In your rush to attack anyone that doesn't agree with you by saying all they do is defend Turbine (literally you have been doing this for at least a year, and given how often you are incorrect it is a bit ridiculous so calm down Mr Anger), you didn't bother to think if a dynamic system like that even exists in the game engine.
Most likely it does not, but in your mind you would want them to spend months building a system like that into the game (which would have to risk of breaking things) just so you could log in 12 hours after it started snowing and see the ground be white instead of green. It's a game, it's not real life and it doesn't have to be ridiculously realistic. Most other people in the world can understand that a game is just a game but you always get bent out of shape over tiny things and then tell off anyone that doesn't agree with you.
Tell you what, you make a game with dynamic weather such as accumulating snow that supports thousands of people to be logged in at once and I will automatically agree with anything you ever post in the future.
I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory?
In your rush to attack anyone that doesn't agree with you by saying all they do is defend Turbine (literally you have been doing this for at least a year, and given how often you are incorrect it is a bit ridiculous so calm down Mr Anger), you didn't bother to think if a dynamic system like that even exists in the game engine.
Most likely it does not, but in your mind you would want them to spend months building a system like that into the game (which would have to risk of breaking things) just so you could log in 12 hours after it started snowing and see the ground be white instead of green. It's a game, it's not real life and it doesn't have to be ridiculously realistic. Most other people in the world can understand that a game is just a game but you always get bent out of shape over tiny things and then tell off anyone that doesn't agree with you.
Tell you what, you make a game with dynamic weather such as accumulating snow that supports thousands of people to be logged in at once and I will automatically agree with anything you ever post in the future.
So wanting more is bad? Wow you must live in Utopia. Sorry if I think they can and should do better with these things. I am glad to see you read all my posts. If you did you would have noticed plenty that are not attacking of Turbine, but I guess your accute senses missed those. Maybe you should raise your spot and search skills a little.
They couls have simply covered the grass with snow , it does not have to pile up realisticly. Maybe you should calm down. There is no anger here, except your own obviously.
Care to show me all these incorrect posts? Or like others will you make claims you of course have no proof of. It is very easy to do that so I am sure it will be your defense. Thank you and have a day.
I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory?
In your rush to attack anyone that doesn't agree with you by saying all they do is defend Turbine (literally you have been doing this for at least a year, and given how often you are incorrect it is a bit ridiculous so calm down Mr Anger), you didn't bother to think if a dynamic system like that even exists in the game engine.
Most likely it does not, but in your mind you would want them to spend months building a system like that into the game (which would have to risk of breaking things) just so you could log in 12 hours after it started snowing and see the ground be white instead of green. It's a game, it's not real life and it doesn't have to be ridiculously realistic. Most other people in the world can understand that a game is just a game but you always get bent out of shape over tiny things and then tell off anyone that doesn't agree with you.
Tell you what, you make a game with dynamic weather such as accumulating snow that supports thousands of people to be logged in at once and I will automatically agree with anything you ever post in the future.
So wanting more is bad? Wow you must live in Utopia. Sorry if I think they can and should do better with these things. I am glad to see you read all my posts. If you did you would have noticed plenty that are not attacking of Turbine, but I guess your accute senses missed those. Maybe you should raise your spot and search skills a little.
They couls have simply covered the grass with snow , it does not have to pile up realisticly. Maybe you should calm down. There is no anger here, except your own obviously.
Care to show me all these incorrect posts? Or like others will you make claims you of course have no proof of. It is very easy to do that so I am sure it will be your defense. Thank you and have a day.
I can do some digging in our post histories if you like
Complaining about snow? Really??
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Holy god, shut up about the snow accumulating on the ground. You honestly expect them to put in a metric ton of server objects (snowflakes) that all have collision detection, and on top of that you want them to persist? For what?! So you can go afk and be amazed when you come back? Because you want snow on the ground? That is an astronomical amount of work and processing power for something that does absolutely nothing to change the gameplay. They could make the ground snow textured, maybe you could ask for that, but you don't seem to have any idea how much work it would take to implement what you want.
I was disappointed that I logged in around 2PM went to work and logged back in 12 hours later and the grass was still green. Was hoping to see snow pile up a bit. In typical Turbine fashion they get things half right and expect the players to just except it.
I think you forgot that could be intended. There shouldn't snow in Stomreach at all, because that's volcanic continent near equator. You can see much bigger palm trees in Harbor now, to show it better.
Background about this is that it snows, and snows only in Harbor, because some Ice-Wizard came to the city for upcoming festivities and had this idea.
That's only the first part. There will be more events in this "event" that we see now.
Except in your rush to defend Turbine(your usual stance) you seem to have forgotten the ice skating and the other WINTER EVENTS. SO the snow will not stick but an ice rink will not melt in your theory?
In your rush to attack anyone that doesn't agree with you by saying all they do is defend Turbine (literally you have been doing this for at least a year, and given how often you are incorrect it is a bit ridiculous so calm down Mr Anger), you didn't bother to think if a dynamic system like that even exists in the game engine.
Most likely it does not, but in your mind you would want them to spend months building a system like that into the game (which would have to risk of breaking things) just so you could log in 12 hours after it started snowing and see the ground be white instead of green. It's a game, it's not real life and it doesn't have to be ridiculously realistic. Most other people in the world can understand that a game is just a game but you always get bent out of shape over tiny things and then tell off anyone that doesn't agree with you.
Tell you what, you make a game with dynamic weather such as accumulating snow that supports thousands of people to be logged in at once and I will automatically agree with anything you ever post in the future.
So wanting more is bad? Wow you must live in Utopia. Sorry if I think they can and should do better with these things. I am glad to see you read all my posts. If you did you would have noticed plenty that are not attacking of Turbine, but I guess your accute senses missed those. Maybe you should raise your spot and search skills a little.
They couls have simply covered the grass with snow , it does not have to pile up realisticly. Maybe you should calm down. There is no anger here, except your own obviously.
Care to show me all these incorrect posts? Or like others will you make claims you of course have no proof of. It is very easy to do that so I am sure it will be your defense. Thank you and have a day.
I can do some digging in our post histories if you like
Complaining about snow? Really??
Our disagreements in the past were of the opinion variety. Neither was proven right or wrong, you will always think you were right and I will think I was. That is what happens when opinions are different.
It was not really a complaint. A few have blown a small comment out of proportion(wow there is a shocker here) and made it like I am bashing them game over this. Some need to get a grip and realize Turbine is not family and as a customer I have the right to want more, they may never give it but asking is not a crime. Some here need to learn that already.