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The game is overwhelmingly beautiful on highest settings.
Aeronis
Member Posts: 231
I can't stop taking screenshtos as I travel around, on the various continents.
My first glimpse of Khal, overlooking it from a mountain, was incredible.
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My first glimpse of Khal, overlooking it from a mountain, was incredible.
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I have to agree
me and my guild play this on balanced but i play on best preformance and we decided to explore
we entered teh Cleft and i just had to turn setting right up, ok i couldnt move but boy i loved the attention to detail on this
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Sorry, I can't agree, especially if that's your idea of a good screenshot. What's good about it? That you can see real far like? I see no discernable color scheme, uninspired monolithic architecture, framed by unnaturally flat featureless terrain, and water that looks about as real as what you'd see in a foamboard landscape model.
I mean Khal is a desert, and while I'm sure that opinion will vary, barren plains dotted with trees with a craptastic city doesn't look pretty in my eyes.
Post some better screenshots than that for Bob's sake, you'll put people off, not convince them it's beautiful.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
I've wondered why in Vanguard I can see into water so easily and yet I can't see for crap while in water. While they have added some cool eye-candy type features to Vanguard, I can't imagine how folks think it is so amazing to look at. A bit of vegetation would be nice. Some variation would be neat. But I am arguing artistic design over technical capabilities here. The first can overcome the second, but not vice versa.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
I
Don't really
think it looks
that
good. Wait
a sec
while I
turn my graphics
settings
back to
High Performance.
There, better. Looks like crap. But now I can actually move. Sort of. EQ2 looks grand on max quality too. So what. After 2 years, still no one is able to play EQ2 on max quality. And 2 years from now, no one will be able to play V:SoH on max quality. If they can even play it at all (on Vista). Certainly cannot do so now.
The problem with Vanguard is that once you get to those places that look all pretty from a distance, there's nothing to do there but the same thing you've done since day 1.
Vanguard just isn't what it promised, and I think at the very least, it's never going to be anything but another mediocre MMORPG
I've seen a lot of screenshots from people trying to prove that Vanguard's world is beautiful. That screenshot has got to be the worst. Seriously, there is no beauty in that shot whatsoever.
Seriously.
It's Are'el. This forum doesn't allow apostrophes in usernames.
Oh trust me, I do appreciate the scale. That is neat. But I think it could be sooo much better.
Are you sure it's supposed to be a desert? Surrounded by water like that?
What would you consider a better example of Vanguard's beauty? Could you suggest a location, and what starting race I might try to get a look at it? I was thinking maybe it's just that some areas got a lot more attention than others.. maybe the unfinished ones should come with a disclaimer or something.
"Entering Khal - Please excuse the lack of decor, this area under construction."
Until you actually swim underwater, then everything gets obscured. Heh. Some weird effect they're using I guess. Honestly though, they should make the out of water vision a bit more blurred and obscured like you'd expect in real life.
would'nt say that,
high polly count does not make a game look good, it makes most system lag, you can make a game look 10 times better then this whit 1/4 of the polly count it has, WHIT TEXTURING.
The engine in this game is outdated, feels like an edited unreal engine, its horrible.
Even some free korean grind fests have better engines, common people, you paid for a dud, i did, at least admit it.
Seamless world = no '' you fanboys stop calling it chunking, its a ZONE LOAD''.
Experience Synerggistic combat= no, the AI in this is barely above super nitendo grade, my hair dryer has better AI.
Even if they fix 50% of the engine bugs, which wont hapen, this game will still be a horrible, ugly grind fest, culminating in an unexisting
end game.
Flame on.
the object of war is not to die for your country, its to make some other bastard die for his.
G.Paton
The thing which that screenshots is showing which you really can't see just from the shot itself is the pure scale of Vanguard. That shot is taken from high on a cliff wall of the city of Khal about 3000 meters below. I challenge you to jump from that cliff and not get butterflies in your stomach.
The O.P. is spot on: on highest settings the graphics in Vanguard are breathtaking. Sad thing is most of you won't get to see them in motion.
Deserts are areas which receive very little precipitation (less than 10mm a year). As a wide classification deserts are regions that have a moisture deficit on an annual basis. Vegetation is exceedingly sparse, rainfall is rare and infrequent. The ice caps of the north and south pole, glaciers, and the classic ideal desert all are considered deserts within the scholarly definition.
So yes, a coastal region such as Khal would have the vegetation that is present in the game and there could/would be an ocean much like that of the Coastal Saharan in East Africa.
Sure the screenshot isn't the best... but it's nice enough for who it's for. Give the guy a break
O ya you can see far, you can see that your gona run for miles on end and see nothing, a rock here, a tree there, the
only thing its got is the bump maps on the hightmaps, thats it.
Classic atitude, you pay for something, and then your a little pissed off when you first use it, but you tell alll your freinds its great, you even
tell them they should get one to, you want others to be in that mess whit you, dont wana feel alone.
Stay away people, i'v tried every game out there, i give them a good honest try, both for pve, pvp, crafting etc..this one has nothing but pain.
the object of war is not to die for your country, its to make some other bastard die for his.
G.Paton
Add to that a very washed out, bland color scheme and it doesn't really look all that impressive. Maybe a better location would show off what Vanguard can look like at the highest settings.
the object of war is not to die for your country, its to make some other bastard die for his.
G.Paton
The thing which that screenshots is showing which you really can't see just from the shot itself is the pure scale of Vanguard. That shot is taken from high on a cliff wall of the city of Khal about 3000 meters below. I challenge you to jump from that cliff and not get butterflies in your stomach.
The O.P. is spot on: on highest settings the graphics in Vanguard are breathtaking. Sad thing is most of you won't get to see them in motion.
Was that screenshot really taken on the highest setting?
Cause yes, there is scale which you're writing about, but these blocks look like textures did not load properly or LOD option is turned to maximum. Ugly. Grand in scale, but ugly.
And surely it doesn't refer to the game itself, because Vanguard is the ultimate example of the cookie-cutter MMORPG, with very little original and a major grind.