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[Hungwell]

I hate to start off with what I dont like but there are a couple of things that bother me. One is a minor inconvenience the other is totally nasty. I doubt you guys can do anything about either one but here goes anyway.

The minor item is the water. I now see one and only one graphic for water. I get no sense of depth at all so I cannot tell what water I should be able to run thru and what water is obviously too deep.

The major one is... OMG IT IS DARK!!!! I have a dark monitor. Anyone dumb enough to tell me to go buy another can pm me for an address to send the 500 dollar check to. My monitor is a viewsonic p225f. If I use /day I can do ok but barely ok outside. The training olthoi was just a comedy of me running into walls until I found an opening and mousing over the radar till I found the right bug. If I crank the brightness up to where I can see the environment then the borders and text of the gui are so bright they blind me. In the current client I run a decal plugin to adjust the environment rendering to make things brighter. I dont know when decal will be available for TOD and I have my doubts as to wether or not the author of this plugin will bother to change it to work with the new client. I honestly cant play the game this way.

On the good side, the new textures are very cool looking. The world is a much prettier place. The monster pictures on the examine screen is a nice touch too. Should black bunnies look that mean?
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[hippiechick64]

Should black bunnies look that mean?
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I think the question here should be, should black bunnies BE so mean? I mean, they ARE bunnies. You see one from behind, think to yourself, "self, look a cute little bunny!", run up to hug it and WHAMMO! It turns around and the next thing you know you are staring into the face of pure evil! I dont know about these other problems, lag, graphics, trouble getting on, etc. but until they fix the bunnies little bunny reputations I think everything else should be put on hold. Yes you heard me. HOLD UP FOR THE BUNNIES.

Ok Im done goofing off now, ya I liked that touch too, sort of freaked me out when I IDd and Olthoi and it showed up larger than life on my side panel. HEHEHE.


mj

[nyteshaede]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm a little dissapointed with the graphics. I don't see very much new anything yet that would pull me away from other mmorpgs, what with everyone I ever knew from way back in ac being in other games we play in. I'm the last one who held out to see the new expansion, and well, I don't mean to diss AC, but maybe I missed something with the graphics settings. All I see is more crisp images, maybe a touch richer colouring, but is that all? Or are you seeing something I'm not seeing yet?

[Hungwell]

Well I posted a month ago that I thought that improving the environment graphics but not improving the player graphics was a mistake. I dont think we can call an upgrade complete until the avatars get a rework. After all, the one thing you look at no matter where you are is your own back.

The exterior environment graphics look great (except for the water). The trees rocks chickens etc all look much improved. I hope work is continuing now on upgrading the avatars and paperdolls.