Congratulations to devs

[GorbMort]

@EricGonzalezM

But the water? It looks worse. The ship reflections, which were already extremely hard to see with the default camera angle, got completely removed. Why? Who knows! This is from Age of Noob’s videos which usually show the very best side of AoE 4 graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEjVm7r0Si0 (5:19):

The low angles make it hard to see there - TheAchronic has a good writeup here:

The curious case of AoE 4 graphics (lots of screenshots)

I have to hand it to you developers. The water looks gorgeous. This new material is far more subtle than the prior version, now using transparency, camera angle and object distance beneath this new surface material to create the illusion of depth far, far better. The addition of sun dappled water on the shore and the variation of wave textures comes together really well. I just have to applaud you guys for the work on this. Even the patches of seaweed look nice now! [image] I tried rea…