Hi there, if something that changed for best in this update is the graphics, new ilumination, new terrain LOD, new renderer, looks really cool and now stuff looks like a 4k game, unit materials like iron and steel also look like METAL and not plastic wich its always good and yeah theres so much that changed, the purpose of this thread is to share those graphic comparisons.
Something that i liked was the new ambient oclusion, it looks cool and nature now feels more alive.
These are a few pics i tooked just to confirm cliffs actually look good now (spoiler they do), no more blurry cliffs!
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I will post more pictures and stuff whenever i feel like its good enough to show in here, theres also a cool ger detail i noticed they added. Will try to show it later
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All that does ambient occlusion?
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game finally beginning to reach the X019 trailer level, very promising, happy to see improvement this time isn’t an empty promise
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The new terrain projection definitely helps! It is nice to see how some of these cliffs were meant to look like.
Now time to fix that water, eh?
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Yes! Wow thats a cool pic! looks awesome
imo its already there with this new patch
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ah yes, we can finally say goodbye to the blurry mess, hopefully they add AO to grass someday, not complaining btw, i’m just beyond happy this is finally addressed
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They did add it to trees, I think they may avoid grass for stylistic reasons however. (They should definitely fix the AA for grass however).
I think it is nice to see progress in the right direction. It is what we wanted afterall, though we may have wanted it at launch. To focus on the positive, I hope there are more changes like this coming because I will be the first to say that I never actually expected them to improve graphics, but here we are.
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never expected to say this in aoe4, but these cliffs are gorgeous
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oh yes, apart from clifs, everything seems not blurry anymore, im so happy about that!
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Indeed! i didnt expect it to say it either x)
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Oh and umm, the pics on the forums have bad res aparently ,it looks way better on game
ye forum compression is pretty bad
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Oh yea. The new AO which is applied to most things, is also applied to that rubble that spawns next to cliffs–making them look far better and far more embedded than before–so these technologies are working in conjunction to make a greater whole.
The new texture projection allows us to see far more details too. Not just in cliffs mind you, but on past blurry textures on the ground that now look far prettier.
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looking at such cliff in old patch vs this is night and day honestly, its an improvement so clear i’m actually strongly temped to give the game another fair shot, i do rarely play, but this might be enough to get more active
and yes AO was really broken before this, it really shows
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you should try it for sure
i’ll wait for season release, but yes, eye candy is smt i’ve been begging for, now here it is
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Taiga Winter doesn’t look like doodoo anymore?? 
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