I always said that this game has a big issue with graphics, environment tries to be " realistic" and looks nice but units seems that they are not part of the environment, this because of pastel colors and lack of unit texture details or toy weapons as well, hope they can improve units in future.
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What critical issues would you like an official stance on?
Beyond a generic roadmap, my main wants (focii?) are the modding tools (obviously) and game UX. I really want to hear explicitly either a commitment to improving the tools themselves, or a recognition for whatever reason they canât.
But neither of those things are particularly contentious.
I can live with the frozen animals, units art style, but the buildings are the slap in my face:
Looking at the picture of @EricGonzalezM, for me it just make me feel that the units and buildings dont
belong to the same universe, the houses look smaller than tents , buildings and environment details are so desynced in size, Hopefully eventually this can get some attention.
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Yes! Look at the brickwork on that HoW. Especially the tiles on the roof. I know the forum murders image quality, but you can crank all settings to the max in-game, zoom all the way in and it will look just as bad. Itâs like someone smeared grease all over the monitor. The terrain used to look that way too, and the cliffs even worse.
Outside of new content, the next patches should concentrate on buildings and water.
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The graphics we had until now, werenât great. No debate on that. Age of Empires III, a game launched in 2005 (18 years ago), has better graphics than Age of Empires IV. Mind-boggling
Thankfully the devs realized this and decided to improve the graphics. I hope they improve artistically everything. Water, units, buildings, fauna etc. It will take some time but itâs worth it in my opinion. Hire more art programmers if you can.
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This is huge (if true)
Letâs resize the buildings to appear slightly bigger than they do right now, which in compensation, the general map size can be slightly increased as well.
no way⊠he spend a few days arguing against one simple idea how to improve workflow.
did you know that he is some kind of concile member? (at least he being named as such in discord)
imagine concile member dump other ideas, saying editor is perfect, claiming to be expert in everything.
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I think some of those members never played any age game.
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chill fellas, this hill ainât worth dying on
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which one? about him arguing or him being concile member? **being named
can read the thread if you have a lot of time
and further: the thread -
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At no time have I seen him say that âthe devs canât do moreâ or that âthe game is fine the way it isâ.
Respect in this forum is something very nice and key. I hope I donât have to intervene.
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I donât see anything. Could someone elaborate
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yeah ik. why they didnt bring up this quality years ago? maybe FE team should be heavily involved in any aoe project in the future, no?
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FE has been involved with AoE4 since the beginning.
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not directly because they were busy with aoe 2 and aoe 3 dlcs
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Sure, they started making the dlcs for AoE 4 in 2021 while Relic focused on speeding up the production of CoH 3âŠ
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I think I will agree in once with you, at least is here now tho