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[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

So... I've been revisiting my founders mechs. because it's been a while, and they honestly have some fun to offer.

But browsing though the mechlab, I was looking at the textures... and WOW, the Founders Atlas texture is TERRIBLE.

Founders cat looks decent, so does the Founders Hunch... Founders Jenner's ok... but the Founder Atlas... the premier assault battlemech of the 3025 era... Looks like the art department ran the smear tool over the textures before applying it or something.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that founders mechs are supposed to look old, worn, and beat up... I LOVE THAT FACT.

But the founders atlas just looks like it got blurred all to hell.

For reference:
Standard Atlas




Founders Atlas:


Founders Jenner, Hunch, and Catapult for reference.






Honestly the Jenner, Hunch, and Catapult look... well, good. They look old, and worn, the unique geometry looks good, with unique little looks that make them feel like they've been around a while.

The founders atlas, while one of the most distinct looking of the founders mechs, doesn't look old and worn, it just looks...blurred and smeared.

Keep in mind, this is without any Post Processing or AA effects enabled on my game...

it just makes me a tiny bit sad.

[Alistair Winter]

Even though I am very jealous of anyone with a Founder Catapult, and will be jealous and bitter til the day I die, I actually feel sorry for Founders for the fact that their mechs look much worse now than before. They are a shadow of their former selves. Atlas included.

EDIT: Realized you were only talking about the Atlas. Fixed.

Edited by Alistair Winter, 02 August 2014 - 06:06 PM.

[Stickjock]

Maybe it's just my old eyes... but I really don't see much of a difference... then again, I only own the Founders Atlas personally... but again, even in your screen shots... not much of a difference... (dang these 47 y/o eyes...)

[MajorLeeHung]

yep I hate the new skins for the reason that they make the Atlas look like crap. I want my Atlas to look old and worn like its been thru a virtual hell and walked out the other end of it. Most of all I WANT MY *redacted* GLOWING RED EYEBALL OF DOOM™ back!

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Alistair Winter, on 02 August 2014 - 06:04 PM, said:

Even though I am very jealous of anyone with a Founder Catapult, and will be jealous and bitter til the day I die, I actually feel sorry for Founders for the fact that their mechs look much worse now than before. They are a shadow of their former selves. Atlas included.

EDIT: Realized you were only talking about the Atlas. Fixed.

Well, to be fair, I agree, they all look a bit... sad compaired to their old, original looks.

But the Atlas just feels like it got the crappy end of the stick.

[Fooooo]

Honestly I don't see why they had to make them worse quality.

Not sure if the textures are actually of lower res or just done....not as well.....as the original.


If they are just lower res, or hell even if they changed them for some performance reason. Why could they not leave a high res good quality version there for people who want to use a higher texture level because they can ?

Why make every setting worse than original to increase performance, when people playing on the highest settings had no problems usually....especially with textures......

I'd also kill to have the old Red atlas back, I still have the files as I used the skin in the crysdk on the atlas's I placed on the maps I did etc etc.

Its so much better quality.

Please can we have all the old skins back ? Or an option for the founder mechs to change between the old and new skins ? Also make the old red atlas an option. (I know unless you change it people cant change colours on it , but that will take too long, just send it out without letting you change colours on it. )

That would at least make it somewhat special.

[NextGame]

the old founder skins were better