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[Xetelian]

Wish they would fix this.

[Navid A1]

Man...

This is beyond belief.... the pixels... it hurts

Edited by Navid A1, 21 April 2015 - 11:11 PM.

[Ralgas]

Why is this only a new thing?

My bonus crab has been doing this since they came out, months ago

[Ardaz]

Try the Ghost Bear pattern on a Dire Wolf, it looks terrible, like we're back in the days of commodore 64 gaming.

It wouldn't be as bad (actually yes it would) if they cost only cbills, but when people are using real money to customise their mechs (that they likely got with more real money in a pack) then they really shouldn't look like ass.

[Tor6]

627, on 21 April 2015 - 10:30 PM, said:

Just wait for some disgruntled founders show off there founders mech...

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...

[AlexEss]

Ardaz, on 21 April 2015 - 11:15 PM, said:

Try the Ghost Bear pattern on a Dire Wolf, it looks terrible, like we're back in the days of commodore 64 gaming.

It wouldn't be as bad (actually yes it would) if they cost only cbills, but when people are using real money to customise their mechs (that they likely got with more real money in a pack) then they really shouldn't look like ass.

well the skin is technically free when you buy the pack... Also i like to point out that we still have some way to go before Commondore level of graphics... Trust me i was there.

[Navid A1]

AlexEss, on 21 April 2015 - 11:32 PM, said:

well the skin is technically free when you buy the pack...

I don't think there is free faction skins for clan wave 1... otherwise i'm missing 32 free skins.

[Ardaz]

There wasn't free skins for wave 1. If you want clan skins on Nova's etc, pay the almighty dollar for a crappy low res version of it.
I was also there for Commodore 64 gaming (that's why I referenced it). Was actually there for Acorn Electron and Intellivision gaming too.

Edited by Ardaz, 21 April 2015 - 11:51 PM.

[Thanatos31]

true, I have to agree, going from a white to a black background made all CGB camo patterns look worse

maybe something the artists can fix ?

[Sarlic]

How can this pass the QA? Honestly, explain, HOW can this pass through QA?

This is mindboggling. It hurts my eyes.

[AlexEss]

Navid A1, on 21 April 2015 - 11:39 PM, said:

I don't think there is free faction skins for clan wave 1... otherwise i'm missing 32 free skins.

Ya ya...

[Apocryph0n]

Sarlic, on 22 April 2015 - 12:11 AM, said:

How can this pass the QA? Honestly, explain, HOW can this pass through QA?

They stated multiple times that exactly this would happen and everyone wanted it. There is also no other way of unlocking the color channels.

Btw: Besides the original colors in the original order, everything else looks amazing. Especially all white Ghost Bear Mechs with some dark blue trim to them. Except the DWolf, but that's a different story (same as with the pixelated Hellbringer Phranken camo -.-)

[o0Marduk0o]

Ully, on 21 April 2015 - 12:01 PM, said:

So I just had a look at the clan camos which have unlocked channels now.
The Clan Ghost Bear camo looks quite strange now, before we used to only be able to change the colour of the little stripe thingie on the shoulders, as with the other clan camos.

That's still the tertiary channel for the ghost bear camo at the moment, so now the camo doesn't even use the ghost bear light blue. Which doesn't really look that nice at all, as it makes for the nice transition and the kind of "ice" effect at the top. Instead, that colour just changed to black since it has nothing assigned to it.

My suggestion would be to just merge the stripe channel with the secondary channel, since both of those are white by default anyway.

Some screenshots of my mad dog:
Before: http://i.imgur.com/1FgykEJ.jpg
After: http://i.imgur.com/r2koYs2.jpg

Hellbringer and Timber Wolf look horrible:
http://i.imgur.com/dXuRgS6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DYKlGKg.jpg

You are missing this light blue as 3rd color. That's it.

[Paigan]

On the other hand, the locked wolf pattern with the silly yellow in it looked kind of ... silly.
When underlying it with 3xblack or 3xgray, it looks pretty good, imho.

Shouldn't using a lighter color beneath on the Mad Dog make it look closer to the left one?

[Nightshade24]

I think the skin looks nicer on different chassis then some others. logged on to see what the hub-bub was about and was actually quite pleased on how some of these skins looked on my fave mechs.

Can't decide to get ghost bear on my Nova's (own 3 atm, may own 5, got no skin), Storm crow (own 3 atm, less likely to own 5. No skin atm).

[Nightshade24]

Paigan, on 22 April 2015 - 01:42 AM, said:

On the other hand, the locked wolf pattern with the silly yellow in it looked kind of ... silly.
When underlying it with 3xblack or 3xgray, it looks pretty good, imho.

Shouldn't using a lighter color beneath on the Mad Dog make it look closer to the left one?

Using 100% white makes the blacks / dark greys turn into middle greys. looks nice but looks far from these...

[Joseph Mallan]

We're going to need a cheap Gold paint if (Biggest word ever typed) PGI makes the Lyran Royal or Izanagi Camo.

[SpiralFace]

Paigan, on 22 April 2015 - 01:42 AM, said:

Shouldn't using a lighter color beneath on the Mad Dog make it look closer to the left one?

Nope.

The old "Cyan" lines of the water ripple effect have been replaced with pure black. Which is both un-editable and does not change with lighter colors. Here is what it looks like with the ENTIRE mech painted in Ghost bear white:



You cannot get rid of these black lines with any method, and as you can see with how there is still a distinct difference between the Triangles and the frame, it is overall making any color you put on the mech darker, where before it was lighter.

So that there is currently ZERO ways to get the design to look as it has been presented both in the past, and the current advertisement for future mech products:



So if you where satisfied with how it originally looked both before the patch, or in the advertisement for new products, you cannot currently replicate it as advertised or as it has appeared on your other mechs for almost a half a year now.

[LordBraxton]

Tor6, on 21 April 2015 - 11:24 PM, said:

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...

this sums up the lifespan of MWO quite nicely

If you played in CB, youre used to downgrades by now

Ive never seen a game take as many steps abckwards as MWO.

search the 'will we ever see the good old days again?' thread, and see the list of 'retired' features.

[Sarlic]

SpiralFace, on 22 April 2015 - 04:30 AM, said:

Nope.

The old "Cyan" lines of the water ripple effect have been replaced with pure black. Which is both un-editable and does not change with lighter colors. Here is what it looks like with the ENTIRE mech painted in Ghost bear white:



You cannot get rid of these black lines with any method, and as you can see with how there is still a distinct difference between the Triangles and the frame, it is overall making any color you put on the mech darker, where before it was lighter.

So that there is currently ZERO ways to get the design to look as it has been presented both in the past, and the current advertisement for future mech products:



So if you where satisfied with how it originally looked both before the patch, or in the advertisement for new products, you cannot currently replicate it as advertised or as it has appeared on your other mechs for almost a half a year now.

Look like it got smashed or something.

The latter looks way better

Edited by Sarlic, 22 April 2015 - 04:40 AM.