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[Kshat]

After PGI, in it's endless grace, gifted me with yet another lava lamp - which I really would be thankful if not for reasons posted afterwards - I remembered something:

this game is several years old. And, at the beginning, as it seems had been heavily understaffed in the art department.
Some assets, like the lava lamp and several similarly old assets, are plain buttugly. It looks like someone drafted it at the end of the 90s whilst testing out his brandnew Corel Draw.
When you look at the new stuff they implement, it really becomes obvious. It stings in the eyes.

Not only is the graphical quality bad beyond words, the animation consists of fewer sprites than Super Mario on my NES.

Is there some hope that PGI might revamp some of these "legacy assets"?

[cazidin]

No. Even if they did, they'd make you buy it again, probably with a mechpack.

[Bombast]

Surely you're exaggerating...

Eww...

Unrelated, it took me about... 25 minutes to upload that. Hurray for mountain internet.

[Juodas Varnas]

[Khalcruth]

I don't understand. It's billed as a Lava Lamp. It looks exactly like a Lava Lamp. What's the problem?

[Pariah Devalis]

Khalcruth, on 25 October 2016 - 08:23 AM, said:

I don't understand. It's billed as a Lava Lamp. It looks exactly like a Lava Lamp. What's the problem?

It looks like what a Lava Lamp would look like in Doom.

No, not the new one. The original Doom.

[Centrella]

Yeah, the lava lamp, the coffee cups, the luminglass (and probably a few more things I've forgotten) I just don't use, even though I've got loads of the damn things now. For me at least, the models aren't the problem (a coffee cup is a coffee cup) but the ultra-low-framerate animation drags at my eyes.

Shame really.

Edited by Centrella, 25 October 2016 - 09:23 AM.

[Johnny Z]

I like quite a few of the cockpit items. I don't like any of the war horns yet. Some sound great, all are to annoying to have in my face while playing.

[Pariah Devalis]

Centrella, on 25 October 2016 - 09:23 AM, said:

Yeah, the lava lamp, the coffee cups, the luminglass (and probably a few more things I've forgotten) I just don't use, even though I've got loads of the damn things now. For me at least, the models aren't the problem (a coffee cup is a coffee cup) but the ultra-low-framerate animation drags at my eyes.

Shame really.

I actually like the lumiglass, and wish it came in other colors. Oh man, I'd love it in blue. The low frame rate on it works, because the real thing can flicker as quickly as that. It pops from point to point as it discharges across the surface. That Lava Lamp, though? Damn.... Did they hire the hamster from the hamster wheel cockpit item to do the art for it?

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 25 October 2016 - 09:38 AM.

[Jackal Noble]

Johnny Z, on 25 October 2016 - 09:26 AM, said:

I like quite a few of the cockpit items. I don't like any of the war horns yet. Some sound great, all are to annoying to have in my face while playing.

I had this forlorn hope the Gatling warhorn would sound like ...a Gatling cannon followed by the 'Ching!' of a cash register

Edited by JackalBeast, 25 October 2016 - 09:46 AM.

[Juodas Varnas]

Johnny Z, on 25 October 2016 - 09:26 AM, said:

I like quite a few of the cockpit items. I don't like any of the war horns yet. Some sound great, all are to annoying to have in my face while playing.

I honestly wish you could make the Warhorns invisible and just keep the sound effect.

I just find them... very obtrusive.