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Time for a Total HD Overhaul / Ultra Graphics Settings Option
hyperionx09
Member Posts: 1,709 Arc User
As the title says; it's well past time for STO to have a proper HD overhaul as a standard feature of the game. Higher poly models, higher details, and better effect details (weapons fire, environmental effects, other visual effects). Of course, the old lower poly/low detail models can remain as settings for lower end graphics details, but the high end should really be high end, or superseded by an HD Ultra Settings option.
Ideally, I'd suggest starting out with the Starships and weapons, as it's the only regular element of the game that is continuously marketed and sold after Episodic content, and working backwards, to characters, where Cryptic can quickly standardize them and modernize them for use in current and future content, and last, locations, starting with the 3 main Social Zones, then Drozana, then DS9, then elsewhere.
It's become especially notable since coming back into the game after about a year of absence, when compared to other old MMOs that have updated/streamlined their models/graphics and also their server backend to support the higher quality models and keep load times low. No reason that Cryptic/PWE can't do the same. If necessary, allow players to download the HD Textures/Model packs as a optional patch so that on their end, they can help load up some of the models/textures for scenes faster.
Ideally, I'd suggest starting out with the Starships and weapons, as it's the only regular element of the game that is continuously marketed and sold after Episodic content, and working backwards, to characters, where Cryptic can quickly standardize them and modernize them for use in current and future content, and last, locations, starting with the 3 main Social Zones, then Drozana, then DS9, then elsewhere.
It's become especially notable since coming back into the game after about a year of absence, when compared to other old MMOs that have updated/streamlined their models/graphics and also their server backend to support the higher quality models and keep load times low. No reason that Cryptic/PWE can't do the same. If necessary, allow players to download the HD Textures/Model packs as a optional patch so that on their end, they can help load up some of the models/textures for scenes faster.
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Maybe, and only maybe if enough folks ask nicely enough, this will be something that they consider and possibly enact for the actual tenth anniversary of this game? 2020
How About put the effort in testing stuff "BEFORE" it is live on Holodeck?