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The artwork in this game is truly exceptional - I wish I could actually see it
valoreah
Member Posts: 11,726 Arc User
As the title says, the artwork in this game is truly exceptional. Some of - if not the - best in the industry. I sincerely mean that. The graphic and environment artists at Cryptic truly need to be applauded on their work. Ships, characters, environments, all of it is so rich and beautiful it very much brings the game world to life. Truly something to behold and enjoy.
With that said, this game is to the point where it is becoming literally unplayable due to both the truly obnoxious VFX spam from abilities and fly-in loot text that cannot be disabled or removed. Borticus is asking for "quick wins" - my sincere advise is to forget those. Please, start doing a quality pass on the VFX for all abilities. The game desperately needs it. The visual vomit is so overwhelming you literally cannot see what is happening.
I am sure I am not the only one here who takes great care in crafting our ships and characters. It is truly heartbreaking and frustrating to have them buried under layer after layer of VFX to the point we cannot even see them anymore.
Surely there must be a better way to visualize these abilities without making them so overwhelming? Every new ability is adding to an already out of control problem.
This does not need to be done all at once. Start with some of the most obnoxious abilities that wash out the entire screen for everyone and work your way through the list. Yes, I understand this is a lot of work and yes I understand that it would be a monumental effort to do. That should not be a deterrent for doing it though.
Please, please, please can we get the amount of VFX spam addressed?
Added for clarity: I sincerely hope that this thread and the discussions that come about because of it can open a dialogue to serious discussions with Cryptic about this subject. It is not my intention for it to bash the developers whom I am sure are all working very hard.
Thank you.
With that said, this game is to the point where it is becoming literally unplayable due to both the truly obnoxious VFX spam from abilities and fly-in loot text that cannot be disabled or removed. Borticus is asking for "quick wins" - my sincere advise is to forget those. Please, start doing a quality pass on the VFX for all abilities. The game desperately needs it. The visual vomit is so overwhelming you literally cannot see what is happening.
I am sure I am not the only one here who takes great care in crafting our ships and characters. It is truly heartbreaking and frustrating to have them buried under layer after layer of VFX to the point we cannot even see them anymore.
Surely there must be a better way to visualize these abilities without making them so overwhelming? Every new ability is adding to an already out of control problem.
This does not need to be done all at once. Start with some of the most obnoxious abilities that wash out the entire screen for everyone and work your way through the list. Yes, I understand this is a lot of work and yes I understand that it would be a monumental effort to do. That should not be a deterrent for doing it though.
Please, please, please can we get the amount of VFX spam addressed?
Added for clarity: I sincerely hope that this thread and the discussions that come about because of it can open a dialogue to serious discussions with Cryptic about this subject. It is not my intention for it to bash the developers whom I am sure are all working very hard.
Thank you.
Dear Devs: I enjoyed the Legacy of Romulus expansion much more than the Delta Rising expansion. .
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I won't try to dig through them and quote them here all over again, but if anyone has the time, please forward these concerns in Q&As with anyone who would receive the feedback.
At this point I actually want things to get worse to make the game fully unplayable due to the complete saturation of 'information' combined with actual visual obstruction of mission objectives, so that the concerns become impossible to ignore as they are now. The more recent addition of full screen whiteout/strobe on large ship explosions (Herald & Borg especially) makes me wonder if they ever play their own game as it's intended, with other team mates present who are at least half-competent at gaming.
That's why I wished in the referenced thread they'd implement a VFX feature, that allowed 1-4 settings on a Graphic Preferences for a setting to be saved.
♦ Most Visible 77% of FX, Transparent 23%
♦ Visible 70% of FX, Transparent 30%
♦ Moderate Visibility 58% of FX, 42% Transparent
♦ Limited Visibility 50% of FX, 50% Transparent
Actually, that is not true.
They have actively made a concerted effort to make it much much worse.
Requests like this have been coming in for quite a while, there were quite a few before they released one of the most visually assaulting ships.. the Risian Weather Control Vessel with it's super spammy console. They have released quite a few visually assailing items since then as well. People have been requesting that they back off the spam for years and rightfully so.
Not only has Cryptic shown absolutely no interest in facilitating this request, they are actively making efforts to go the opposite direction and increase visual spam as much as possible.
Now, before the OP jumps all over me.. I am not insulting the idea.. hell, I agree with it. It's a great request that I would absolutely love to see facilitated, I just have given up because I know it will never happen.
My take is that Cryptic's 'metrics' have shown that 'big flashy makes money,' and if that's the case.. you can expect it to continue and even get worse.
I hope I am wrong.
The slap was not intended for you. More for the people that keep making it worse.
Their actions also reflect this as they continue to add visual spam to the game on a regular basis.
EDIT: Seems like the img code is broken? Here is a URL https://postimg.cc/sG2nZysB
I hope the OP gives it a try rather staying with unwanted loot fly-ins long after a number of solutions have been posted.
that's why I intentionally do not queue for TFOs unless i must, and if I go to a space battleground I immediately go to the lowest population. If I'm doing a point, and someone come to the point to "help", I leave the point and go to another
You have tried it here and there,
you have tried it everywhere.
It does not work to turn off spam,
it does not work, Sam-I-am.
All that seems to be happening here is some strange exercise in semantics during which you've repeatedly stated all your boxes are unchecked without stating that you've actually tried the several suggestions proposed in good faith to get rid of the loot fly-in issue.
Key elements of the suggestions from various parties involved much more than simply ensuring everything is unchecked.
It seems disingenuous to mention an issue in an opening post and then claim that a thread is about something else.
Please try to be a bit more clear in your responses in the future so as to help avoid potential ambiguous interpretation issues which can leave various parties wondering what the other is talking about or what they really mean.
Rest assured that your loot fly-in vfx issue won't be mentioned again. Perhaps consider opening a bug thread if you're unable to resolve it ?
I'm sorry things aren't working for you.