Today the client for the Hispanic server was updated, and not a single minute has passed to be a great disaster, people claim disagreement with the graphic appearance of the new designs.
I sincerely believe that it was a total folly to implement this graphic update without first evaluating the opinion of the community.
In my personal opinion, the new graphics are not too bad but they have a serious problem, the graphics are too dark and too bright, which causes the camera to become indistinguishable between other armored units, or if they are their own, allies or enemies, apart from that they totally clash with the vision of the map. The map looks completely confusing, because it is impossible to recognize the units just by moving the camera away a bit and this makes it very complex to play.
I hope you fix this soon and make a better review of the Front Line games.
Regards.
Make Chile Playable Again!
7 Replies
28 Nov 2019, 00:33
Hey, just saying that this update was in frontline games for 2 weeks. We got no negative feedback while it was on frontline, despite us asking for it ingame via beta notifications and in the beta forums. So parts of the community were asked before.
We won't roll back this update but we can certainly make some adjustments and fix some particular images or icons. For that we would require screenshots marking the problematic images and explaining why they are problematic.
Also just to make sure: These units are actual WW2 models that were used in the war. So if they are not super distinguishable by their shape, this also was true back then. Plus the units fit certainly better to the map in the Advanced Graphics mode, which is the default version that we optimize for.
28 Nov 2019, 02:29
This is the zoom I usually use to play, there is just a medium tank, an armored car, and light tanks with the new and old design.
Tanks with old designs were easy to identify with this zoom level, but new designs are difficult to identify without forcing the view or increasing the zoom.
I do not say that they return to the old designs in fact I like the new designs, but the color and brightness levels they used makes it impossible to appreciate the details when viewed from afar.
This worsens on smarphones with small screens.
What I am saying is that they should edit the designs a little to make them better visible when viewed from afar, clarify them, improve contrast and remove excess brightness.
Make Chile Playable Again!
28 Nov 2019, 02:50
An extra comment, the Japanese light tanks ... here I don't know what I'm seeing, even with the maximum zoom, are they toy tanks? or will they be made of plasticine? wood? It definitely doesn't look like steel.
sorry little Ha-Go type 95, you didn't get much love in this version.
(its the Ha-Go, rigth?, even of this i'm not sure)
Make Chile Playable Again!
28 Nov 2019, 13:13
We are using exactly this model ingame (without the yellow line) and I don't see an issue with it. Texturing and lighting of course alter the look a bit.
In fact I think all new models look much less like toy tanks than the old model. Old models were all simplified and made a little bit abstract.
Regarding the readability of the skins in general we will probably make some further adjustments soon.
28 Nov 2019, 14:11
freezy wrote:
Texturing and lighting of course alter the look a bit.
Regarding the readability of the skins in general we will probably make some further adjustments soon.
Precisely this is what I wanted to reach. Please, make visual elements clear and easy to understand is one of the principles of programming, it is the basis of any good interface.
I will be anxiously waiting for the retouching of the unit graphics.
PS: not much damage would also reduce the size of the railway canyon a little, it literally covers entire regions.
Make Chile Playable Again!
2 Dec 2019, 12:14
ok im a little late to this but who cares so why does everyone have a problem with this i can see every unit clearly and perfectly there is not a single problem with them and I also cant wait till the rest of the units get the update but the feature i want is the Tiger tank replaced from the japs tree and also when the 1.5 update comes out i would like to upgrade my units like every upgrade changes models like Tiger 1 changing two the Tiger 2 that would bring a lot of immersion and is every nation gonna get there own tech tree cuz im getting bored of the Italians using the German tech it sucks
2 Dec 2019, 13:40
Hey freezy, I have given you replies on this. Can you please reply/check It out? Thx.
