WAR (Warhammer Online)

...just annoyed by how they implemented animations from a distance? I really don't think this is a game breaking issue and I myself am enjoying this game a good bit, but something that annoyed me the first time I played this game in OB was the fact that, if you see something moving a slight distance away, it moves in little "clips", as in you don't see the full animation. I was hoping that it was simply because it was in beta but it seems to be an in-game addition. Now this is fine and dandy for those that have average computers, and I can understand the performance issues with this in areas with large conflicts with multiple players. But honestly it feels like I'm playing a game from the early 90s. Some of us have more than one processor. It just feels really cruddy to me and I would eventually want the option to see the full animations of characters. I think it's a great limit on system hogging for those that don't have the great computers, but for those of us that do have semi-good computers, it would be nice not having to see things moving in blocks.

Am I the only one who's honestly peeved by this?

Heh, that reminds me of how I loved my girlfriend! She was great except for her laugh. Bu thats OK ...she was mine and looked great!

After a while though I stopped seeing all the good things. Her laugh just got more and more into my skull ...eventually I couldnt take it!

Perhaps its just human nature

LotRO and D&D online are the same way.. i guess i'm just used to it i dont pay much attention but it doesn't happen as often to me anyway if you can turn up your settings.

Not peeved.

My peeve comes from not being able to customize more about my character in the first place.  O well, still a fun game, right?

Originally posted by Czzarre

Heh, that reminds me of how I loved my girlfriend! She was great except for her laugh. Bu thats OK ...she was mine and looked great!

After a while though I stopped seeing all the good things. Her laugh just got more and more into my skull ...eventually I couldnt take it!

Perhaps its just human nature

Proof that looking great is only a portion of the pie.  I had a good laugh.

just slide the graphics cache (or similar title) up the right a little. that alongside some things controls how far and hpw blocky the animations get. too far you may find it lags horribly but ive got it about half way and its a big improvement for little fps loss. yes it should be labled, and yes it should be totaly unique option but hey, it is there.

and you can tell from the gfx settings it isnt actually fully done yet (no aa controls etc)

Originally posted by ketrine

Not peeved.

My peeve comes from not being able to customize more about my character in the first place.  O well, still a fun game, right?

Aye, this bugs me alot about this game too. But then again, this game isn't like CoH where you are the hero and are unique. The lack of customization bugged me at first until I started realizing that, in this game, I'm just a nameless soldier.

The only things now that bug me with customization are the lack of different faces and, more importantly, lack of appealing hairstyles. Oh how I would love playing a WP if he didn't have to be bald. But this all falls back on the WAR sort of atmosphere... you aren't suppoesed to be "unique".

All this makes me miss CoX and makes me hope CO turns out fantastic.

Originally posted by ketrine

Not peeved.

My peeve comes from not being able to customize more about my character in the first place.  O well, still a fun game, right?

Lets see you can color their armor, add trophies, pick faces, hair, eye color, skin color, facial hair, jewelry, scars, tattoos, you can customize their stats, their resistances, you get to pick how to spend your career points, you get to decide what sort of tactics they're using for more xp, damages, buffs, etc  what the hell else do you want?  Drawing your own face?  Do you know how expensive it is when you get to over customize every lil polygon of a model?  Very..and thats fine and dandy for games like Vanguard and EQ2 which aren't based around large scale combat but if you put 100 or so EQ2 / Vanguard chars on the same screen and even if your computer is above normal it still lags to high hell and back.

im so sick of this complaint honestly who the hell knows another players toon by face? no one.  Even in EQ2 I only knew who a pesron was by their name all the 'features' people thought ewere so cool were always covered up by armor.

Originally posted by Douhk

...just annoyed by how they implemented animations from a distance? I really don't think this is a game breaking issue and I myself am enjoying this game a good bit, but something that annoyed me the first time I played this game in OB was the fact that, if you see something moving a slight distance away, it moves in little "clips", as in you don't see the full animation. I was hoping that it was simply because it was in beta but it seems to be an in-game addition. Now this is fine and dandy for those that have average computers, and I can understand the performance issues with this in areas with large conflicts with multiple players. But honestly it feels like I'm playing a game from the early 90s. Some of us have more than one processor. It just feels really cruddy to me and I would eventually want the option to see the full animations of characters. I think it's a great limit on system hogging for those that don't have the great computers, but for those of us that do have semi-good computers, it would be nice not having to see things moving in blocks.

Am I the only one who's honestly peeved by this?

Well, atm im just having so much fun playing, that i havent really noticed any of that..

Guess everything will shine up when thay begin to polish :)