The purpose of this post is not to insult or offend anyone but to point the problems of visual part of Eternal Crusade. At the moment, one of the worst aspects of EC (except balance, of course) are visual assets. You do not need to be a highly qualified 2D-3D artist to realize, that most of assets are made by people who, probably do not know how to do their job properly. I say "most" is because some of the assets (as shoulders and boltgun below) look really great: It seems like these qualified 3D specialists are the smallest part of your developement team, bE. That is because all free of charge elements and some of buyable are really REALY horrible. Just look at the armor of all factions! They are flat and look totally uncompleted because there are no HQ normal-maps. They tend to look like done by someone, who learned how to use Modo\Maya\3Dmax only few days ago. There are tons of examples of mediocre work (like those boltguns) in game! Especially bad is the situation with Normal Maps and textures. It seems like these assets were created in a few hours to Release date (come on, we all know, that "Release date" is just another stage of Early access) That situation could be forgivable if EC was developed by some indie non-commercial group of students, working in their own free time. But we have what we got, so, dear bE, You need to solve this problem. ---"when you criticize, you need to propose"-— I Pay attention to 3D-artists team, because they create really quickie stuff, and senior-specialist approves these assets to be a part of release version of game! Not only I was disappointed with the look of EC characters. II The main idea is a Workshop system, which allows people with 2d\3d-artist skills create assets for EC and be rewarded by bE team. You can easily develop Workshop rules for each class of assets (Character's parts of armor, every class of weapon, skins for stock armor etc.) such as polycounts, size, textures etc. It allows you to create even some contests of fan works! Just scroll your forum: there are tons of people, who have wanted to help EC since 2014. In addition, you need to create a category of free of charge customization, which would drop from 30k chests. It is really important, because now EC needs much more farm-content to revive dying on-line player count. People (besides balance issues) do not want to play in MMO, which grates them 2-4-10 similar models of guns and only pay-to-equip 0-6 elements of armor. III Create additional sockets in character's mesh and small decorate lootable equip for it, such as trophies, seals, insignias, chapter\faction\gang stuff e.t.c. This suggestion will be perfectly compatible with p.II I really hope that the community will accept this proposal positively and complete or add some ideas to this thread. Also hope that Devs themself read\reply this post and accept criticisms and suggestions
Although I would be next to useless making these items, it would be sweet if players could fix things up to make them look better. Just having a tag on the items description saying @***** to give them credit would be great for the cosmetic items if they were included in the game or improved what was already in place. This would allow the Developers 3D teams to work, and possibly improve their work as they now have compilation, on the more difficult and in depth models that need improvement or created.
They gona have a really bad time on this. I'm not an expert but I guess GW has us by the balls with their IP rights, so we can't have any of that Steam Workshop goodness which has been so popular in TF2 community for example. I mean literally 90% of the stuff is community made nowadays in TF2.
I'm really interested in knowing why people talk the way they do on the internet. It's one thing to offer criticism and constructive insight to a problem. It's another to wrap it in a package of verbal sewage. I feel as though the tone most people have been delivering their feedback recently just makes the devs not even want to read it.
(pre-tech demo) Trust me, pal, I know a bit. Also I didn't mean to feel supperior, It's a pretty logical suggestions. If You (yea, I mean you, Redthirst) ever got a project, with no additional resourses to maintain it attractiveness, would you accept any outsource help?
OP uses constructive criticism instead of just shiting all over the forum. Just check out EA exclusive weapon bundle... need I say more? Here.. have another one http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/ork-shoulderpads.60326/
