The poster art in "23 Megabytes A Second"

[Dead Beef]

This is a petition to the devs to replace the hack job artwork done for the posters on the map 23 Megabytes A Second.

They look like garbage and it was obvious from a cursory glance they were made with AI. If you were going to do that could you please put in a little effort and clean up the artifacts so they might look a little convincing? I mean they are like really badly botched with the typical AI ♥♥♥♥ like too many fingers and totally mangled proportions. Some of them look like they were taken from a generator wholesale. I dont care if they were made with AI necessarily its that they look like someone got really lazy. Or maybe you just didnt want to pay a real artist? Either way fix the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ immersion ruining posters pls?

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by Dead Beef:

a friggin fursuit is absolutely anything but cheap, the server farm isnt cheap and the briefing makes it appear as though they are spending way beyond their means.

I think a notable detail is the fact that he's not legally paying for the power. You can go on the top floor and see he's rigged together his cables with the neighbors, I don't remember what the phrasing is. I don't think it's a reportable, though I think it should have a SWAT AI line. Either way, I think it's not far fetched to say he's cheaping out on everything he can, though they wouldn't be able to sneak in the anime stuff without leaving a receipt from Wish or something.

I also don't think the fursuit is his from the discussion I've seen around the map. I think it's his brothers, but I haven't looked too much into that part of the map.

[[BLK] Telu]

There is also this type of issue in other mission but i don't remember which one.

[Dead Beef]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

Originally posted by Dead Beef:

a friggin fursuit is absolutely anything but cheap, the server farm isnt cheap and the briefing makes it appear as though they are spending way beyond their means.

I think a notable detail is the fact that he's not legally paying for the power. You can go on the top floor and see he's rigged together his cables with the neighbors, I don't remember what the phrasing is. I don't think it's a reportable, though I think it should have a SWAT AI line. Either way, I think it's not far fetched to say he's cheaping out on everything he can, though they wouldn't be able to sneak in the anime stuff without leaving a receipt from Wish or something.

I also don't think the fursuit is his from the discussion I've seen around the map. I think it's his brothers, but I haven't looked too much into that part of the map.

Thats fair. All in all it would just be nice if the images were cleaned up to some degree and weren't obviously pulled straight from the AI generator.

[Inflated_chair]

Originally posted by DuckieMcduck:

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

I feel fairly certain that it is supposed to be part of the irony of the map. There certainly are all kinds of little and big details hidden around the apartment, and considering what he has his status set as on RoNs version of Discord (I assume), I wouldn't put it past them to make AI art and hang it up to cheap out.

Void has dedicated artists, if you don't believe me you're free to go through the past dev blogs and see their concept arts. There are at least two I'm aware of, but I haven't paid much mind to the credits section.

They used genAI for the concept art too, basically the entire creative pipeline in RoN uses AI generation (concept, pre-production, production)

"Along with photobashing for clothing, I've been integrating artificial intelligence to speed up my workflow, specifically for faces and clothing folds. It helps create a likeness without using a real human's face. When talking about my main inspiration, I researched different youtubers and streamers to assist me in finalizing the necessary looks that created Michael."

━ 🎨 Ropolio

From: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1144200/view/3683432262652241573?l=english

theres no problem with using ai or clothing folds and stuff they are just using a tool at thier disposal the real problem is they didnt polish it after

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

I feel fairly certain that it is supposed to be part of the irony of the map. There certainly are all kinds of little and big details hidden around the apartment, and considering what he has his status set as on RoNs version of Discord (I assume), I wouldn't put it past them to make AI art and hang it up to cheap out.

Void has dedicated artists, if you don't believe me you're free to go through the past dev blogs and see their concept arts. There are at least two I'm aware of, but I haven't paid much mind to the credits section.

It's not, there are other instances where the devs used AI art.

[Gnuzzo]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

I feel fairly certain that it is supposed to be part of the irony of the map. There certainly are all kinds of little and big details hidden around the apartment, and considering what he has his status set as on RoNs version of Discord (I assume), I wouldn't put it past them to make AI art and hang it up to cheap out.

Void has dedicated artists, if you don't believe me you're free to go through the past dev blogs and see their concept arts. There are at least two I'm aware of, but I haven't paid much mind to the credits section.

Sinner this is an insane reach considering the fact that there are several details wrong with the AI art itself that lacks extreme amounts of quality control, and it is utilized more than just in that mission. There is no irony of the map design, you are just objectively overlooking lazy rushed designs rather than criticize the company because you are afraid of doing so.