SWTOR is losing it's identity

[Shadowhawk668]

It feels like the new devs don't understand the art style and direction of the game at all, Hutta has had all the charm and character sucked out of it and turned into a dull brown mess, and now the character models look like 60 year olds with neck wrinkles and grainy faces, that completely clashes with the game's cartoonish art style. Also random NPCs have been changed for seemingly no reason, like Lt. Xorem on Ord Mantell now has a full beard and a man bun despite being a military officer.

[Otter in a scarf]

It really does feel like they are on a crusade against the game's original art style.

Guess what, devs? The characters still look cartoonish, just older.

[Shadowhawk668]

Originally posted by Otter in a scarf:

It really does feel like they are on a crusade against the game's original art style.

Guess what, devs? The characters still look cartoonish, just older.

What makes it clash even more is the fact that characters with custom skin textures, like Corso Rigs, are unchanged. Makes my smuggler look like an old man Corso is helping cross the street when they're together.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Hutta has had all the charm and character sucked out of it and turned into a dull brown mess

You mean contrary to the old, brown-yellow mess?

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

and now the character models look like 60 year olds with neck wrinkles and grainy faces

They don't in my view and on my computer, no not even the Chiss.
Stop over exaggerating just because you don't like the new, and granted possibly AI assisted and therefore somewhat suspect art direction for a game that might as well be left to die but instead gets some nice GFX upgrades not everyone likes.

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

that completely clashes with the game's cartoonish art style.

Again, it doesn't for me. It enhances it in every way so far that I have seen, and I've been around.
You just don't like it and have to use hyperbole so your opinion doesn't fall apart.

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Also random NPCs have been changed for seemingly no reason, like Lt. Xorem on Ord Mantell now has a full beard and a man bun despite being a military officer.

Now you are really just reaching. That's the nitpick you found for a random NPC? That it doesn't look "military" enough anymore in a game with plenty of goofy NPCs even before the gfx changes?

Come on.

In the end it's all opinion of course, but you state yours like facts and they simply aren't.

[Shadowhawk668]

I swear, you voice an opinion these days, and you get some weirdos who come along and "debunk" you with facts and logic like they think they're the dev team's personal Ben Shapiro. Straight up white knighting for a corporation. Where do you losers come from?

[phazonfreak]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

I swear, you voice an opinion these days, and you get some weirdos who come along and "debunk" you with facts and logic like they think they're the dev team's personal Ben Shapiro. Straight up white knighting for a corporation. Where do you losers come from?

So apparently only your opinion counts and if someone is voicing his opinion about something completely subjective like an art style, he is automatically a white knighting corporation loser eating ass?

Can't really argue with that impeccable logic.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

It feels like the new devs don't understand the art style and direction of the game at all,

Broadsword hasn't had it long enough, what you're seeing is still Bioware stuff, not to mention the current staff for the game is the Bioware people that transferred over.

[Spella]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

I swear, you voice an opinion these days, and you get some weirdos who come along and "debunk" you with facts and logic like they think they're the dev team's personal Ben Shapiro. Straight up white knighting for a corporation. Where do you losers come from?

well you did post on a online steam form.. What more do you expect? For every single person to agree with you lol. That is not how the world works. Some like it some don't that is what people need to understand here. Not calling people names for doing the same crap your doing just the other side of the convo. Is what you say make you a loser for not liking it? I don't think so but you seem to think everyone who has something to say that doesn't line up with your ideals is. Kind of sad really..

[Hilgert Olben]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Also random NPCs have been changed for seemingly no reason, like Lt. Xorem on Ord Mantell now has a full beard and a man bun despite being a military officer.

Overall, I agree with your sentiment, but wanted to mention nonetheless that Lt. Xorem changed his style already several years ago. No one knows why that change was made back then, but I remember people wondering about it.

[Raansu]

SWTOR lost its identity after 5.0 and the "thrill of the hunt." They have been scrapping by ever since with them changing the gear system and re-hashing old content over and over and pushing you to re-roll alts over and over. 5.0 was the death knell of the game.

All they had to do was continue the formula they had in 4.0 and just keep adding content to the game.

[Raansu]

Originally posted by Sirius:

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Hutta has had all the charm and character sucked out of it and turned into a dull brown mess

You mean contrary to the old, brown-yellow mess?

The brown-yellow "mess" gave the area character and atmosphere of a toxic world. Now its just a generic grey blob with a overbloomed sun.

Their current art team sucks and they just need to leave the games visuals alone. They keep making things worse with their art designs. The UI is the biggest culprit of an art team that is completely clueless. They ruined a really good looking UI for this bland "modern minimalist" design with colors that don't match the old UI and clash in places they haven't changed or probably can't change.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The game always looked dull and flat.

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

I swear, you voice an opinion these days, and you get some weirdos who come along and "debunk" you with facts and logic like they think they're the dev team's personal Ben Shapiro. Straight up white knighting for a corporation. Where do you losers come from?

As someone that is unhappy with recent changes i will say YOU ARE reaching here

This might come as a surprise to you, but people that dont like the same thing you dont like tend to get put off when you list ridiculous examples/reasons for believing as such. There's no need to jump to embarrassing conclusions like

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Straight up white knighting for a corporation.

[Shadowhawk668]

Old Hutta was just better, new Hutta looks like an early beta version or something, the textures are less detailed, the lighting is worse, the skybox looks worse.

[Shadowhawk668]

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

I swear, you voice an opinion these days, and you get some weirdos who come along and "debunk" you with facts and logic like they think they're the dev team's personal Ben Shapiro. Straight up white knighting for a corporation. Where do you losers come from?

As someone that is unhappy with recent changes i will say YOU ARE reaching here

This might come as a surprise to you, but people that dont like the same thing you dont like tend to get put off when you list ridiculous examples/reasons for believing as such. There's no need to jump to embarrassing conclusions like

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Straight up white knighting for a corporation.

I overreacted and flew off the handle.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by Shadowhawk668:

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

As someone that is unhappy with recent changes i will say YOU ARE reaching here

This might come as a surprise to you, but people that dont like the same thing you dont like tend to get put off when you list ridiculous examples/reasons for believing as such. There's no need to jump to embarrassing conclusions like

I overreacted and flew off the handle.

I think that you're frustrated by the changes and simply expressed your opinion in your OP. There's nothing wrong with that.

Unfortunately, disagreements tend to happen when opinions differ.