Why is it so ugly?

[SgtHorton]

Im not trying to be toxic, but why this game looks so bad? Graphics looks like something 15 years old at best. I remember i bought Company of Heroes 1 and at the time it was looking amazing, better than any other game.

[Trevor Reznik]

Something about the lighting and AO is off, people have already reported this to the devs.

What I wonder though: is there HDR support?

[Gwan Solo]

Rts' aren't nearly as popular now as they where then. Popular games get big budgets and shiny gfx. Niche games get lower budgets and have to make do.

I can't imagine seeing another rts with bleeding edge gfx any time soon. Not unless the genre becomes significantly more mainstream.

[SgtHorton]

Originally posted by Gwan Solo:

Rts' aren't nearly as popular now as they where then. Popular games get big budgets and shiny gfx. Niche games get lower budgets and have to make do.

I can't imagine seeing another rts with bleeding edge gfx any time soon. Not unless the genre becomes significantly more mainstream.

I know but not talking about anything bleeding edge. Most modern engines can easily apply very high quality lightning and ambient occlusion, im not talking Cyberpunk ray tracing stuff.

Currently it looks so poor it looks broken, like someone turned off all graphical settings to "optimize game" and went home.

[SgtHorton]

I WILL give it a chance, but im not happy.

[King-Currywurst]

Originally posted by Meshify:

Originally posted by Gwan Solo:

Rts' aren't nearly as popular now as they where then. Popular games get big budgets and shiny gfx. Niche games get lower budgets and have to make do.

I can't imagine seeing another rts with bleeding edge gfx any time soon. Not unless the genre becomes significantly more mainstream.

I know but not talking about anything bleeding edge. Most modern engines can easily apply very high quality lightning and ambient occlusion, im not talking Cyberpunk ray tracing stuff.

Currently it looks so poor it looks broken, like someone turned off all graphical settings to "optimize game" and went home.

100% agree!!.

[SD]

Never buy a video game until after release. You can then watch other people play the game and review it. Maybe this has amazing gameplay? Graphics shouldn't be a concern... i could careless about how it looks if the gameplay keeps me coming back. The problem today is a focus on "how it looks" and not how it plays. That's why we have only trash games being released now a days.

[FERN]

Originally posted by Gwan Solo:

Rts' aren't nearly as popular now as they where then. Popular games get big budgets and shiny gfx. Niche games get lower budgets and have to make do.

I can't imagine seeing another rts with bleeding edge gfx any time soon. Not unless the genre becomes significantly more mainstream.

Warno, falling frontier, broken arrow, seapower. Just to name the big ones.

[alex]

Well, I personally find nothing wrong with the graphics. The reason why everyone finds it looking bad is because it doesn't have that "eerie" look to it as COH1/2 has. You are just used to that eerie look it had, but in the desert and mostly southern italy. It isn't eerie at all, it would make no sense for it to have that feeling.
The textures also play a huge role, COH1/2 had pretty okayish textures, they weren't that high quality and because of that the new game has some higher quality texturing on the tanks and buildings and just every asset in the game, which could make it look more cartoonish.

Yes I can agree that they might have kind of been lazy on that but I don't want to say anything yet, this game is still in release and they have another 8-10 years to fix stuff.

[SgtHorton]

Not sure what you mean by eerie but game is about World War 2, it was very very tragic time, loads of deaths everyday. So yeah i kinda expect it to look a bit dark and adult, not like mobile game for kids.

[Krude]

I think there is nothing wrong with the games visuals outside maybe a little bit too bright.

[coffeemm8]

We live in an era of diminishing returns. There aren't any huge graphical leaps anymore

[bubaba]

Developers know if they got a No.1 game or not. The fact that this "new game" is available for 35 bucks at different places, made me wondering tbh.
Still i dont need no fancy graphix in an RTS as long as maps and balancing are well done.
I will give it a try...
Probieren geht über studieren ;)

[SgtHorton]

Originally posted by bubaba:

is available for 35 bucks at different places

Keys for this game are being added for free to some hardware, its AMD Promo now. I believe sites just sell those free promo keys.
https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/coh3-bundle

[Gwan Solo]

Originally posted by Meshify:

Originally posted by bubaba:

is available for 35 bucks at different places

Keys for this game are being added for free to some hardware, its AMD Promo now. I believe sites just sell those free promo keys.
https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/coh3-bundle

If they do, they might not work. Just redeemed my free code and you have to download authenticating software from AMD and jump through a bunch of hoops.

[SgtHorton]

Originally posted by Gwan Solo:

If they do, they might not work. Just redeemed my free code and you have to download authenticating software from AMD and jump through a bunch of hoops.

I believe they can activate code and get steam key. There is no limit how many codes you can activate on one CPU.