Why are the graphics so horribly bad?

[[EIC]RedTiger]

I think this games graphics are worse than COH1, besides the fact it looks so damn cartoonish, the textures are not any better than the previous games, wtf. Dont buy this game, a waste of 70$

[wowcoh56]

Originally posted by EICRedTiger:

I think this games graphics are worse than COH1, besides the fact it looks so damn cartoonish, the textures are not any better than the previous games, wtf. Dont buy this game, a waste of 70$

Graphics are actually very detailed... scroll in on infantry and tanks to see the detail. COH1 not even close, the wheels are blocky and not round lol. If you want to reduce the color and make it look better move brightness all the way to 0 and game looks much better.

[MxCarnage!!]

IMO the main screen is absolute TRASH ... The very first thing that a person sees when the game loads up, and first impressions do mean a lot... C'mon man, the "box art" store page header, all the trailers look pretty badass... Nice and colorful, and detailed... Then you load the game and get hit with a WTAF...

In game the graphics are decent, if you have the hardware to run it on full blown ultra high settings... I mean, are you trying to run the game on a toaster?

[-SIBERIANWOLF-]

yeah memory is a hell of a drug

[MxCarnage!!]

Originally posted by -SIBERIANWOLF-:

yeah memory is a hell of a drug

I read that in a Rick James voice...

[Hussarius®]

CoH3 graphics are not only better than the previous two titles, it also runs the smoothest.

[wowcoh56]

Originally posted by MaXimumCarnage!!!:

IMO the main screen is absolute TRASH ... The very first thing that a person sees when the game loads up, and first impressions do mean a lot... C'mon man, the "box art" store page header, all the trailers look pretty badass... Nice and colorful, and detailed... Then you load the game and get hit with a WTAF...

In game the graphics are decent, if you have the hardware to run it on full blown ultra high settings... I mean, are you trying to run the game on a toaster?

I agree they need to make the menu screen something nicer, I think they were trying to go for a certain look and plain and simple it looks terrible.

[Ondjage]

I have a toaster computer by today standards, but it still holds up to newer games, just at low settings with frequent FPS stutters.

I have an i5 4670k, 8Gigs of 1333hz ram, mechanical hard drive still and a replaced GPU from a burned out 780 GTX to a 1660ti

What I'm surprised with is the quality of optimization the game presents. I haven't noticed many complaints related to hardware specs. It runs great on older machines and surprised old betsy here can still play Coh3 with relatively good FPS.

I noticed turning everything low and having shadows set to the highest really shines. It's probably not the greatest, but it definitely adds a more realistic immersion. No shadows really does make the game appear weird.

[Admiral Ding Dong]

It looks worse than a game from 2006? LOL

[chorion]

Originally posted by EICRedTiger:

I think this games graphics are worse than COH1, besides the fact it looks so damn cartoonish, the textures are not any better than the previous games, wtf. Dont buy this game, a waste of 70$

you didnt even check that before buying????

[Fatbill]

Probably because they were trying to "homogenize" the graphics to run on PC and console from (mostly) the same code set.

And they had to water things down to make that happen.

[wowcoh56]

Anyone who says the graphics from 1 or 2 look sharper and more detailed is smoking something funny... end of story.

[Gazren]

graphics / colours / shading all looked better during the alpha & Beta from what I remember!

[KlugE]

Originally posted by MaXimumCarnage!!!:

IMO the main screen is absolute TRASH ... The very first thing that a person sees when the game loads up, and first impressions do mean a lot... C'mon man, the "box art" store page header, all the trailers look pretty badass... Nice and colorful, and detailed... Then you load the game and get hit with a WTAF...

Thsi is so true. It's so ridicoulous .

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by MaXimumCarnage!!!:

IMO the main screen is absolute TRASH ... The very first thing that a person sees when the game loads up, and first impressions do mean a lot... C'mon man, the "box art" store page header, all the trailers look pretty badass... Nice and colorful, and detailed... Then you load the game and get hit with a WTAF...

It's especially jarring when you think about how CoH2 had different animated backgrounds depending on the faction you picked.

[I>U]

Guys, CoH1 had 6 levels of mip-mapping. Imagine drawing the same texture 6 times. While CoH3 probably doesn't use it at all.

Surely, CoH1 can't possibly win over CoH3 because it's limited by outdated renderer, They didn't have the freaking mega-textures back then and had to hide the lower resolution with extensive amount of bump. Still, the graphical design itself is way more complicate thanks to these very limitations existing at the time.

Oh, and don't forget Relic's habbit of borrowing "little things" from the previous games. Just like they've "reintroduced" plasma glowing of DoW2 in DoW3.

I don't know which VFX'es\models\meshes CoH3 took from CoH2. But, at least, everything CoH1 has is bound to be original.