Performance aside, it doesn't look great

[StingingVelvet]

The lightning might be more "realistic" or whatever, but to me it kinda ruins the design and looks worse most of the time. I have both versions installed and go back and forth and honestly the original usually looks better.

[Milkdust]

They probably just piled on some middle-ware graphical features and sent it out the door.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally posted by Sleezure:

They probably just piled on some middle-ware graphical features and sent it out the door.

Some of it like the further draw distance and higher res textures looks good. The lighting and design changes though look pretty bad IMO. The whole first planet is now orange, which wasn't what it was designed for at all.

[Agent Smith]

Actually yeah, I agree. It's more flashy, more orange. Characters are way weird, Parvati is uncomfortable to look at. Why the flashy glowing eyes?

[naomha]

Originally posted by StingingVelvet:

The lightning might be more "realistic" or whatever, but to me it kinda ruins the design and looks worse most of the time. I have both versions installed and go back and forth and honestly the original usually looks better.

I'm the opposite. I actually love the new upgrades in lighting and textures. The eyes are NOT flashy or glowing but look like they have a realistic amount of moisture in them. The flatter eyes of the original were ok but the new and improved ones just look better to me. Personal opinion. I do love how all the signs and artwork all POP now and have a better texture mesh to them and seem to be really clear now.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally posted by naomha:

I'm the opposite. I actually love the new upgrades in lighting and textures. The eyes are NOT flashy or glowing but look like they have a realistic amount of moisture in them. The flatter eyes of the original were ok but the new and improved ones just look better to me. Personal opinion. I do love how all the signs and artwork all POP now and have a better texture mesh to them and seem to be really clear now.

The textures are absolutely better, it's mostly the lighting I'm not sure about.

[Izargon]

In some aspects, I agree. Like seemingly, the ground texture went wonky even tho I have most settings set pretty high... Seems Terra 2 and the starter area is among the most taxing as far as I've seen so far...

Its descent after one pushes their old save files up from the old version... Just note that this edition has an extra subfolder you need to put the old saves into and one is good to go.

[Mortal Wombat]

I think it looks good. Performance is crap though. Only thing I dislike is the lighting in some areas. Looks darker while caves are bright as daylight.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Looks good to me, but I never played the old version so what do I know? I really like the game. It has Fallout New Vegas written all over it. It took me awhile fiddling with the settings and waiting for the shaders to compile (when you start playing it's doing that in the background and causing stutter), but it settled down once I got to Edgewater and it's been pretty smooth since then. It runs best in interior spaces. It's UE4, that's what it does. Hogwarts Legacy is the same. Dial back your expectations and if you're playing on the same pc you played on in 2019 kindly take that into consideration. The review bombing is the stupidest thing I've seen on Steam so far, but not unexpected. Steam forums are a swamp.

[Slackerdude74]

The so called enhanced version is way too colorful compared to the original, and sure the textures might be better but the original looks great as well.
I prefer the original which is why I refunded the new version.

[StingingVelvet]

I've put a chunk of hours into this and my opinion has remained the same. I think the original looks better 90% of the time. The game just wasn't made with the new lighting in mind, so it rarely looks right. In the Groundbreaker's engine room for example everyone looks like they rolled around in cooking oil. In Roseway everything is dark like it's nighttime, even during the day. It just looks "wrong" so frequently it's distracting.

[PaleBlueDot]

It is almost like there is a difference between having veteran artists working on things like lighting vs whomever at Virtuos was in charge of updating to the latest UE4 version.

Higher resolution textures, fine, stomping all over the lighting and weird material issues, not so much

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Moon Man:

I think it looks good. Performance is crap though. Only thing I dislike is the lighting in some areas. Looks darker while caves are bright as daylight.

The original had crap performance on my 3070 as well

[StingingVelvet]

Originally posted by PaleBlueDot:

It is almost like there is a difference between having veteran artists working on things like lighting vs whomever at Virtuos was in charge of updating to the latest UE4 version.

Thing with global illumination is it's sort of automated, you set some parameters and tag brightness levels and such but then the lighting model does it's thing to attain "realism." That's not always artistically the best thing to do IMO.

Certainly with this remaster it hurts the look of the game significantly because it throws out design intent for automated "realism" that looks wrong.

[Kuro]

I do like the eye reflections and skin reflections as well, like lip moisture and stuff, but I will wait til a patch comes out as I have also the 30 fps going on.

[insert food here]

Originally posted by StingingVelvet:

In Roseway everything is dark like it's nighttime, even during the day. It just looks "wrong" so frequently it's distracting.

I just had this. It was light when i first went into Roseway but after talking to some NPCs and doing a few things it is now permanently dark, even when it is daytime. Exit the compound and it is light again. Very jarring when there are such severe lighting bugs like this.