unit cards need to be upgraded

[toskyrun]

I find unit cards really too bland. I mean, they are identical to Troy's so much that they can overlap even in gestures and animations.

but if this is to be a new and AAA title, it can't have such an obvious copy paste.

there are centuries of Egyptian painting from which to take inspiration to have unit cards truly inserted in the context and also for the Hittites and Canaanites one can take inspiration from bas-reliefs and paintings.
I realize that there are many units but it would be a rewarded effort and above all it would give the game those Egyptian vibes that are still missing.

what do you think?

[jonoliveira12]

Originally posted by karoten2:

Originally posted by toskyrun:

I find unit cards really too bland.

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what do you think?

It is similar style like in Rome 1, Medieval 2, Empire, Napoleon, Fall of Samurai, Attila, Troy

units cards are fine, and it is probably too late to change it in this moment

They are not fine at all. In the Tausret video, for example, nothing tells you the Javelin Chariot is a chariot unit, in the unit card, except for the name.
If you look at it at a glance, the unit card makes it look like a foot unit.

[toskyrun]

Originally posted by karoten2:

Originally posted by toskyrun:

I find unit cards really too bland.

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what do you think?

It is similar style like in Rome 1, Medieval 2, Empire, Napoleon, Fall of Samurai, Attila, Troy

units cards are fine, and it is probably too late to change it in this moment

the game is still in the alpha version, so i think there is still time to make these kinds of changes. with 3K the unit cards were changed in the run, because the community didn't like them and they gave way to change them in the options menu. I would very much like something like this.

It's true that most TW games have realistic unit cards, but look how beautiful, immersive and contextualized shogun2 and TOB's cards are.

I'm thinking of a beautiful papyrus of Egyptian art to represent our armies. the good thing is that everything you need is already on the walls of the temples, you don't need to invent anything!

[Yews]

Every time they’d release a game with era-appropriate UI art, it spawned entire threads of complaints specifically about that, and every time someone makes a massively popular mod that replaces authentic-looking unit cards with screenshots of the units’ 3-D models. CA obviously know this and excuse themselves thinking that no one wants good unit cards anyway, because that part of the community is surely vocal.

[toskyrun]

Originally posted by Yews:

Every time they’d release a game with era-appropriate UI art, it spawned entire threads of complaints specifically about that, and every time someone makes a massively popular mod that replaces authentic-looking unit cards with screenshots of the units’ 3-D models. CA obviously know this and excuse themselves thinking that no one wants good unit cards anyway, because that part of the community is surely vocal.

they could, in my opinion, do as they have already done in 3K, give the possibility to switch at will between a realistic mode (already completed) and a more immersive mode.

it's terrible to see the exact same cards as Troy, but not because they're bad, but because it shows that no effort has been made beyond copy paste. not only the style has been taken up, but the assets themselves.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/ancient-Egyptian-military.jpg