Amara vs Kerrigan

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

How come infested Kerrigan looks more human than Amara? This is in terms of facial structure, body proportions, and the eyes... my god Amara's eyes are something scary.

I'd hate to turn around a corner and see Amara and her ghoulish cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong face staring at me.

Yeah ok Kerrigan has spikes coming out her back but I think on balance she's still more human-like, which is crazy.

Kerrigan
https://imgur.com/OFW6qvk

Amara
https://i.imgur.com/h4SxlKq.jpeg

[Klashbash]

For Stormgate's character models we're in uncanny valley territory. For a modern game, they're absolutely hideous to look at.

[Santanico ♀]

Yeah i wish they went for starcraft 2 style just updated for latest unreal visuals, then this would truly be next gen rts.

[Navhkrin]

Originally posted by Santanico ♀:

Yeah i wish they went for starcraft 2 style just updated for latest unreal visuals, then this would truly be next gen rts.

Honestly they could have tried to match SC2 visuals and it would still be better. This game doesnt utilize UE5s potential in any way.

[Santanico ♀]

Originally posted by Navhkrin:

Originally posted by Santanico ♀:

Yeah i wish they went for starcraft 2 style just updated for latest unreal visuals, then this would truly be next gen rts.

Honestly they could have tried to match SC2 visuals and it would still be better. This game doesnt utilize UE5s potential in any way.

Which baffels me why even go for Unreal. Unreal was built for best possible visuals of current time period and instead of using it for that, you willingly despite 2 years old feedback decide to use it to make an Overwatch RTS.

[Spartan dropkick]

Ugh. That is basically how Stormgate is in every category compared to SC2...
Those eyes are hideous.

Originally posted by Santanico ♀:

Originally posted by Navhkrin:

Honestly they could have tried to match SC2 visuals and it would still be better. This game doesnt utilize UE5s potential in any way.

Which baffels me why even go for Unreal. Unreal was built for best possible visuals of current time period and instead of using it for that, you willingly despite 2 years old feedback decide to use it to make an Overwatch RTS.

Even Overwatch still looks better.
I remember a 1 minute gameplay reveal of SG on The Game Awards reel next to Stalker 2. It made RTS look so outdated.

[Danyaell]

Originally posted by Klashbash:

For Stormgate's character models we're in uncanny valley territory. For a modern game, they're absolutely hideous to look at.

They're still better than The Finals. That is th scariest UV ever!

LOL

[Santanico ♀]

There is still time to turn this around, lets see how will they change Amara.

[Kern]

Originally posted by Klashbash:

For Stormgate's character models we're in uncanny valley territory.

Exactly

It's normally unthinkable for any video game studio to produce a character like this.
Even with stylized graphics, the head is deformed ; it looks as if a piece of Amara's skull is missing.

The armor is misshapen for a woman's body.

She's simply not human, and any eye, even a baby's, can see that. It's totally the uncanny valley.

Originally posted by Santanico ♀:

Which baffels me why even go for Unreal.

It's a total mistake. They should have used Unity URP, it would have fitted in perfectly with their graphic style, it would have cost much less in developer “manpower” (a C# developer is much cheaper than a C++ developer), it wouldn't have made any difference to the fact that they could have developed their own pathfinding engine.
And above all, it would have cost a LOT less to run the game afterwards, a potato computer could have run it...
They are clearly not using Lumen nor Nanite from UE5, and UE5 is made for that! Global illumination, and infinite polygon on screen...

No, it's totally incomprehensible, a beginner's mistake.

[Sovereign Star]

Have you seen those female civilians our heroes talking to? Creepy if not scary, all shares same faces and an oddly shaped body build.

[Santanico ♀]

Originally posted by Sovereign Star:

Have you seen those female civilians our heroes talking to? Creepy if not scary, all shares same faces and an oddly shaped body build.

Yeah and that woman without the shoes, she looks very unnatural but overall characters and visuals across the board are very bad with biggest culprit being Amara.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

Originally posted by Sovereign Star:

Have you seen those female civilians our heroes talking to? Creepy if not scary, all shares same faces and an oddly shaped body build.

Yeah dude compare them to the civvies in SC2, like in the first Terran mission. They all look different, and definitely more human - even having dirt etc on them.

Stormgate's civvies are just another indication that the devs were lazy and lack attention to detail.

[DDkiki]

Amara is actually a teaser for a 4th race - insectoid mutants

But jokes aside is really mind blowing to me, how they never bothered to create an attractive and memorable design for their poster character, MC of the campaign. Its either incompetence or neglect cuz "people would eat any slop anyway" and i dunno whats worse.