Things you don't like in .950

[LCJr]

Please try to be nice.  Constructive criticism only please.  Try to avoid posting bugs.

1.  The weapon swinging through air sound.  I simply don't know how to put this nicely, frankly it sounds like something out of B grade kung fu movie.

2.  Sea Raider voice.  Sounds too digitally manipulated or something is just off with it.  The old one sounded much more human.

3.  The default shield/heraldic shield texture.  Since the texture can't be centered on all shields you really shouldn't use a geometric pattern.  A solid or design not requiring centering, like stripes, would look much better.  Suppose it's a matter of personal taste but the green and black doesn't do much for me.

4.  Tried a little horse archery.  I can't tell if the 3rd person camera has been lowered or it's the new riding animation or both.  Whatever it is the result is most of the time I'm seeing the back of my head instead of the target.

5.  Maybe it's the perspective but jumping a horse looks very odd now.  From the players point it looks like the horse goes straight up as if something has startled it.

6.  The new heads look too compressed/smashed down on a lot of the AI troops.

7.  Pink hair.

Minor quibble.  Most of the banners look nice on the heraldic armor.  Obviously some have clipping issues.  Thing is it's only applied to the front of the armor.  The majority of the time you're playing the game all you see is the back of the player.  Would be nice if it was applied to the front and back.

 

[Dryvus]

The new moustaches. My favourite beard is totally different now. And there doesn't seem to be a change hair colour button.

 

[TheMango55]

The new moustaches. My favourite beard is totally different now. And there doesn't seem to be a change hair colour button.

The hair color has a slider now, under the age slider.

It's much better than the button.

 

[radicalhit]

the training grounds. they're too rough. its meant to TRAIN people not TEST them with a totally impossible course. the ground could a lot more FLAT and oh please, i swung at a pot 5 times once and it finally cracked. i had obviously hit it but it just wouldnt get hit. (this is a bug when you are too close when using the sword). you're better off training with river pirates... actually i havent seen any one of them yet...

i made a character and guess what ? hes half naked, got 2 points in riding even though he doesnt have a horse, and no sword... just a shield and 50 denars. thats all. I cant punch someone to death can i !?! ( well i cant anyways). luckily i got into a tournament and won ( the last match was hillarious, it was like a showdown, except i had a lance and he was right in front of me asking to be hit, ended in 3 secs). unluckily sicne my pc sucks the game crashed cause of 'environmental shadow effect'... for the 3rd time.

 

[tostig]

Black weapons with DX7

Only one death animation.

The disappearance of half of Calradia's swords (or so it seems)

 

[Jubal]

No Zendar. No Hareck. 

 

[kaeldragor]

I agree on the horse archery issue and both issues mentioned with the heraldry.

Not a fan of only having one death animation, and I agree that the weaponry seems limited, but maybe I am just remembering EGII.

Most of my other concerns appear to be bugs, so I'll hold off on that.

 

[Adorno]

Only one death animation.

That's a grave mistake, yes. And it's very dramatic. Everyone when everyone dies like that, it's not dramatic, but comical.

7.  Pink hair.

That's a bug. At least Armagan reports it as such in the bug thread for 0.950.

... I agree that the weaponry seems limited, but maybe I am just remembering EGII.

Aren't there more weapons now? But perhaps you expected even more.

 

[TheMango55]

3.  The default shield/heraldic shield texture.  Since the texture can't be centered on all shields you really shouldn't use a geometric pattern.  A solid or design not requiring centering, like stripes, would look much better.  Suppose it's a matter of personal taste but the green and black doesn't do much for me.

I agree, I'm not big on the default textrue.

Honestly I think if you don't have a banner it should just be a standard wood texture.

 

[Tatari_okan]

Only one death animation.

That's a grave mistake, yes. And it's very dramatic. Everyone when everyone dies like that, it's not dramatic, but comical.

Yes, it seems dead animations became to before 89x, just there is a difference, in 808-751-..., every people fell on their ass, know they fell on their face. I think seeing deads' face was better than seeing their ass. But of coursely this animation is more professional. But it is ironic, if they use only a animation, why ragdoll system was added.

And I think even AI troops can't finish the training ground.

 

[Uther]

I for one like new moustaches.

But i do agree with most things in this thread. DX7 people got totally screwed. New swoosh sounds are overly exaggerated. And shields......some old shields should have been left, to add variety. Like raven ones D: D: D:

 

[bladeofudun]

I like the new shields except for the battered and drab look... but the new shield types are cool.

 

[Sibilance]

Horse rearing is gone, and I miss it terribly! It was perfect for those times when I wanted to stop and talk to a village elder while galloping through the streets, to avoid careening over a cliff or riverbank into certain doom, to throw on nature's emergency brake and juke some lancers on the battlefield, or just to take a dramatic screenshot. Please put it back in!

.950 also runs crappily, is rife with bugs, and turned the noble ragdolled deaths of soldiers into a sprawling Shakespearean tragedy, but I have faith that'll all get fixed...

 

[Asen]

I actually love the new facial hair.

What does bother me, even though I know it's petty, is that the kinda Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern-looking face is gone.  You know, the dude with the olive skin and the dark eyes?  I used him for my very first character and always had a char running with that skin.

 

[sadnhappy]

With DX7 atleast some of the weapons and shields are very dark and somehow have like an oily-kind of cover  Haven't tried with DX9, but I'll know it lags with my machine.. On a sidenote I have all the graphic things turned off, game performance was about 112% with DX7 and resolution of 1024x800 32 bit. 

 

[wildhorse]

Some animations for the horses are fine, specially those that were made to reflect horse slow movements, but this great improvment becomes a  backward step when the horse is galloping, simply the animation  doesn't reveal this specific movement feeling, beside, the horse tail seems to be dead, rigid, lifeless, . I think in previous game versions the horse tail had some kind of run  that it matched the horse gallop.

Also more horses variety would be great,...variety in terms of colours  for some horse breeds included in the game (hunter, courser, and saddle horses  mainly)  im quite sure it is not a difficult thing to implement.

 

[Nahkuri]

Death animation. Everything else I don't like = bugs waiting to be fixed. Awesome update.

 

[tHe_HyBrId]

This will probably seem entirely trivial but I don't really like the sound when you buy or sell something, it's too clinky for me, I much prefered the old one..I think

Also in the new arena, not the tournament, I find the fighting to be irritable more often than not, with new enemies spawning right next to me and when there are only 8 or so left, 5 of them, 3 arena fights in a row, ganged up on me. Now in an arena with no horses or armour and with a relatively low Agility level and skill level it defeats the point of fighting in a last man standing all-for-one arena match..

Never-the-less, I like this one more than .903, I think..

HyBrId

P.s. Also the sword swooshing sound is a bit of a niggle for me too, like someone else said earlier, although I can live with it for now

Excellent work.

 

[DaLagga]

I've played 3-4 hours now and have yet to see a decent shield in the game.  Almost all of them are that nasty green color and look in bad shape.  For the most part their stats all resemble the round shield.  What happened to shields that actually provided coverage?  Even with 4 points into the shield skill 60-80% of all enemy projectiles still hit me.  Earlier I took a hit with my shield up and the arrow was actually sticking through the shield model but the arrow was not blocked!  Shields only provide a false sense of security against projectiles rather than being useful.  I'm not saying we need to bring back the forcefields from the .6xx days, but this is ridiculous.  

Also, while I love the tournaments, the arena matches really need work.  First off, it's supposed to be a free for all, but it isn't.  The AI does indeed have teams.  Also, it's supposed to be a melee match, yet there are numerous archers.  And with the shield issue I mentioned above, this is a real problem.  It took me more than 10 tries to win it, only to discover there was no reward whatsoever for doing so.  Eh...

Many of the quests are still impossiblel.  I signed on as a mercenary for Swadia, and was told by the king to bring him 20 cattle during a siege.  Well, cattle are going for 300 denars per, which means I need 6k.  I had 3k so I decide to go fight in the nearest tournament to win the rest.  Yet as soon as I left the king's sight, a message came up saying I had failed the quest and been expelled from the Swadian army for deserting or whatever.  Not sure if this is a bug or not exactly, but it's a problem.  

And finally, like the others have stated, the training courses are impossible.  Even for someone who had played this game for 3 years I find myself making a third or fourth pass in a futile attempt to hit those damned pots.  Oh, and this may be a bug, but has anyone else not been able to aim down when using a 2hander and swinging from right to left?  It simply does not let me aim down at all while on foot.  All in all great version, but some things need a little work.  

 

[Tiberius]

1) The fact that they eliminated the ONLY face I used for my characters.

2) DX7 graphic scew ups.

3) Bugs about starting classes (Start only with a shield, etc)