Game Graphics

[Dockwrecker The Privateer]

Dou you think Disney is slowly downgrading the graphics on POTCO?I sure on the polygons.

[bartholomew bladeroberts]

well they have but on test everuthing is looking better the women are messed up but other than that almost every shader and texture has been revamped

[The Skirata Clan]

Only time can tell. I don't thinks so, but who knows.

[Midhav]

they are not. they made the graphics experience better by adding 3D! Though i still feel more improvements are needed, such as proper weather, winds and waves

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Roger Dreadrage

they are not. they made the graphics experience better by adding 3D! Though i still feel more improvements are needed, such as proper weather, winds and waves

That's not considered graphics. Weather, waves, fog, etc.., are all products of the graphics.

Graphics are polygons, how clear texture is, the detail of our pirates, etc...

And detail has gone way down. If you go here and click on the video that says Video Insider, Game Character you'll see how high the character details were... or were supposed to be. They used to look half that good, and then they downgraded them in an update just a few months ago.(be sure to look at the faces part. You'll notice freckles on the faces and more polygons, horray!)

Tell me that we have freckles on our pirate faces sometimes and get me a picture and I'll say the graphics haven't downgraded, but until then, that video shows how good POTCOs graphics could be. But they aren't, because Disney is too worried about getting windows 98 people to play POTCO.

Sorry, but in my opinion games are meant to be at their fullest. POTCOs graphics COULD have graphics as good as, if not better than WOWs. But unfortunately, this game hasn't gotten big enough to get in a high number of people with great running computers.

They also cater to a younger audience. The game isn't one bit hard. Maybe a bit time consuming, but that's it. It has potential, but because they want the graphics as bad as runescapes, we're not going to get much.

I know I'm on the soap box, but the graphics have been downgraded. Having a new fog system isn't upgrading, it's just changing. Notice how in the release notes they said NEW and not just a fog system. When you're graphics are on high, you can see fog, and with the NEW fog system, there's just more of it. The Caribbean looks more real, now with the new fog system.

But that's it. I haven't seen any upgrading, just downgrading. When the character faces in that video are in the game, I'll be happy with the graphics. But we all know that's not going to happen any time soon.

[JM Ohara]

I have to say I've seen video clips like that quite a bit. Personally, I hope Pirates never looks like that. The pirates look way more like cartoons than what we have now. Telling you what, if they put pirates like those things on Live, I'm gone. I think the people in there are a lot more like 2D cartoon throwbacks than anything I'd wanna play on. Can't really put my finger on a better way to describe it, but I really hope that isn't where we are heading.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by TheHawke

I have to say I've seen video clips like that quite a bit. Personally, I hope Pirates never looks like that. The pirates look way more like cartoons than what we have now. Telling you what, if they put pirates like those things on Live, I'm gone. I think the people in there are a lot more like 2D cartoon throwbacks than anything I'd wanna play on. Can't really put my finger on a better way to describe it, but I really hope that isn't where we are heading.

If you listened to the video, you'd realize that it's a "face library" and he's using all kinds of emotions and shape formatting during the video.

If you're gone because of higher graphics... ok, but I'd rather have them that high than know.

And it's not where we're heading, which is sad. We're in the opposite direction. Don't you remember the "update" a few months ago that lowered the polygon amount on pirate characters? The hair now is literally flat looking, instead of bigger like it was, and our faces our boxy. The tip of my nose used to be nice, but now it's pointy!

I don't want them to keep on doing that. And look at the shoes. They've almost cut the bottom of them off, but in the video they look nice.

No way I want to keep them downgrading these graphics, but obviously they like having cheesy character graphics.

[Jeanne Stormcutter]

I slightly agree with Mac, on the face part. The first character on my account is nowadays simply ugly.
When it was created, it certainly wasn't. And i don't want to play on an ugly pirate, hehe.. During
the two years nearly every update has made my characters less-pretty, or at least less the way i
want them to look like. Currently the females are kinda messed up on Test, but i think they are able
to fix them before going to live

While i was looking at some old screenshots, i was shocked how different my characters looked
back then. I mean, my third character is still quite the way i want her to look like, but my Jeanne isn't
that anymore... Why do i play her? I have to, she has too many friends and too much in game
"reputation". Why won't i make new Jeanne? Because the current body forms for females are terrible. o_o
I have been able to do a bearable new character on Test, but it's still not the way i wanted. IF the
body forms had always looked like that, it would be different. Maybe the Overseers shouldn't have
given us the previous option at all, haha! We have been spoiled.

Other than the characters... The graphics are great. Especially the water. I was SO glad when i
noticed on Test that you can see yourself under the surface again! The details are much better on
ships and sailing feels more real. The animation of sinking enemy ships looks great, i think
every ship now sinks like a Flagship? The details on the islands is much better when looked
from the High Seas, you can actually see the trees now! The fire animation is also much better
than in many other games.

I don't think Disney is downgrading the graphics, at least not for long. As time goes by people have
to buy better computers, even if they had old ones now. Disney is first making the interface more simple,
and then starts to add more detailed graphics in. Or that's what i think. Oh, and have you ever seen
the difference between High Graphics and Low Graphics? It is just scary!

But, lowering the polygon amount has done a major difference in my gameplay. I can play on High
Graphics without practically any lag, before that it was terrible! Also, i haven't found myself
swimming if i start my Game from Cuba. That used to happen very often! And getting into glitches
seems to be harder now, or well not glitches, but inside some areas, like houses and rocks etc. I
don't see many people in those places very often anymore (yay!). So the interface has certainly
improved.

What else... Ah. The 3-D. In my opinion it is certainly a clue that the Overseers are not going to start
lowering the graphics. On the contrary, once they get everything in order (i bet they have tons of
new things upcoming) they will slowly start making the graphics even better. Then again, i don't work
there so i might be wrong! But what i have learned about their working, the Overseers like to go
forwards, and not backwards. So i hope i am right

-Jeanne

[MacIronhawk]

I agree with everything in the above post.

I'm just upset that they want to reduce lag by targeting our pirates. Why can't they find another way, seeing as the character detail won't matter on a quiet server.

(Also think it was a mistake for them to take out the old body types. The new four should have been additions, not replacements)

[Buck Seahawk]

Graphics increase = lag increase -_-.

[Aaron McEagle]

Test has amazing graphics now...