Hi,
I am using the Vampire Gaze helm for my bow Amazon but there is a problem; the helm does not look like it is supposed to. It’s supposed to have horns coming out the sides (you can see this in regular graphics mode). But in the modern graphics mode, it’s this weird like green bucket helm with no horns.
Thank you for fixing this soon.
Online or offline mode?
Online mode. If you look at how Vampire Gaze looks in original graphics versus how it looks in modern graphics, they are completely different. The new version is so much worse, I figure it must be a bug that they missed
Working as intended.
Welcome to just how Skull Helms look in D2R.
They look so much better in LoD/legacy.
that’s because they’re getting the game ready for China. And China says we are not allowed to have skulls in our games*, so big strong America has to listen.
It’s pathetic and disgustingly weak.
The skull helms look as they should… you can see the updated graphics when wearing a Bone Visage. It looks great. But for some reason the Vampire Gaze is bugged to look really awful.
you do realize d2r released for us long before they were considering it bringing it to china? you also realize that they already released it in china a bit ago?
they just made art decisions. if u think it sucks, then it sucks. it has nothing to do with china though lol
I just want the bug to be fixed so that it can look like a bone helm with the horns
it’s not a bug though. it’s an intentional design choice. if you want that changed, that’s fine, but it won’t help your case to start from a misunderstanding.
I don’t understand how it can be an intentional design choice?
That’s like saying someone on their phone while driving who merges into another car and crashes on the freeway, made an intentional car maneuver
i mean… in that scenario… they did make an intentional car maneuver… it just wasn’t the intended one.
poor comparison though. it’s intentional design because we can see what the art graphics are… it’s not like a part of the aspect is erronously not displaying. what you’re askign for doesn’t exist at all. it was never designed or created for the d2r graphics. that makes it an intentional art choice. just because you think it’s dumb, backwards, or whatever doesn’t mean whatever headcanon you want for it becomes true lol. they made a number of creative liberties when making d2r, both adding more to it, and removing what use to exist…
I don’t care about any of those changes. I understand D2R has different and updated graphics. But they didn’t turn a bow into a sword, and a sword into a bow. So why take the coolest helm with horns and turn it into a bucket with no horns? Exactly.
It’s been that way since D2R launch in 2021. Considering they already made a ton of mods to D2R for China to censor it, the odds that they knew they were going to make D2R for China in 2021 and had to update the bone helm graphics to look worse, just for China, when they didn’t preemptively make other changes, seems very unlikely. Also the Vamp Gaze / Nats graphics still look like skulls with finger bones used to fashion the sides, so it doesn’t remove gore, it just looks less cool than the legacy game version, IMO.
Also if you go and find the Arreat Summit graphical icon for Vamp Gaze / Nats helm, it actually matches the D2R in game graphics. So in an ironic twist of fate, the D2R graphics being more true to the “concept art” actually made it look worse, b/c the legacy game Grim helm was so cool looking, and D2R made it closer to the concept art, but it looks worse, IMO.
I used my Nats assassin and Arreat Summit to make some comparisons on this image
https://imgur.com/a/EuRMQKQ
In my opinion the D2R graphics are a reasonably faithful higher resolution representation of the concept art for Vamp and Nats…it just doesn’t look nearly as cool as the in game legacy graphics, IMO. Looks really screwy with the full Nats Fade going on too hah.
Thank you… I really think they did a great job with the unique item graphics honestly. But not when it comes to Vampire Gaze (regardless of what the item icon shows). They should have kept it as it was, or like Bone Visages look like normally in D2R, with the horns… only, make it green. Sorta like Shako is just a cap, but green… Vampire Gaze is just a Bone Helm, but green… if they really wanted to be faithful, they should have made Shako Harlequin Crest into what it looks like in Diablo 1.
Oh yeah I definitely agree, the way Vamp Gaze and Nats look in game is one of the few things I don’t really like about an otherwise awesome graphics overhaul.