So when I played the beta, I though the game looked really good. But not on par to something released in 2023.
Now that the PC requirements have been released and finalized, I realize they are on the low end by PC standards. While the game looks better than most ARPGs released to date, I worry D4 will look outdated in a short period of time. Granted we get a Diablo about once a decade, I think 3-4 years from now the game will just feel old.
I understand they want to make it accessible to as many people as possible. But unless they already have a way to upgrade the graphics with the current engine, I see D4 looking old very fast.
This maybe just me coming from someone that upgrades his PC every 2 years to the latest and greatest. Iām not saying everyone should go out and spend 7-8k on a PC every 2 to 3 years, but I just feel they were not aiming high for ultra settings. But I was able to run the beta at 177fps 4k ultrawide which is the max my monitor will allow with a 4090RTX. I rather have better graphical quality and run at 90fps as an example.
I was hoping there would still be some adjustments to graphics, before release but that doesnāt seem likely. Maybe weāll get a high rez pack at some point.
I think this could be a lie. Why?
Lets watch what happened with WoW and Starcraft II.
Many years ago theese games had older graphic qualities, DX version and rendering engines.
With the passage of time and the improvement through patches, the games was acquiring better graphic qualities.
I think the same thing will happen with Diablo IV:
Higher patch version = Higher graphic quality.
Soā¦ because this game doesnāt run on your computer at 90fps, itās not using high resolution textures?
And, youāre worried that the art style of the game is āgoing to look oldā in three yearsā¦ and thatās going to take away from your enjoyment of the game now?
So some users had this sentiment and it turned out they did not download the high resolution texture pack and were playing on medium.
I fully recommend checking out the server slam and making sure you download the HD texture pack.
The game looks legitimately excellent in its current state when played on max.
They have also intentionally gone for an aesthetic where it looks like a painting which is a stylistic choice that effectively allows the game to be visually timeless.
So yeah, if you had an issue with the quality, definitely check out the HD texture pack and that your graphics have been set ingame to high and texture quality not defaulted to medium.
I wouldnāt be too worried. Diablo 2 was still very popular almost 20 years later (even before Resurected was released). And that game also was a little behind what graphics could do when it was first released.
D4 have the best graphic from all ARPGs and which ARPG comes with better graphic in the next time?
PoE2 looks definitely not better so which ARPG will come out with better graphic than D4?
I think youāre insane. The game looks great. Peopleās obsession with cutting edge graphics is killing gaming. Companies put more focus on a game looking good than it playing good. It has a style and that style looks good. It will be fine.
I donāt need the calendar and spec requirements to tell me if a game looks good or not. WoW already looked bad to me in 2004 when we werenāt used to awesome graphics.
D4 looks good to me and thatās enough.
Personally I find it ludicrous that games like fortnite have settings so high you canāt hit 144-175fps with a 4090. It makes adjusting the settings quite difficult without something like GeForce experience, but I guess there are some people like yourself that donāt care about frame rate, so maybe thatās why itās there.
No one is sitting there staring at a non moving screen, theyāre playing the game; which means frame rate is far more impactful than some other settings that arenāt going to get you a high frame rate. It is far more noticeable to me (and I would suspect the majority of players) to jump from 90 to 144 fps than it is to have a tad more detail in particles for example.
Either way, the game will continue to develop and have improved graphics and options over the years. They definitely update this stuff.
Aside from all of that, the game looks fricken amazing on max settings
How do you go about that? When I installed the last beta I just opened battlenet and pressed the install button like every other bliz game. Iām assuming I had them, but just curious where the option is?
The game looks pretty decent considering how easy it is to run. There is room for improvement though. Hair and fur textures are pretty rough looking. Some other textures look a little lower res and flat as well but not a huge deal.
I too wish the game could look better, as all maxed out, at my 140fps cap, Iām still only using 50% of my GPU but thatās the nature of games like this that are intended to reach a large audience and especially consoles.
Ray tracing may add some extra depth to the look of the game, though, will have to wait and see.
I just donāt see the appeal when the performance hit is so large, unless you have a 4080 or 4090 and even then thatās with DLSS and Frame Generation shenanigans.
No, you obviously did not read my post. I said from the get go the game doesnāt look as good as a game coming out in 2023. It looks at least 4-5 years older than that.
I was running on the highest settings and highest resolution available I made sure of that. I donāt think I saw an HD texture pack, was there an option that you could download from the client or how did it work?
Edit I had not seen someone answered this already I included it in my response below.
True but Diablo 3 has not improved itās graphics once. There were minor updates with reaper of souls, but only in the reaper of souls content. The rest of the game was unchanged.
I played D2 for about 15 years. Then D2R up until the last season, but I was hoping D4 would look better than any ARPG out there out of the box and still look really good 3-4 years down the line. While it I do think it looks great, itās not on par to what I expected from a game just coming out. It may still be the bets looking ARPG out there, I just havent played any newer ones recently.
Not arguing with this the game play is much much better than any other ARPG.
Honestly I donāt think there is. Wolcen looked really good, but was a bad game over all. I would have to go back and launch them then compare them side by side. I still feel it could be better than what it is now and it may just be me worried about nothing.
The max settings on 4k are mid spec at best. Compared to something that came out recently hogwarts legacy as an example:
Ultra 4k Specs
OS 64-bit Windows 10
CPU Intel Core i7-10700K (3.80 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (3.80 GHz)
RAM 32 GB
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
DX VERSION DX 12
STORAGE 85 GB SSD
NOTES SSD, 2160p / 60fps, Ultra Quality Settings
I donāt have an issue with this, and I hope that is the case. Because WoW while they improve the graphics in the new zones for example. The older zones are always left untouched. So thereās a huge difference between zones.
Thanks! This may just be what I needed.
Iāll have to download the HD textures for the server slam weekend. That may be what I was missing.
