I remember the topic of map lighting coming up a lot when OW2 was first released, particularly where those sunset maps are concerned (ie, Kings Row).
Personally, I swear the sunset maps are harder to see on than the other maps. Everything is very shadowy, and characters blend into the environment in a way they shouldn’t. But what do you all think?
There was a lot of backlash for those orange maps even back when OW2 launched.
I remember, it’s one of the things that stopped me from playing for about 2 years lol. Somehow nighttime Kings Row had much better visuals.
I remember seeing some video from the devs talking about dynamic lighting and showing a map - I think it was Suck-it Royale - with moving shadows. But they seem to have gone back on that and everything, including shadows, is baked into the maps. This is why it takes them a long time to release each map covering each time of day.
I guess to be playable on the Switch they had to make compromises.
I also saw a video about dynamic weather with a storm on Temple of Annubis. I guess that may have been for the PvE though and they scrapped it.
I feel like dynamic weather would be really tricky to implement (in PvP at least) without hindering gameplay.
They really went overboard with bloom and fog- my theory is it was meant to look “pretty” for shareholders who don’t know better, either regarding how it actually feels to play on these maps or that BLOOM is really ugly when it’s overdone as it often is in OW2.
Less gameplay relevent, but god the victory pose shot on Busan is just hideous with how washed-out it is by the volumetric lighting.
No, do it anyway, this game is boring and needs something new.
Which is even more reasons for why the engine update was completely useless.
Not to mention how server performance has massively dropped- presumably because of the new engine
A real sunset does paint everything orange and yellow though XD
I quite like them and have no issues.
It doesn’t even look like a sunset. They just changed the light color to orange and called it a day.
Even so, the color hue is the same that i enjoy every evening outdoors.
Yeah, because you don’t have to spot enemies with red outlines on an ornange background irl.
Also sunsets aren’t even fully orange. if you google any photo of a sunset, you will realize the blues are transitioning into purple, not orange.
I don’t know. I have my graphics on the lowest settings bc im a balla
I don’t see lighting
this kid just said sunsets are purple? lol. Sometimes I love ow forums
I can see who has never touched grass.
you just said sunsets are purple. rofl
As long as the sunset light hits the trees and buildings, the trees and buikdings are orange.
And it’s not that hard to see the outlines. If you struggle with it, you can always change the enemy outline colours from options.
I said blues are turning purple. Reading is hard.
having to do it just for those maps is just silly. I prefer if they put effort into making them look properly. It is no different than having an orange glass plastered over the screen. That is how it looks like now.
but…they aren’t, lol. reading IS hard!