Game News First Wasteland 2 LA screenshot revealed

[codexian reject]

Looks nice, but those walls. The technology used to build them must have been incredibly advanced. Probably the same magic they used for the arches in PoE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete

 

[SoupNazi]

I'm sorry but this looks like a Facebook/tablet game. And I don't necessarily mean graphics "quality" but art direction, object placement, etc. So very bland.

 

[Davaris]

By the way, who's that guy in white? Looks like the type of guy who can make offers you can't refuse.

He looks like the only one who is happy to be there. Everyone else...

Fargo's smile always reminds me of

 

[Curious_Tongue]

What was Fargo originally going to do if he only got the one million?

 

[FeelTheRads]

What was Fargo originally going to do if he only got the one million?

Spoiler

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Monty]

 

[FeelTheRads]

On a related note, anyone has a link to that post by Swen where he posted that inventory shot along with
Need it for purposes.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Looks great.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

They also have lobsters who all have the exact same carwreck as a shell.

This man has spoken the truth.

Hey guize, if you're working in Unity learn about material changes and substance variation using tints and offsets into your atlas. Four identical hermit crabs inside four identical car hulks looks amateurish.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

It's good to see that somebody has been maintaining the water supply to Los Angeles despite a nuclear war. LA is a desert. I don't believe there would be vast forests and jungles covering the ruins of the city. The reality would be sun baked desert with very little vegetation. Closer to the boneyard of Fallout 1 then what were seeing here.

That must be the million they spent on scientific realism.

The only thing that makes L.A. occasionally green are the canals. When they broke down along with irrigation systems Los Angeles would look the exact opposite of that screenshot.

 

[felipepepe]

The issue with the Unity store assets is that they don't fit together. Look at the screenshot, besides the crabs, there are like 6 cars on that image... and all of them are of different sizes and detail level. The red car to the left is almost twice as large as the one right next to it, and it's clearly much more detailed.

 

[Baron]

Sharp knees. Would not bang.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

The issue with the Unity store assets is that they don't fit together. Look at the screenshot, besides the crabs, there are like 6 cars on that image... and all of them are of different sizes and detail level. The red car to the left is almost twice as large as the one right next to it, and it's clearly much more detailed.

Exactly what I was talking about. It's a dog's breakfast that looks like it was heaved together by an intern.

 

[J_C]

there are like 6 cars on that image... and all of them are of different sizes .

Maybe because...gasp....cars come in different sizes?

and detail level

Arguable, but even if there is a difference in detail level, the difference is not as big as the fuss about it.

 

[Xeon]

IIRC they asked the people on their forum to make some assets for them to use and bought a 1M+ worth of assets or something I think.

 

[Infinitron]

bought a 1M+ worth of assets or something I think.

Source?

I know that this game has a ridiculously low art budget. Wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than that. Maybe much lower.

 

[Davaris]

bought a 1M+ worth of assets or something I think.

Source? I don't remember anything like that.

I know that this game has a ridiculously low art budget. Wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than that.

Brother None quoting Fargo, right here at the Codex. If I remember correctly, it was not spent a million dollars, it was saved a million dollars using Unity assets.

 

[Xeon]

I think I read that in one of Fargo's interviews that was listed here. said it saved them a lot of time or something.

Will try and and find it but Brother None would probably be the better person to ask if this is true or not, Sorry.

Edit:
Yea, Davaris is right. the thread.

 

[Roguey]

Brian Fargo learns a valuable lesson about why you shouldn't listen to fans when they all tell you "spend all the extra money on gameplay, not graphics."

A couple more months until we find out if it was worth it.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Looks alright. I'm still a bit bummed out by the non-original-Wasteland-like map design, tho.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Brian Fargo learns a valuable lesson about why you shouldn't listen to fans when they all tell you "spend all the extra money on gameplay, not graphics."

Um, you know a fair amount of us have played this game (in whatever stage they'd like us to believe it's currently in) and experienced the result of all that extra fliff being spent on gameplay, right? I think by now most people are commenting on each new update with a "Oh, cool. Yet another mismatched, poorly-implemented bunch of amateur hour shite" and not, you know, "Oh, noes! The graphics!"

And again, there's a massive difference between "graphix, bro!" and "bad art direction, poorly implemented".

 

[almondblight]

It's good to see that somebody has been maintaining the water supply to Los Angeles despite a nuclear war. LA is a desert. I don't believe there would be vast forests and jungles covering the ruins of the city. The reality would be sun baked desert with very little vegetation. Closer to the boneyard of Fallout 1 then what were seeing here.

As we learned in the Thwacke! discussion, this isn't something that lowly proles like ourselves would ever be able to understand or judge accurately. You need to hire PhDs as scientific advisors to figure out if LA is a desert or not.

Edit: Though the answer seems to be not. But I'm not a PhD, so you can't really trust me.

 

[Roguey]

Um, you know a fair amount of us have played this game (in whatever stage they'd like us to believe it's currently in) and experienced the result of all that extra fliff being spent on gameplay, right? I think by now most people are commenting on each new update with a "Oh, cool. Yet another mismatched, poorly-implemented bunch of amateur hour shite" and not, you know, "Oh, noes! The graphics!"

I'm not going to judge until it's feature and content complete, and they have two more months of crunch time to make all kinds of drastic changes.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

I'm not going to judge until it's feature and content complete, and they have two more months of crunch time to make all kinds of drastic changes.

Are you mocking me...?