Game News First work in progress screenshot of Wasteland 2 revealed

[EG]

I don't know, I can't help but find this whole discussion over some early-and-barely-more-than-concept-screenshot pretty stupid.

What else are we to whine about, if not this?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I'd prefer something closer to A but not eye-searing.

 

[EG]

Yeah because flowing water can be radioactive :retard:

Even standing pools should be safe to drink unless it just came out of a reactor core.

Something . . . something . . . Brownian motion.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

Yeah because flowing water can be radioactive :retard:

Even standing pools should be safe to drink unless it just came out of a reactor core.

What the fuck

 

[Outlander]

Ah, that explains a lot.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Also, get fucking rid of green radioactive fumes. They were fucking old and campy already back when SS2 was released, now, after STALKERs and even fucking FO3 they're disgrace, not to mention even FO didn't seem to use that shit much even though it was based on SCIENCE! instead of science.

 

[EG]

Also, get fucking rid of green radioactive fumes. They were fucking old and campy already back when SS2 was released, now, after STALKERs and even fucking FO3 they're disgrace, not to mention even FO didn't seem to use that shit much even though it was based on SCIENCE! instead of science.

. . . Notice how the water is "water" and not "lol, Saturday morning cartoon radioactive!" Nor is the ground coated in nacho dust -- see that nice mix to signify sand, dying grass, and health-ier grass? Unless I'm mistaken and the flecks of neon green are meant to signify radiation . . . It's been a while.

I like the original Wasteland palette, by the way. It just can't look good on highly detailed models that use shadows.

It'd just like your GPU corrupted the display driver then.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

. . . Notice how the water is "water" and not "lol, Saturday morning cartoon radioactive!" Nor is the ground coated in nacho dust -- see that nice mix to signify sand, dying grass, and health-ier grass? Unless I'm mistaken and the flecks of neon green are meant to signify radiation . . . It's been a while.

Radiation in Wasteland is invisible. When you have a Geiger Counter, it's marked on maps with standard radioactivity warning signs.
Also, note how grass grows mainly next to the river.

 

[EG]

Radiation in Wasteland is invisible. When you have a Geiger Counter, it's marked on maps with standard radioactivity warning signs.
Also, note how grass grows mainly next to the river.

Ah, but you learned pretty quick that "bright yellow" == "bad death." Or at least I did. I always assumed the sudden increase in heat meant radiation, rather than . . . just heat.

As far as the grass growing by the river . . . it's like real life.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Ah, but you learned pretty quick that "bright yellow" == "bad death." Or at least I did. I always assumed the sudden increase in heat meant radiation, rather than . . . just heat.

Not really. Sand is mostly safe outside a few radio-active zones.

As far as the grass growing by the river . . . it's like real life.

I like such attention to details in world-building.

 

[DraQ]

Yeah because flowing water can be radioactive :retard:

Even standing pools should be safe to drink unless it just came out of a reactor core.

You're just not into this whole reading comprehension thing, I see.

 

[Kahlis]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
Some of the other Wasteland 2 portraits pieces are coming in from other top artists and they are outstanding! I'll show them soon...

Looking forward to this. Just to get a feel for what people other than generic bearded military cowboy will be like.

 

[toro]

There is a huge discrepancy between the artworks and dat screenshot.

 

[DraQ]

There is a huge discrepancy between the artworks and dat screenshot.

Which is pretty dumb. Community has seen the artworks and I imagine applauded them, no?

What's the most sensible thing you can do at this point? Why, making game looking nothing like artwork, of course.

 

[EG]

There is a huge discrepancy between the artworks and dat screenshot.

Which is pretty dumb. Community has seen the artworks and I imagine applauded them, no?

What's the most sensible thing you can do at this point? Why, making game looking nothing like artwork, of course.

Now, now. This might be an isolated area! There could be grass and nature-reclaimed metropolitan areas elsewhere!

 

[toro]

There is a huge discrepancy between the artworks and dat screenshot.

Which is pretty dumb. Community has seen the artworks and I imagine applauded them, no?

What's the most sensible thing you can do at this point? Why, making game looking nothing like artwork, of course.

We can wait for the next screenshot and hope for a qualitative jump. Other than this, I don't know.

 

[ghostdog]

http://www.stasisgame.com/1000-years-later/

 

[Black]

Dem, that looks fine.

 

[aris]

looks pretty good!

 

[EG]

Must acquire.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

I see STASIS is shaping up pretty well.

 

[felipepepe]

Why the only thing Fargo showed about W2 until now are the graphics if every other RPG being made looks ten times better?

 

[Black]

Because he hates Codex, that's why.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Personally I'm glad he isn't making it near photo-realistic. I'm a kid at heart and the occasional cartoonish game environment you can immerse yourself into is a good change from that never-ending race toward photorealism.

Also, from the Stasis developer (in the comments):

Ive been in contact with Mr Fargo, and his art director. I know that the way that I do graphics really isnt a production friendly way of doing things on the scale of Wasteland 2. From their point of view, they have to exagerate some of the aspects of their characters to be able to easily indentify them in a firefight, and that then translates to the environment.
From the conversations Ive had with them, I know that Wasteland 2 is going to kick ass!

So there

 

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