Not at all. Would be good to hear it in EU sometimes, such as when doing a long mining run...Thank you very much! Much obliged. And yes, I look forward to the new graphics, to a smoother game experience. I wonder if they put a date of release to it - I haven't seen in the their communique - but I could have missed it.
This explains why I couldn't get into an armchair in one of the shops in an Amethera shopping mall.I miss the sitting and laying position, even with no butt slide, it would be fun if they could re-implement it. It really gave the felling that your avatar was resting while you AFK. After all we still have beds in Entropia Universe but we can't lay on them. Pffff MA!!!
Thanks for the video. Ahhh the nostalgia.
You still didn’t get it…
I still all it Project Entropia most of the time...I like that name better, tbh
It's up to developers to utilize the possibilities of the new engine rather than just import old graphics into it. Look for example how my avatar was changing through updates. The 1st and the 2nd (from the left) images are on the same pre-2009 Gamebryo engine, but the 2nd one is after they updated the avatar system in 2008 in preparation for CE2. The 3rd image is right after the CE2 update, you can see it's pretty much the same model, if slightly smoother. The 4th image is still CE2 but after they changed the avatar system again in 2014.
I miss the sitting and laying position, even with no butt slide, it would be fun if they could re-implement it. It really gave the felling that your avatar was resting while you AFK. After all we still have beds in Entropia Universe but we can't lay on them. Pffff MA!!!
Thanks for the video. Ahhh the nostalgia.
It's up to developers to utilize the possibilities of the new engine rather than just import old graphics into it. Look for example how my avatar was changing through updates. The 1st and the 2nd (from the left) images are on the same pre-2009 Gamebryo engine, but the 2nd one is after they updated the avatar system in 2008 in preparation for CE2. The 3rd image is right after the CE2 update, you can see it's pretty much the same model, if slightly smoother. The 4th image is still CE2 but after they changed the avatar system again in 2014.
Also compare exactly the same outfit right before and after the Cryengine2 update.
Nice representation of AVs over the EU years. I can see and increase in quality of the second one from the first, though not much difference between the third and the second. The fourth one looks slightly better than the third one though, however in all cases my impression is that the graphics quality of the terrain is slightly higher than for the AVs. I'm just hoping they apply UE 5 attributes to both game assets and AVs equally.It's up to developers to utilize the possibilities of the new engine rather than just import old graphics into it. Look for example how my avatar was changing through updates. The 1st and the 2nd (from the left) images are on the same pre-2009 Gamebryo engine, but the 2nd one is after they updated the avatar system in 2008 in preparation for CE2. The 3rd image is right after the CE2 update, you can see it's pretty much the same model, if slightly smoother. The 4th image is still CE2 but after they changed the avatar system again in 2014.
Also compare exactly the same outfit right before and after the Cryengine2 update.
Gratz on how you somehow managed to get your AV into a bed. I can't even get mine to sit on a bench in Port Atlantis.
I'm probably the minority, but I still prefer the original graphics.
I think I fell through the floor IIRC
So in attempting to get your AV out of bed, you ended up through the floor instead? Funny LOL!
Never underestimate how how much time and determination people have on their hands to exercise their curiosity and creativity to figure out how to get in, on, under, and through things in PE
Yer LOL! I've been doing that a lot lately, often by pure fluke! Except for the one flipping tree or rock that you can't go through when you're pounced on by a million big frogsNever underestimate how how much time and determination people have on their hands to exercise their curiosity and creativity to figure out how to get in, on, under, and through things in PE
I now have visions of Wistrel ending up in the apartment below 
THAT! Also, corret me if I'm wrong, but I think the community was stronger. I remember massive hunting or sweating parties, like the one hanging in Limnadian district, sweating and shooting molisk. The hangars were so busy you had to plough your way to storage, trade or crafting machines
The game was also hemorrhaging money up until 2015
People did used to stop and chat more I think... but I think a lot of this has to do with the era or the type of player rather than anything MA did or didn't do. We also have stuff like the Rookie chat now so there is less interest in running about an "ooo! a person!" kinda thing.
Most people just played more casually and had more free time before the iron challenges and the codex imposed on them the permanent FOMO. I remember someone made a simple web app back in the days that helped you to decide which mob to hunt today. You don't need such an app nowadays because everything is planned out for months ahead in the most efficient and joyless way. There goes socializing and free exploration. It's not good or bad, it's just a different game than it used to be.
We all know that games like EU are a bit of escapism, but aesthetics is important if an mmo/mmorpg is trying to achieve some sort of realism, so I think quality graphics is important imho. But game-play and functionality is also key, and on that score my impressions of EU are starting to change a bit. It seems you can only make more of what's gone before, the system doesn't allow you to add anything new; to make anything new. Also it's become obvious to me that you can't profit in EU by just 'playing the game'. There's no way!
Yes, the sounds. I miss the sounds
That reminds me, I was recently playing another game, and I swore I heard a Caudatergus sound at one point. I wonder where the mob sounds were drawn from in the first place?
