PC Why did the armor icons get worse than in alpha 21?

BlackcurrantYT

BlackcurrantYT

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Before you start throwing tomatoes at me, I'll explain what I mean. In the texture atlas 21 alpha already had miner and nomad armor, actually here is the atlas where you can see them:
https://imgur.com/a/Zg41r1f

Agree that in the files of 21 alpha texture icons of these armor looks better than the same armor but already on the release directly in the game. Here is a visual comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/ou8k2PY
I'm not talking about the white outline at all.....
I'm new to this forum, I don't quite understand how things work here, but I'd like to hear an answer from the moderators or directly from the developers as to why this is so? I'm not demanding, I'm just really curious why such high-quality icons went under the knife. Icon miner's outfit well straight very cool looking, it even shows that you wear a uniform and not just a chestplate...
Would very much like to see in the game icons as in the files of 21 alpha, what do you think?

 
I don't really mind either; the older ones are more like icons though, they're clearer and more vibrant. The newer ones are kinda more photographic.

BlackcurrantYT said:
I'm new to this forum, I don't quite understand how things work here, but I'd like to hear an answer from the moderators or directly from the developers as to why this is so?
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There's a couple chatty mods, but their guess is roughly as good as ours... devs don't tend to post much; the smaller the thing, the less likely - and "the whys of an icon change" seems on the small side :)

 
theFlu said:
There's a couple chatty mods, but their guess is roughly as good as ours... devs don't tend to post much; the smaller the thing, the less likely - and "the whys of an icon change" seems on the small side :)
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Unless a developer is passionate about the icons, then I am sure they would chime in.  Otherwise, I agree with you.  😁

 
BlackcurrantYT said:
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I'm new to this forum, I don't quite understand how things work here, but I'd like to hear an answer from the moderators or directly from the developers as to why this is so?
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Answer: A21 was early access. All things are subject to change. They aren't going to justify this to you.

 
Icon changes are small, additionally they look way better now.

Asking for the devs to respond is a MASSIVE pipe dream of a request.

 
My chatty guess is that those two were the first two done as tests and were not finalized in A21. Once the rest were done the original two were revisited and changes were made to make them more consistent with the rest. The miner outfit wasn't even a finished outfit as an A21 icon but just a pile of components. If all the rest of the outfits had the put-together outfit as their icons but the miner outfit was still just a pile of components, that wouldn't be very unified. (for example)

 
Agreed, the current icons are hard to distinguish. It would be better if they featured an icon corresponding to the class, something like a read indicator for journals

 
The A21 are nice and pop-out at you because they seem brighter due to the lack of deeper rending with shadows and subtleties with v1.0+.
IMO, I think the v1.0+ look a lot better.

It's kind of like looking at the stuff from Fallout 2/3 and then going to Fallout 4 seeing the differences. They are still nice, but I feel the more realistic rendering is slightly more beautiful than the others. 

 
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LordSoth01 said:
The A21 are nice and pop-out at you because they seem brighter due to the lack of deeper rending with shadows and subtleties with v1.0+.
IMO, I think the v1.0+ look a lot better.

It's kind of like looking at the stuff from Fallout 2/3 and then going to Fallout 4 seeing the differences. They are still nice, but I feel the more realistic rendering is slightly more beautiful than the others. 
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IMO it's the effort that is put into the realism that makes it look better.

 
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