To illustrate this further, I chose a low settings screenshot of relicsвЂ™ most infamous game, which was also criticized for its graphics, but still does a way better job in this regard, DoW3: ItвЂ™s a design issue with like five settings competing for screen occupation. This has nothing to do with вЂњreadabilityвЂќ or tech restrictions. There was so much stuff not adding up, it just felt вЂњwrongвЂќ. I also felt this extremely in the last stream especially with action around the river. Just look how the bushes donвЂ™t fit, the ground texture has another scaling than the grass texture, and how the grass texture is just вЂњcutвЂќ by the building on top of it. And this is only for the building itself, add to this the discontinuity to other buildings, the landscape, or the units. It looks like just stuck together, disconnected, and no natural blending between the parts.

There is the shiny top, the roof tiles texture, the white helping structures and windows, and the wall texture itself. Thanks for the screenshot, it helps to illustrate my issue with the gameвЂ™s visuals.ДЇor me, the building on the top looks as randomly generated as the maps, just mixing blocks in a procedural pattern. Even if starting today as an optional setting, implementing a colorful and easier to learn and overview UI should be possible till release. In that topic aoe2, a 20 year old game already has a tremendously huge advantage for new players xrom my perspective. It looked like having aoe4 in the background while the UI made me feel that I actually playing some scifi game like sc2. At least it was that way before the stresstest i couldnt play that one but thankfully i was able to before this.ДЄnd this really bothers me so much that i think i dont spend 60 dollar on a game with a UI as unfitting as this. Not even a queue counter for units u produce, instead ur screen gets spammed with one icon for every unit. Every Icon has the same color and they all kinda look the same for me, making the game unfriendly for people that havent been playing age of empires for long.Д¬) i only have 100h in the last 3 month of aoe2 experience in total but the UI in aoe4 looks like it made not 2 steps forward but backwards. It just doesnt fit or complement the overall artst,le for aoe4Д«) very confusing for me, a new player.

What really keeps me from preordering or buying is that horribly bad UI in aoe4.ДЄs a reletavily new aoe player I wanna say this few things:ДЄ) looks like it does not belong i to the game. I think aoe4 overall looks good in terms of models etc. Comparing recently added aoe2 dlc content with standard content from aoe4 ainвЂ™t the way to go imo.

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