Appearance changes coming to EQ2

[Bateluer]

EQ2 UI

Station Link

EQ2 Traders Link

Preview of Crafted Plate

Preview of crafted chain

Its the light armor I'm wanting, specifically Gis for my monk. Hopefully, I'll get something to showcase her fantastic abs.

GU37 came on 31 July, so GU38 should be coming sometime before the end of August.

From reading some of the posts on the station forums, this is just phase 1 of extensive changes to the appearances. There's also a complete skeletal revamp coming which will bring with it an entire crop of new armor and items, as well as make it easier for the devs to create new armor and items.

 

[manimal]

Man I see stuff like this and I die a little inside when thinking about Final Fantasy 11. The Devs are stuck with ps2 specs since half of Japan plays that game on ps2s and if they dropped support for ps2's Half of the Island would commit Seppuku and the Japanese people would fall into a state of panic.

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[waggy]

EQ2 sucked. i twas not as good as EQ 1.

i quit EQ2 after dessert of flames came out.

 

[Skacer]

Bat is there a comparison to the old and new graphics, because those previews look like I remember seeing?

Edit: Ah, looks like a lot of it is just color matching to the proper material used in its creation.

 

[Drift3r]

Well at least they broke the trend of having the same armor texture for the first 3-4 tiers. Though the new armor textures are okay but I want new freaking armor models for Christ sakes !!!!!! Sorry but I am really disappointed at the same old armor models being reskinned over and over again and being called "new". It seems that with all of EQ2's top heavy graphics and graphic engine might they forgot to make it easy to implement no armor designs in the game.

 

[pontifex]

when are they going to get rid of the shiny plastic look?

 

[Bateluer]

I don't know what the old armor looked like. My monk wears light armor, and my dirge wears a hodge podge right now because she's only a low level. The only plate I see is when I'm grouping with other people, and oggling their armor isn't the first thing on my mind when being attacked by droags.

The reason for the skeletal revamp is to allow the devs to more easily create armor models and textures. I want the armor to show more skin myself, but thats just me.

Did anyone actually read the links? There's more to the update than just those few armor changes posted. Lots of clothing updates as well, though there were no previews posted.

SOE provides very good support for EQ2, each expansion has provided load of new content and improvements. Each game update, which are monthly, add both content and improvement. I serious wonder how much larger EQ2 is now compared to when it was first released. Its at least 4x larger than launch.

I don't agree with everything SOE does with the game, mind you, GU24 really messed up the crafting system by removing all subcombines and removing recipes like ammo (arrows, throwing knifes, shuriken, etc) from players. But, on the whole, EQ2 is a better game now than it was at launch.

I can't wait to see the Timorous Deep in RoK, play as a Sarnak, and the new weapons. RoK brings new epic weapons for all classes, both for those who raid and those who don't. Wish they would add more mounts, but thats a small nitpicky detail.