This cannot possibly be a screenshot from EQ2.

Araxes · 10-15-2007, 02:04 AM

I hope that IGN has made a mistake and linked a screenshot from EQLive, by accident.Cuz this looks like a flat, 2D sprite on a bland 3D background.http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/art...11002206024.jpg

Mercenary · 10-15-2007, 02:42 AM

Ouch!!

XustinuS · 10-15-2007, 03:59 AM

well the environment can be eq2 drawings not on high settings.... but monster is completely 2D so doesnt seem to belong eq2... even in extreme performance those mobs are complete 3D

Vifarc · 10-15-2007, 04:40 AM

Maybe EQ2 has bought the rights from the game Incubation, the monster is like those 15 years ago.http://www.bluebyte.net/battleisle-.../phase4.asp?id=

Dreyco · 10-15-2007, 05:06 AM

That's a drolvarg, and it's definately from EQ2.I shudder to think about what graphics setting they took that screenshot at though.

Arleonenis · 10-15-2007, 05:50 AM

Dreyco wrote:

That's a drolvarg, and it's definately from EQ2.I shudder to think about what graphics setting they took that screenshot at though.

tunned down extreme performance... at those settings game look worse than anarchy-online on rubika

EDIT Ps. I sometimes use similar setting while raids gather inside castle mistmoore (there are sometimes 60+ peoples and lag is bad

Xanrn · 10-15-2007, 07:46 AM

Thats not an EQ2 screenshot.

You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried.

liveja · 10-15-2007, 09:09 AM

Xanrn wrote:

Thats not an EQ2 screenshot.
You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried.

You can make it look worse. I know; I used to have to play on Extreme Performance, before I got my machine upgraded.

Cusashorn · 10-15-2007, 09:15 AM

Yeah that certainly looks like a drolvarg to me, but yeah that's at poor settings.

Seagoat · 10-15-2007, 09:20 AM

I dunno...I see shadows, specular lighting, and high-quality textures on the architecture. Maybe the model isn't quite finished? (But in that case, I'm not sure why a screenshot of it would be released to the press...) /boggle

Amphibia · 10-15-2007, 09:39 AM

I don't think that thing is even 3D....

Killerbee3000 · 10-15-2007, 10:00 AM

the background does look like eq2... but the mob? never... maybe a very early stage throughout development where they used unfinished mobs to test some basic stuff? or someone photoshopped a eq1 into a eq2 background?

Araxes · 10-15-2007, 11:21 AM

The worst part is ...That is an in-section thumbnailed screen that they captioned in their preview of ROK that they have just posted on October 10th!October 10th! IGN! A HUGE online presence!Someone needs to get on that and do damage control! !

ke'la · 10-15-2007, 02:49 PM

That is a bad screen shot, but it is definatly from EQ2.

Themaginator · 10-15-2007, 06:00 PM

i'm not sure what looks so bad the angle is quite odd i'm sure but its definitely 3d

Minraja · 10-15-2007, 06:20 PM

Looking closer, I see the shadows. I really hope this is a very early picture and not something recent. Even in lowest settings the drolvag should still have 3d models.

Willias · 10-15-2007, 09:23 PM

Pretty sure that's EQ1.Shadows are not an indicator of which EQ it is, as EQ1 has shadows as well.

Ogrebe · 10-15-2007, 09:46 PM

Araxes@Antonia Bayle wrote:

I hope that IGN has made a mistake and linked a screenshot from EQLive, by accident.Cuz this looks like a flat, 2D sprite on a bland 3D background.http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/art...11002206024.jpg

That everquest 2.... And that very low graphics.

Hamervelder · 10-16-2007, 02:47 AM

The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all.

Ronin.Mox · 10-16-2007, 02:45 PM

Umm. Yeah it looks 3D, but I agree it looks like pre-finish or lowered character texture settings.

And uhhh....they need to redo those pants' texture badly. >.>

Jesdyr · 10-16-2007, 04:28 PM

Xanrn wrote:

Thats not an EQ2 screenshot.
You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried.

I can make it look much much worse .. SMILEY

Killerbee3000 · 10-16-2007, 04:33 PM

well, the wood on the floor looks like eq2 at approx balanced... but, the mob, well, to me it looks like eq1...

EDofEDs · 10-16-2007, 06:25 PM

Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote:

The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all.

Actually the texture settings can be changed independently of one another in regards to world texture and character textures. So its quite possible to set the options so the mobs look like absolute trash and the world is stunning if you so choose.

Wildmage · 10-16-2007, 06:48 PM

Blayk@Blackburrow wrote:

Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote:
The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all.
Actually the texture settings can be changed independently of one another in regards to world texture and character textures. So its quite possible to set the options so the mobs look like absolute trash and the world is stunning if you so choose.

Thats exactly what I think is going on in that picture. IGN PR sabotage for the win?

DarkDragonXX · 10-16-2007, 07:31 PM

Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote:

The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all.

I agree. If you look at the shading and where the lighting is onthe background, theres a torch behind the monster, the shadows should be facing forward (infront of the monster) if the lighting is in back of it...yet the shadows look as if theres a light right infront of it.

Also, even on "BAD" wax person mode in eq2, the creatures never have that "sharp" outline like that. when you bring down the graphics, in eq2 it makes things fuzzier and blurrier and more like "melted wax"...this is very sharp although flat.

I think it's either an unfinished (beta) model in a finished background or someone cut and pasted.

GwenRelentless · 10-17-2007, 12:02 AM

That looks a LOT like Eq1 to me.

mewgal · 10-17-2007, 12:18 PM

My friends, that is not EQII on low graphics.

My computer runs EQII on low graphics; and they are much worse off than that screenshot is.

LordPazuzu · 10-18-2007, 02:07 AM

Looks like a really crappy screenshot of a drolvarg on the entry bridge to Karnor's. Definitely EQ2 though.

Doktrulok · 10-20-2007, 12:34 PM

it has to be eq2 because if you know Karnors Castle that looks like the middle cordor, just past the first bridge, next to the steps leading up to named. WHICH kind of scares me because you would think they would change the layout, but then again i did just smoke a bowl and it could be brittney spears room.

Arktanion

Belaythien · 10-22-2007, 05:51 AM

Maybe somebody made a promo screenshot by taking a mob from one shot and placing it on this background. It looks too fake. Maybe an early promo shot made its way over there, because the engine wasn't yet running but they had to present something SMILEY

Shopped! False pixels! And so on ...

10-15-2007, 02:04 AM	#1
Araxes Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 992	I hope that IGN has made a mistake and linked a screenshot from EQLive, by accident.Cuz this looks like a flat, 2D sprite on a bland 3D background.http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/art...11002206024.jpg __________________

10-15-2007, 03:59 AM	#3
XustinuS Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 47	well the environment can be eq2 drawings not on high settings.... but monster is completely 2D so doesnt seem to belong eq2... even in extreme performance those mobs are complete 3D __________________ 80 Fury Amuderya-najena 80 Berserker Chusaga-najena 80 wizzy Gandalfim-najena 90 bruiser Amuderya (Woot im not xp locked anymore just tired of that crap)-Nagafen 36 warden-Hastabakici (locked for bg) 90 warlock-Poisoniousevy and lots of lowbies )

10-15-2007, 04:40 AM	#4
Vifarc Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 317	Maybe EQ2 has bought the rights from the game Incubation, the monster is like those 15 years ago.http://www.bluebyte.net/battleisle-.../phase4.asp?id= __________________

10-15-2007, 05:06 AM	#5
Dreyco Archive of Ik Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,485	That's a drolvarg, and it's definately from EQ2.I shudder to think about what graphics setting they took that screenshot at though. __________________ Grand Historian of The Archive of Ik

10-15-2007, 05:50 AM	#6
Arleonenis Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 98	Dreyco wrote: That's a drolvarg, and it's definately from EQ2.I shudder to think about what graphics setting they took that screenshot at though. tunned down extreme performance... at those settings game look worse than anarchy-online on rubika EDIT Ps. I sometimes use similar setting while raids gather inside castle mistmoore (there are sometimes 60+ peoples and lag is bad

10-15-2007, 02:42 AM	#2
Mercenary Lord Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 33	Ouch!!

10-15-2007, 07:46 AM	#7
Xanrn Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 458	Thats not an EQ2 screenshot. You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried. __________________

10-15-2007, 09:09 AM	#8
liveja General Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends Posts: 4,793	Xanrn wrote: Thats not an EQ2 screenshot. You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried. You can make it look worse. I know; I used to have to play on Extreme Performance, before I got my machine upgraded. __________________

10-15-2007, 09:15 AM	#9
Cusashorn Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cheeseland, USA Posts: 14,919	Yeah that certainly looks like a drolvarg to me, but yeah that's at poor settings.

10-15-2007, 09:20 AM	#10
Seagoat Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Marlborough, MA Posts: 1,641	I dunno...I see shadows, specular lighting, and high-quality textures on the architecture. Maybe the model isn't quite finished? (But in that case, I'm not sure why a screenshot of it would be released to the press...) /boggle __________________ Cloak Designer Â· Sigs Â· UI Mods Â· Roster Master Â· EQ2 Gallery Â· Follow Me! Â· G33kG0dd3ss

10-15-2007, 09:39 AM	#11
Amphibia Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,256	I don't think that thing is even 3D.... __________________

10-15-2007, 10:00 AM	#12
Killerbee3000 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: right behind you Posts: 1,802	the background does look like eq2... but the mob? never... maybe a very early stage throughout development where they used unfinished mobs to test some basic stuff? or someone photoshopped a eq1 into a eq2 background? __________________ Whiskers without loosing Eyes in '08!

10-15-2007, 11:21 AM	#13
Araxes Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 992	The worst part is ...That is an in-section thumbnailed screen that they captioned in their preview of ROK that they have just posted on October 10th!October 10th! IGN! A HUGE online presence!Someone needs to get on that and do damage control! ! __________________

10-15-2007, 02:49 PM	#14
ke'la Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,445	That is a bad screen shot, but it is definatly from EQ2. __________________

10-15-2007, 06:00 PM	#15
Themaginator Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 833	i'm not sure what looks so bad the angle is quite odd i'm sure but its definitely 3d

10-15-2007, 06:20 PM	#16
Minraja Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 93	Looking closer, I see the shadows. I really hope this is a very early picture and not something recent. Even in lowest settings the drolvag should still have 3d models. __________________ There is a war coming. I have seen it in my dreams. Bodies lined the streets. Cities turned to ruins. Norrath filled with ashes. Retaliation!

10-15-2007, 09:23 PM	#17
Willias Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Louisville, Kentucky, USA Posts: 182	Pretty sure that's EQ1.Shadows are not an indicator of which EQ it is, as EQ1 has shadows as well.

10-15-2007, 09:46 PM	#18
Ogrebe General Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 383	Araxes@Antonia Bayle wrote: I hope that IGN has made a mistake and linked a screenshot from EQLive, by accident.Cuz this looks like a flat, 2D sprite on a bland 3D background.http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/art...11002206024.jpg That everquest 2.... And that very low graphics. __________________ Ogrebear's Thoughts -- My EQ2 and MMO blog

10-16-2007, 02:47 AM	#19
Hamervelder Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,585	The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all. __________________ Elhonas Warden of Mayhem, Antonia Bayle

10-16-2007, 02:45 PM	#20
Ronin.Mox Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California Foothills Posts: 4	Umm. Yeah it looks 3D, but I agree it looks like pre-finish or lowered character texture settings. And uhhh....they need to redo those pants' texture badly. >.> __________________

10-16-2007, 04:28 PM	#21
Jesdyr Server: Unrest Guild: Curmudgeons Rank: Senior Officer Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,710	Xanrn wrote: Thats not an EQ2 screenshot. You couldn't make EQ2 look that bad even if you tried. I can make it look much much worse ..

10-16-2007, 04:33 PM	#22
Killerbee3000 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: right behind you Posts: 1,802	well, the wood on the floor looks like eq2 at approx balanced... but, the mob, well, to me it looks like eq1... __________________ Whiskers without loosing Eyes in '08!

10-16-2007, 06:25 PM	#23
EDofEDs Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 150	Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote: The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all. Actually the texture settings can be changed independently of one another in regards to world texture and character textures. So its quite possible to set the options so the mobs look like absolute trash and the world is stunning if you so choose.

10-16-2007, 06:48 PM	#24
Wildmage Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 841	Blayk@Blackburrow wrote: Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote: The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all. Actually the texture settings can be changed independently of one another in regards to world texture and character textures. So its quite possible to set the options so the mobs look like absolute trash and the world is stunning if you so choose. Thats exactly what I think is going on in that picture. IGN PR sabotage for the win? __________________ Anurman/Malbi/Metronome/Hydrake/Guttspawn/Perihelion/Cogwise/Popojingles Najena Server Tranquil Waters Guild

10-16-2007, 07:31 PM	#25
DarkDragonXX Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 34	Atelos@Antonia Bayle wrote: The monster looks like it's been cut and pasted onto the background. Notice how sharp the textures and lighting are on the architecture, then look at the monster. They don't match at all. I agree. If you look at the shading and where the lighting is onthe background, theres a torch behind the monster, the shadows should be facing forward (infront of the monster) if the lighting is in back of it...yet the shadows look as if theres a light right infront of it. Also, even on "BAD" wax person mode in eq2, the creatures never have that "sharp" outline like that. when you bring down the graphics, in eq2 it makes things fuzzier and blurrier and more like "melted wax"...this is very sharp although flat. I think it's either an unfinished (beta) model in a finished background or someone cut and pasted. __________________ Sig Artist: Lady Akyashaa

10-17-2007, 12:02 AM	#26
GwenRelentless Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Nihilist Dynasty Posts: 153	That looks a LOT like Eq1 to me. __________________

10-17-2007, 12:18 PM	#27
mewgal Loremaster Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3	My friends, that is not EQII on low graphics. My computer runs EQII on low graphics; and they are much worse off than that screenshot is.

10-18-2007, 02:07 AM	#28
LordPazuzu Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 2,157	Looks like a really crappy screenshot of a drolvarg on the entry bridge to Karnor's. Definitely EQ2 though.

10-20-2007, 12:34 PM	#29
Doktrulok Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6	it has to be eq2 because if you know Karnors Castle that looks like the middle cordor, just past the first bridge, next to the steps leading up to named. WHICH kind of scares me because you would think they would change the layout, but then again i did just smoke a bowl and it could be brittney spears room. Arktanion __________________ Arktanion 70th ranger of Oasis

10-22-2007, 05:51 AM	#30
Belaythien Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 576	Maybe somebody made a promo screenshot by taking a mob from one shot and placing it on this background. It looks too fake. Maybe an early promo shot made its way over there, because the engine wasn't yet running but they had to present something Shopped! False pixels! And so on ...