So thing that you’re not going to notice unless you’re a freak like me who noticed Yuri Sakasaki changed out of Converse shoes for KOF 2000 and 2001, but the other Wing boys actually have updated sprites at a higher resolution/fidelity. Either upscaled from the original art or through (ethical) AI.
Sorry for the aside, but I only just noticed how the Altron's claws looks like it uses a Zaku's head in its design. It's neat.
This is partially what dispels the illusion of how SRW sprites work and that most were often based on 3D reference renders, but back before the HD days, you would have to paint pixels over the models for silhouette recognition purposes and that added a certain handdrawn look to them that way.
Doesn’t apply to every asset as biological looking kaiju or giant humans could be done faster without a model, but you can tell with things like Milena’s helmet and skirt, a light source was set up.
The game has a mixed rating rn, but if you read the comments, it’s SOLELY because the game doesn’t support 4K and only goes up to 1080p. Which is an annoyance for menus granted, but there’s some grim humor in that SRW going to HD tripled production time, their asses ain’t ever gonna do 4K sprites.
One of them starts with "i skipped the entire story just to get to the playable part"
On the Japanese side the big gripes and waves of complaints are just "The UI is ass" which is such a funny contrast with the complaints here lmao
Yeah, that's my big complaint so far; I sit a reasonable away from my TV, and I'm having the same problems reading text that I did Gundam Breaker 4 as the font is too small while the screen crowded with unneeded info put in the wrong places with bigger boxes than required. It's not nice.
I'm waiting for DLC1 to drop before getting it because I know I will smoke the whole pack if I get it now and never end up using W otherwise. Any news yet on when that drops?
If it’s like the way 30 worked, then the DLC will be one month and two months out respectively.
I wouldn't even mind the sprites being nearest neighbour upscaled just to have the menus at 4k and not rely on display scaling.
Not helped that their "HD" UI for Y is borderline unreadable at times due to how CROWDED they've made it thanks to the higher resolution. It's the Gundam breaker 4 Problem all over again. Going 4K with the graphics, which is unneeded for the series, would just make that worse.
I have a 4k screen and always turn games down to 1080 anyways to make it run easier and not turn my room into an oven anyways lmao
That's it?! Was gonna wait for a sale, but I'll buy now to spite the graphics whores
You could still wait until all the DLC comes out in like 2 months because a lot of people run into a scenario where they already beat the game before getting a chance to get the new units but if you play at an okay pace, shouldn't be an issue.
I'll probably play pretty slow, working on backlog
...what is this from?
odd that they did that for the Gundams while the Tauruses still look kinda fuzzy
I think it’s because they’re grunts and low priority but I spend way too much time analyzing this stuff instead of actually playing the game.
Very first thing I do once I got control too was complain about the consistency while looking at the Taurus.
Gaza-C still looks crisper than the Bigfoot photo level fuzziness on thr Taurus