Lets hope for decent unit icons this time around.

[nodey]

M2TW displays some pretty nice graphics all maxed out, so why are we stuck with washed out unit icons that look like they came from a game 10 years ago?
By the time this game is out a majority of gamers will have large ass monitors so i hope CA spends some time and effort making them at least half decent like the family member portraits of m2tw.

[Hans Friedman]

I agree.

[Roger the Shrubber]

By the look of what we have seen so far, eg, govenors and soldiers in screenshots. The icons don't even look as good as they were in Medieval, but maybe they will change them. Hope so, they really don't look too crash hot.

[D.B. Cooper]

What's wrong with the portraits? I didn't notice anything, they were perfectly adaquate. Who will really care with jaw-dropping visuals from naval battles and LAND battles, a gorgeous new campaign map, and all kinds of other stuff?

[Roger the Shrubber]

I'm just saying...adaquate isn't like CA, they should be great.

[D.B. Cooper]

But if it ain't broke don't fix it, right?

[Roger the Shrubber]

Not fixing, just improving a little, icing on the cake if you will.

[Hans Friedman]

Not fixing, just improving a little, icing on the cake if you will.

Ya some units didnt look like their icons.

[Roger the Shrubber]

Ya some units didnt look like their icons.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Dingo John]

I don't really see the problem... you can see what kind of unit it is, what weapon they are wearing, and you can tell them from alle the other units... I don't need pictures so detailed that I can tell the color of their eyebrows...

[Protagonist]

From what I saw in the Land Battle Video, the unit portraits looked pretty good imo. Then again, i could barely see them.

[argusanon]

I want the menu buttons to be more shiny!

Seriously though, while I don't want anything in this game to SUCK, I think there's more important things for CA to focus on making GOOD.

[Yojimbo]

M2TW displays some pretty nice graphics all maxed out, so why are we stuck with washed out unit icons that look like they came from a game 10 years ago?
By the time this game is out a majority of gamers will have large ass monitors so i hope CA spends some time and effort making them at least half decent like the family member portraits of m2tw.

mtw1 had the best portraits.

[masterproctor77]

I will have to agree, the portraits were sometimes a bit inadequate in M2TW. For example there were Mongolian Soldiers and Dismounted Heavy Archers (something like that) but their icons looked incredibly similar (it also had to do with the unit portraits). Also the unit icons for Timurid Elephants were a bit hard to decipher.

It's not a big deal, but it is one thing where there could be slight improvements.

[Hans Friedman]

Ya from the new video, the governor portraits looked really good.

[Roger the Shrubber]

Ya from the new video, the governor portraits looked really good.

But they all look a bit similar, and a bit like the govenor in PotC.