Empire units in NTW

Last night palying as Prussia and unifying Germany with blood and iron I encountered Oldenburg army. Of course I noticed weird ETW unit icons and was very interested to check what these echo from the past units will look like in game. To my surprise those were actually old ETW generic infantry.

But! What I really noticed is that they looked much better somehow, textures were more clear and sharp, shadows on clothes were done better, maybe it was just me but animation improved too?

Anyway, whats your thoughts about that. Is it true that CA announced new patch for Empire and will that patch include at least some technical achievements of NTW engine? I think it would be great if genrally graphics would improve like that. How possible is that.

I play both games on ultra settings and I compared even later, old ETW infantry in Napoleon looks way better than their brothers in original ETW.

Uhm, its the same engine...

Originally Posted by DoomBunny666

Uhm, its the same engine...

I know that, but I think its clear for the eye in NTW that engine got insanely optimized and graphics look much better, starting from textures to lightning effects. like no more "moon effect" with overdark side that is opposite to sun, so I wonder can ETW with new patch (and will there be any at all?) move at least a bit to what we see in NTW?

What i heard was they were patching the AI for empire didnt recall hearing anything about upgrading the engine which is the same but has been tweaked up (kinda like rome and med2 use same engine but med2s version was amped up ). It would be a large patch if they where doing it hey they might cant see it with no money in it but you can always hope and for you i hope they do it

I'm pretty sure it's just the unit card so the unit uses a NTW model

Originally Posted by Ulan1990

I'm pretty sure it's just the unit card so the unit uses a NTW model

no no, thats exactly the point, at first I thought too its just unit card, but when I checked ingame I saw exact clone of our old friend ETW infantry and what really made me wonder about game engine and how it influences looks is that I compared afterwards immideatly with original ETW game. Old ETW in napoleon looked way better.

I doubt CA would waste its time on retexturing and drawing new bump map for obscure replacement unit. That makes me think NTW engine does wonders to old models...

I do not know, I have not yet had such a problem, my game works perfectly. Only in multiplayer campaign Napoleon have wrong portrait.