Am I the only one who hates the colour scheme in R2?

[GoTW Kubee]

As the title states, I'm finding the palette and general colour scheme of R2 pretty abysmal at the moment. Everything is really dark and gloomy, which makes unit management harder and the whole game look pretty bland and ugly at the same time. This is especially baffling if you juxtapose what you see in game to the SS and videos CA distributed during their shameless marketing hype campaign; the difference is quite literally night and day. So did CA, in their infinite wisdom, deliberately make the colour scheme of the game so dull, or is it just a result of the poor optimisation and graphics scaling at lower levels (I play on high btw).

P.S. Don't tell me to increase the brightness because that just makes it look like I'm glaring into the sun.

[Socktu]

As the title states, I'm finding the palette and general colour scheme of R2 pretty abysmal at the moment. Everything is really dark and gloomy, which makes unit management harder and the whole game look pretty bland and ugly at the same time. This is especially baffling if you juxtapose what you see in game to the SS and videos CA distributed during their shameless marketing hype campaign; the difference is quite literally night and day. So did CA, in their infinite wisdom, deliberately make the colour scheme of the game so dull, or is it just a result of the poor optimisation and graphics scaling at lower levels (I play on high btw).

P.S. Don't tell me to increase the brightness because that just makes it look like I'm glaring into the sun.

You could expect this, all tiles/maps would vary especially considering the size and scale of Rome 2. It's chaos trying to reconfigure it, you can't make every tile look good. I'd suggest using 1.4 NOHDR and GEM to enhance your experience of Rome 2, they do very well together and GEM provides an array of tools that can be used to add contrast, saturation, desature, gamma, bleach shadows, HDR (that isn't as strong, I use it because it makes the sky/ground look varied without the sky looking like a blinding ray of of the heavens.)

All sorts of stuff really, do check it out if you haven't already.

It makes the vanilla dullness wash away almost instantly, however it will be difficult getting it to your taste, but not that much, it's very easy and fun to make your own GEM settings and if you like a current preset you can acquire one in the optional user settings, try it kiddo.

[GoTW Kubee]

You could expect this, all tiles/maps would vary especially considering the size and scale of Rome 2. It's chaos trying to reconfigure it, you can't make every tile look good. I'd suggest using 1.4 NOHDR and GEM to enhance your experience of Rome 2, they do very well together and GEM provides an array of tools that can be used to add contrast, saturation, desature, gamma, bleach shadows, HDR (that isn't as strong, I use it because it makes the sky/ground look varied without the sky looking like a blinding ray of of the heavens.)

All sorts of stuff really, do check it out if you haven't already.

It makes the vanilla dullness wash away almost instantly, however it will be difficult getting it to your taste, but not that much, it's very easy and fun to make your own GEM settings and if you like a current preset you can acquire one in the optional user settings, try it kiddo.

I assume this is the mod you're talking about? http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nhancement-Mod

If so then cheers for bringing it my attention, I'll check it out a bit later.

[Socktu]

I assume this is the mod you're talking about? http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nhancement-Mod

If so then cheers for bringing it my attention, I'll check it out a bit later.

Aye, use it in conjunction with NOHDR Mod too, it's an imperative. I can't find that thread in particular atm, but you can simply go to google then type in total war center nohdr mod.

[Hoplite of Ilis]

I do not agree modding the solution out. Freakin' RTW, M2TW, ETW, S2TW look crystal clear. There's a million R2 problem threads. How can modders clean this mess? RTW got awesome mods because the base game was already awesome. CA has a looooong way to go - if they ever mean to fix R2.

[Socktu]

I do not agree modding the solution out. Freakin' RTW, M2TW, ETW, S2TW look crystal clear. There's a million problem threads. How can modders clean this mess. RTW got awesome mods because the base game was already awesome. CA has a looooong way to go - if they ever mean to fix R2.

Modding the solution out is the only path available at the moment with our limited tools/resources. I'd rather have it look moderately better than have a piss yellow overlay that looks like vomit flowing over my screen for a filter.

I'm sure we'll get the tools someday, or a patch will come along. Not anytime soon though, but someday I suspect. Maybe in the next few months we'll have access to this kind of power.

[Hoplite of Ilis]

Modding the solution out is the only path available at the moment with our limited tools/resources. I'd rather have it look moderately better than have a piss yellow overlay that looks like vomit flowing over my screen for a filter.

I'm sure we'll get the tools someday, or a patch will come along. Not anytime soon though, but someday I suspect. Maybe in the next few months we'll have access to this kind of power.

Modders are never to be blamed. It's just passion that the original creators lack....

[TheCenturion24]

I do not agree modding the solution out. Freakin' RTW, M2TW, ETW, S2TW look crystal clear. There's a million R2 problem threads. How can modders clean this mess? RTW got awesome mods because the base game was already awesome. CA has a looooong way to go - if they ever mean to fix R2.

Well, they'll make a mod like GEM, which seriously helps. Or Realistic Colours, etc etc... ALSO. Rome I received large amounts of mods because, yes, it was popular, but REALLY because it was far easier to mod. Models didn't need to be of ridiculously high poly, and (I think) less was hardcoded. You simply cannot do what you could do with Rome I with Rome II.

[Sun Jetzu]

I'm using the blood stained UI mod right now and its SOOOO much better

[Socktu]

I'm using the blood stained UI mod right now and its SOOOO much better

Link? :0

[Sun Jetzu]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...archtext=ui%2F
trust me I just added it and it was 100% worth it.

[DaciaJC]

G.E.M. comparison screens:



I like the TrueColor setup. The others look little to no better than vanilla, which is awful in certain locations with its piss filter.

[Sun Jetzu]

G.E.M. comparison screens:



I like the TrueColor setup. The others look little to no better than vanilla, which is awful in certain locations with its piss filter.

I prefer Cinematic ;D

[Riekopo]

The color palette looks like I agree. They went with a pastel color palette I think instead of the realistic one they showed off initially. So now it looks like a damn cartoon.

[TeslaTrooper]

Messing with the gamma and brightness DOES help quite a bit though in my opinion. I turned gamma down to 14 and brightness to 20 and it's a big improvement, although it makes deserts look weird sometimes.

[heliogabalo]

Messing with the gamma and brightness DOES help quite a bit though in my opinion. I turned gamma down to 14 and brightness to 20 and it's a big improvement, although it makes deserts look weird sometimes.

Yes. I do the same thing. I also think it´s a big improvement.

[craziii]

if CA wanted, they can easily include something like the gem mod into the graphic options. if this is all the players have to complain about, the patches are doing a good job

[GoTW Kubee]

if CA wanted, they can easily include something like the gem mod into the graphic options. if this is all the players have to complain about, the patches are doing a good job

The game's still ing in virtually every conceivable way.

[craziii]

The game's still ing in virtually every conceivable way.

if that is truly how you feel. move on to better games in your opinion, there is no point for you to stay with this game series.

[GoTW Kubee]

if that is truly how you feel. move on to better games in your opinion, there is no point for you to stay with this game series.

Why should I? This is my favourite game series and I've been playing it at various levels of activity for about 8 years now. 1 bad release isn't enough to turn me away from TW. Having said that, yea this game is pretty damn awful and I'm bloody well going to tell them what I think about it. Whilst whether or not this series is salvageable is up for debate, CA should absolutely have to answer all the questions that are being asked of them.