Huge Skill Effect Sale This Weekend

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It's a pity a great deal of these look worse or at least much weirder than the bog-standard skills and spells in other ARPGs. The fireballs in Wolcen's *alpha* look better than anything fire-related in PoE. And that's not just down to them using the crysis engine -- it's simply because it looks like a bloody fireball. Not some crappy little glowing rock with a trail of smoke.

The baffling thing is how much work goes into PoE mtxes to produce such consistently tasteless junk. I'd rather pay for a good looking *actual* fireball than a weird dragon's head, and I imagine it's probably easier to do. I get the whole 'not wanting to look like other ARPGs' thing but recent mtxes (right up to that dreadfully overcooked Kraken portal) look more like GGG showing off technical skills than creating aesthetically pleasing cosmetics.

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gandhar0 wrote:

They squeeze the best that could be done with their own engine. Some recent examples of MTX where rerally weird/ugly but most try to go around the fact the their graphics engine is very outdated.

But we can hope for at least overhauled character models within the next year, maybe a first step for a complete new switch for a new graphics engine which allows more details for ingame assets like armour sets,skill effects as well.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgvHRzt3ao