Generic Pink People?

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Posted by: Raesin.2908

Raesin.2908

Hey guys.
Since one of the latest updates, I’ve noticed in cities and even out in the world, player characters have became generic people with basic pink gear.
Is this part of the attempt to stop culling?
Is there an option to turn it off?

Doesn’t it kind of take away from the end game if no one can actually see the character you’ve gathered cool looking items for?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something or I’m a little late but it’d be great if someone could clear this up for me.

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Posted by: RoRo.8270

RoRo.8270

Pretty sure it is because your computer is still loading in the models so the pink ones are placeholders until everything actually loads in. If they didn’t do this you would probably still be stuck in the loading screen until everything fully loads. This is my guess

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Posted by: nikotuck.7259

nikotuck.7259

I believe it is the character model quality under graphic options that affect this.

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Posted by: Knote.2904

Knote.2904

It’s part of the Fabulous Revolution, embrace it.

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Posted by: Raesin.2908

Raesin.2908

Ah yes, thank you nikotuck.

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Posted by: Manasa Devi.7958

Manasa Devi.7958

The game desperately needs an option to completely suppress showing any and all placeholder models, instead showing nothing at all until the proper models load. In PvE, no one has a pressing need to see other players as soon as possible. People in purple pyjamas that quickly (or slowly depending on your system and settings) transform into regular players is very damaging to immersion. It looks, to be completely frank, stupid and ugly.

Between the alphabet soup of unwanted nametags and the Purple Pyjama People, the game hasn’t looked as bad at any time during its existence as it does now. And that’s not hyperbole or exaggeration.

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Posted by: funkylovemonkey.3097

funkylovemonkey.3097

The game desperately needs an option to completely suppress showing any and all placeholder models, instead showing nothing at all until the proper models load. In PvE, no one has a pressing need to see other players as soon as possible. People in purple pyjamas that quickly (or slowly depending on your system and settings) transform into regular players is very damaging to immersion. It looks, to be completely frank, stupid and ugly.

Between the alphabet soup of unwanted nametags and the Purple Pyjama People, the game hasn’t looked as bad at any time during its existence as it does now. And that’s not hyperbole or exaggeration.

You know what’s funny about this? For the last year people have been complaining about culling, asking for an end of culling.

So they end culling. Of course they are limited clientside by how fast your connection is and how fast your computer is, so to overcome that they put placeholder people in until your computer gets around to rendering the actual models.

Suddenly the calls to end culling are replaced by calls to bring culling back.

Awesome.

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Posted by: Manasa Devi.7958

Manasa Devi.7958

You know what’s funny about this? For the last year people have been complaining about culling, asking for an end of culling.

So they end culling. Of course they are limited clientside by how fast your connection is and how fast your computer is, so to overcome that they put placeholder people in until your computer gets around to rendering the actual models.

Suddenly the calls to end culling are replaced by calls to bring culling back.

Awesome.

It’s not really funny, nor awesome.

It’s what happens when something is done terribly. With rendering settings that are actually useful, and actually work, it would be a great thing.