No graphic options, low resolutions, UI issues

SuperPyroManiac

My first major issue is the highest resolution is 720p, why? It looks like sand on a piece of paper. On top of that, I got the game expecting beautiful graphics, like advertised on steam on your YouTube channel, and instead I get pixelated low res ugly voxels. The game also runs terribly, my PC is pretty high end, yet a simple game that doesn't even have any real graphics has major lag spikes.

I had this game before it was on steam and it was great, looked good, ran better than this. The AI is just as glitchy as it was back then. Now I can't even read the fuzzy text on your UI's because they are not scaled properly. Also some parts are not even in english.

I know the game is "Early Access" but it's been like this for 3 years, seems like there has been hardly any progress.

SuperPyroManiac

So I found a previous version in steam betas, and it works better then the default version. I feel like that should be the default version. EDIT: Appears you can not actually play the game in the legacy build, unable to click the maps on the main menu.

Shatojon

Hey SuperPyroManiac,

When it comes to the highest resolution being 720p, I'm not sure what makes you say that? I'm playing on 1920 x 1200 right now;



I'm also not certain why the game is pixelated on your screen. Could you show me a screenshot, or maybe a photograph? I know - taking a picture of a monitor is weird, but I figured it could be your monitor. What monitor are you using? What resolution are you running the game on?

When it comes to performance, it should run fine, although after a while of playing, with lots of AI and terraforming happening, we're aware of a performance drop, we've been working on this recently. Sorry about that. If your game is running poorly right from the start, though, that's something we could look into trying to fix.

All in all I'm admittedly confused about why the game isn't working as intended for you. Could you tell me what your specs are? I'm also curious about which monitor and resolution you're running the game in.

To address your last line, what specific progress do you feel is lacking in the past three years? We've been hard at work releasing updates and patches as fast as we can, there's been several big updates in the last months, notably;

The 0.3 update introduced a new map (before the World Editor was available), the AI system was re-written from scratch, there was a big upgrade to the graphics, models, textures, normal maps, skyboxes, lighting, etc.

The 0.4 update largely enhanced the combat, added a new enemy type, added a new ability for Corruptrons (throwing rocks), largely improved the UI, ported several gamemodes to Lua.

The 0.5 update added an entire new building system, wood, added multiplayer to the game (!), added x-ray vision that allowed you to cut through the terrain and see inside buildings, added a repair task, a new type of bricks (rounded corners), added the mergeback system, added the landscape project, added handles to resize tasks, added new animations, etc.

The 0.6 update added another new enemy type, largely improved multiplayer from 0.5's "first" version, added a brand new gamemode (Conquest), massively improved pathfinding, added a bunch of buildable items among other changes.

The 0.7 update introduced a fully featured world editor (!!) and allowed players to share/play maps through the Steam workshop and our website, added Conquest PvP to multiplayer, added Invasion Co-Op to multiplayer, Conquest PvE, introduced a brand new taskbar, copy-pasting blueprints feature, stockpiles management feature, and several other improvements to the game in general.

This is all without mentioning the dozens of smaller patches released in between the major updates. Some of which weren't so small!

I hope that sheds some light on things, I promise we haven't been slacking.

Anyhow, sorry for the long winded post, I'll be checking back in hopes that we can get your resolution/graphics issues fixed.

Thank you!