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Forged blades FX - An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

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CragLord:
I agree that current situation is a bit out of place when we are taking about glowing effects.
It is totally out of place that common soldiers have these glowing weapons. There is really weird and out of place.
I am also aware from lore that in Tolkien's world, exist glowing weapons, but they are not for world wide use. Only special magical weapons (which weren't so great in numbers) had ability to glow, but only to glow in special situations. So that argument is pretty "out of place" when we speak about upgrades for common soldiers.
So I really find this topic reasonable.
Main problem with weapons is that upgrading process is something which should make weapons stronger in consistency terms (greater damage in game). But how we can present that upgrade that in game?
Glowing effect is one really easy way to do that, I am not so found of it, but I am aware of that. Concerning your suggestions about adding some special symbols above battalions, I am not so found of that, simply I am more for some visual consistency change, and other upgrades don't have this kind of upgrade effect, so I am against it.
The most "logical" thing is to make new models for every single unit, or new skins of weapons which will correspond to forged blades upgrade of that unit. More shining skin etc.
Problem with that (beside it is enormous time consuming job) is also maybe a number of required new weapon's models. So, this is maybe suggestion for some "better" times. xD
I also want to say that I support idea of making visaul upgrade effects lesser in glow.
That is really something I found reasonable for now. If we take into consideration that different between old, rusty sword (blade) and new one is mostly in metalic shining effect (beside sharpness), I am supporting this suggestion. :)
Set of colors used in this suggestion is also something which should be discussed.
I would more prefer pale white color instead pale blue for good forces, something which is more correlated with metal shining of new forged blades. About evil forces, I am out of suggestions. xD

Regards,
CragLord

Canis carcharothias:
And what about some simple color change for the blades of the weapons? From a metallic grey to an almost white. It will work well with almost every faction, except for Isengard and their dark uruk blades. Maybe we can make those even darker (from steel gray to almost black). It's subtle, visible (more than some existing heavy armours) and more realistic than the current lightsabers.  ;)

Elite KryPtik:
Don't fix what isn't broken. At least, not until all the factions are released. Everybody knows the tried and true glowing weapons, changing it would throw a lot of people off who are less observant. No point in changing it as far as I can see.

CragLord:

--- Zitat von: Canis carcharothias am  5. Jan 2016, 23:22 ---And what about some simple color change for the blades of the weapons? From a metallic grey to an almost white. It will work well with almost every faction, except for Isengard and their dark uruk blades. Maybe we can make those even darker (from steel gray to almost black). It's subtle, visible (more than some existing heavy armours) and more realistic than the current lightsabers.  ;)

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That is also one resonable&nice suggestion.
I support it. :)
It would be nice change for some of later versions of mod. ;)
Of course, if in the first place visual changes you proposed will have some normal visual noticeable effect. :)

Regards,
CragLord

Gnomi:
Sorry, but this change wouldn't help at all.^^ We had this once for a few units and it was impossible to notice within a short period of time - you had to spend multiple seconds when you looked at an army to see if most of them/only a few/none of them had forged blades. The blades are way too small to recognize this very fast. This was very frustrating for everyone who played MP. Therefore we have added the fx again, but with a much lower effect.

A change can still be made, but a simple skin change won't help, most of the weapons are just too small.^^

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