I've owned the game for about a week
(oops, been over 3 months now) and I love it. It is beautiful. One "little" problem though... the textures are extremely low resolution. You could say "don't stick your nose right against that wall, but the problem is, I can clearly see this even when I'm few metres away.
There are high resolution textures and "reasonably resolutioned" textures. If it was at least the latter, I probably wouldn't mind too much.
But this is a game from 2014, and yet I see these abominations everywhere:
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Just look at the grass! And the lower part of the pillar. The game is full of textures like this
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This i simply bad. Not even Skyrim, which is 3 years older, has so blurry textures.
Or this:
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Large landscape textures should be higher resolution than the rest, otherwise exactly this happens.
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full resolution:
https://i.imgur.com/GzeECQl.jpg
You think this is acceptable in a game like this with the amount of money that comes in? Think again.
Part of the problem
possibly is bad UV mapping on lots of textures too. Combined with unacceptably low resolution, the result is horrendous.
I am fully aware the game was developed for both consoles and PC, and the less powerful of the two probably kind of set the limitations,
but this leaves PC players in a bit sad position. Lots of us have higher end PCs (or basically way above the hardware found in consoles) more than capable of of using higher resolution textures. Heck, it's not even about having powerful graphic card, it's only about the amount of VRAM. I have almost everything on ultra, and the game still barely uses above 2GB. A mediocre 4GB card (which a lot of people have) would be just enough for this.
I'm not even asking for 4k everything or something, but large part of textures desperately cry for either: 1) twofold or so resolution increase, or 2) complete rework (unlikely I guess), because the detail just isn't there.
So, in conclusion:
Could we get an
optional high(er) resolution texture pack for PC version of the game? It would tremendously increase the game's visual quality. Most of us have the hardware to use it![/b]
And actually, now that Xbox One X is coming out (and I guess a lot of people will upgrade), even part of the console crowd could benefit from this.
@ZOS_GinaBruno
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom
edit: Update 30.12.: updated pictures