Zenimax, when are you going to address the problems with veteran armor aesthetics?

Fshober28b14_ESO

Soooooo, you are one of if not the one who is to blame for my Ancient Elf Legendary V10 gear that LOOKED perfect pre-patch, that now looks like a SMURF TURD post-patch! Maybe your gear needed, a once over...but thanks to ppl like yourself, you instigated a broad stroke change to other armors like mine that did NOT need it and now look like crap. Thanks to both you and ZoS!

Arsenic_Touch

You may have thought it looked perfect but it was missing a specular map and the rarity progression was reversed. That needed to be fixed. A prime example of this was VR 10 legendary daedric heavy armor. It was olive green and looked like leather. Now it doesn't. Now it actually has detail. I have received many thanks from people for their daedric armor no longer looking ridiculous.

The problem now is the designs are, as far as we know, intended. Which illustrates a glaring problem. The armor model designers have made some amazing armor designs and some very terrible armor designs. The colour schemes on some look absolutely wonderful while they look like crap on others.

Metal armor now looks shiny and leather and cloth now looks detailed. The problem is their colour choices which will be rectified whenever they decide to add the dye system.

So if you want to blame someone, blame zenimax for their design choice, not another player who recognized a problem and pushed them with the community to have it changed.

Also, Gina has been paged and hopefully when she gets back from vacation, she'll take to this the devs and we can find out their thought process on mixing browns with blues and purples with browns and so on and so forth.

Arsenic_Touch

It would be really lovely if a member of ZoS could set some time aside to address this.

Phinix1

Glad I found this thread. I had been wasting my time and gold collecting enchanting materials for a set of VR gear, but seeing how anything beyond green looks, forget it. The blue stuff I have now are better than green VR1, and I wouldn't be caught dead in that depthless grey garbage.

Arsenic_Touch

AlienDiplomat wrote: »

Glad I found this thread. I had been wasting my time and gold collecting enchanting materials for a set of VR gear, but seeing how anything beyond green looks, forget it. The blue stuff I have now are better than green VR1, and I wouldn't be caught dead in that depthless grey garbage.

They fixed the specular map and the progression based on rarity for gear for VR1 onward. However, some of the colour schemes seem to have been ignored or bugged further. Some armor looks the same as it did before, some armor looks a lot better and other armor looks worse.

Arsenic_Touch

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌, @ZOS_jessicaFolsom, @ZOS_AmeliaR

Is someone going to chime in on this? It appears you didn't fix all of the armors and there are complaints that you made 1-50 armor look even worse.

A timeframe on armor dyes would be swell as well.

Vhalkyrie

I've been wearing level 50 Fell leather on my VR2 nightblade because it looks better than the VR leathers - even after the patch. My sorc had a gorgeous blue robe that was shiny and detailed at level 30, but as soon as I 'upgraded' to a level 32 material, it became a flat pink dress. Looking forward to the dye system, but it just seems odd how the higher level materials became drab tans.

I had made a blue level 38 dunmer robe that was blue before the patch, then became pink after. I was so looking forward to getting out of the pink robes.

Arsenic_Touch

Okay, the radio silence on this is getting ridiculous.

Tai

I wonder, why does vr12 epic medium armor looks epic, but legendary looks like a blueish worn goblin pijama?

Arsenic_Touch

Tai wrote: »

I wonder, why does vr12 epic medium armor looks epic, but legendary looks like a blueish worn goblin pijama?

Because grenades. (old defiance joke)

Honestly have no idea what was going through their head with some of the design choices. I suppose we should be thankful since they looked worse prior to the change.

Arsenic_Touch

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌, @ZOS_jessicaFolsom, @ZOS_AmeliaR, @ZOS_AlanG,

It's be really great if you didn't ignore this thread. Some armors were fixed, others were not. What is going on with this? 1-50 armors were changed when this thread was only about veteran armors and now some veteran armors still seem off.



VR5 ironhide. daedric medium armor, except for the shoulders (heavy) and helmet (light) Upgraded to blue rarity. This is after the change. Even in the light, it looks washed out.



This is all medium daedric ironhide, white rarity.
This is before the change.

Clearly something is still going on here.

Zenimax, you need to go through all of the armors and make sure they're set to the right rarity progression and let us know when you're going to give us dyes.