Esamir (TRay tweet)

[Mystwalker]

dooods fresh powder can't wait to track it up

[Solidblock]

... Mother of god

[Greenthy]

Don't get what u guys are all breaking your jaws over.
It's a nice picture and looks promising, but it isn't all THAT spectacular.
(Unless I'm missing some base pictures, only the picture on the OP right ?)

[snaffe]

Looks better when you enlarge it but I am broadly of the same "it's a picture what's so special"?

[Hobitt]

Now the only thing we need is winter uniforms!!!

[julfo]

Originally Posted by Ruffdog

I know. I'm hoping I can get Deus Ex HR finished before Beta, which I started when I didn't get in tech test. At 1 hour game time every other day it might be tight.

I did the exact same thing! Just finished a lethal run, now time to try for full non lethal :P

[Simokon]

Do we get to sit around a fire and drink hot chocolate after a hard day skii.... I mean fighting?

[Reizod]

Originally Posted by Greenthy

Don't get what u guys are all breaking your jaws over.
It's a nice picture and looks promising, but it isn't all THAT spectacular.
(Unless I'm missing some base pictures, only the picture on the OP right ?)

Using our imagination of what it would look like in-game.

[sameer]

Originally Posted by Greenthy

Don't get what u guys are all breaking your jaws over.
It's a nice picture and looks promising, but it isn't all THAT spectacular.
(Unless I'm missing some base pictures, only the picture on the OP right ?)

Yup, I said the same thing - fewer words The more I look at the screenshot, the more "meh" I go.

[Shamrock]

It looks great, battles in the snow ftw!

[Xeller]

For those of you who seem unimpressed. Just look at that picture. Now add bases, add snow storms, add obstacles and terrain and all the other objects that make the PS2 maps so interesting. See the potential?

I am so, so, so excited.

[damijin]

Originally Posted by Xeller

For those of you who seem unimpressed. Just look at that picture. Now add bases, add snow storms, add obstacles and terrain and all the other objects that make the PS2 maps so interesting. See the potential?

I am so, so, so excited.

What he said, also I think for Planetside players, we know what Esamir used to look like, and it was an unimpressive low visibility hunk of white with some sparse trees and rocks. Seeing sunlight bounce off of icy slopes the way it should just reminds us how much better this game is going to look than what we got used to

[disky]

Originally Posted by Hobitt

Now the only thing we need is winter uniforms!!!

Exactly my thinking. TR needs ushanka and long coats.

[Greenthy]

Originally Posted by Xeller

For those of you who seem unimpressed. Just look at that picture. Now add bases, add snow storms, add obstacles and terrain and all the other objects that make the PS2 maps so interesting. See the potential?

I am so, so, so excited.

So basicly you're amazed at your own personal imagination ?

Lots of games have winter maps/continents/... All their screenshots would sorta look like the one posted.
You can't tell what's properly lighted/geometrical or whats just plain textures. You're also unaware if this is ingame footage or if it's rendered in some other software and if so how much of an accurate representation it is.
Let alone how it interacts with other objects, how bases fit in, etc...
= Still not amazed.

When still in middle school in the class aesthetics it was summed up pretty nicely:
You have people that go to a museum/old city and go "WOW" basicly because it is famous and expected. You can call it global sense of art.
You have other people that have a more personal sense of art.

Now neither vision is wrong, I'm just still not seeing where I should break my jaw.

[Xeller]

Originally Posted by Greenthy

So basicly you're amazed at your own personal imagination ?

Fair counterpoint. When I see pictures like that, I can't help but imagine all of the stuff that it could be, where as other people just see what is there (which isn't much, I'll be honest). However, I think the screenshot does do a good job of capturing atmosphere. But again, a lot of people might not see that either.

Regardless, I am excited because it is a good start and if they put as much thought and detail into Easmir as they did with Indar, I think it is going to be a very fun continent to wage war on.