Every time I play, I really want to like the game, but the semi-opaque cloudy gross map, which I try to tolerate / ignore, over hours long gamign sessions just eats away at me and i must stop. CK3, HOI4, EU4 are beautiful, viccy 2 and imperator are so gross to look at. There should at least be like an option.. default the game to being pretty, and have an option to make it ugly if you enjoy ugliness for some reason...
I imagine maybe the decision to make the game ugly came from wanting it to stand out from eu4 and ck3 in appearance... but why mess with what works?
edit: Ultra texture quality, Disabled refraction, disabled shadows, disabled map objects, and now it looks great... So I shall amend my complaint: Default graphics settings make IR look bad. I wouldn't expect the texture quality to have such a big impact on how easy it is to read your country name.
Here's a screenshot of what I was talking about, see how low settings in both games, IR just looks way harder to make out... mostly I think maybe it's how the text is drawn, eu4 surrounds it in a glowing white aura so it stands out even at low settings.
I imagine maybe the decision to make the game ugly came from wanting it to stand out from eu4 and ck3 in appearance... but why mess with what works?
edit: Ultra texture quality, Disabled refraction, disabled shadows, disabled map objects, and now it looks great... So I shall amend my complaint: Default graphics settings make IR look bad. I wouldn't expect the texture quality to have such a big impact on how easy it is to read your country name.
Here's a screenshot of what I was talking about, see how low settings in both games, IR just looks way harder to make out... mostly I think maybe it's how the text is drawn, eu4 surrounds it in a glowing white aura so it stands out even at low settings.
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