what resolution are you playing on?

2560x1440 native resolution.

all settings i can find are on HIGH.

Originally posted by Dizzy Ioeuy:

2560x1440 native resolution.

all settings i can find are on HIGH.

can you please screenshot it and share it?

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2033977491806123201/4F61CE423D9B2FDBA069CA367260C1BAAC10C171/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

the small version of their shield emblem looks like the atual resolution, and the larger in the UI like it is stretched. It just looks unprofessional.

This guy's video talked about this phenomenon too:

https://youtu.be/ZNB3Vahk7c0?t=208

The portraits and some shields and UI elements just look crappy, like low resolution versions were never properly upscaled or higher resolutions weren't used as the base material.

My suggestion is to submit a bug report
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/736820/discussions/0/3716062900630534798/

or lower resolution a bit to see if anything changes. i'm sorry I can't help you further

The more I look at it the more I think this isn't a bug- it's just uneven art quality in the game.

Originally posted by Dizzy Ioeuy:

The more I look at it the more I think this isn't a bug- it's just uneven art quality in the game.

so report it and they might have a look and work on it.

Yeah I found the art assets and opened up the portrait files. Wow they are pretty ♥♥♥♥ bad:

128x128 are the large sizes and they are blocky, very blocky.

What's there to report, that the art lead didn't do her job? Meh. Anyone can see the issue.

Yeah I noticed that too. Whoever did the art made the emblems too small for some reason so the resolution doesn't scale well. It looks like sh-..

I'm batch processing all 4000 (?) Portraits to look more like paintings on a canvas. The pitiful detail and size of the art means I don't have much to wirk with, so the compromise fix I'm making is a gaussian blur filter followed by a canvas texture followed by a slight gaussian blur. Got 1000 done last night

It gets rid of the pixelation and looks so much better to me. But is nowhere near what a real professional operation should have done. But again ny source material is total ♥♥♥♥.

But i can go with the look of miniature oil portraits of my knights and ladies

The shield emblem crap though.... Idk i may just live with that.


Ugh i cant understand why they have this middle school completely unprofessional level of art quality in the game.

Hows your work going Dizzy?

It was exhausting and took weeks. The results, because there are so many duplicated portraits that I'm not sure where they're used, and the low quality of the original images meant less than stellar results. But they are less pixelated...