Hello
I have just fired up FE and tried to play with the settings a bit and would like to provide some very basic feedback, I did not play the game yet, just checked out all the screens and tactical battles and made list of things which I have noticed.
- I want to see clearly how much more moves I have got left on my units.
- Need to see how long it takes to get somewhere and also route (will be added, just reminder)
- In combat, if I mouseover at enemy, show me how far it can move
- Allow me to move screen using wasd or arrows and with mouse at the edge of the screen.
- Please add color outline (highlighting) at mouseover on places, units etc. So I can clearly see that I can choose it, or use it.
- Filter to show only my units, enemy or neutral units and maybe for other stuff.
- I actually liked more how Heroes solved out problem with units not being visible enough on the map. They simple added color ring under the unit, which was rotating. Because it had animation and different color it was easy to spot. Icon over the unit works too, but I do find them more distracting and pointing at different square.
Now regarding SETTINGS:
- Add vertical synchronization option
- Add window and Fullscreen window options.
- Shortcut menu with ability to change shortcuts
- I really want to invert X and Y axis for screen rotating
Regarding GRAPHICS:
I have tried different settings in video menu, the way I have used to check this was to make three different screenshot, with each settings to see how much or how it affects visual quality. For some settings where I was not sure if they are working or not, I have also tried to restart the game even when I was not asked to do it. And here is what I have found out.
- Softness (adv. Lighting) - I could not spot difference between 0 > 50 > 100.
- Amount of Groundcover - None > Normal > Overgrown - Again Could not spot any difference
- Max texture atlas size - No difference (do not even know what its suppose to do)
- Ambien Lighting - 0 > 3 > 5 - minimal difference if any
- Scale units when zooming - If you turn it on, and then off, its stays on till you restart game
- Disable Outlines - Even if you have outlines enabled, if you zoom further away they dissapear.
- !! I have tried to force 16x Anisotropic Filtering thru the Nvidia Panel and it does make noticable difference in texture sharpness, So I would recommend you to add this option ingame !!
I have settled with 59 brightness and 53 contrast at the moment. Might change it in the future so the screen is not so dark, but I hate washed out colors and it looks much nicer.
PERFORMANCE:
I have to say I am not sold on it, just at the beggining of the game. my FPS are arround 50. Which is not alot, considering the fact, that game will become more demanding as the game goes on. I also have very good PC:
Icore 7 at 3,4ghz
Geforce 570gtx
X-fi Titanium Hd Soudcard
SSD disk
8GB ram
Overall I like what I see and game feel like a big improvement, I did not play much, but I will and provide feedback on other things later on. One thing which I do not like is cloth map, I think it deserve some graphical update, as I do find it quiete ugly. Other then that, very nice and good first impressions.