Art and Audio Feedback - Contagion skill looks bad. Rant with solution. - Forum

I'm just gonna copy what I wrote in comments on new reveal of contagion skill, since nobody's gonna read or even see that there either way. TLDR: currently it's made to look like a giant bacteria exploding - which makes no sense at all, you don't have to know **** about design to understand that I hope. Make it a field of a pattern that can overlap, this way you give it density with more "patients" spreading the disease, which is what a disease skill animation needs to carry any weight. If you leave it like this its not only laughable from an art-design-whatever perspective, it also just points out where the aoe exactly ends, exactly how disease DOESN'T work at all. TLDR the TLDR: contagion doesn't look like contagion. " Razis wrote: " Iangyratu wrote: The skill mechanics seems fine but the circles in the video...they look so trashy, they don't fit the general art style of PoE, imho. Exactly what I though. The circle thing looks way too generic for a virus-skill. There are super-cool magnified images of viruses, cancer cells, bacteria, anything you want available online to get inspired; why GGG, why? Seriously, when you think about a contagion spreading that's how you see it? /edit - ok I see it now, it's a giant bacteria... which is still ridiculous because it's a giant bacteria. It's just copied and scaled up... /edit 2 - something like this would be way better (not the blured background, just the violet circular vector patterns) Spoiler /edit 3 this is so frustrating, so easy to make it look awesome. Just copy the pattern above in the chaos violet and make it fade out from centre to borders to black, then disappear, same animation time. Overlapping patterns from numerous triggers will make it look... sick, and give an impression of a disease with actual focal points of spread within a population. Seriously, it's super easy. You're awesome GGG, best devs ever, but honestly your art direction dropped the ball an this one.	Posted by Razis#4500 on Nov 4, 2015, 9:25:06 AM Quote this Post
Seriously I can't bear it for some reason, I'm gonna send you every frame of it if any yellow-box person contacts me on this, free of charge, no credit, and you can do whatever you want with it at that point, I don't care. You're gonna use it though because it's gonna look badass and PoE as ****. After 8.11 though since I'm busy with something else right now... as you can see... yeah I should get back to work.	Posted by Razis#4500 on Nov 4, 2015, 9:38:20 AM Quote this Post
Hi ATM Chaos in this game tends to be green but contagion is fully purple, could some wisps of green be added?, to allow continued synergy. Contagion from the videos I have seen thus far remind me of a fast growing mold cheers Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. Never dance with the Devil because a dance with the Devil could last you forever... -I thought what I'd do was,I'd Pretend I was one of those deaf mutes- Nullus Anxietas:)	Posted by Finkenstein#5181 on Nov 13, 2015, 11:57:14 AM Quote this Post