Any way to make SWToR look like a 2012 game?

And that is why they are able to to take everything out of it. The engine was tailored for Allods in mind. Hero engine was not built exclusively for SWTOR and BW developpers did not have extensive prior experience about using it for such environment.

Also while we're on the subject of budgets... Allods didnt have that much voice acting in it, which equal quite a bit of less investment since you dont need to hire actors.

And it really does help for immersion, but this is IMHO, I would of been great with just our class quests VA

Why are we still discussing this?

We already know that high res textures on armor is coming and that seems to be the primairy concern.

And that is why they are able to to take everything out of it. The engine was tailored for Allods in mind. Hero engine was not built exclusively for SWTOR and BW developpers did not have extensive prior experience about using it for such environment.

Also while we're on the subject of budgets... Allods didnt have that much voice acting in it, which equal quite a bit of less investment since you dont need to hire actors.

Why are we still discussing this?

We already know that high res textures on armor is coming and that seems to be the primairy concern.

The whole reason of all this whining is that high quality textures DO exist... you see them all the time in cutscenes.

Just why the heck is everyone forced to use low quality trash textures just because Bioware isn't able to just have more graphic customization settings.

If i have a powerful PC i want to use it. If you don't have one, then lower the settings until you get acceptable FPS.

They said no such thing. What they did say was that they were going to implement some changes/fixes which would help to increase graphical fidelity in the game.

Unless you have a quote I missed?

The textures are muddy and horrible, the overall environments are super-simplistic (sorry!) wow-like textures, bland lighting, terrible terrible shadows (fine in some places, pixelated and blocky in others), no HDR (bloom lol?) Anyone even notice bloom does nothing when its on except drop your frames? I just don't get it. Even on absolute max with AA and all settings on high this game looks worse than GW1 and that came out....how many years ago?

Is there any way to make this game visually appealing? Tweaks, workarounds, secret amazing settings or something?


EDIT/UPDATE:

Through this thread I found one cool tweak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7RqU_Isw28 This shows that with ATI / NVIDIA (inspector.exe) you can download software to change your LOD to -2.5 that will greatly increase the look for outside terrain and so on. You can also force higher settings to override the mediocre ones in-game. It really does piss me off that I have to go to extremes just to change settings that should be IN THE GAME already...

I would suggest a better video card. The game looks amazing on my computer.