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0s now that the entire starting area has
2s been given a graphical overhaul the
3s environment team has decided to shift
5s its attention to the kingdom of kandarin
7s to give it the same kind of graphical
8s makeover I personally really like the
10s area of kendrin like Ard specifically
13s just has so many interesting story lines
14s going through it and the graphics are so
16s outdated that they don't really support
18s it the mood in West sardone for example
20s like the story is quite dark but it just
22s looks very Bland and gray I was very
24s happy to have an opportunity to go in
26s and actually change the graphics to to
28s kind of match the story that's going
30s there the entire art team has this drive
32s to constantly push ourselves to keep
34s releasing things that look better and
35s better that we can be proud of
36s unfortunately there are quite a few
37s older areas of the game that don't
39s reflect the way we want it to look or
41s show the game at its
42s [Music]
52s best one of the main benefits that we
55s get from these graphical updates is just
57s consistency imagine if you're a new
58s player jumping in or even an existing
60s player and then you walk from one modern
62s area into this existing members area and
65s it just suddenly looks very outdated or
68s you'll walk in and the sun shifts 90° in
71s the sky and suddenly you're in graphics
73s from 2000 the standout feature for me
76s from this project has to be the
77s improvements to the mountain range
79s before these really had no business even
80s being called mountains they were so
82s unimpressive whereas now they're tall
84s they're imposing they've got a great
86s silhouette that just runs along that
88s entire edge of the continent and are
89s always visible one of my other favorite
91s areas of this update is ardoin and
93s specifically the market area in Ardo
95s before it it kind of looked a bit like a
97s Fark King lot it was very Square so I
99s went in and tried to add a lot more
100s color and life and Market stalls and
102s make it look like an actual nice
104s medieval Marketplace this graphical
106s refresh is part of a much larger project
108s we don't intend to stop doing releases
111s like this until the entire surface world
113s has had the same treatment obviously
114s this is a very big task to undertake and
117s it won't be a quick thing to happen but
119s we will be including ining the players
121s wherever we can so expect to see regular
123s work in progress screenshots from the
124s team of what we're working on and
126s there'll be plenty of polls going live
128s so that you can help shape the direction
129s this takes and which areas we tackle
131s next I'm really excited for players to
133s get their hands on kandin and I'm really
135s excited to see all of the screenshots
137s that they will come up with and just see
139s them walk around the new areas it's been
141s a long time coming and it's been a lot
142s of hard work but we're really happy with
144s the results and we're really excited to
146s hear what you think of it we love
147s getting all your impressions and
149s feedback it's really what drives us to
151s keep doing these
153s updates