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I believe there was discussions around the time the shrine was added to do roughly that! Adding pets has historically been quite challenging due to players concerns, perhaps that line of thinking is less of an issue these days :)

The original wilderness rework was done in 2014 before there was a graphics team working on old school so they worked with what they had 😅

Certainly an element! Nowadays we have concept artists so we can cut back on wasted asset creation quite early on.

It’s mostly down to getting 75%+ to agree on a visual direction as it’s very subjective and nostalgia goggles get in the way while content proposals don’t have quite the same issues. I don’t believe democracy is the answer to art direction 😅 it’s a classic case of too many cooks!

I managed to repurpose the owl with the sepulchre! That was always my favourite back in the day. I’d love to find an official way to make them pets again but not sure what content it would be attached to that the player base would accept

We’ve done a range of things in the past, from no polling to comparison polls to standard polling. I’m not convinced the standard method works with artwork personally, at least that’s the conclusion I’ve came to after 6 years on the product. We learnt a lot of what not to do with the Elf update, I still stand by it but wouldn’t be opposed to approaching those assets again if we are to ever venture to that part of the world in the future :)

Indeed this was riffed off of the concept made by Mod DBarker for chronicle! We had our lovely Mod Jerv oldschool-ify it so it fit more with our current asset standards :)

While we had a bunch of new dogs made during our last game jam we also had a bunch left over from Summoning, essentially all the dog pets of you can remember back when that skill was released :D I think there’s a bunch of updated bird models as well which I believe are in use as well as the dreadfowl and spirit wolf

The asset Vet'ion currently uses is a recolour of an existing npc known as Ranalph Devere, it's one of the three long-dead warriors fought during the Legends' Quest. Understandably not very well known as you only see them once. It was designed to be 1x1 which is why it looks out of place when scaled up to 3x that size.

It’s because the footage was taken before we had made the bosses projectiles, amongst other things.

He says blue, I say blurple

Love what you’ve done with the entrance! We’ve done something similar in the nexus room, so it ties into that surprisingly well 😄 going to be a tough decision… Good luck!

If you make it own clean I’d be surprised 😂

I think you have a valid point, coming to the player base with a single design of BiS armour/weapon is bound to split people as art is very subjective. I found the process for designing the twisted bow quite slow and tedious (I basically ran straw polls on options until we found a silhouette the majority liked) , but it may be the better route when creating prestigious items. Something to consider when we approach this next time :)

This looks great :)

Haha, thanks 😅 Once tombs is out of the way I think it’ll be time for a nice big art stream again like we did for AKD

Hate to break it to you but it was me. Honestly, I hate whoever thought to have the MTA open up to the back of the duel arena building. Leaves no space for anything :/ maybe I’ll go back to the drawing board on this one 😅

Sorry :(

Glad you're enjoying the content :D

Yep

The aim here was to have more consistent graphics throughout the UI while also squaring up the buttons so they fitted together better. The new button backing isn’t anything new though, it’s just the border of the inventory repurposed for a more consistent style. It seems to have insulted a lot of players though, so perhaps something to reconsider 😅