Platform, device version and operating system:
iOS, iPhone 7, iOS 13.3
Screenshot or image:
What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:
Modern devices have very high resolution displays, upwards of 200ppi. This looks more like the art from a classic Sierra adventure game scaled up from SVGA. It looks blurry at natural resolution and sad when zoomed. You probably forgot to set up which art gets used at what resolution for this widget.
How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?
It happens every time I look at epic tasks.
Steps to make it happen again
Look at epic tasks.
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Ugh I’m a dork and wanted the title edited and didn’t notice I can edit my own titles, so I flagged my own post to make the request. Everybody point and laugh!
What graphics settings do you use on your device? I keep my phone set to “low”, and I’ve found that some egregious low-res images are affected by that setting if I changed it. Can’t recall offhand which ones, but I know it happened.
Edit: wouldn’t you know, changing my phone’s graphics setting makes those exact epic flairs look prettier!
Actually – thank you for reminding me – the Guild Leader management options (Promote, Demote, Kick) have terrible resolution on the Low graphics setting on mobile, similar to the above images. It does seem pretty disproportionate.
Huh, yeah, this is it. I hadn’t looked at those settings in a long time and apparently I was using “Low”. “Medium” is a bit better but seeing it change with the settings makes it “not a bug”. I’m going to try “High” and see if that kills my phone in gameplay.
That makes it “not a bug”, if not weird that only some things are blurry. I can see a design argument for “there are consequences if we make gems or kingdom crests too blurry but you’ll probably live if embellishments are low-res”.
I think I’m on Low because I was having animation issues at High and this fixed it. I used to not use Low because it made the gems kind of fuzzy and I didn’t like that. But now I remember a few updates ago they mentioned tweaking it, I tried it, and liked it.
I guess it comes down to if low detail’s trying to save on file size of assets, CPU, or both. For file size, I’d have expected changing the quality to invoke a download, and it’d be settable before assets download on a new game.
So I think it’s performance, and I think that introduces a lot of balances. Like I said, you need to pick out fine detail in some game elements, but not all game elements. So I can imagine at some point they played a lot of, “What if we use a lower-res artifact on THIS?” and just eyeballed the difference. Or they randomly decided what was important. No clue.
I’m at least satisfied I understand there is a “why” and I can do something to affect it.
