Why arent Tyria and Cantha worthy of these zone portals...

Just a thought...




*worthy

Because Anet doesn't think it's much of a priority to spend the time and effort putting in these fancy portals with shader effects into previous campaigns.

You mean the visual effect of the portals in Nightfall? I think the old ones look fine. Infact I myself prefer the old ones. I never liked the new ones that much. But I'm only speaking for myself on that preference.

Personal preferences aside, why did they create new portals for Nightfall in the first place? Was there something wrong with the previous ones? If they thought there was, theo should have updated Tyrian and Canthan ones...

I myself like these portals, however, as RavenGT explained it would take to much time to exchange the portals and it would be unnecessary because how many times do you go into a portal and think of how it looks. I know i don't i think about what's on the other side of that portal.

Simply because Old Tyria (as I call it) and Cantha are older. I honestly couldn't care less about the portals tbh.

I think they did it because the other portals were getting a little old, and it would spark things up if they changed a few things in Nightfall. Kind of like how they put in better graphics in Nightfall such as 3d grass in some areas.

It looks like those things are what makes Inscriptions drop, XDDD.

Now, seriously. They should use the 'sun' type of portal in light areas where the other one would not be seen correctly, like snow, desert, etc.
And the 'whirlpool' type when the area is dark, like the Undercity, Torment, darkest dungeons, etc...

tbh.

I dont care.

If you worry about these things too much, you will not get laid.

Wow. Fancy portals are on the bottom of the list next to fixing Danika's annoying voice.

New campaign and the uniqueness of some things? Why would you want everything done cookie-cutter? How a portal looks doesn't matter imo...that it works is what does...

It doesnt matter, it just bugs me. I wanna know!

Just like i wanna know what is preventing me from ressing allies. I dont want to ress them, but id just like to know why i cant.

And so forth.

This is probably the best thing anyone has said on here this week.

Those fancy portals have post-processing effects and my graphics card decided to break in that area so I rather not have them cause i see blocks.

technical limitations.

prophecies and factions are built using directx8.1, while nightfall and eye of the north used directx9.0 and 9.0c.

Thank you for the best reason we have so far on this entire thread.

I prefer the prophecies portals. NF and EotN portals are so in-your-face that they it's hard to suspend disbelief.

And her face. Just, eww.

What he said...

Typical. "Oh look we have useless shiny new shaders, we must show them off somewhere!" approach game devs have that pointlessly upps precs necesary to run games.

TBH, I prefer old ones as old portals look more subtle and not out of place like new ones do. Whole game is in instances, its not like we need huge visual clue like in wow.