[LOTRO FTP BETA] New water effects with DirectX 11

[HeedleGlavin]

Holy SHIT, I need a new computer...

[iAmDeathSpank]

LotRO is by far the best looking MMO out there, its also VERY well optimized, it runs better than WoW lmao (for me at least) its strange, I know

[Sothasilenium]

I see no DX11 water effects here :/ Probably due to "DirectX 10 is on.". Also I don't see why ambient occlusion would be DX11 related...

Everything here has been possible with DX9 for quite a long time.

[Sonic222333]

Dynamic water is better in red alert 3

[Killidan233]

can you dive? :S

[mmorpgfreak1000]

Help the cause! Make lotro how better graphics than Wow!

[liamdudeeee]

@mmorpgfreak1000 it had better graphics than WoW the day it was released. now its the first DirectX 11 MMO out there. it looks amazing for how well it runs.

[PrismRax]

This feature was scrapped. its not in the game now. sucks really. instead WOW stole it. and put it in with cataclsym

[Drragnorr]

@PrismRax uh what? I just tried it, as it is f2p now and this feature definitely is in my game

[darkwoodmovies]

Dayum, those are some sweet graphics. Almost wish I played the game haha :O

[PurpleHoneyBear]

Aww, that's one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Now that the game is free to play, will they be keeping the servers up much longer? I'd love to buy this game once I get a PC that can run it.

[trolltrumman]

All that new strength of animation and STILL NO SPLASH when the hobbit goes splooey ;D

[numerocro]

wow ? fuck wow 

[Ashby07]

My name is Gandolf, and YOU SHALL NOT PAY!

[TheCommanderPro]

looks good

[NiteX2]

I like Cataclysm's water a ton more.

[Dextroyfuller]

So... beautiful...



[XxPeZaTexX]

lotro is now free :)

[tig3rstrik3]

tbh the water effects are not the things they should have improved on :P they were already pretty good while the textures were a bit lack luster

[wonderkingVM]

it realy looks amazing 0.0 when does it becomes free?

[Heleos]

They still need to add a splash.

[PsyMike3d]

omg i love the ambient sounds and the music!!!!!!!

[Pr0rk3r]

I got my beta key from curse.com but it says that the server is Online! But when i press play it says ''Unable to connect to World Queue. Please try again.[ERROR 50000]. Plz help

[GLaDOSrev2]

@Pr0rk3r There is a message in the launcher: World Queue Errors

Aug 23, 2010 04:00 EST There is a known issue with new beta players seeing a World Queue error when trying to access the server. If your Beta account was created on or after August 17 then this error is likely to affect you. We do not have an ETA on a resolution for this issue.

[spasko12345]

@GLaDOSrev2 hey it says that its goin to be free from today but its still not

[powerslayer94]

Wow will have better water graphics ,, this is not as good as wows dx11.. youtube(dot)com/watch?v=K1356z­6Xhxg

[Droogie128]

@powerslayer94 Stop being a fanboy. WoW's graphics engine is a joke. Adding DX11 to WoW is like polishing a turd.... it's still a turd.

[powerslayer94]

@Droogie128 i didnt say it was better overall,, just that wow has better dx11 effects

[Droogie128]

@powerslayer94 I disagree there. The water trails in Cataclysm look terrible. Looks like you have a tail. No splash effects or anything.

[powerslayer94]

@Droogie128 Read it again.. the dx11 water effects looks better in wow than in lotro. this is not truly dx11 water effects.. youtube(dot)com/watch?v=K1356z­­6Xhxg

[Droogie128]

@powerslayer94 And again, I think the water effects in cataclysm look like crap. Poorly implemented. The ripple effects are terrible.

[powerslayer94]

@Droogie128 still better than this

[powerslayer94]

@Droogie128 just look at those small waves ... looks like crap

[Droogie128]

@powerslayer94 It's a stream.... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

[JHRMS]

How about the shores? :P

Are they complete now? Does the water run up the shores?? Cus thats what was lacking... :P

[GLaDOSrev2]

@JHRMS Not that I saw, nothing like in Far Cry or Crysis. The surface is still flat, they just added an extra layer, which in itself is also flat.

[redwire95]

@GLaDOSrev2

How long was your beta?

[GLaDOSrev2]

@redwire95 From 4th August and still active (haven't logged in for a few days though, so not sure about the latter)

[redwire95]

@GLaDOSrev2

Oh ok then thanks for replying

[redwire95]

@JHRMS

yer the new world of warcraft water will be like that but i would like it if lotro would have it instead of wow

[JHRMS]

@redwire95 Hmm so WOW will have the shores huh? = /

to bad they replaced the one layer of water they had by a new one making this water look better :P

[redwire95]

@JHRMS

true i think that wow would have less players now that this will be free 2 play.

[LordHallokar]

OMG thats nice

[calebsvids826]

thats just sexy...even for a hobbit ;)

[Alenari12]

Amazing!

[D0orKnobProductions]

Very nice graphics and water XD