I have to admit that I'm dissapointed with Revision, so far. It's like someone decided the Rickenbacker was in dire need of a redesign (true) and ended up adding a shooting range to MedSci because it 'kinda looks cool'.Īnother problem is the new lighting: For some bizarre reason, someone decided to crank up the contrast to 11 wherever possible, causing severe black crush and making the game look like Willy Wonka's crazy tunnel ride in a few places. The latter is completely terrible in every way and the former looks like they glued unfinished parts of a Half Life deathmatch level to a DX map. The silo is a good example: The original team did not design a way for the rocket to be transported to its spot so the Revision team added an enormous courtyard below the original level with huge blast doors and some new interior design. Many of these changes clash with the original look, try to make a level more realistic but end up making even less sense, or just feel tacked on. It all goes downhill as soon as they made functional design choices and added huge parts to existing levels or changed the original architecture. In the early stages of the game/mod, care was taken to make things a little bit more lively and and brush up some of the more barren parts of the levels: Kaplan now has a small storage hut next to the compound, the bunker looks a lot more like a believable office space, the shanty 'town' in battery park now actually looks like one. I can only guess at what happened during the long development cycle but my money is on the inability of the team to understand what made DX's level design great coupled with the strong belief that more is always better. I take it you're one of the people who didn't like Revision? I would like to hear some honest opinions about it, because the Steam discussions are filled with fans shooting down any and all criticism as 'nostalgia' or some other dumb excuse.

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