Wow, the original source is so tiny compared with the overall video, I suspect YT-compression may be adversely affecting it. The black-and-white version, before the corruption effects, looked okay to me but the corruption effect works too. It reminds me of the communications between the Rebel pilots and Yavin base in A New Hope - if I recall correctly the original movie had clear voice when the pilots were off-screen, later editions added a distortion effect (in-story lore explained this as a means of disguising identities, I believe).
BTW, from the very beginning I've enjoyed and admired how all these updates have quotes appropriately sprinkled throughout. I appreciate the effort.
@Wedge009, you have no idea how lovely it is to hear that someone noticed that our titles are quotes from the game dialogue (wherever possible) - every time I write an article, I scrub my brain trying to think of salient lines from the game, then make heavy use of the CIC's holovids archive to make sure I get the line right 😂 Thank you for making my day! I think
@Pedro started us down that route on one of the earliest articles.
Thank you for the positive feedback on the corruption/glitch effects. They're currently a sadly-needed means-to-an-end, and very much a work in progress. I've been getting a lot of YouTube comments/DMs/messages on Discord about their implementation - it's an understandably contentious topic, with around a 50/50 split between people thinking it works and people having reservations. I'd like to take this opportunity to assure people who are critical that, like everything else we show in articles and releases, it's all first-pass. We're literally showing you our progress as we come up with it. Most things are just stepping stones along the path to release and will almost certainly change before we push anything playable out to the public.
With the ever-changing and advancing nature of deep learning/AI, it's entirely possible that, next month, I may have a method on hand to clean up the original comms perfectly. It's also possible that will never happen. Whatever the case, I'll keep tinkering until I find the best balance possible.
To all those who have sent positive comments about the glitch effects, thank you
To all of you who voiced concerns about their appearance, as stated above, this is just a step along the way to release.
Looping back to your message,
@Wedge009, I did edit and render that preview video at 4K - so if you're watching the video at 1440p/1080p yes, the original video will look even more dinky than it already is. On a similar note, I'd encourage people to watch that video at full-screen on a desktop (and force it to play the 4K stream if you can - even if you're viewing at a lower resolution). The scanlines and glitch effects will get totally boned on, say, a phone or if you're watching the video on an inline player
