New Astronautilus' VFX are a joke..

DynamiteGazelle·Jun 20, 2015·54 votes·2,622 views

@riotvfx Why is this allowed to happen? Astronautilus' E went from being one of my favorite effects in the whole game, to a recolor of the new basic e.

A RECOLOR!

No. Please don't. This is a pricy skin, it should be allowed to be flamboyant. I seriously doubt there were any LCS pros out there who said, "ugh that astronautilus e is too hard to play against plz nerf' so why must you change it? Clarity?? What a joke

Original: http://i.giflike.com/8JOdCeQ.gif

New: http://i.giflike.com/VSy58pv.gif

EDIT: If you read this thread, UPVOTE! We need this to be seen. If we don't stop this now, they'll come for your champ next....

21 Comments

KING OF MASKSJun 20, 20159 votes

Holy shit this is a fucking travesty. Are those gifs both on high settings? Because if so that is a straight downgrade.

TrumpetJun 20, 201517 votes

The sad thing is they did that to all of naut's skins and his base. They "cleaned him up" by removing all of the interesting particles.

KING OF MASKSJun 20, 20155 votes

Absolutely fucking disgusting. I'm going to write an angry letter.

I Main SwainJun 20, 201517 votes

http://cdn.toonvectors.com/images/2/3701/toonvectors-3701-940.jpg

BorblandJun 21, 20152 votes

You made my day.

Ulquiorra995Jun 20, 20153 votes

Yeah. Not only older ones were better looking, but also made much more sense. He causes pressurized water to rip from the ground and causes earth-shattering shockwaves. That ain't going to look clean, of course you'll have debris flying around.

Synx7Jun 20, 20157 votes

Riot and their unwanted changes by the community. Good luck, even if they will hear you, they will still apply it. I feel sorry for astronautilus owners

Silents429Jun 20, 20156 votes

I am going to be fair and say the old one has clarity issues, like major clarity issues, and maybe if they sped up the animation it wouldn't be that bad, but in the middle of a fight his damn E crowds over everything, and becomes clutter.

I get the reason the new one isn't prefered since it's a reskin, cept instead of splashes of water its smoke, rock chunks come up, and the color is different.

Completely just a minor reskin.

willcarry4goldJun 20, 20154 votes

I like the new one...

For CarthageJun 21, 20154 votes

They won't listen. I agree entirely, but Riot's set on doing whatever they want because assholes.

isKOPPENJun 20, 20152 votes

New 1 is really clean, its nice

AuroramancerJun 21, 20152 votes

The old one has a lot of visual weight to it. An honestly, even when using this skin, you're not paying attention to the particles in the middle of a battle. They're just nice to look at while in spawn or jungling.

The new one has less visual weight to it, and helps you see what else is going on when it gets chaotic (this helps your teammates too). I don't think the change is too big of a deal.

DynamiteGazelleJun 21, 20151 votes

Then what's the point of buying a skin? If that's what you think, then why not just remove special skins and particles and just make the characters a bunch of blocks shooting squares at each other?

We buy skins because we want something nice to look at. I'm sick of this game becoming just utilitarian and all of the detail and visual interest being dumbed down in the name of "clarity"

AuroramancerJun 21, 20153 votes

I didn't even blanket all skins in with my statement, I said "even when using THIS skin", meaning, i'm only talking about AstroNautilus. You blanketed all skins into my statement

Of all the particles to get upset about, the little asteroid field is not that much to worry about. You still get the gray space dust, and as I said earlier, the asteroid field has a lot of visual weight to it, that can overlap important things in-game, like a team fight. Reducing it down to gray space dust still fits the theme, and removes a lot of the visual weight.

RetillinJun 20, 20151 votes

Na, you just have to wait for the next skin for Naut that will have high level "particles".

Nuclear PandaJun 20, 20151 votes

Wait, what? The new one looks like a gray recolor of the new classic.

DynamiteGazelleJun 20, 20151 votes

Yup. It is.

KingsgraveJun 21, 20151 votes

I think it looks better

GorgannanJun 21, 20151 votes

I prefer it on normal Naut, just not as much on astro.

GodchaserJun 22, 20151 votes

If I would have to vote anything, I'd go for a mix-up of both effects. Let's not forget: Nautilus is a water-based champion. In his original particals, there was no water involved. In the new particles, there is just water, which doesn't make sense either if it erupts from under ground. So I'd call to keep the geyser-effect of the new particles, mixed with the debris from the old particles...