Grass

[AdorraEloom]

Most of the "Grass" and texture pictures we are seeing are alpha/beta stages, I would assume most of the textures are not finalized yet, as alpha/beta focuses on server stress and glitches, no real point in adding every single detail/texture into an alpha version (Reducing Download Size) when the goal is to test the server stress. I could be wrong I'm no gaming programmer but that's just what I would do if I was a programmer.

[Altena]

Most of the "Grass" and texture pictures we are seeing are alpha/beta stages, I would assume most of the textures are not finalized yet, as alpha/beta focuses on server stress and glitches, no real point in adding every single detail/texture into an alpha version (Reducing Download Size) when the goal is to test the server stress. I could be wrong I'm no gaming programmer but that's just what I would do if I was a programmer.

Correct me if I am wrong but part of alpha/beta testing is not just "server" side, but also player side - getting min/recommended specs for the released game, etc. One would imagine stuff like the density of rendered polygons on the screen make a difference.

That and I doubt the devs would remove grass just to make a test client a bit smaller to download.

What you see is probably what we will get. Any changes on this would probably be made based on community opinion / system req / server stress.

Again, I am no programmer.