Update on DirectX 11 client?

[Shioban]

As it currently stands, A Realm Reborn indisputably looks much worse than 1.0.

February-March 2014 is the rough release window.

And it is VERY disputable. 1.0 did have some nice areas, and some really nice graphical features, but features can't compare to design.
The textures and anti-aliasing and over-sampling options made the game look much better than ARR.

Please note that anti-aliasing makes a HUGE difference in games aswell as texture resolution. ARR can't use hardware anti-aliasing like 1.0 used inside a DirectX 9 client simply because you can't hardware anti-alias Deffered Rendering in DX9, with the DirectX 11 client there will be hardware anti-aliasing options and most likely a nice pack of high resolution textures which will bring back some of the feel you had in 1.0.

However we won't get the nice animaitons we had in 1.0, but for the sake of the combat system that as a necessary sacrifice.

In comparison (I can't show many) for the most part, 2.0's environments are interesting and carefully designed EVEN with the limitation of the PS3 zoneing it into blocks we have large sprawling areas packed with detail that we simply didn't get in 1.0.