Worst units visual design

Have couple of thousands hours in SC\FAF + childhood in TA.
Just come to spectate few games in hope...

Guys, visual design of this game is VERY bad, not graphics but design.
Boxes, spheres, triangles, spiders, dinosaurus, tiny legs, tall legs, fat legs, triangle legs, collumn legs, red lasers, green lasers, brown rockets, stone-form shells, brown lasers, LGBT lasers, CPSU lasers, NSDAP lasers, ... all mixed in one.

Map icons is not intuitive and stylisation at all too.
Whole game has no its own style.

I know what you say - it makes very little sense for experienced player, cause you spend all of the time on zoomed-out map.

But i think its not true, i see what this game have much more abilities and performance compare with SC, but the online is much lesser.
I'm with friends can't zoom units without laughing hard.

Pls make something with this... find some kind of style, not this geometric garbrage. And you get some count of new players.
I want to play in ZK, but i cant, sorry.

With love, wish for the best.

ADDITION:
PS Its ok, what the community does not understand the reason of topic or considers it to be incorrect. Survivor's mistake.
Above, I wrote the reasons why the community did not get 3 TA\SC fans in its ranks today. Unfortunately, to investigate how much it has not received for all the time, I have no competence and this is not my task.

Its called a "low poly design", it is hard direction of art. But there is people who knows how it doing.
Your out of ignorance sarcasm, is inappropriate. Low poly doesn't means ugly.

We all have our preferences. For me personally, the visual design of this game is one of the reasons I kept on playing it and I wouldn't be too happy if it just changed. I guess there is just something that does it for me. However, if you really don't like it, you are free to make your own models, ZK is open source after all.

Luckily I'm half blind, so zk looks ok

I understanding it. I just marked the problem.

Idk how about worldwide, but in my country found a competent designer is much easy than find a competent game engine developer.
Its known common to all open source project issue. Developers never cared about visual design or styling.

Fix it then @SirCockNballs.

quote: Zero-K has no real lore

Yes it does.

You could say the lore is all the planet wars past, the rise and fall of man, the empire, free machines, galactic power grabs, fights between the last humans, the transhumans, pure machines and all in between. and the factories represent the chief technologies that fought and survived well enough to still be worth producing as sentience wastes time sipping on the last dregs of the galactic cup of entropy.

If some player wants to join zk solely for shiny && sleek designs and booms I'd argue it's gonna be a poor addition to zk community ^_^
For me ZK is the best RTS that has ever been created - incredible depth, lively interactions and decent performance on good hardware considering the scale(ye go find another 16v16 RTS that plays above 5 fps) and realtime nature of the game

"To emotions" call + "We only wins from this" + iniquity. Russian rhetoric combo =).
Not unique. Wargame:RD has a 10x10 battles with highest scale and "controlled" units count. And not lesser tactical deepnes. (Good night, sweet prince).
Not any benefit a bit from a smaller community. Name one?

Fix it then RUrankSirCockNballs.

If only i could. Im not an artist.

Having a consistent visual theme requires having lore to explain why your units look the way they do.

No it doesn't. I don't remember TA lore well, but as i do, there is no any good reason why units look as they are. But TA looks better, no, seriusly =) (I see, what some models were "imported", but FFS look at TA solar panel and imported, and throw a rock if ZK version looks better.).

SC also has no any reasons why UEF is blue smooth square, CYB red shark triangle and the AEN is green bulging sphere. Its just soft sci-fi style.

PS im always thinks what TA lore was inherited.

What sucks is feeling like the game and community are being judged based solely on visual design, when there are so many other factors that make Zero-K a great game. The community has put in a lot of effort in creating an RTS with interesting and varied unit design, fluid controls, and tactical gameplay with fewer fruitless clicks and a lower barrier of entry. Especially when the game is free/open source with low budget, and the person judging is making their decision based on spectating a game, without playing and experiencing the difference.

I see your point in saying the poor visual design is driving away new players, but at least please be more respectful in presenting your opinion. You even said

quote: PS IDK how to quote, lol.

just to point out that you didn't bother even to glance at or CTRL+F the formatting guide (right at the bottom-right corner of the text box when you post a comment!), but you wanted to point out you thought about doing it anyway...

TL;DR Sorry the visuals suck. Wish you would have given it a little more of your time.