Thanks! The images of Arianne and Ba'el were actually 4K images, which is why the quality of those particular ones was much higher. When we create images specifically for the game, the images have to be sized at 1920 x 1080. This is still HD, but nowhere near as nice as if all the images were 4K. That said, we are trying to have nicer-looking images for Realm 2. Most of this change in how the images look will come from the lighting that Tae has been working on since our last update.
We showed a couple of comparisons in one of our Patreon posts, but I will also show one of the comparisons here for ease.
It's the same shot, with a slightly different angle, but the first one shows how we would have lit a scene using our previous method, and the bottom one is how we want more images to look during Realm 2. It may not be perfect yet, but we feel that it is a step in the right direction
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I hope that you enjoy the end of Realm 1 when you do get around to playing it!