They are developing in the current cartoon like style because it is faster and cheaper to make changes, implement stuff etc. once they are happy with what they have they will upgrade the graphics and release alpha 1 in a more realistic graphic scheme.

It's not at all a dumb question :)

As Matt alluded to, the low poly art style is just meant to be used for prealpha testing. Alpha/Beta testing as well as the full game will be at the previously seen hi quality graphics.

Doing Prealpha testing in the low poly art style simply allows them to have a much quicker asset implementation so they can add things into the testing phases at a quick pace. Later all they will need to do is swap the low poly assets for the full fidelity assets, and since it's already in the UE4 engine it will basically be converted from prealpha to alpha. :D

Posted By Labbe at 4:26 PM - Wed Jul 10 2019

It's not at all a dumb question :)

As Matt eluded to, the low poly art style is just meant to be used for prealpha testing. Alpha/Beta testing as well as the full game will be at the previously seen hi quality graphics.

Doing Prealpha testing in the low poly art style simply allows them to have a much quicker asset implementation so they can add things into the testing phases at a quick pace. Later all they will need to do is swap the low poly assets for the full fidelity assets, and since it's already in the UE4 engine it will basically be converted from prealpha to alpha. :D

Oh alright, thanks for the answer!

Well that's good to hear, I thought we weren't getting real graphics til expo.

No, Alpha 1 should be full graphics. they may still change them before release but it will not be that cartoon stuff.

Full graphics wont arrive until alpha 2 or beta. These graphics are entirely for the purpose of us testing things in a more rapidly developed environment. Also, we do not start testing things until alpha 1. Thus, it's logical to assume that alpha 1 will be using the testing graphics.