There has been a lot of criticism concerning beta lately (most of it justified imo), so I thought I might write something positive. There is one thing that in my opinion doesn’t get enough attention (if any at all) in this forum, and that is the new story cinematics. They are absolutely amazing! The writing is great (unlike in the beta trailer xD), the art is gorgeous, and the music is also incredible. Especially the way how the music changes to accurately fit the story in the pictures together with the background noises is really awesome, it really creates great atmosphere and I was quite surprised how impressive a few relatively static pictures can be!
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Agreed, I’m a massive fan of the art style and direction. Love what they’ve done in that regard. And the subtle changes to the opening score / theme have added much more drama and feeling. It’s much more layered and is really something special.
Big props 
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Have to agree, it is flawless. I remember, that after @LordCrash suggested story cinematics to be done this way (at I think it was him), I wasn’t sure. But what this completely scattered all my doubts. Music, art… everything is great.
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It is very well done, but I have seen it far too many times in very short periods thanks to the unstable nature of the current Beta. Wnen the cutscenes are once per session, then they would be excellent, but at 5-8 times in an evening’s attempt to move the story along without breaking open quests… not so much.
I’m sure this will improve.
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I agree.
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Yeah arts, these cinematics and music, all of it is absolutely great.
I cant get the music out of my head for a few days now.
Also, I have to say that this beta have the most beautiful environment i have ever seen in a game. That’s pretty good achievements for a beta, right ? 