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[HaRrY McFly]

I have played in the MechWarrior Universe for a log time and come to think of it, there are no smoke screens? Why not, chaff filled smoke screens would do wonders for a Mech lance. Just food for thought.

[Hotthedd]

HaRrY McFly, on 08 September 2015 - 11:52 AM, said:

I have played in the MechWarrior Universe for a log time and come to think of it, there are no smoke screens? Why not, chaff filled smoke screens would do wonders for a Mech lance. Just food for thought.

It is a great idea, but the FPS drop on many peoples' computers would prohibit it. Additionally lowering your settings could bypass it, creating a "cheat" of sorts.

[Omaha]

It wouldnt be anymore taxing then the fog is now. Take it from someone who plays on a intel core 2 duo, and a nvidia 8800 gtx.

[Girth Fillmore]

Paul addressed this when I asked, and he said the frame hit for player-deployable smokescreens (not map baked elements) would be too taxing on player hardware. They could do ugly sprites, but true particles would be a shitshow.

[Hotthedd]

Well that solves problem #1.

Still leaves problem #2...

[Wing 0]

We had something like that in Mechwarrior4 Mercs thanks to Mektek "Smoke AGL". Makes smoke screens but at the time it had serious issues to FPS's and all back then. Most servers back in the days had to restrict them from use. Something I don't think would work here.

[HaRrY McFly]

I suppose you are correct about the gpu drag. However, I have seen other games implement smoke screens that functioned correctly but graphically didn't look so great.

[Johnny Z]

Big fan of new features on the field like flares, mines, sensor deployable etc, not a fan of smoke screen because many already have turned off the graphics for the minor smoke thats already on the field from exposions and mechs burning.

Good sirection though and its to bad some cheating limit the games potential in any way.

Edited by Johnny Z, 13 September 2015 - 04:25 PM.