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[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Just played dark caustic? I couldnt see a damn thing but didnt seem like the enemy had any issues seeing me. I hate maps like that.

[dervishx5]

Gamma

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

dervishx5, on 11 September 2016 - 10:37 PM, said:

Gamma

then im blind on the frozen maps lol

[dervishx5]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 11 September 2016 - 10:40 PM, said:

then im blind on the frozen maps lol

Adjust gamma per map.

[RestosIII]

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In this game, the one-eyed man is whoever keeps their graphics at minimum settings so they can see through all the smoke, fog, and wind effects. I'm still cursing PGI for causing me to lose 30 fps on Frozen City, Crimson, and Viridian after they remodeled them. My bets are on River City, the least optimized map known to man, somehow getting reworked again and going at 12 fps for me.

Speaking of River City, anyone else have extreme tearing and pop-in/out on walls and buildings on that map? Half the time I'm there it feels like I'm in a barely-powered holodeck.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Any user.cfgs to remove that crap? And is that still legal?

[RestosIII]

Mechwarrior Buddah, on 11 September 2016 - 10:55 PM, said:

Any user.cfgs to remove that crap? And is that still legal?

I thought they finally clamped down on making user.cfg edits 100% bannable? Could be wrong though, since I never really messed with that can of worms.

[dervishx5]

RestosIII, on 11 September 2016 - 10:59 PM, said:

I thought they finally clamped down on making user.cfg edits 100% bannable? Could be wrong though, since I never really messed with that can of worms.

No it isn't, as long as you're just messing with existing settings and not purposefully removing stuff you shouldn't be (like textures).

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

RestosIII, on 11 September 2016 - 10:59 PM, said:

I thought they finally clamped down on making user.cfg edits 100% bannable? Could be wrong though, since I never really messed with that can of worms.

me neither thats why i was asking lol

[RestosIII]

dervishx5, on 11 September 2016 - 11:01 PM, said:

No it isn't, as long as you're just messing with existing settings and not purposefully removing stuff you shouldn't be (like textures).

'Aight, appreciate the info. So the stupid laser modification is still possible? The one that turns all lasers into TAGs basically?

[William Mountbank]

But Caustic is the only map where thermal view is still better than normal view...

[El Bandito]

I use NV on Caustic. Works like a charm. Cuts through darkness and smoke.

[50 50]

I trialed some different settings for the visuals in the testing grounds a little while back and some of them such as shading and shadows make a significant impact on frame rate.
I ended up with a mix of high and low settings and managed to get the game to show the smoke trails from the missiles and the larger PPC effect along with all the nice particle effects and explosions without it impacting my frame rate too much.
Will obviously depend on the video card you have etc but it's worth testing out a few different combinations of the settings to see how you go.

[pizzafly]

The fog!

Guys, I don't know why pgi likes the fog so much?!?!?!

I like to see!
It is possible to remove from user.cgf or with some setting in my video card?

[Zolaz]

PGI, where you add gama effects make the game worse and bill it as improvements to your player base.

[knight-of-ni]

The other team was using the Force.

[Mole]

I've never had any visibility issues on caustic, day or night, and I'm not making special tweaks to my settings. I just use night vision. You know they put thermal and night vision in this game for a reason, right?

[Idealsuspect]

dervishx5, on 11 September 2016 - 10:41 PM, said:

Adjust gamma per map.

Buy one monitor per map.

[3xnihilo]

Mole, on 13 September 2016 - 01:19 PM, said:

I've never had any visibility issues on caustic, day or night, and I'm not making special tweaks to my settings. I just use night vision. You know they put thermal and night vision in this game for a reason, right?

Night vision and heat vision must look different at higher resolutions. On my screen everything becomes very blurry and difficult to see. And, you can't see at longer ranges (I forget what the cut off is, but I know I get shot by erll from "empty" spots on my screen). I do adjust the gamma at the beginning of the match and that seems to help.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

El Bandito, on 11 September 2016 - 11:27 PM, said:

I use NV on Caustic. Works like a charm. Cuts through darkness and smoke.

except you have limited range. I tried that, but kept getting hit by someone using a large laser who I couldnt see even in advanced zoom