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[KovarD]

Someone remember when we could draw laser paths on the enemies armor?

What this video on 720p on full screen @ 00:25 secs mark. Notice how the visual damage changed on the glowing laser paths on the Hunchback by example:




Watch this new video @ 0:11secs mark:

You can't see incandescent laser scars on Dragon's armor. I see just glowing red area. Different what I see on Closed Beta video.

Before:


After:


EDIT: Updated videos and images for better comparison.

Edited by KovarD, 26 January 2013 - 09:40 AM.

[Thirdstar]

We can't now?

[Pariah Devalis]

Thirdstar, on 26 January 2013 - 08:46 AM, said:

We can't now?

[KovarD]

Thirdstar, on 26 January 2013 - 08:46 AM, said:

We can't now?

No, if we shot on the chest by example, the whole front torso glows. We can't draw glowing paths like the video above. Now it glows by the whole area.

Edited by KovarD, 26 January 2013 - 08:59 AM.

[Joe3142]

Also I liked the default paint jobs better in Closed Beta e.g. Yellow Catapult.

[Pariah Devalis]

I see small paths of laser marks, still. Maybe it is your settings? I get tight beam scars.

[KovarD]

Pariah Devalis, on 26 January 2013 - 09:00 AM, said:

I see small paths of laser marks, still. Maybe it is your settings? I get tight beam scars.

Watch this new video @ 0:11secs mark:


I can't see incandescent laser scar on Dragon's armor. I see just glowing red area. Different what I see on Closed Beta video.

Edited by KovarD, 26 January 2013 - 09:16 AM.

[Thirdstar]

Pariah Devalis, on 26 January 2013 - 09:00 AM, said:

I see small paths of laser marks, still. Maybe it is your settings? I get tight beam scars.

Maybe the change has something to do with the glowing cats of doom bug that we used to have?

[Pariah Devalis]

KovarD, on 26 January 2013 - 09:10 AM, said:

What this new video @ 0:11secs mark:


I can't see incandescent laser scar on Dragon's armor. I see just glowing red area. Different what I see on Closed Beta video.

I can, barely. But the angle he is shooting the dragon's front torso is not exactly a clean flat surface to compare it to. For example....

http://youtu.be/w3vEtiIuifU?t=4m10s

You can see my lasers making a solid line across his torso there.

[Tempered]

At one point in closed beta, you would see little glowing dots at every point your lasers hit. The game treats lasers like machine guns, so you would see 100's of little dots all over a mech as your lasers fired on it. That was cool.

[Jack Corvus]

Joe3142, on 26 January 2013 - 08:58 AM, said:

Also I liked the default paint jobs better in Closed Beta e.g. Yellow Catapult.

Ditto. I miss the old Catapult, Centurion, and Awesome paint jobs.

[Megalosauroid]

Joe3142, on 26 January 2013 - 08:58 AM, said:

Also I liked the default paint jobs better in Closed Beta e.g. Yellow Catapult.

Same, making the mechs all drab green is an obvious attempt to sell paint jobs though.

[Rovertoo]

Yeah, I thought something had changed. I do think the old beta video one looks much cleaner! But an actually colorful map would help as well...

Someone should make a suggestions thread about this! (As well as the old forest map. Colorful Mechwarrior brings back the nostalgia.)

Edited by Rovertoo, 26 January 2013 - 09:35 AM.

[KovarD]

Pariah Devalis, on 26 January 2013 - 09:14 AM, said:

I can, barely. But the angle he is shooting the dragon's front torso is not exactly a clean flat surface to compare it to. For example....

http://youtu.be/w3vEtiIuifU?t=4m10s

You can see my lasers making a solid line across his torso there.

This is what you showed me:


This is what I'm trying to show you:

[Redshift2k5]

Pariah Devalis, on 26 January 2013 - 09:14 AM, said:

I can, barely. But the angle he is shooting the dragon's front torso is not exactly a clean flat surface to compare it to. For example....

http://youtu.be/w3vEtiIuifU?t=4m10s

You can see my lasers making a solid line across his torso there.

Some excellent laser blast marks there. I'm curious what your game detail settings are set to.

[Pariah Devalis]

Well, that is different. I thought you were trying to show a solid line of damage along the path of the beam, which is what I still see in game. What you are trying to show me is a pencil thin series of burn points along the beam path. The new beam is definitely wider, and I do like the tighter cut on the old beam photo, but the old beam photo is not a continuous beam mark whereas the new one is which is really nice. Maybe they will make a narrower beam in the future, but with the continuous mark that they have now?

Redshift2k5, on 26 January 2013 - 09:40 AM, said:

Some excellent laser blast marks there. I'm curious what your game detail settings are set to.

Running it on maximum. 31ish FPS is plenty playable to me, and I appreciate the extra eye candy.

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 26 January 2013 - 09:43 AM.

[KovarD]

Pariah Devalis, on 26 January 2013 - 09:42 AM, said:

Well, that is different. I thought you were trying to show a solid line of damage along the path of the beam, which is what I still see in game. What you are trying to show me is a pencil thin series of burn points along the beam path. The new beam is definitely wider, and I do like the tighter cut on the old beam photo, but the old beam photo is not a continuous beam mark whereas the new one is which is really nice. Maybe they will make a narrower beam in the future, but with the continuous mark that they have now?

I prefer the old melted metal drawing effect. But I dont know how the devs can make it to be more continuous. I didnt see continuous laser scar on any game before.

The new beam effect is not a continuous path neither. It just make the surface (metal plate) glows where the laser pass through. It doesnt make drawings.

Thirdstar, on 26 January 2013 - 09:10 AM, said:

Maybe the change has something to do with the glowing cats of doom bug that we used to have?

Probably...

[Adridos]

For one thing, textures had better resolution.

The optimisation hit those pretty badly.