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Annnd queue fanboy rushing to defend his game by labeling criticism as trolling attempts... OP may be hyperbolic, but tanks flipping out for no real reason happened to me quite a few times and it's annoying as fuck. But improvements to tank physics are most definitely being made since they are currently developing the tanks DLC. Hopefully they are going to look into the occasionally wonky collisions.

A bit late to the party, but here's a zoomed in recording on dev branch: Look at the plant in the center. I can count at least 8-9 LODs. Isn't that incredibily overkill? If there's absolutely nothing more that can be done, I'm ready to put my mind at peace BI

Honestly, I'd be more careful of tweaking these things based on opinions that don't even specify their sound configuration. One day the wind is quiet and the other it's too loud. Here's my experience on the latest dev branch: with Logitech speakers, Windows sound at 100, effects volume maxed out, and wind and gusts maxed out in the editor, If I want to hear wind and environment sounds at a realistic level I have to put the speaker knob at about less then half, at which point gunfire sounds ear-shattering loud (like, actually painfully loud). If I turn the knob left to make my MX acceptably loud on my ears, wind at 100 becomes exceedingly muted, almost unnoticeable. The only conclusion I can get from this is that, rather than the wind and enviroment being wrong, weapons in this game are too realistically loud. So instead of costantly tweaking enviroment audio, maybe the audio team should look into weapon loudness. (Before someone goes realism and yadda yadda yadda, that doesn't mean my ears should be in pain when playing this game. If you want realistic gun loudness, try firing a gun IRL without ear protection and see how fun it is for your ear health). One thing I like to do to test sound balance in games is to use Windows equalization, which does a good job of increasing quiet sounds and reducing loud ones. With it on, firing a weapon in this game makes all the other sounds go virtually silent for a good 6-7 seconds, which doesn't happen in any other FPS I've tried (e.g. Battlefield, CS:GO). There are many examples of loud sounds in this game, worst offenders being the coaxial gun on the Slammer (which has been mentioned a few times in this thread), or even worse, the minigun on the Blackfoot. Firing that thing is painful even with equalization. This, to me, is indicative of something being quite wrong with the overall loudness of the game and maybe needs some looking into.

This I think is a good idea. I play on 12 km terrain distance no problem in SP, I hate it so much when a server imposes me an ugly 2 km view distance in MP. In cases like this, client preferences should come above server-enforced settings.

25 to 30 FPS from 1.46 until now, GJ Bohemia

Yeah, and the way you do that is by making 64 bit the default in the development version, which is meant specifically for testing new stuff until it breaks.

Playing at 12k terrain distance and 1.2k object distance. Stutters when zooming in are virtually non-existent now (finally!) and performance feels smoother all around. By the way, I think the default option in the launcher should be 64-bit not 32. People will certainly miss this otherwise.

Speaking of that, do you guys also plan to ditch 32 bit support sometime in the future? I'm no expert, but I imagine that having to manage 2 .exes could get troublesome. And considering that 90% of Steam players are on 64 bits, I don't think there's any real point in keeping it, once the 64 bits version is nice and stable.

Now that the LOD switching is mostly much smoother than before, putting object quality to LOW seems to result in much lower impact on graphics quality, given that the lower poly LODs are better hidden by the new tech. This setting can result in a very high amount of stuttering/frame-pacing issues, especially on HDDs. I think the devs have a chance here to make the game run smoother across the board by tweaking the object quality settings. Ultra doesn't seem to be needed anymore, at least to me.

What particle settings and what GPU?

I've seen AI squad leaders making a stop sign with the hand when there is a contact nearby.

Pretty sure it happens in stable too. To be honest I'm not sure if it's really an issue or it's intended to simulate signal losing power over distance, because I found it pretty cool.

I hate when the game can't decide whether to use a LOD or another for a split second. Honestly if they fix the flickering they have already resolved a big part of the issue.

Tell me which picture has an official map

HBAO+ was perfect before the visual update, now it sticks out way too much, both in interiors and exteriors. I switched back to the old HDAO and it's just better right now.

I doubled my view distance from 6000 to 12000 and my object distance from 1500 to 2500 and the FPS has stayed pretty much the same if not somewhat better. GG Bohemia. Only problem still lingering is the small FPS freezes when loading objects. HDD is costantly working when playing this game.

Holy shit the nerve of some people. 1. The lighting was tweaked to look good on the only officially supported maps and not on old maps from previous games. Bohemia doesn't have to make sure modded in maps look good, modders have to, and if you think otherwise you're completely out of touch with reality, so you coming with this "I diserve attention!11" attitude makes you look like nothing more than a fool. 2. The changes are not something you can turn on/off at the flick of a switch. 2. You cannot honestly believe that the extremely washed out sky in the first pic looks any good in comparison to the sky in the second pic. You even failed to take the second pic at the same location and time.

The problem isn't just the aggressive LOD switching but also the LOD flickering. When you approach an object at a certain speed, sometimes it can't decide whether to use a LOD or another, resulting in fast flickering between different LODs for a second. I notice it a lot with rocks and grass. I sincerely hope Tanoa won't have as many noticeable LOD issues as Altis and Stratis. The reveal video left me hopeful because I couldn't notice any serious LOD switching with the grass.

Can confirm that HBAO+ doesn't look good now. It was perfect pre-upgrade, now it seems that it hasn't been tweaked for the new lighting and it darkens way too much. I actually get an overall better looking image by switching back to the old HDAO.

Sometimes the task "Upload Schematics" doesn't appear the first time you pick up the schematics. Just happened on EndGame Selakano. The task appeared once the schematics were dropped and picked up again.

I'm getting strange streching lines from shadows. They come from soldiers the most. Seems to only happen with stencil shadows. Disabling shadows removes them, but I don't want to play with no shadows. GPU is Palit GTX 750 Ti, using latest drivers (337.88) Tried verifying game files, didn't work. 1.http://i58.tinypic.com/mcvj1e.jpg (458 kB) 2.http://i60.tinypic.com/md09yc.jpg (307 kB) 3.http://i58.tinypic.com/1ibv2p.jpg (446 kB) 4.http://i58.tinypic.com/156bntl.jpg (434 kB) Might be a bit hard to notice in the pics, but it's there. It's very noticeable in pic 4. Help would be kindly appreciated.

Explosions are still muffled inside buildings (when you are inside as well). Same with glass being shattered by gunfire and AI talking. I'm making an indoor scenario, and those three issues are really noticeable and immersion breaking.

Still, I don't think 0 specularity is any realistic. What I'm asking is just a very slight reflection at least, because what we have now is none at all with some objects. I don't think there's any object that is able to absorb all specularity. I get what you mean, when there's a dirt road I don't see a huge reflection like in the examples, but I can still clearly make out little pebbles that reflect the sun. Same with the sand, it's not a very reflective material, but how many times have we noticed little grains of sand reflecting sunlight as we walk on the beach..

Right now my pet peeve with the visuals is the lack of specularity with certain objects. Things like roads have absolutely no specular, which holds back the graphics a lot. I think it's a very important effect in giving the scene a more believable 3D look. You can see this problem in the official comparison: Compare the brightness of the in-game road and the real one. Not very visible, but you should notice how much more bland and poorly shaded the in-game road looks. What's not happening right now in the game is this: Most objects in the game have specularity, but not everything for some reason. Look at this video shot in Kavala pier: The video is a bit compressed, but notice how the pier properly reflects the sun through the shadows, giving a nice 3D feel, but once you get to the sidewalk and road, there is not even a slight hint of reflection. Which leads to situations like this: The sun is directly shining on the road, but does it seem like it at all? It's like the road is almost shadowed, when it really isn't. Big problem in my opinion.

The sea doesn't reflect sky color and clouds at all. Bug/known limitation?