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[finegamingconnoisseur]

in practice and from the screen shot the only visibility issues are on the ground due to grass. Bushes still exist and no one is using them to hide in currently. With the lower LoD bushes you would get from turning off foliage its actually harder to look through.

No one is hiding in shadows, no on is using shadows they wont even hide you outside of dungeons which still have their dark spots that are not attached to the shadow system.

The only benefit is finding loot bags wow its like hey lets ruing the gaming experience of potential players who dont have 3090s by giving them low frames because we dont want the game to not have shadows or foliage.

No competitive player cares about this its only the non competitive players that seem to think it maters. Competitive players know the only advantage is higher frames which are needed in any modern game. Turning off shadows makes you game darker too so there are trade offs to doing stuff like that but people will still use those changes in dungeon having a darker dungeon because it gives them more frames to make the game playable and a over all more enjoyable experince.

I would say the game doesn't need a 3090 to run well, not even close. I had a GTX 1660 Super that ran the game on high settings at 50-60 fps. If I were to drop it down to medium I'd get 70 fps easily. Even my ancient GTX 1060 mobile variant from 2016 ran the game well at medium settings.

If people want to play the game with everything turned off, that's their prerogative. No one is trying to stop them from doing so. I'm just saying that from looking at the four screenshots with the shadows on and off, to me it appears very much to show that having shadows on, it would make a player standing in the shadow harder to see.

 

[[CTX] Contractor]

I think the screenshots provided by the OP it is clear that there is a vast difference in visibility if someone were to stand at the base of the tall alpine tree that casts a broad shadow, the screenshot without shadows would instantly make the player readily visible compared to the one with shadows on.

He'd be visible either way. Lol?

 

[finegamingconnoisseur]

He'd be visible either way. Lol?

I don't think you understand. I meant less visible, as in, if someone were to ride past the player standing in the shadow they would be less noticeable compared to not having shadows on. The player in the shadow could still be seen if the player riding past looked carefully or went closer.

 

[[CTX] Contractor]

I don't think you understand. I meant less visible, as in, if someone were to ride past the player standing in the shadow they would be less noticeable compared to not having shadows on. The player in the shadow could still be seen if the player riding past looked carefully or went closer.

And my point is that regardless of shade a player will be seen, or not be seen.

If you really want to prove a point then post photos or videos of this in action. I've yet to personally miss seeing someone because of shade, or would label then less visible because of such.

Again the funny part is when you could disable shadows, the game is actually DARK at night time unlike how it is now.

 

[Tzone]

I don't think you understand. I meant less visible, as in, if someone were to ride past the player standing in the shadow they would be less noticeable compared to not having shadows on. The player in the shadow could still be seen if the player riding past looked carefully or went closer.

They will still be visible, most people are playing with high gama so shadows do nothing anyways. Like never seen a player actually use shadows outside of dungeons which use a different uneffect system which its actually darker if you turn shadows off.

 

[MioMeow]

hey, wanna bump that.
got the game yesterday and i like games like mo2. i played very much albion, eve, dfuw and so on.
the problem is: the game runs piss poor.
im getting 50-60fps most of the time. for all the casuals that will tell me that 60 fps is very good: no, its garbage.
it looks choppy and unsmooth, feels terrible.
with 80-120 fps i would be fine but with the actual performance i got today im not willed to pay a single cent.
i guess i could get this framerates but it seems like we are nott allowed to get them.
i will keep an eye on the upcoming patches and when this will get implemented me and my boys will jump into the game again.
if not..... we cant change the fact that its unplayable.