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Visual spam out of hand?
mirrorterran
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks the overblown effects are getting pretty ridiculous.
Never complained about it myself but came back recently after 6 months to find that it's even worse and people have been complaining about it for years.
Last mission I did on ground 75% of the mission I couldn't see the walls, my teammates, obstacles, or enemies due to the constant kaleidoscope of visual effects. It was like looking through Geordi's visor.
If it's an effect I need to see so I know where a buff is fine, otherwise it needs to be turned down or off.
Never complained about it myself but came back recently after 6 months to find that it's even worse and people have been complaining about it for years.
Last mission I did on ground 75% of the mission I couldn't see the walls, my teammates, obstacles, or enemies due to the constant kaleidoscope of visual effects. It was like looking through Geordi's visor.
If it's an effect I need to see so I know where a buff is fine, otherwise it needs to be turned down or off.
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I will, at times of extreme spam, lose sight of my mouse cursor, especially since I am set up with dual Monitors (Laptop and Monitor) and sometimes really don't know what Monitor the cursor is on.
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Really!? Beams are fine, it's the unnecessary FX from none physical powers that are the issue here! Don't need to see buffing effects etc.
But why not have a toggle function? I mean we can thankfully toggle the visual shield facings around our ship now. I have that turned off, why not have a toggle for all the visual effects except basic weapons fire and explosions?
Would also increase performance on lower end systems I believe.
We have buff icons, theyre just terribly hard to see becuase of the size. give us the ability to scale those up a bit and were fine.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
There have been a few players on these forums preaching how "informative" the seizure lights are, but since they can't show us a list explaining what all those flashy glowy sparkly effects are actually supposed to inform us about, I call BS on that.
Fact is, it's 99% useless light pollution that's not needed for anything. You can't see individual effects in the sea of lights and even when you can, most players won't know what half of them mean because they're not explained anywhere.
Watch Ten Forward and stuff.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
That and have you seen the sheer amount of buffs you can get?
I'll be on a team in CCA and one guy's list of buffs stretches 1/3 they way across my screen!
There must be 20 of them. 20 tiny icons no one can possibly read.
There needs to be some consolidation like others have said.
And the same for Ep2x abilities, or brace for impact, or literally a million other clicks powers I can use.
Then add in all the passive buffs from traits that have effects too AND all the enemy abilities AND all the weapons fire AND all the area effect hazards AND space debris/explosions.....it’s ridiculous these days.
Honestly sometimes I loose my cursor because of it all.
And there’s even extremes where the game just cannot render it all so it stops displaying your own weapons fire or even your ship. How bad is the spam if your own weapons won’t render properly???
It isn't the first time Cryptic have overloaded their game with too much screen spam. Yes it could use a reduction in the amount of ability activation spam around your ship and others. Frankly these ability activations don't need a confirmation sprite to know when they are active in the buff/debuff tray and it would also help save computer resources, especially with players that don't have all the money in the world for better than a patato rig.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
What we really need is a filter option that removes most of the visual flashiness caused by other players.
Probably what'll we'll get instead is an amplification of the clutter because someone at cryptic seems to think games are better if you can't see your character on screen.
In a related question regarding load on graphics cards is there any truth to turning off damage floaters to increase fps/smoothness or reduce load on some very busy maps such as ISA?
I've heard this suggested but tbh can't be sure it makes any difference or it's just a specific ability that was causing some stutter and later got fixed in a patch or some other unidentified issue.
I am pretty sure that one is intentionally obstructing vision, seeing as it always happens at the same point. Got the hang of it now.
As for the effects in general, they don't hit me that hard. But yeah, TMI nobody (or hardly anybody) could handle anyways, and how often do I see questions like "what is this black ball" or similar. So a switch wouldn't hurt.
Also I would venture the guess that by now there are so many abilities, people not only don't know what effect represents which buff/debuff, but don't really know as well what half of them, if not more, do.
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Having flashing lights all over the damned place just spoils the look of the game really. There’s so amazing looking maps and ships especially look great but both are obscured with spam effects nearly all the time combat is in effect.
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LOL! My Romulan has like 12-13 key presses for a full alpha strike buff up. The bar goes...
>ZOOP!
Turning it all off for some vanilla screenshots makes the game looking a million times more immersive. It’s honestly staggering the difference you can see in a single frame of recorded combat.
Agreed. Simply having the option would be great.
I would love a "Cinematic Mode" for the Xbox that turns off absolutely everything -- text labels, buff fx, etc. -- and lets you play as though you were watching a movie.
I have a very limited skill with demorecord, but if you have more could you make a comparison shot of a scene with and without all the effects? I feel visualization would help
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