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Please improve (limit) how weapon/armor(s) render visuals.
strathkin
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My Goodness: A big thing to improving rendering/visuals:
╘ Allow you to select the MAX Weapon &/or Armor FX Visuals render rank you see for everybody.
♥ Max Armor Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone from that computer.
♥ max Weapon Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone on that computer.
Similar to how today everyone can choose what Companions skin, so only this would apply to everybody from that computer... So if you set Armor at R8 visuals, you'd see it's normal visuals at R7, and then again increase to R8 but nothing render's higher, regardless what quality or rank of enchantment was slotted for Armor. Or for Weapon's if you set to R9 so they increase up to that but no higher for you or others.
Then you'd not see as many massive bright flashes, overdone whiteness, or many other darkening effects in big fights. It often makes seeing combat far more difficult for many players - let alone messing with rendering many other things.
My goodness Vorpals may cause Siezures for some people; with their constant bright flashes on every enemy hit; especially once they R9 or greater. Dread, Terror, and others cause a lot of very dark area's, and not everybody enjoys the stark FX (bright & dark) fighting as it often worsens rendering of many other things...
And without the weapon/armor FX the normal visuals are totally amazing in most area's of the game!
Still I'd rather just see an option where I could set a max rank for armor &/or weapon FX visuals; or set a transparency to 50%-90% so they appear less bright, or a maximum render rank for each armor &/or weapon FX of R7-R13 for FX globally.
My goodness could this be easily enabled?
@nitocris83
╘ Allow you to select the MAX Weapon &/or Armor FX Visuals render rank you see for everybody.
♥ Max Armor Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone from that computer.
♥ max Weapon Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone on that computer.
Similar to how today everyone can choose what Companions skin, so only this would apply to everybody from that computer... So if you set Armor at R8 visuals, you'd see it's normal visuals at R7, and then again increase to R8 but nothing render's higher, regardless what quality or rank of enchantment was slotted for Armor. Or for Weapon's if you set to R9 so they increase up to that but no higher for you or others.
Then you'd not see as many massive bright flashes, overdone whiteness, or many other darkening effects in big fights. It often makes seeing combat far more difficult for many players - let alone messing with rendering many other things.
My goodness Vorpals may cause Siezures for some people; with their constant bright flashes on every enemy hit; especially once they R9 or greater. Dread, Terror, and others cause a lot of very dark area's, and not everybody enjoys the stark FX (bright & dark) fighting as it often worsens rendering of many other things...
And without the weapon/armor FX the normal visuals are totally amazing in most area's of the game!
Still I'd rather just see an option where I could set a max rank for armor &/or weapon FX visuals; or set a transparency to 50%-90% so they appear less bright, or a maximum render rank for each armor &/or weapon FX of R7-R13 for FX globally.
My goodness could this be easily enabled?
@nitocris83
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They are pretty obnoxious.
Many I see share my thoughts or have similar idea's on how it might be improved above. Be nice if some focus could be put into this area possible down the road.
As with all coming soons, nothing is ever 100% guaranteed.
Especially if they eventually allow us to set max render visuals by Armor &/or Weapon Enchants by computer (globally) so people could tone done the bright flashes / dark area's so fight scene's aren't always this massive pool bright & darkness.
Daily's, Encounters, and At-Wil's provided plenty of that without the Armor &/or Weapon Effects everywhere.
That said, I'd love to be able to use it as a visual instead of fey or lightning enchantments which everyone uses end game. It would also give a reason to get that pack (think zen purchases here $$). It would be nice to see enchantment "skins" for this reason.
Now there might actually be a point in transmuting weapons.
Had been bugged that my cleric had shadow(clad)spawn spikes coming out of him for no reason, just wasn't his jam. Also can finally upgrade that lesser soulforged. Yay!
Now my SW with negation won't look like Dynamo from the Running Man.
If this applies to fashion as well...... triple HUZZAH!!!!
Any chance of a cosmetic feature from STO making it in any time soon? Specifically, the ability to slot Ship gear into "cosmetic-only" slots where it overrides your look but not your stats, so you can have a Borg look while using the Iconian set for DPS or have the
Space HerpesIconian look while slotting a science-focused set for your Space Wizard build?Or a Companion-style Skin Selector, so you can tune your Transcendent Negation down to look like a Lesser if you like that more?
Just kidding, this was news I was hoping we could share soon ^.^
The fact is likely >75% of people prefer to turn down or reduce how their weapon / armor enchantments render; or be able to set custom maximum's for each like choosing a skin for a companion. I'd certainly use that and likely limit most to R7-R9 almost exclusively.
Still the vast majority would likely agree: They certainly don't like Weapon/Armor FX rendering, while switching to fashion. But that's an entirely different issue.
but will be nice to tunr off or a least lesser the weapon enchant...
That Malibu Barbie Pink from the Feytouched enchantments are a real mood/theme killer when you are trying to make a HAMSTER looking toon.....
Send Graphic FX artists to the Less is More school of visual & artistic design.
But if your speaking about little cute creature's...
With great power comes great responsibility.... No silly ELF, not that one! *referring to self*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_is_more
Just sometimes: a little too much, is too overdone. Why the less is more comment seemed appropriate.