Shadow Wings R2 is unoptimized and aesthetically obtrusive

theteostar

Rank 1 of Shadow Wings is fine, and I have experienced no performance issues or anything, but once I got Rank 2 it got annoying. There is such a big jump from the visuals of Rank 1 to Rank 2, you would think I got Rank 3 instead.

The new trail effects added with Rank 2 are way too obtrusive and opaque, you cannot see a thing. Also when I'm flying, and the camera is positioned behind my character and the effects are straight up against me/the screen, my FPS drops from 60 to 30. (and just stays at 30, and doesn't drop lower than that, it's like it activates some FPS cap or something) I have no idea how Rank 3 is, I only bought this power a couple of days ago. The effects just need to be toned down so they're more transparent and smaller or something, also optimized so they don't tank performance-wise.

Also, can the default color of the explosion when you first activate the ability be changed from the orange/fiery color it is currently, to purple (so it matches the Darkness set). I assume the explosion is fiery orange due to an oversight when most of assets for this travel power were copied from Phoenix Flight.

avianos

One of the reasons I don't use Shadow Wings, incredible laggy
and unfortunately I found out about this after buying the Travel Power, ending up not using, same thing happened with Phoenix Flight except this one loves to take over the screen and hurt my eyes

If DEVs could look at it and reduce the resources the visuals are taking it would be neat​​

revanantmorituri

I've given up on Phoenix flight: now use holographic black ice wings with Fire Flight and a combat Flame (Back) aura.


For the OP's sake, is there a back shadow/darkness/smoke aura?

avianos

revanantmorituri wrote: »

For the OP's sake, is there a back shadow/darkness/smoke aura?

Unfortunately there are not any, only Bright/Plasma one from the Mega Destroit open mission, the Lava ones from Qwyjibo (and GCR Store) as well as the Psionic ones from worm OP from Qliphothic warzone (and the GCR store aura needs the 10 defeat perk)

Fire Wing aura is also very overwhelming on huge wings i may add​​

redcastle56

Agreed about the shadow wings. Have to pull the camera back a huge distance to be able to see anything past them while in use. Cut down the shadow trail significantly please.

theteostar

Oh, it's nice to hear I'm not the only person experiencing problems with Shadow Wings. (although I wish there were no problems with it at all) I do hope this can be fixed, or it is basically wasted Zen.