Players with flashlights on their shoulders

eurekamaru

I've seen players in game (usually wearing Omega constumes) that seem to have a flashlight that they can turn on/off on their shoulder, and it looks awesome. How can I get this?

nynik

You can pick one up in the Klingon Front mission "What Lies beneath". Make sure to remove it from your character before ending the mission (beaming out) as its automatically removed from your devices slot (you use it in the mission to light up the area as its dark).

You can collect a few more for your BOs too. Here is some wiki info: http://www.stowiki.org/Flashlight

eurekamaru

nynik wrote: »

You can pick one up in the Klingon Front mission "What Lies beneath". Make sure to remove it from your character before ending the mission (beaming out) as its automatically removed from your devices slot (you use it in the mission to light up the area as its dark).

You can collect a few more for your BOs too.

Thank you

brigadooom

I think they should add small cool little features like this to the elite sets; badass elite specops types with their blinding flashlights to navigate dark hostile territory, and of course MACO guys need lights on their EVA suits because it's dark out in space. :redface:

nynik

Well the wiki mentions it, and I recall hearing it, that the reason they can't do that is because of the added strain on people's GPUs to render a large scene of people using these flashlights at the same time - especially in graphically intensive environments.

I guess they could always try and implement a "Display Player Gear Effects" toggle to kill seeing other people's lights, if your system couldn't handle it - but thats likely easier said than done.

felderburg

nynik wrote: »

You can pick one up in the Klingon Front mission "What Lies beneath". Make sure to remove it from your character before ending the mission (beaming out) as its automatically removed from your devices slot (you use it in the mission to light up the area as its dark).

You can collect a few more for your BOs too. Here is some wiki info: http://www.stowiki.org/Flashlight

Brilliant! I was wondering about that, since I thought it was removed completely after the mission.

sandormen123

Perhaps a stupid question, but what the he... ...I didn't know this when I ran through that mission, hence i have no torch. Can I do the mission again, and get it this (2nd) time?

Cheers.

beezle23

sandormen123 wrote: »

Perhaps a stupid question, but what the he... ...I didn't know this when I ran through that mission, hence i have no torch. Can I do the mission again, and get it this (2nd) time?

Cheers.

It's in a box near the exit when you first start.

I cheated a bit -- I wore my EV suit for this mission and supplemented the flashlight with the suit light, although the EV suit light doesn't point straight ahead, it helped.

tacofangs

EV suits also have lights attached to them.

On a related note, I've been working recently on a fleet starbase mission that you'll probably want your flashlights for. Charge your batteries. . .

cusashorn

According to the STO wiki:

According to mission designer Jesse Heinig the Flashlight is removed from the player due to hardware limitations. Since each player would be able to carry a dynamic light source, social areas with 30+ players could not be rendered anymore with most GPUs.

futurepastnow

tacofangs wrote: »

EV suits also have lights attached to them.

On a related note, I've been working recently on a fleet starbase mission that you'll probably want your flashlights for. Charge your batteries. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_17_Is_Missing

x3of9

cusashorn wrote: »

According to the STO wiki:

According to mission designer Jesse Heinig the Flashlight is removed from the player due to hardware limitations. Since each player would be able to carry a dynamic light source, social areas with 30+ players could not be rendered anymore with most GPUs.

Fortunately, they added a workaround with the EV suits that makes the light itself only render for the person wearing it. Everyone else just sees the texture's glowing effect but not the light source itself.

At least, this is what I've observed in my testing.

lordmalak1

WOW, nice pic in stowiki. Sure wished it worked like that for me, would've made 'what lies beneath' a bit more fun if I could've seen what I was shooting at.

...before you ask- my low quality video settings nerfed the beam.

phantomeight

tacofangs wrote: »

EV suits also have lights attached to them.

On a related note, I've been working recently on a fleet starbase mission that you'll probably want your flashlights for. Charge your batteries. . .

I'll be back... gotta go change my pants...

tacofangs

The flashlight shines an actual dynamic light when on High (and I think Medium) settings. On Low settings, it drops the light (necessitated by the graphics card) and instead draws what we call a splat. Basically a texture that looks similar to a light splash, projected from the flashlight's position, in the direction you're pointing. Admittedly, this looks much worse than the actual light does.

The EV suits are lacking the splat, and unfortunately, on low end, just drop the light entirely.

tangolight

tacofangs wrote: »

The flashlight shines an actual dynamic light when on High (and I think Medium) settings. On Low settings, it drops the light (necessitated by the graphics card) and instead draws what we call a splat. Basically a texture that looks similar to a light splash, projected from the flashlight's position, in the direction you're pointing. Admittedly, this looks much worse than the actual light does.

The EV suits are lacking the splat, and unfortunately, on low end, just drop the light entirely.

That's alright, the splat doesn't actually help you see anything. When I was running at lower graphic settings, I kept trying to use it to help me see during the mission you get it in before finally figuring out it was easier just to go without it.

And then later when I was able to actually play with higher graphic settings, I realized why some people found it useful when it seemed useless to me.

foundrelic

nynik wrote: »

Well the wiki mentions it, and I recall hearing it, that the reason they can't do that is because of the added strain on people's GPUs to render a large scene of people using these flashlights at the same time - especially in graphically intensive environments.

I guess they could always try and implement a "Display Player Gear Effects" toggle to kill seeing other people's lights, if your system couldn't handle it - but thats likely easier said than done.

I'd like to see the MACO ground set double as an environmental suit.

brigadooom

foundrelic wrote: »

I'd like to see the MACO ground set double as an environmental suit.

This would be cool and would make sense, but the Omega set would need a desirable added functionality too if it weren't to be an EVA suit. But whatever happens they should both have fancy lights (disabled in social zones :redface: ).