test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Turn off bloat visuals from ET,ST, and TT, and other buff and de-buff abilities PLEASE!!!
jbessinger0000
Member Posts: 7 Arc User
I would love a toggle to turn off anything triggered by Boff abilities. Like the sparkles on Kemocite Laced Weaponry. Or the glow from Brace for Impact. Of the gigantic symbols that appear for Engineering Team, Science Team, etc.
When I go into battle I look like a Unicorn on some spastic acid trip, not a Starfleet vessel. Kind of breaks the fun, and it covers up the really awesome looking ship in an explosion of lights and colors that makes no sense.
Is there any way you guys can make this as a setting in the settings menu, you already can with toggling directional shield effects, now can you take one step further and make it for the other visuals that are triggered by buff and de-buff abilities.
When I go into battle I look like a Unicorn on some spastic acid trip, not a Starfleet vessel. Kind of breaks the fun, and it covers up the really awesome looking ship in an explosion of lights and colors that makes no sense.
Is there any way you guys can make this as a setting in the settings menu, you already can with toggling directional shield effects, now can you take one step further and make it for the other visuals that are triggered by buff and de-buff abilities.
Post edited by baddmoonrizin on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
The only official replies that I recall were 'they are meant to be informative' even if in a crowd it becomes a solid splatter of visual and auditory noise, and 'complain some more' in order to get noticed.
The trend continues with adding more oversized, longer-lasting, more blinding visual ability effects along with sound effects at an artificially inflated volume relative to the game.
Suffice to say, there is no hope, and we on both forums probably, as with ship sales, make up a tiny portion of 'relevant metrics' in addition to developer-admitted personal preference decisions.
Give us an option to turn off all visual effects from abilities, traits and so on. They're not informative, they don't have any added value most of the time.
I play this game, I buy the ships I buy and get the gear to fly those ships because I want to enjoy flying my ships. Enjoyment requires that I can SEE my ship without all sorts of spam on it.
I want to ask Cryptic: if we don't get an option like this to disable all this nonsense, what reason do I still have to play this game and keep purchasing ships? Their continuous neglect of this issue isn't really encouraging me to keep playing, or spending.
I know what you're talking about. I've been seeing the same thing. It happens in Crystalline entity quite often, probably because all players (and more of them than usual in that 10-player TFO) and their effects are clustered in a small area.
The answer was just more VFX-heavy abilities that could've been made in any other number of ways - such as the Beacon of Khaless - but weren't because... reasons.
Iirc, I read something recently about how it would be too much work because "they would have to change every ability by hand" or something of the sort. I imagine if they could think of a way to monetize that, then they'd probably do it. So, business as usual.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
Good point, I remember that too now that you mention it, and another forum poster (forgive me, don't recall who) suggested something really smart: tone down any new ability going forward to begin reducing the visual/auditory blinding spam.
I mean, with the number of times the topic has been brought up and considering how long people have been asking for less visual spam, you'd think that they would take these complaints into account when creating effects for new abilities.
The fact that they simply ignore it alltogether is nothing new of course, they do it with pretty much the entirety of the playerbase's feedback, but it also serves as confirmation of one simple fact: they do NOT play their own game - or, for the sake of argument, if they do they do it with options that are not available to anyone else, such as one that reduces or eliminate the visual bloat entirely.
Otherwise, there's no logical reason *why* they'd continue to produce such visual effects.
Then again, we know that they use humanoid in a cannon-ball shape to attach the VFX for torpedoes... so it might just as well be that they have absolutely no idea how to do anything differently.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
Some of the visual spam with
All of these effects can trigger things from photosensitive migraines, photosensitive seizures, and motion sickness (all be it a weak form of motion sickness).
Personally @jennycolvin I'd settle for any option to turn off visual effects such as those listed above. I mean seriously, I like the Star Trek ships and ground combat, but at times visual spam of the space combat and even the bright lights of the various ground pets/combat companions like the elachi walker and the Targ of Grethor can be rather disorientating to say the least.
I however can count on one hand all of the games that I've ever played that specifically had a reduce visual spam option or feature. And sadly, even the two biggest communities [Star Trek and Star Wars] based games never have had such a feature. Even turning graphics down to lowest settings in either game doesn't really help much. Therefore, I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to release such a feature. Their logic would be that its something to make others envious of those players with it and therefore, more likely to spend money on the game.
Sadly, I have a 3 of the 4 bullets above and both the Walker and Targ, and I can't use them because of the fear of triggering it. Also, sadly when I'm playing with others that do have them and are using it, if I stay playing with them in a 3 or 4 minute TFO, I'll be sick at the end of it... So I have chosen now to start leaving TFOs when someone uses such a device or skill or trait. Makes the game rather dull to me.
Sadly, exactly as to why I mentioned something similar in my previous post to this forum. Would be nice if they'd change it though or at least make an option to change turn it off on client side only. Let others see it still, but the client (my PC for instance) wouldn't show it.
I'm worried though, in other games, visual spam grows with each passing year. For now its consoles, traits, devices, and pets. What will it be later this year? Skins, particle flashy effects on captains and boffs, or some sort of Q like flash that can be spammed repeatedly?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3660300164025584&set=g.6577364831
P.S.
Oh I was not talking about the space effects like grav well, plasma storm generator etc, just the ones that go off above your ship.
However, that blinding white light I see almost every time when a huge group goes to fend off the terrain ships after defeating the 3 bases in the badlands, that is ridiculous and needs to be the first thing to go.
The one I hate the most is that stupid space tornado. I don't even know what the f it is but it goes on forever and makes it impossible to see anything.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I get the same thing as well there,if there are ships on the opposite side of the plane they don't show up.
I don't have framerate problems there so that may not be the cause of it.
Oh believe me, the last thing I want is to give them *more* ideas about how to squeeze us for more money, but there *is* a precedent: the Mirror prefix. They were all "it would be too time consuming" - "every ship would have to be edited by hand" - "yadda yadda yadda"... and then, after years, they added it for 6k with the rest of the Mirror bundle.
So, yeah...
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
Once allegedly meant for PvP. But who cares nowadays whether you actived Tactical Team?! Big whoop! Besides, the pseudo-excuse despite, the real reason for all the visual spam, let's face it, is simply because bling sells.
While abilities showing over your ship is not itself an issue, their scale, however is. Kemocite looks grossly overscaled on say, Jem bug ship.
Even if they (probably) have next to zero handle on their own game to make this an easy process, go in, one by one, beginning with the most offensive blinding ones (beacon of kahless), set the code to NOT trigger it on the condition an option in the graphics menu is checked.
It must be many times harder to track down obscure bugs than to isolate specific graphics effects and write a line that omits the visual on the condition of an option being checked.
To me, this translates as, we admit to having no handle on our own game code, don't play our own game to understand which effects have or don't have a purpose, won't even try despite the feedback, and won't do anything going forward with new visual effects.
Frankly, I find it rather arrogant for the devs to be telling me what I need to see when playing the game. I think I have a better understanding of what I need to see and what I don't need/want to see.
Well, according to the Devs, it's not about looking good, it's the fact that all these effects give us necessary and obligatory information, without which we completely lose the ability to fly our ships.