I have an Alienware m17x which is a relatively powerful machine. However, if I turn up the graphics to full, the game is unusable. However, turned up to 2/3 it works nicely. And this is fine. However, I was doing the explore the zone missions over and over to get 15 this weekend. For the missions "find the 5 plant/artifact/etc" type missions, if it was raining, these were impossible. There was a fog on the ground, and at 2/3 graphics setting, I couldn't even see myself of the away team at times, let alone the artifact/plant/etc.
Atmospheric effects need to be tuned down if the graphics setting is not at its highest. Otherwise, people cannot complete these missions because they are just running around in the dark.
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