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Reduce the visual spam from Cnidarian ship console please
fleetcaptain5
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Some maps are just not build for effects this large.
I've been playing Defense of SB 1 three times in the last couple of hours on different toons. Everytime there was at least one player who turned like half the active part of the map into one huge purple sphere.
At some point I was just considering going AFK so that I could ignore the whole thing, that's how annoying it is.
It is bad enough that visual effects cannot be disabled (and no, I don't need to know what someone else is using, I don't care, in most cases it simply isn't relevant to know), but if you're going to design powers that have 100% potential uptime then they should be less disturbing than this console is. Certainly on small maps where everyone has to be in/near the same spot or two.
In missions like Infected Space or Tzenkethi Front it wouldn't matter so much because you can go anywhere and the inability to move your ship makes the console less useful there anyway.
But in too many other missions (like Counterpoint, DoSB1, Crystalline entity and so on) a power
- this big and
- that's active 100% of the time
is just too disturbing and dominant to keep things enjoyable.
I've been playing Defense of SB 1 three times in the last couple of hours on different toons. Everytime there was at least one player who turned like half the active part of the map into one huge purple sphere.
At some point I was just considering going AFK so that I could ignore the whole thing, that's how annoying it is.
It is bad enough that visual effects cannot be disabled (and no, I don't need to know what someone else is using, I don't care, in most cases it simply isn't relevant to know), but if you're going to design powers that have 100% potential uptime then they should be less disturbing than this console is. Certainly on small maps where everyone has to be in/near the same spot or two.
In missions like Infected Space or Tzenkethi Front it wouldn't matter so much because you can go anywhere and the inability to move your ship makes the console less useful there anyway.
But in too many other missions (like Counterpoint, DoSB1, Crystalline entity and so on) a power
- this big and
- that's active 100% of the time
is just too disturbing and dominant to keep things enjoyable.
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"You need to know what's happening though" they say. We say " We don't know what's happening anyway, it's like we're being subjected to MK-ULTRA", and so the merry-go-round continues.
I had two of those things doing it earlier, on Gravity Kills. Things were a bit trickier than usual.
Sigh. We got an answer from Kael and it seemed to boil down to: It's too much work to fix everything so we've settled on doing nothing. AKA perfect is the enemy of good, and it's won this war
I wouldn't even mind so much that they're not going back and changing everything they've already created. (1) At least then there would be the reasonable argument that they prefer to keep looking forward and releasing new things, instead of looking back at things already created.
But at least - when creating new things then - they should keep in mind that the playerbase generally doesn't like these extreme visuals. I'm not a Dev, obviously, but common sense tells me that it would be less work if they didn't create these disrupting things than if they did. I'd recommend, then, that they save that time.
(1) Though a slider that lets us simply turn off everything probably wouldn't be as much work as changing every single power individually.
I'm aware of their reasoning - it's not very convincing indeed. That's why I'd like to keep trying though, because I'm convinced that at least some (if not most) people at Cryptic share the playerbase's concerns - they probably don't need more convincing, they just need to be given time and resources to create a solution.
In fact I'm sure Valoreah is right in thinking they are indeed trolling us at this point.
That's kind of a difficult thing to do though.
Most players go through a lot of effort to improve their builds and increase their effectiveness. As commendable as it is that you decide not to use some things for the benefit of others, it's not something I'm going to expect of other players.
No, this is something that needs to be fixed by Cryptic. They know we appreciate the (practical) effects of powers/consoles/traits, but that we don't consider the visual effects that come with them as necessary or beneficial.
Please Cryptic make nicer ships, better textures, more balanced rules. Give up the over-the-top effects. Remember you're making a multiplayer game and it's not fun when the other players throw some effects at your camera all the time and you can't see anything.
It's like when you're in a room, maybe with some other people, and some kid keeps turning the light switch on and off. What are you going to do? You will leave. I hope you don't want everyone to leave and only the kid stay and will leave anyway soon because he is not having fun alone.
They'll just shut the game down. MMOs are always looking at an executioner sharpening his axe.
They know they've got us by the dangly parts, it's an impasse.
Then maybe it's time for that.
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