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Old 2012-08-19, 05:48 PM   [Ignore Me] #64
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Re: So, there's weather. What about VIOLENT weather?


Originally Posted by Azarga View Post
I'd hate this, but I'm afraid they will still make all those kewl sight obscuring effects (other than darkness during nighttime) off-toggleable for the sake of framerates on low-end machines. If that is true I can't imagine myself ever turning them on thus putting myself into disadvantage of having my sight obscured. Still will be fun to shoot people while they slowly crawl through the thick fog only they can see.
If they add in fog and any other obscuring effects, if done correctly, can actually improve performance by lowering draw distance and lowering textures of far away objects because you can;t see them properly anyway, so no one will notice a badly textured rock when you can only see its outline.
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