There should be a universal or a minimum graphics setting for Ground RB.

[hsf_]

It's genuinely infuriating trying to play this game on UHQ(ultra high quality) settings. The game looks good and is genuinely challenging in this setting, due to the dense foliage and intense weathering effects such as fog and haze.

But what makes it even harder is no one else uses anything other than ULQ(ultra low quality) because it's still way too advantageous. The bushes aren't missing any more but they're thin and easy to see through compared to UHQ for example. The weathering effects such as fog, haze and rain have little to no impact on ULQ but drastically decrease sight range in UHQ without advanced optics.

I understand there are quite a few people who have older hardware and can not afford to upgrade their system. I hear you and I've been there, but with the greatest respect the video game industry isn't a necessity and does not need to accommodate those with older hardware. It's a luxury.

[LunarGatta]

Yuuup, I don't even touch tanks unless I play with ultra low quality.

The advantage is still insane. This is not world of tanks where graphics don't matter. It absolutely matters.

To even everything out for GRB and GSB, there should be forced universal setting for everybody so nobody gets any advantage.

[Guts]

switched to 3060 ti and now when there's any kind of explosion smoke etc I can't see anything for a good portion of ten seconds and my enemy just one-shots me through it. just disappointing.

[Dadadudu]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

Yuuup, I don't even touch tanks unless I play with ultra low quality.

The advantage is still insane. This is not world of tanks where graphics don't matter. It absolutely matters.

To even everything out for GRB and GSB, there should be forced universal setting for everybody so nobody gets any advantage.

You call it out as unfair and then abuse it yourself and honestly if you need ULQ to get decent Rounds thats some insane Skill Issue

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by Aaron:

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

Yuuup, I don't even touch tanks unless I play with ultra low quality.

The advantage is still insane. This is not world of tanks where graphics don't matter. It absolutely matters.

To even everything out for GRB and GSB, there should be forced universal setting for everybody so nobody gets any advantage.

You call it out as unfair and then abuse it yourself and honestly if you need ULQ to get decent Rounds thats some insane Skill Issue

Who said anything about needing it to get decent rounds?

It's an unfair advantage that's publicly available, as long as it's here and not against TOS, why should i gimp myself instead of use it?

[hsf_]

Originally posted by Aaron:

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

Yuuup, I don't even touch tanks unless I play with ultra low quality.

The advantage is still insane. This is not world of tanks where graphics don't matter. It absolutely matters.

To even everything out for GRB and GSB, there should be forced universal setting for everybody so nobody gets any advantage.

You call it out as unfair and then abuse it yourself and honestly if you need ULQ to get decent Rounds thats some insane Skill Issue

It's not about having decent games, it's about having a level playing field. The foliage and stuff is there to provide visual cover, what's the point in even having it if you can just degrade the effectiveness of it by changing your graphic settings?

[Dadadudu]

Blame poor people who can't afford a ~200€ PC to run the Game on higher Settings

But if you use it not because you need it but because of some competitive advantage thats just pathetic and what joy is there even to play it on that low Settings making the whole Game look like garbage, im playing on highest Settings aside from Grass or the 4k Textures since Day 1 and still get a good enough for me K/D of 2:1 in most of my Vehicles and don't have to play Paint for that

But yes i agree they should remove it but if they did that would probably cut the Usercount by a lot, Russia still has the largest Playerbase as far as i know and they aren't that well off over there economically, several African Countries by now have a higher GDP per capita than Russia

[Jay Akula]

I mean if you like pretty stuff be all means go ahead and crank your settings to the max. But I don't see why I need to turn my computer into a rice cooker just because you like seeing the reflection of the sky in rain puddles.

Instead of demanding everyone to spend over $1000 on GPU, you can just do what everyone else is doing. Play the game in ULQ and learn to enjoy the potato graphics.

Honestly I do not get everyone's obsession of super realistic graphics in games. Better graphics does not make a game better. I rather have a smooth running PS2 graphics than a pretty slide show.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by TheCampingOwl:

Originally posted by Aaron:

You call it out as unfair and then abuse it yourself and honestly if you need ULQ to get decent Rounds thats some insane Skill Issue

Who said anything about needing it to get decent rounds?

It's an unfair advantage that's publicly available, as long as it's here and not against TOS, why should i gimp myself instead of use it?

So your game doesn’t look like crap? I play with high settings and enjoy myself. I don’t think about or care if other players use ULQ for an advantage. I have bushes unlocked as well but rarely use them because they’re ugly to look at. I don’t care if using them might help me survive a shot be hiding a weakspot, I want to be able to admire the detail of my tank without some ugly foliage obstructing it.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Maillotins:

I mean if you like pretty stuff be all means go ahead and crank your settings to the max. But I don't see why I need to turn my computer into a rice cooker just because you like seeing the reflection of the sky in rain puddles.

Instead of demanding everyone to spend over $1000 on GPU, you can just do what everyone else is doing. Play the game in ULQ and learn to enjoy the potato graphics.

Honestly I do not get everyone's obsession of super realistic graphics in games. Better graphics does not make a game better. I rather have a smooth running PS2 graphics than a pretty slide show.

There’s a difference between smooth gameplay and ULQ though. You can still play on medium settings and get a smooth framerate, you don’t necessarily need to max everything just like you don’t need to min everything. However, players don’t always do that, they crank things to the lowest settings for the competitive edge. Not the lowest settings their PC can run smoothly, just the lowest possible.

Personally, I typically don’t like people who have that kind of attitude, needing to get every edge possible to be competitive. It’s why I don’t really play competitive multiplayers games much anymore. War Thunder is one of the few exceptions, but I don’t play it with any concept of competition in mind. Might be because I’m just better than most players anyway though. Not a brag, I don’t abuse these little things and still take too of the team pretty much every round. Maybe that has something to do with it, I don’t need that edge, though I’m not sure I’d use it anyway.

[Jay Akula]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

There’s a difference between smooth gameplay and ULQ though. You can still play on medium settings and get a smooth framerate, you don’t necessarily need to max everything just like you don’t need to min everything. However, players don’t always do that, they crank things to the lowest settings for the competitive edge. Not the lowest settings their PC can run smoothly, just the lowest possible.

Personally, I typically don’t like people who have that kind of attitude, needing to get every edge possible to be competitive. It’s why I don’t really play competitive multiplayers games much anymore. War Thunder is one of the few exceptions, but I don’t play it with any concept of competition in mind. Might be because I’m just better than most players anyway though. Not a brag, I don’t abuse these little things and still take too of the team pretty much every round. Maybe that has something to do with it, I don’t need that edge, though I’m not sure I’d use it anyway.

The only competitive edge I'm trying to get is having decent frame rates and not having so much lag. Every time I try go above ULQ the game just causes a lot of problem for me and crashes a lot.

When it comes to every multiplayer games I always chose performance over graphics.

Also I have a fondness for ugly and low poly graphics. I think it makes the game look funnier. I think the only time I every cared about graphics is for single player games.

Honestly calling ULQ a competitive edge is a bit silly, because its not like it is something that is available to a few select people. Everyone can enable it.

Now thinking about it some more. It is a competitive edge for PC users against console players. Since console probably does not have that ULQ feature. But it has been a while I played War Thunder on console so I can't remember if it was a feature.

Then again this game has premium camo and bushes. And premium vehicles that out perform its re-searchable counterpart. So yeah, honor is dead in this game.