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Steel

Nov 4, 2023 @ 1:55pm

render distance

The draw distance in the game is disgusting. When you fly in the air, you see huge pieces of the map, along with trees and stones, appear before your eyes a couple of kilometers away from you, and all the settings are epic. Underwater, the rendering range is 10 meters, beyond that it’s cloudy and nothing is visible. Developers, are you crazy or am I missing something!? How much on the old version of the engine everything was perfectly visible underwater and there were no graphical bugs underwater, if you look at its surface from the bottom up, and the rendering range during flight was also higher due to sprite 2D models, which although created the illusion of objects in the distance. And now there is nothing there at all, just bare mountains and textures. It's just a shame

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Palicai

Nov 4, 2023 @ 1:56pm

shadows on low clears the water, HLOD setting off makes the distant landscape total ass.

play with those 2.

Steel

Nov 4, 2023 @ 2:01pm

Originally posted by Elden:
shadows on low clears the water, HLOD setting off makes the distant landscape total ass.

play with those 2.

And what does shadow have to do with it, when the water has no transparency, at a depth of 20 meters you can’t see anything 10 meters in front of you. I have all the settings set to maximum, and those on the right too, and the increment range on the eagle is 2-3 km, everything that appears further out of the air right before our eyes during the flight, if you look through a telescope, the mountains have neither stones nor trees nor textures and they try to cover it all up with widespread fog, but through it you can see that there is nothing there. And I repeat that this was not the case in the original ark, there the entire island was visible from the maximum height, it’s just that the objects in the distance were 2D, but now there is NOTHING there. If you don't understand what you mean, sit on an eagle and fly as high as possible and you will see

Palicai

Nov 4, 2023 @ 2:03pm

Originally posted by Deep space:
Originally posted by Elden:
shadows on low clears the water, HLOD setting off makes the distant landscape total ass.

play with those 2.
And what does shadow have to do with it, when the water has no transparency, at a depth of 20 meters you can’t see anything 10 meters in front of you. I have all the settings set to maximum, and those on the right too, and the increment range on the eagle is 2-3 km, everything that appears further out of the air right before our eyes during the flight, if you look through a telescope, the mountains have neither stones nor trees nor textures and they try to cover it all up with widespread fog, but through it you can see that there is nothing there. And I repeat that this was not the case in the original ark, there the entire island was visible from the maximum height, it’s just that the objects in the distance were 2D, but now there is NOTHING there. If you don't understand what you mean, sit on an eagle and fly as high as possible and you will see

the sahdow setting controls the underwater fog.

just try it, dont ask ME, didnt make this.

Steel

Nov 4, 2023 @ 2:19pm

Originally posted by Elden:
Originally posted by Deep space:
And what does shadow have to do with it, when the water has no transparency, at a depth of 20 meters you can’t see anything 10 meters in front of you. I have all the settings set to maximum, and those on the right too, and the increment range on the eagle is 2-3 km, everything that appears further out of the air right before our eyes during the flight, if you look through a telescope, the mountains have neither stones nor trees nor textures and they try to cover it all up with widespread fog, but through it you can see that there is nothing there. And I repeat that this was not the case in the original ark, there the entire island was visible from the maximum height, it’s just that the objects in the distance were 2D, but now there is NOTHING there. If you don't understand what you mean, sit on an eagle and fly as high as possible and you will see

the sahdow setting controls the underwater fog.

just try it, dont ask ME, didnt make this.

yes, I checked in low shadows the water is cleared. It cleanses so much that it feels like it disappears altogether and you don’t dive, but fly in the air, and not under water. At low and medium shadow settings, everything under water is visible as if it were not there; at high and epic shadow settings, nothing can be seen under water 10 meters from the character. Which once again shows that crooked developers cannot even bring this aspect of the game to working condition. When they have water ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tied to the shadows, where has this been seen? Do you even know that they don’t have a single artificial light source that casts light around them, not even lanterns, except for the torch of the main character?! This is in a 2023 game on the most advanced engine at the moment, the unreal engine 5.2. When you turn on the torch, it reduces FPS on epic settings by 10 frames, what kind of crap is this?! Moreover, in the past, the arch with lighting from artificial light sources had no problems on the old version, but in the new one it doesn’t work at all. And I can list dozens of such graphical bugs that I found during 70 hours of play.

Veeshan

Nov 4, 2023 @ 2:23pm

Interesting, I've just been noticing on my very low end barely tolerable rig, 2060, that I DIDN'T notice the same kind of crazy pop in that I did even on Epic in evolved. Another thing I noted especially was that the water was very clear for a long distance, I can actually usually see the literal bottom of the sea from the beach. I wonder if it has something to do with the lighting.