Motion Blur

[Evo]

just out of curisoty, how many of you turn it off when playing subnautica?

[Torque Dawg]

it really sucks. motion blur ruins a good game. it makes it go from beautiful landscape to baby food.

[Evo]

Originally posted by Funsauce69:

it really sucks. motion blur ruins a good game. it makes it go from beautiful landscape to baby food.

You think so? how?

[Qille]

I turned it off because it felt like it made my game run faster without it on. Also it made me a bit nauseous. I prefer nice clean blur-free motion.

[Dracon]

Motion blur is never a good thing in games. Devs havent learned this yet =\

[Black Raven]

I turn motion blur off in every game, motion blur is only good to mask bad fps, which is why its become standard due to typical console 30fps, if you decent rig you never need it.

[TheTool]

Motion blur is old skool tech used to hide bad rendering and crappy gpu issues.

[DizzieDawgie]

I turned it off before I even started my first game. Thank you devs for giving me that option.

[Emmagination]

Turning off motion blur is normally the first thing I do in games but somehow it doesn't bother me in Subnautica.

[Evo]

Ok, that answers my question because it seemed like it was causing my fps to drop at times and it just look super annoying.

[morph113]

Although motion blur is more realistic, since in reality your vision blurs as well if you turn your head quickly, I still find it annoying in video games though, so I always turn it off. Depth of field is also something I usually turn off in games, since it always focuses on the centre of the screen while my real eyes might focus on something else, so it doesn't accurately reflect the depth of field effect you get in real life. However in Subnautica I use depth of field since it makes the underwater world look much better with a blurred vision in the distance.

[Glean]

Originally posted by Dracon:

Motion blur is never a good thing in games. Devs havent learned this yet =\

This. I turn it off in all games. To me it feels like motion blur makes it look as if I'm watching a video instead of watching through my eyes. Like when moving, say playing sports or whatever, you never notice motion blur. But if your watching a home video you see it all the time. It also gives me a head ache if I play a long session.

[Saber Cherry]

The motion blur is disgusting. I was playing on a low-end laptop with Intel graphics, and everything was fine (aside from the fact that often the view clipped through solid objects). Then I switched to my gaming desktop with a high-end Nvidia card. Suddenly, the game looked blurry! I had to research this topic to fix it.

It's crazy that Subnautica detects that you are using a good graphics card and intentionally makes the game look like crap by default.

For reference:

I went to <ESC> -> Options -> Graphics

Then I set everything to the minimum, or turned it off, aside from dithering. The game is possibly less pretty, but at least it prevents every other frame from being a blurry mess. It's a good choice until they release a "Don't make the game look like crap by default" button.