Sniper Rifles lost their elemental lights.

[Director Matchkin, the Imprinter]

I don't know why, but all elemental sniper rifles (save for the barrels of E-Tech sniper rifles) have lost their lighting bits. They don't light up at all according to their elements of RNG choice. Does anyone else have this problem?

[Leopard]

It could be that some enemies are elemental resistant.

Have you ever tried to slag midgets?

There are also bugs with midgets becoming invincible.

[Smaug's Arrow.]

Originally posted by Pomegranate:

I don't know why, but all elemental sniper rifles (save for the barrels of E-Tech sniper rifles) have lost their lighting bits. They don't light up at all according to their elements of RNG choice. Does anyone else have this problem?

Did you change your graphics settings to favor performance in either your gpu control panel or ingame?

Did you install any new games?

Did you install graphics drivers?

Did you install any mods to other games?

Did you edit your game save?

Did you overclock your gpu?

[uNorthodoX]

This is because of the UHD Texture pack, just uninstall it if you want your snipers to glow again

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Originally posted by uNorthodoX:

This is because of the UHD Texture pack, just uninstall it if you want your snipers to glow again

Really? So the textures were independent effect that would have to be recreated at a higher resolution?

And that would be boring and cost time and money.

And gearbox employees would be like vampires if they ever had any of that.

[uNorthodoX]

Originally posted by Atlas Shruggs:

Originally posted by uNorthodoX:

This is because of the UHD Texture pack, just uninstall it if you want your snipers to glow again

Really? So the textures were independent effect that would have to be recreated at a higher resolution?

And that would be boring and cost time and money.

And gearbox employees would be like vampires if they ever had any of that.

As taken from this thread: https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/maliwan-snipers-missing-glowing-textures/2102741/10

The problem comes from the “p_NormalScopesEmissive” parameter of the skin.
Replacing “Remaster_Weap_SniperRifles.Tex.Weap_SniperRifle_Nrm” with the original “Weap_SniperRifles.Tex.Weap_SniperRifle_Nrm” will make the glow appear again

[Director Matchkin, the Imprinter]

That being said: Considering people can modify gun skins, (and have done so to great effect) I'd imagine that it'd be very easy to re-insert the glowing bits without down grading the texture quality.

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Originally posted by Pomegranate:

That being said: Considering people can modify gun skins, (and have done so to great effect) I'd imagine that it'd be very easy to re-insert the glowing bits without down grading the texture quality.

My question would be did they change this because theyre lazy and didnt want to go through the trouble to do it on the weapons for bl3?

[Smaug's Arrow.]

Originally posted by uNorthodoX:

Originally posted by Atlas Shruggs:

Really? So the textures were independent effect that would have to be recreated at a higher resolution?

And that would be boring and cost time and money.

And gearbox employees would be like vampires if they ever had any of that.

As taken from this thread: https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/maliwan-snipers-missing-glowing-textures/2102741/10

The problem comes from the “p_NormalScopesEmissive” parameter of the skin.
Replacing “Remaster_Weap_SniperRifles.Tex.Weap_SniperRifle_Nrm” with the original “Weap_SniperRifles.Tex.Weap_SniperRifle_Nrm” will make the glow appear again

Oh. Turns out I was completely correct.

[uNorthodoX]

Originally posted by Atlas Shruggs:

Originally posted by Pomegranate:

That being said: Considering people can modify gun skins, (and have done so to great effect) I'd imagine that it'd be very easy to re-insert the glowing bits without down grading the texture quality.

My question would be did they change this because theyre lazy and didnt want to go through the trouble to do it on the weapons for bl3?

Nah, it’s more likely the UHD is just buggy. Bullet hole decals have been reported to be buggy once you have it installed, and I’m pretty sure that’s not intended at all.