A rant against fire planets & fog effects in general

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See, I'm mostly fine with the stealth fire tornadoes, they look amazing and are legit scary, granted they are too quiet for how dangerous they are & they go some places they shouldn't. I'm fine with the tremendous heat, and the difficult terrain, and even the armies of murderous killbots.

No, it's that gods-damned orange haze that makes me hate fire planets. First off, it's ugly as sin and lasts forever. It also throws off an ungodly blinding glare when hit by a light source, streetlamps/ direct sunlight in the fog make it impossible to see anything. It tanks my framerate, more than anything else does in the game. & of course, the bots can see through it perfectly while I can't. It just isn't fun once the Tang-colored fog rolls in.

Come to think of it, lots of atmospheric fog effects in this game have these problems, it's just more pronounced on fire planets. They tank the framerate, & interact horribly with light sources.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

Then don't fight on those planets?

[GHDW]

I love fire planets, they make me feel at home.

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Originally posted by CrunchyDaz:

Then don't fight on those planets?

I fight where the major orders send me because I love democracy and medals. Are these not valid criticisms though? And some things like the awful lighting from flashlights and streetlamps are a problem on every planet.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Fire planets are supposed to suck. I just enjoy that the tornadoes can run over the enemies and they're too dumb to avoid it.

Now if only my teammates weren't too dumb to avoid it....

[KiT2142]

Fire planets suck but it's manageable.

But the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fog everytime is getting on my nerves

[Delta Dagger]

100% agreed. The haze is ridiculous and all it serves to really do is make the game look uglier.

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Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

Fire planets are supposed to suck. I just enjoy that the tornadoes can run over the enemies and they're too dumb to avoid it.

Now if only my teammates weren't too dumb to avoid it....

Right, I get that they're supposed to suck in terms of gameplay difficulty, I'm all about that. I just feel the horrible lighting glare isn't something the devs really wanted (or the flashlights in this game wouldn't blind you), not to mention the huge impact fog has on performance. Also in terms of gameplay being shot at accurately by enemies you can't even see is lame AF.

[Chocbomb]

Fog is my main reason to go play something else sometimes.

[L1qu1dator]

I avoid the fire tornadoes planets like... well, fire.

[Dango]

I like hot planet, I just don't like the fire tornadoes design. They're straight up stupid.

It's like they would add tsunami, and the wave would appear on you an objective, even without water around, because you're here.

Tornadoes want your buttcheeks burned. Trust me.

[Caleb Jones]

I didn't have a problem with them until five minutes ago. We were on the last mission of our op, and it was a basic evac the scientists mission. That means the map is tiny. I kid you not, a dozen fire tornadoes spawned at the same time. Literally the entire compound was covered in fire. We couldn't walk, and the citizens couldn't come out for immediately being burned alive out of both exits. Failed the mission because the entire map was literally on fire.

Getting swarmed by hundreds of the bots too, but that's what we signed up for. Don't really care about that. Just too many damn tornadoes for a map that small.

[Ryzilynt]

Nighttime, fog, fire.... The perfect storm.

[Ferrix]

Originally posted by CrunchyDaz:

Then don't fight on those planets?

If people want to participate in the major order, they're *required to*.

Almost every bot planet since the beginning has permanent fog, haze, dust, or other vision obscuring crap that doesn't affect enemies but screws the player over.

Meanwhile, bug planets are often clear and you can see for 500m or more (barring spore towers and the brown spewers with their fog-generating BS, but you can destroy those sources and get your visual clarity back). Bot planets just chronically have kinda crap visibility with no way to do anything about it.