Effects Feedback Thread (Spells ,Waterfalls ,Falling leaves ect.)

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Russell wrote:

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thanoz wrote:

Love the FX for the most part, keep up the good work.

Got one problem though. Act 2 at the female bandit (akira? asira?) The FX on her little cauldron are causing massive FPS drops. I'm running steady 63 fps everywhere else in the game (3rd gen I5 processor 3.1ghz, geforce 550, 16 gigs of ram) Even after killing that bandit woman and all her minions, just walking over close enough for cauldron to show up on screen causes instant FPS hit.

Hmm I just checked it and there's nothing laggy going on in the FX end. I have got a good pc though so its hard to say if it is laggy or not but I don't see anything wrong with it. Theres no mass amount of particles or big see through particles to eat fill rate.

So im not sure how to help man : /

He just has a GTX 550 its not exactly a high end card.

There will be fps drops here and there just like anyother game.

Even people with GTX 570 claim they get FPS drops in certain parts of Diablo 3.

Im pretty sure its the huge shadow cast over the whole camp from the fire. Not sure how to fix that though : <

Make this fire dont cast shadow or smth?

Its not only camp issue.. whole map is laggy as hell (and its only map ingame that have this issue) - there are numerous topics about this in whole forums. Something is really screwed there (Western Forest).

Its really annoying that i can get 40-60fps in party everywhere but in WF i get 20 when im solo.

I rememmber time in beta when Dark (Spider) Forest have similar performance issues - you fixed that... i dont see the reason why you cant fix Wester FGorest performance since beggining of my playtime in PoE (patch 0.9.1).


PS. In recent movie with Kiwis we saw elemental green weapon effects.. im preety sure that they will be microtransaction thing.. OK. But do you create subtle elemental effects that will be 'default' for weapons like you promise someday (i even give feedback on thi matter and give you examples from Skyrim mods that you agree are col and fitting)? I masking because HnS without this.... you know. Not everything preety should be for cash.
Atm charsacters look just bland and some free Visual Effects for weapons or armors will be welcome. Alsdo im preety sure that glows like this one showed in movie will be one time use or character bound = extra expensive -= i will refuse to spend cash on something like tak (unless im wrong but i doubt considering how extremaly silent you guys are when it comes to this mythical "ethical" Item Shop.

Thanks in advance for any answer.

We are silent about how the micro transactions work because it pretty much hadn't been discussed :P Not because we are evilly scheming how to steal everyone's money War Z style.

With the weapon elemental effects : Yes I hope so. We just added the ability to add micro transaction effects to weapons so maybe this is somewhat related. A system however no doubt will need to be made for this. The only reason this hasn't been done is because our graphics/game feature programmer hasn't had the time. As you imagine bigger things have been on his list like : chat working for 30k people , Server stability and so on. Things much more important than light glows on weapons.

Also I don't know why that areas laggy. I suspect something on the programming optimization end needs to be looked at. I just do the effects so I cant really answer that question.

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Just adding that I do not make business decisions so no I do not know how the micro transactions will work. Though I believe it has been discussed recently.

Ok thx for answer. Looking forward to these new effects and all.

I dont know if someone talked about this before but you will understand that im not going to read 20 pages :D i have some problems with ICE SHOT

here is my spec :

q6600 OC 3.2 ghz , 4Gb ram GTX 460 1Gb OC

I know that is not a high end pc nowadays but it is still good i use to play full everything and my fps are quite good but with ice shot im getting drops of fps from 90 or 100 to 10 or 15 when the skill hits the pack of mobs and explode leaving ice on the ground is when the drop comes , this is even worst when im using chain or fork , is this going to be fixed ? i dont have any other problems with any other skills in the game , just ice shot .

keep up the good work guys !.

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Zaerion wrote:

I dont know if someone talked about this before but you will understand that im not going to read 20 pages :D i have some problems with ICE SHOT

here is my spec :

q6600 OC 3.2 ghz , 4Gb ram GTX 460 1Gb OC

I know that is not a high end pc nowadays but it is still good i use to play full everything and my fps are quite good but with ice shot im getting drops of fps from 90 or 100 to 10 or 15 when the skill hits the pack of mobs and explode leaving ice on the ground is when the drop comes , this is even worst when im using chain or fork , is this going to be fixed ? i dont have any other problems with any other skills in the game , just ice shot .

keep up the good work guys !.

Just did a bit of a fix for this. Should speed it up by like... 50% or more hopefully. What I really need is some more tech... Im working with a plastic toolbox and super glue here : <

Thanks for the feedback

Glad to hear that, the ice abilities that leave ice on the ground were the worst performance parts in the game. Hope you fixed artic breath too. I also had a dropped frame or 2 on Glacial Hammer.

Hey,
i like the realistic feel of the overall graphics and therefore i think that the amount of light effects of especially auras are way too much.
i just doesn't fit so well in the environment.
Maybe it would be better to have self reflecting objects moving aroud the character like some bone structure or a blood puddle for vitality instead of light source objects if you know what i mean.

Next point is stacking of spells via multiple projectiles, fork and so on. Stacking freeze pulse for example is way too bright and stacking poison arrow or fireball reduces performance a lot.
Maybe you should divide the particle amount of each effect by the amount of projectiles coming from one source. And if it doesn't look good you could maybe change freeze pulse to a longer more curved projectile when stacked and poison cloud to one elongated cloud and so on.

Cheers

Hey Russell. I'm really enjoying my Water Nova, good job!