Let us disable other players particle effects!

3FPS XD

PLEASE add a feature to disable this stuff. XBOX will need it also so you might as well.

Yeah +1, despite I finally have good PC for POE:

core-i7 7700K, running at ~4.3/4.8Ghz Turbo
memory - DDR4 3000
GF 970 GTX

There is totally no possiblity of scaling the engine vs. CPU. And stuff like particles are CPU heavy. This 1.5Ghz CPU requirement on Steam game page is a bloody joke!

I understand that in 2013 having to develop engine from start, the game could lack such settings. But now after so many years, it just makes me to wonder what kind of software developers work in GGG.

I'm a software developer in real life myself, so I could perhaps make some more objective, detailed critcism, but would need more time to avoid being unjust. So let's end it in a way - that in my opinion it is highly strange that there are no particle density settings in PoE.

+1

why should i spend points on effects if other players can choose to not see them?

bolster my ego by looking at my char? can't get higher ... no, mtx are about showing your support towards the game.

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vio a écrit :

why should i spend points on effects if other players can choose to not see them?

bolster my ego by looking at my char? can't get higher ... no, mtx are about showing your support towards the game.

And crash everyone? Like join for trade and rip PC, lol

Will never happen.

They don't want you to turn off anything MTX-related. That's their advertising.

And if their claims from the performance post a while back are true (and said particle dynamic resolution doesn't make it look horrendous and thus no complaints about how it looks) it won't be needed now.

The only pitfall I can foresee is that this performance change may make a solid foundation of what is required for PoE. If your computer still drops fps with these performance improvements, I'm willing to bet we can take it as an unofficially official "get a better rig" statement.

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TreeOfDead a écrit :

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vio a écrit :

why should i spend points on effects if other players can choose to not see them?

bolster my ego by looking at my char? can't get higher ... no, mtx are about showing your support towards the game.

And crash everyone? Like join for trade and rip PC, lol

if the computer crashed due to displaying mtx, its also their business model that crashed on that pc.
that's why they put so much efforts into optimising their client code in the last years instead of improving the handling of those mtx for high value supporters.

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vio a écrit :

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TreeOfDead a écrit :

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vio a écrit :

why should i spend points on effects if other players can choose to not see them?

bolster my ego by looking at my char? can't get higher ... no, mtx are about showing your support towards the game.

And crash everyone? Like join for trade and rip PC, lol

if the computer crashed due to displaying mtx, its also their business model that crashed on that pc.
that's why they put so much efforts into optimising their client code in the last years instead of improving the handling of those mtx for high value supporters.

That's true, but it is also true that one of the biggest barriers to players playing together is that the shit lags massively in multiplayer. But maybe it will work in 3.0 with the improvements. Hopefully!

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Crackmonster a écrit :

That's true, but it is also true that one of the biggest barriers to players playing together is that the shit lags massively in multiplayer. But maybe it will work in 3.0 with the improvements. Hopefully!

This, and players skills and buffs that together add insane tons of lags and drop fps to 0 instantly, make game unplayable at all.