Pop up still present at letterbox

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

Please could we have the draw distance dialed back to what it was in early beta?

The pop up at the letterbox drives me crazy. Extremely "immersion breaking"tm.

Edit: Here's a taste

[video=youtube_share;qcQSCiPgfjs]http://youtu.be/qcQSCiPgfjs[/video]

JetJaguar · Jun 27, 2015

Yeah this is a graphical performance "saving area" that you see too often to not hurt immersion. I would like if they could increase the range.

Hurricane Moon · Jun 27, 2015

im going to look out for this myself when i get on later.....i have not noticed any pop in before myself.

Frop · Jun 27, 2015

That or at least some placeholder bitmap until the interior is actually rendered. The LOD snapping on stations is a bit wonky anyway.

RingoD123 · Jun 27, 2015

Hurricane Moon said:
im going to look out for this myself when i get on later.....i have not noticed any pop in before myself.

really? you used to be about 3-4km out when the pop in originally occurred, now you have to be right beside the grating that leads to the letterbox for it to pop in, tbf though, its been like this since 1.1.

deathmagnet · Jun 27, 2015

What is this you speak of?

fruitbat · Jun 27, 2015

bah, i'm still waiting for them to fix the texture problem of the slot when you're playing in 4k, it takes ages for it to load the high res texture, every time i leave a station i have to look at a low res texture mess.

jgm · Jun 27, 2015

It's one of those things that once you've seen it you can't help but notice it every time you come in to a station. It is incredibly annoying and I'd love to see it gone from the game.

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

Added a video reference to the original thread starter.

RingoD123 · Jun 27, 2015

deathmagnet said:
What is this you speak of?

as you approach a station, get yourself lined up with the letterbox opening before getting closer, notice how long the letterbox is just a plain black box and how close you have to get before it actually shows the inside of the station, distance was a good 5x longer back in beta than what it is now (or since release).

deathmagnet · Jun 27, 2015

you talking about how its black inside then suddenly you see everything?

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

deathmagnet said:
you talking about how its black inside then suddenly you see everything?

Indeed.

Added a vid.

deathmagnet · Jun 27, 2015

Hmm, I will have to look for this. Minor issue IMO. Rather them work on other stuff than this. i can see how some might find it annoying though.

Edit: maybe i never noticed because i am usually docking at 100+

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

deathmagnet said:
Hmm, I will have to look for this. Minor issue IMO. Rather them work on other stuff than this. i can see how some might find it annoying though.

Edit: maybe i never noticed because i am usually docking at 100+

I agree. If I was new to the game I probably wouldn't notice, but I've been around since beta, and have witnessed the gradual downgrading of graphics, and it p's me off.

RingoD123 · Jun 27, 2015

deathmagnet said:
Hmm, I will have to look for this. Minor issue IMO. Rather them work on other stuff than this. i can see how some might find it annoying though.

Minor issue that has been there since release, which is why its so annoying, and when you pair that with FD never saying anything about these issues (hoping ppl will just give up and stop complaining about it), it starts to take the biscuit after 6 months.

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

RingoD123 said:
Minor issue that has been there since release, which is why its so annoying, and when you pair that with FD never saying anything about these issues (hoping ppl will just give up and stop complaining about it), it starts to take the biscuit after 6 months.

I've created tickets on the issue (they're "looking in to it"), and keep bringing it up here.

deathmagnet · Jun 27, 2015

Globusdiablo said:
I agree. If I was new to the game I probably wouldn't notice, but I've been around since beta, and have witnessed the gradual downgrading of graphics, and it p's me off.

I am not new. Been on since release. I guess it's just some peoples expectations are different than others. Seeing that I wasn't a backer, maybe my expectations are a little lower. This is also the first Elite I have ever played so that may skew my opinion a bit. Also graphics are not high on my personal priorities for games. Hell I played Evony for like 6 years. 3 of those using a bot and just staring at programming code and reading stats...lol

RingoD123 · Jun 27, 2015

Globusdiablo said:
I've created tickets on the issue (they're "looking in to it"), and keep bringing it up here.

Yeah your just better off ignoring those "we are aware and are looking into it" replies, it has obviously become the standard copy and paste hand-off reply.
when you run it through the universal filter it gets converted into this:
"yeah yeah whatever, gonna file this in the bin, it aint even a bug, were just not allowed to confirm most of the original graphics have been nerfed to high hell"

Globusdiablo · Jun 27, 2015

deathmagnet said:
...Also graphics are not high on my personal priorities for games...

I'm a sucker for graphics.

RingoD123 said:
Yeah your just better off ignoring those "we are aware and are looking into it" replies, it has obviously become the standard copy and paste hand-off reply.
when you run it through the universal filter it gets converted into this:
"yeah yeah whatever, gonna file this in the bin, it aint even a bug, were just not allowed to confirm most of the original graphics have been nerfed to high hell"

I know... But...

Never give up! Never surrender!

Zplintz · Jun 27, 2015

Sorry but this has never bothered me before and doesn't bother me now. It's an irrelevance to gameplay.

I'd rather FD spent their time on stuff that matters.

If anything they should increase the fog in the entrance to obscure the pop up of the in-station details..