Test Server Feb 25-26: New Weapon Visual Effects

New visuals are awesome! Especially the nashorn/kingdae/zues.

Missiles and rockets carry on after death ? also less delay in damage registration.

Nice visual effects. I hope in live server doesn't lag with these added features.

It's supposed to be less strenuous on the servers. That is the main reason for the changes as I understand it.

Been working on getting my vid ready since the server went down. I think I have the visuals but still need to do the voice part. Needed a break will probably be this afternoon.

I like that you can see each projectile more clear and the area of splash. Looks very cool. My only comment would be to make the graphics more translucent so it doesn't clutter/over power the map and bot graphics, which are more important.

I feel that this is more cartoonish now.

Not a fan of that.

Not liking it. As others have said it's cartoony. I consider it a downgrade but for performance reasons. The plasma blasts look cheap.

Kind of weird that client-side rendered graphics have an effect on server lol ad?

That's a weird implementation since client visuals should not be synchronous with location updates. These should be two asynchronous threads so location is not blocked.

Maybe the cpu is so pegged there's not cycles to switch effectively.

Can't speak to the technical side, but visually...

Is that splash radius I see now? Like this alot.

New aphid look, kinda cartoon like and maybe over simplified now.

Orkan missiles seem bigger and easier to see, like this.

Zeus looked good before, seems similar so OK here.

Black smoke trails, like.

Agree stuff does look bigger overall, like going from the 64 box of crayola down to the giant 8 pack, also a bit cartoonish but if this prevents lag, I'm all in.

Alright, so we all agree some of the changes look cooler, some look cheesier, but over all, NO to the visual changes, right?

Lag is worse than I've ever seen, both graphical lag of the effects and lag where I'll take aim and fire on a bot who blips 200m in a different direction. I rushed center and took fire (ancile covered me) but the game bogged down like the CPU couldn't handle it or something. By the time I could control my bot again, I was dead. And I keep firing on targets only to see them blip way on down the road, so I'm shooting at nothing, wasting ammo.

But the worst part of the graphic changes is the fact dark black smoke flairs up when you're under bombardment, and you can't see through it to aim at whoever is firing at you. You're completely smoke-screened off from seeing the enemy.

"Well, we really messed the game up for most people with the match making system. How can we make it even worse?"
'I know! Let's make it so you can't see the reds while under fire!'

Yea, after testing for myself, I've got to say that I do NOT approve of this!

From either a visual standpoint or on a performance basis, this is definitely not working. The transparency of the smoke effects is needed back, as mentioned above, it hinders your view big time.
The little explosions also look choppy. Even when it isn't lagging they just look like little pictures popping up.
The phones performance itself struggles every time some commotion happens near or mid range.

Creates more lag? I heard the graphics were transformed like this to reduce lag? Also, the view-blocking does pretty much the same thing as screen-shaking, so there's no drastic loss there.

Yea, I really believe that they are going for smoother running game play.

I do think that they really failed. On my end they did anyways.

Yeah, when I was playing, there were Orkan missiles going everywhere. 

I prefer the old graphics. All Pix had to do was minimize some of the screen shaking.