Hi,

Thank you for the feedback. I believe what you're experiencing is the side effect of an optimization we did in Uprising.

The optimization is about only simulating the characters within certain distance around your local player, which is a very common technique for games that have large maps. The view distance is partially tied to the weapon the player is using since for instance players using an assault rifle don't need to see as far as snipers.

I'll talk to the relevant devs about this. In the meantime, can you guys provide a list of weapons that are most annoying?

I really don't understand why people are so upset about not being able to see players, or being able to see them but never hit. I use laser rifles and since the patch, everything I see remains rather safe as I don't have the range to hit it, nor the ability to see it through my pretty iron sights.
Not being as much of an ass as it seems, I really can see player models all the way across the map. However I usually have to look for them, they don't just appear as though I'm using binoculars for everything. A players inability to instantly see everything on the battlefield isn't really all that bad of a thing. All in all, I'd have to say I'm for it remaining as it is.
Oh, and CCP, please rename Dust 514 to AR Win. At least then we can stop pretending there's a rock paper scissors element and everyone can get themselves a shiny assault rifle with a winmatar logi suit.

While you're at it, ask them how an enemy player can stand next to you and shoot you and not show on your scanner...

Thanks in advance.
Bill

Getting this a lot when sniping from buildings. You have this clear view of the whole field... and very very few people are rendered. I'd say it's been a factor on EVERY level that I've sniped, so it's not just a Manus Peak problem, or what have you.

For me, it seems somewhere around the 300m area (half the range of the sniper rifle, basically) people stop rendering. It results in some quirks like people backstepping slightly and disappearing, and suddenly appearing later.

In one particularly amusing instance, both myself and enemy snipers had set up on the towers on opposite sides of Line Harvest. So, these fellows were eye-level, straight across from me. However, none of them rendered unless they stepped onto the inclined part of the tower facing me. If they backpedaled, they vanished.

Similarly, in Spine Crescent, sniping from a tower in the main complex, the people on the roofs of E and D weren't rendering.

I've also had people not rendering when using the Scrambler, despite them being in range (per the HUD information), and that sort of thing. This is really really really really really bad right now. I thought going to 480p might make people render at further distances (since you don't really need the optimization when the graphics are so much poorer), but it was just as bad.

That is so completely wrong it's not funny. Explain to your community the reasoning behind this. I find it absurd. Not only do sniper/scouts have a decreased scan profile, now they are not even rendering? If he can see me, I had DAMN Well be able to see him. Give everyone the same render distance. Just Cuz I can't shoot past 100 yards doesn't mean I'm I'm not actively looking for sniper bumps on the horizon to flank or point out.

Again, no word to the community and no annotation in the patch notes: 1.2 has brought the draw distance to 200m (absent of Z-axis). This is still gravely insignificant, and even more frustrating that there is no mention of it from official sources. Snipers are still invisible to other snipers unless you know precisely where to look. Max range, using a spotter or watching allies engage in combat, still does not exceed 500m