It's god damn awful, and you're bad for doing such an awful thing.

Sit in a tank, can't see forge gunners or Swarm Launchers because they're outside my render distance, yet vehicles render perfectly fine at double the distance. Same with Installations, they can see me, I can't see them.

It's bad enough being told to "Adapt or Die" by **** players, and then when actually playing smart, I physically can't see people attacking me because of horrible mechanics. I'm tired of losing 6-7 games worth of ISK because of it, get ****** CCP.

Around 430m for sniper rifle scopes, but the reds blend into the ground. Often times while I am in a tank and turn the corner things will not render at even 50m. They will finally show up after the player moves or a 1-2 second delay. Dont confuse this with cloaked spawning. Sometimes it is even worse with running enemies, which I am trying to get before they make it into cover. It is pathetic to lose 7 games worth of grinding isk because a 50 ton piece of steel that could zoom to 1000m last build cant seem to pick up targets less than 100 m away.

"Waaah I dont pay enough attention and my shiny toy gets blown up"

I do agree though that invisible swarms need to be fixed

One time I was playing a match safe (hey, tanker's gotta make ISK some way or another) where I stayed behind the red line (K8) on Manus Peak with a railgun madrugar. In this match, I could not see the null cannon. The null cannon literally did not render for me. At point B.

I was not sniping at people. I was sniping red name tags.

"Waaah I dont pay enough attention and my shiny toy gets blown up"

I do agree though that invisible swarms need to be fixed

Around 430m for sniper rifle scopes, but the reds blend into the ground. Often times while I am in a tank and turn the corner things will not render at even 50m. They will finally show up after the player moves or a 1-2 second delay. Dont confuse this with cloaked spawning. Sometimes it is even worse with running enemies, which I am trying to get before they make it into cover. It is pathetic to lose 7 games worth of grinding isk because a 50 ton piece of steel that could zoom to 1000m last build cant seem to pick up targets less than 100 m away.

For better or for worse they did the render distance thing so that the PS3's crappy hardware can actually play the game.

Yes! Some times im go to snipe. And what im see? Nothing! Only red dots, distance not more than 300 meters!!! some times not more than 150-200! But, if all from my team on other side and runing around enemy mcc or base im see all what i want, models, nicknames, dots, and im not see what hapend in close range! Im not see enemy from 50-100 meters from me...
This is big problem!

Oi Frame, let me vent, it's not my fault you have an awful mechanic here that obviously needs to be changed, it can't go on. We need to be able to see, at minimum, the maximum range of the games furthest available weapon, so for example, a sniper rifle or Railgun. The Vehicles need to be within the same draw distance, you should not see vehicles further away than Infantry as we can be easily two shotted by AV like Infantry can be two shotted by Snipers.

yes it gets annoying.

to be fair, i seem to remember render distances being better before we got the textures upgrade in Chromosome.

I hate the idea of looking to rely on a system upgrade, but the PS4 is looking good from here. I'd happily take a graphical nerf for better render distances though-because even though good graphics sell a game, its replay value is in the actual gameplay.

sadly its on purpose. i cant find the blue post right now but its been done because "you dont need to see it" and all internal testing indicates that everything is working as intended.

the posts are somewhere in the bug reports section, search for posts about invisable crap and rendering and go through everything with a blue tag to find it.

Out of curiosity, why would a tank need to see the maximum range a snipe does? It doesn't zoom in. I'll drive one, and yeah, that rendering problem sucks, but if you snipe from 200+ meters in game with the rifle, half of y'all are land sharks and nothing lands a hit. (explains why I switched to close quarters sniping if needed)

And god help you if you do it from a tower.

Ah..but then I think redline tank sniping is taking half the challenge out of running a short sighted bit of machinery. But I do applaud those guys who do manage to hit me with their cannons at over 150 meters, that's a b**** and a half.

Everytime I get into the crap tank I use when I get the urge (Very rarely) the shooting controls are a bit of a pain to get right.

So hey, take the kills you get.

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?

There is a pretty snazzy game coming on PS4 that can set render distances up to 6k meters...

Just saying I'm not understanding why a game with so many fundamental flaws can be considered "good" when the competition doesn't have them.

there graphics are technically lower, require a PS4 to run, and theres no reason to fight :P

PS2 literally has no incetive to fight over anything. at least here we fight to inflict financial loss on each other.