Low Shadow Quality = HUGE ADVANTAGE

[drswank]

To Forum Admin: Don't move this to the Bug Section. This isn't a feature that will be fixed, and all users deserve to know about this advantage.

I walked into my roommates room last night while we were playing RO2, and i noticed that all the character models (even when in shadowy/dark places where the sun doesn't reach) are glowing bright as if they were glowing! I was like "what the hell?" He told me he turned down his shadow quality to low or off, and ever since, he can see characters like they're glowing bright no matter where they are, creating quite a distinct advantage.

On my screen, with all graphics on high, when people are in dark places, it can range from difficult to very difficult to see other players, depending on how well they're hidden. But, based on what I saw on my roommate's screen, I'll be turning off/lowering shadows to acquire this advantage until it's fixed.

New photos on new maps, at ranges of 100meters:

you can clearly see the advantage here:

Up and to the left of my iron sights:

Two little heads in a bunker:

A more subtle but distinct advantage where I killed three-in-a-row here:

Some older photos of when I first discovered the bug:

 

[Borkac]

nice catch

 

[Deek]

Oh wow. It's not that pronounced for me when I lower the shadow quality. The player models are definitely easier to spot, but they don't glow. Must be a difference in some other setting.

 

[The Algerian]

Except they're not glowing much when you're not in spec mode, and you can't see **** at long range.

My shads are set all low.

 

[Dcode]

Do you have bloom enabled?

Because I use low shadows and the player models do not glow.

I have bloom disabled.

 

[DiedTrying]

this is a known problem (and pretty significant really)

 

[drswank]

Do you have bloom enabled?

Because I use low shadows and the player models do not glow.

I have bloom disabled.

Yes, I do.

 

[drswank]

Except they're not glowing much when you're not in spec mode, and you can't see **** at long range.

My shads are set all low.

New Photo attached. Trust me dude, the russians glow like glow-sticks.

 

[drswank]

since putting shadows on Low, I've been getting first in FF everytime. It's so easy to spot and kill people.

 

[The Algerian]

New Photo attached. Trust me dude, the russians glow like glow-sticks.

I also have bloom turned off, that might be why.

 

[BigG]

So is it pretty much turning bloom on and shadows low makes the charecters glow like glow sticks?

 

[DiedTrying]

This is a huge problem. Just played on apartments a little bit.

Was in basement of propaganda house. I was behind crates in the back near the bathroom and the boarded up window facing german spawn.

I see a german running outside towards the door to the prop basement. I line him up thinking I have time as he can't possibly see me. What happens next? He mows me down with his MP40.

Ain't NO WAY in hell he could have seen me. I was in shadows deep within a house; he was in the sunlight. I've been in that guys same position and could not see the people inside.

 

[kimgage]

My friends, this has a name.. RADIATION ! Tritium bombs in stalingrad !!!

 

[Deek]

Even without bloom it's still noticeable, albeit not as bad. It's like the player models become "immune" to shadow.

 

[Bowcaster]

This is a huge problem. Just played on apartments a little bit.

Was in basement of propaganda house. I was behind crates in the back near the bathroom and the boarded up window facing german spawn.

I see a german running outside towards the door to the prop basement. I line him up thinking I have time as he can't possibly see me. What happens next? He mows me down with his MP40.

Ain't NO WAY in hell he could have seen me. I was in shadows deep within a house; he was in the sunlight. I've been in that guys same position and could not see the people inside.

Well you 'DiedTrying' . I had to use that.

Anyway, I don't really want to mess with my video setting to try it out, but if this does happen then that is a serious problem. Maybe it's supposed to be like Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed.

 

[Amuro Ray]

Seems like a game-breaking feature to me.

It should honestly be fixed.

 

[Mittwaffen]

Seems like i know what some people have been doing, make sense now.
BS that it works like that, should just debloom models and shade them inside a house.

 

[Fornax]

This is a must-fix!
Really game-breaking as some will have an advantage others don't have.
Unless everybody switches to low-shadows...which is a bad solution imho.

 

[meuhey]

Woah this is really bad I hate to see people getting advantages with their low end PCs.

 

[Whitehead221]

It is probably caused more so by bloom because I have noticed in other games that bloom makes the characters glow also. Sometimes it even makes objects glow however not in RO2. I would say bloom is what causes it though.