It is easy to know if you play Railed map for example. There are very good position on train hangar’s roof where you can see half of the map and on low settings there is no leaf on trees. Also you can perfectly see Pred running and climbing trees from real far distance and can easy snipe him from Sarz50 sniper rifle. With Jautjas Bane buff in last patch it really painfull for pred. If you good enough in headshotting you need 2 shots to destroy Preds Mask. Game over.
The only solution what I see here is make Pred totally invisible on far distances. For high graphic settings it will be nothing because you cannot see because there are trees and folliage obstacles anyway. But for low settings it will cancel low settings " legal wallhacks"
Low graphics+sniper abusing
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Why assume hes lying? What info do you have in this case?
Not asking sarcastically btw. What do you know that I dont lol.
Unfortunately I’m playing solo so I cannot test it by myself. The issue here is that on a distance, when you have low graphics, predator is nearly visible(like on my screenshots above). You can easy see him when he’s jumping on trees. This can be spotted on a hangars map.
Hey just a heads up, I snipe on ps4, and I can see pred across the map on derailed. Which is why I love the roof tops.
Low graphics make it worse, however, the real problem is that predators cloak doesnt register the background properly in some locations, so the pred glows blue and looks like a walking lightbulb.
It needs fixing but uh ya. Illfonic clearly favors the ft, so I doubt it will ever get fixed.
I judge by the way he is telling the events and by how many people assuming that good aim = exploits. I also seem to have this need for evidence to believe people. Just read his reply to me. What he is saying there I can do myself with stuff on medium.
When you have more or less good graphics cloak is normal. It’s not perfect, but still sometimes you can lost him among the trees. I would make him more transperent and add more registr to background.
Finally someone who understand the situation. Thank you, ma boy
Also, for my opinion without bullet drops dniper are OP now. And it’s sad
In the second pic he is clearly leaping
The first looks like he’s crouching
Yeah I agree it looks very strange that Predators weapons have ballistics, projectile speed and even hitboxes so you need really good aiming when shoot moving target but all FT weapons its just like hitscan AKA CSGO weapons with “speed of light” bullets
Even then you end up looking like a walking lightbulb. It needs fixing.
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Man there are no difference in cloacking pred based on graphic settings, total invisibility is bullshit and broken. It’s a presator game ok, but it’s not a single player, accept the fact that you play against other players, and they can be (sometimes) very very good, and kill you.
BUT THE LOOKING LIKE WALKING LIGHTBULB NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
YOU LITERALLY GLOW BLUE SOMETIMES.
idk I feel pred is to easy to be seen when cloak is active at a distance.
Its bullshit.
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omg, u can just test it by yourself. There is no difference only when he’s near you or for exmaple in 10 meters. But when he’s far enough and jumping on trees he becomes almost visible. He has more contrast, he’s more darker than trees. Also on low graphics you don’t have any leafs on a screen so you easy can see him
I know what you mean, but I had it also with high settings , thats what I meant.
Yes. On the second pic it does look like movement. On the first one it looks like he’s not moving. I remember a thread about this from not too long ago, by @JelouGaming , and I think the consensus was that pred was more easily seen in the distance. Then I watch the videos by @Draedark and it seemed that pred was invisible at high setting while standing still and very slightly visible at low. Though one point to make is that at high setting standing still visibility was tested against foliage, while at low against the whiter sky background, so it’s not and equal assessment. It definitely didn’t look like the pics present here.
I think there is an advantage. It’s a very slight and situational on in my opinion. That doesn’t excuse it but I’m not sure if I can attribute it to wins/losses. I’m leaning on thread by @Draedark - Science! Is predator cloak broken. Video there show that moving predator is visible on both settings. He is slightly visible when standing still on low graphics and seems to be invisible when standing still on hight graphics. This would give pred an element of surprise if he was just waiting at some location for the FT and would unload a few shots at them. After that I presume they would track his location. Once that is done and predator is on the move, cloak is not that much a factor as he will be visible at both setting. Otherwise, FT snipers will be able to see pred approaching at either setting. This advantage is also a bit diminished from the sounds that pred makes, which make him easier to track.
The sense of this abuse is that it’s much easily to see predator on the range. On low graphic there is no leafs on the trees so predator can only register some tree texture, mud texture, some rocks etc., as its background. As a result he becoming much more contrast than his background and it’s ez to see him on the range. And when he’s near you, cloak register the textures around so he starting look like as in usuall game with usuall graphic.
One more time, there is no problem when he’s near, the problem is when he’s far enough. At least I think that technically the problem is in this mechanic
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And there is a huge difference between his cloak visibility on range on high qual and low qual. You can check a video of CYSZ on youtube. He make a few examples on this problem in his video
Just a pic I took myself. Above is everything on low, except view distance is highest setting.
Below is my normal settings, foliage is on “epic”, textures on “epic”, view distance is “cinematic”, and everything else is “high”.
I think people are picturing the terrain being completely barren on low settings, which isn’t true. Main thing I notice is that with shadows turned to “low” everything brightens WAY up, which could conceivably make pred easier to see. Quantity of foliage doesn’t seem to change much.
Shot is taken from everyones favorite sniping position on top of barn in DERAILED
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You are correct. The evidence is there. I think that it’s a bit situational (snipers and good vantage point) and perhaps not such a big factor. I could be mistaken though