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[popeco]

Sorry if this has been brought up already, tried searching the forums but its a weird specific scenario I'm having a hard time pinpointing with keywords.

 

Played Predator for the first time since the patch the other night, and noticed a glitch with its abilitiy (specifcally on Bunker).  When cloaked, I could only see mechs if they "overlapped" with some sort of terrain or ground.  If they were hovering (e.g. in the sky, with nothing behind them) then they were completely invisible (only their name would show up).  To be fair, this might have been a problem pre-patch even, I only play pred like once every few months really.

 

And while I'm at it, since the patch there's a minor glitch on my machine with infiltrator as well.  On either activating or deactivating cloak, the screen blacks out for a second or two.  Not game-breaking, but definitely annoying.  

 

Has anyone else experienced either of these?

 

I've been tweaking my graphics settings often since the patch to try to get decent performance, so they have been moving around a lot-- but can post PC info / game settings if it would be of use.  Thx!

[Siamenis]

I've had the same experiences with both mechs. Just another bug to scratch.

[dorobo]

I like your avatar pic

[Gueber]

I have noticed using the pred ability destroys my frame rate like never before.

[ReversusRex]

While we're talking about cloak bugs, the little blackout you get when popping a cloak with DoF enabled is super annoying as well.

[coldform]

I've seen this before as well - looks like a stencil buffer issue when rendering mechs with static geometry in the line of sight of a mech, but parts without it aren't rendered at all, or are rendered transparent.

 

[popeco]

While we're talking about cloak bugs, the little blackout you get when popping a cloak with DoF enabled is super annoying as well.

 

oh, perhaps this is what is happenening with my infil ability then -- I'll turn that off if it isn't already and see if that helps.  thx for the clue!

 

I like your avatar pic

 

ty :)  it's actually from a drawing I did a few years ago: 

Spoiler

 

[popeco]

Update: ReversusRex is correct, DoF enabled is what is causing the infil "black" pop when ability is turned on/off.  

 

Unfortunately no setting tweaks seem to fix the predator issue, which makes it an unplayable mech for me.  The issue is exactly as coldform has posted.  Fortunately I'm not a huge pred player, but still a bit strange.  Can't confirm if this was a problem before update since I so rarely played Pred / updated my rig inbetween.  

[coldform]

Update: ReversusRex is correct, DoF enabled is what is causing the infil "black" pop when ability is turned on/off.  

 

Unfortunately no setting tweaks seem to fix the predator issue, which makes it an unplayable mech for me.  The issue is exactly as coldform has posted.  Fortunately I'm not a huge pred player, but still a bit strange.  Can't confirm if this was a problem before update since I so rarely played Pred / updated my rig inbetween.  

 

the black "pop" is the gap in the shaders running - there would be a "degauss" type shader that ran during the duration of the pop, but it appears to be broken.

[Liederkranz]

the black "pop" is the gap in the shaders running - there would be a "degauss" type shader that ran during the duration of the pop, but it appears to be broken.

 

Never noticed that the degauss effect was gone, you're right cold.

 

Ad for what the OP said, I reported the invisible mechs in my long list of to-fix bugs and probably other pilots did the same, since it was something that came up immediately after the update.

[Meraple]

And while I'm at it, since the patch there's a minor glitch on my machine with infiltrator as well.  On either activating or deactivating cloak, the screen blacks out for a second or two.  Not game-breaking, but definitely annoying.

 

While we're talking about cloak bugs, the little blackout you get when popping a cloak with DoF enabled is super annoying as well.

You can remove the blackout (aka the broken deguass effect) without turning off DOF:

Open HawkenGame.ini, change "bAllowDeguassEffect=true" to "bAllowDeguassEffect=false" (without the quotation marks ofc).