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Article #190987Re: First Impressions on UT3
From: me
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36
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goPostal wrote: >> Nope, it's not just you. Maxing everything out makes thing look too >> "busy", for lack of a better term. Turning both sliders down to 1 >> don't make things look "better" IMO, but to me it does make other >> players easier to see. But then I turned things way down in 2k4 as >> well. The fast paced action of UT doesn't really need a lot of eye >> candy. > > > I've found myself doing that too sometimes. I'll crank the visuals way back > and it does indeed help gameplay. It's much more bland but with grass and > shit out of your way the players do stand out much better. I read once where > the most elite 2K4 player have settings only slightly better than wireframe Game graphics get better, computers improve, trying to keep up, and still we're turning graphics down to get better performance. I used to do this in UT99!
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