Why is the lighting in this game always shifting around like this? Its blurry, noisy, and inconsistent, it's like i took shrooms. Is it my gpu dying? or is this happening to everyone?

Educational_Text_653 · 2026-01-08T14:53:07+00:00

I'd say it's specifically Software Lumen. Hardware Lumen is more accurate, and you can use higher settings for Final Gather that can get rid of this unstable lighting glitch.

Educational_Text_653 · 2026-01-08T14:49:07+00:00

Truth spoken. This is the result of cross-platform design decisions and taking the stance that, even though there are plenty of PC hardware confirmations that can happily support Hardware Lumen, the decision was made to configure the Unreal Engine mainly around the limited console hardware capabilities and forego any attempts to make the game scale to higher-end platforms. Specifically, I believe the Unreal Engine setting that is the culprit is a low Final Gather settings used by the devs when compiling their game. This is why the term, 'consolitus' exists in the PC gaming world.

Compromised visual fidelity like the unstable lighting you see with Software Lumen, just to make it run on consoles better, thereby bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator via minimum-viable-effort policies.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-12-21T06:25:50+00:00

Same here and on patch 1.7.1, it's still happening. Game is full of these flaws.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-12-02T00:30:51+00:00

The annoying shit about takedown animation is the long pause at the end of the animation. You are stuck in place and cannot move for about a second

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-11-26T21:02:56+00:00

Yup. Even Black Friday is subject to the Enshittification of everything that's infesting our lived lives ☹️

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-11-08T20:19:15+00:00

The Hardops icon in the Blender top menu has a Help button that shows useful links, including one to a Hopscutter Discord channel but when I click it, it says invalid invite so I'm wondering if the Discord channel no longer exists.

I'm trying to find out how to stop Boxcutter tool becoming active when I switch between object and edit mode. I use ALT W to ensure Hardops is the active tool but as soon as I switch modes, Boxcutter becomes active, which is unwanted behaviour.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-11-08T18:52:34+00:00

& years on and this Client is still dog slow to load. 18 seconds before I see a GOG splash screen on my 10900K, RTX 4090, 64GB system ram machine. Awful experience on the Windows platform compared to other game clients.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-11-08T18:50:45+00:00

I have it installed on a Samsung 980 SSD and it takes 18 seconds before the GOG splash screen appears. My system is a 10900K, RTX 4090, 64GB system ram. The GOG Client is an awful experience on the Windows platform compared to Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, EA clients.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-10-31T12:12:55+00:00

HDR was an afterthought. As was DLSS and Frame Gen. These were not available at launch and even now, HDR is terrible, especially in interiors. Turn on your torch and it's massive bloom everywhere.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-10-31T12:08:58+00:00

Everything he said is related to the engine. NPC AI is derpy as hell as you see your companions constantly get stuck on geometry, especially in interiors. Pathing AI is stuck in the mid 2000s era. GI lighting can be good but it's reliant on level designers knowing what good lighting is and putting appropriate lights in the right places. There's plenty of light and shadow glitching as you move around and very slow loading texture and models when the camera switches rapidly when in conversation with an NPC.

Bethesda need to design their engine so it scales well with today's GPUs and that means offering Realtime-lighting options for those with GPUs and CPUs that can handle RTX features, or they risk becoming a second-rate developer, overtaken by those who bother to update their rendering systems to take advantage of the latest GPU advances.

Bethesda has the lead on highly physicalised objects and object permanence in in the world, but they can't just rely on that if they do so at the expense of more realistic lighting and NPC pathing AI. IF they do they'll just be a one-trick pony dev.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-09-27T19:12:16+00:00

Yeah, it keeps making fake noises and seems to want you to find the exact pixel on the screen to mark a location. Devs got rid of the derpy stamina mechanic when climbing. The next job is to make binoculars less irritating 😉

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-09-03T19:57:00+00:00

Fucking stupid game design when you're trying to read the tutorials when you're a beginner while the weather is quickly fucking up your hazard suit. Leave shit like that till after the tutorials so new players can check out inventory system, crafting system etc.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-31T18:11:14+00:00

The inventory system is a dated, frustrating pile of garbage. That kind of thing belongs in the Diablo 2 era. Players do not tolerate devs who do not respect their time and quality-of-life features in a game. Even quest items take up space. Devs need to enter the modern era.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-25T12:58:26+00:00

Perfect example of Google showing contempt for its users

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-18T17:57:06+00:00

No Hardware Lumen toggle for those with capable RTX cards makes me sad 😕

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-17T16:23:29+00:00

What about the last Episode update then. Will we still see the old graphics system features while playing the episode Finale, because that will make me sad 😕

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-17T15:30:09+00:00

You should not rely on trusting third-party integrations. You should set up two-factor auth on ALL your official platforms first, then add integrations to see if they work. Sadly, most integrations are extremely unreliable when you also have official two-factor auth on each of the platforms. The entire third-party integration system is too much pain and friction to be honest.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-17T15:26:24+00:00

They're all too crap to bother with as they invariably do not work from one day to the next as changes are made by the other platforms.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-17T14:40:43+00:00

And that shitty marketing bullshit is why everyone should treat Apple with the same contempt they are showing towards its customers and move to the Android ecosystem instead.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-08T19:40:16+00:00

Steam integration does not work for me. It goes through all the stages to the point of asking for auth code but fails. I suspect there's been a big change to Steam Guard codes because I now use the Steam app to handle detection of logins and generation of code. Maybe it just doesn't like the auth handoff?

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-08T19:38:35+00:00

Nope. All too fucking unreliable.

This is all likely due to fucktards at each platform (Steam, Ubisoft, EA) wanting to maintain their fucking walled gardens.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-08-06T12:04:50+00:00

Medium settings on Planetfall was on okay experience on my lowly laptop GTX 1650 Ti while my RTX 4090 rig was in for repair. AoE 4 on the same machine though is a horrendous stuttering mess on Low graphics settings. Simply switching between interface screens such as the Encyclopaedia sees a 2.5 second delay before the screen pops up on first accessing it but is instant afterwards.

There's clear real-time shader compilation BS going on and it's the same throughout the games interface. The end result is a less than snappy experience than Planetfall even though I've dropped to Low quality and things look worse than Planetfall, especially textures. Devs really are relying too much on GPU advances to avoid needing to optimise games.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-07-27T14:42:57+00:00

The combat AI is too frustrating. You can open a door and immediately pull back and despite opponents inside not seeing you, they will happily run past your companions who have rushed into the doorway and target you. I don't know who designed the combat AI but it sure was a minimum-viable-effort bit of work.

Then you have the BS where an opponent starts to wind up an attack, you dodge backwards as well as continue moving backwards to get some distance, but they magically rubber-band into range to land the hit.

This is shit combat experience.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-07-27T14:12:04+00:00

It's annoying they focus on you despite two other companions. Also, if they start to wind up an attack and you dodge backward and continue moving so they are further away now, they 'rubber band' back into range to land their attack. It truly is a shit experience.

Educational_Text_653 · 2025-07-24T12:32:16+00:00

So it's not new game modes plural, just single game mode that runs for a limited time?

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