Multiplayer draw distances

[sweinhart3]

I tried to fly online yesterday after some absence and found it impossible to do anything. The outside of cockpit view shows nothing but blank desert outside of 2km. Buildings and vehicles that can be seen in the shkval cannot be seen outside the main view. I do not have this problem in single player as you can make outside features well out of 10km range. Online this disability resulted in being shot down by missles with out any indication of enemy presence anywhere in site. My second attempt I managed to see missles launching in my shkval but no vehicles anywhere in site. Of course the outside view showed nothing but plain desert till a half second before I was hit when the missle came into view. This makes it rather impossible for online play when you just get shot down and cant make out vehicles or even buildings in the shkval view before its too late. Any suggestions? Otherwise Im gonna have to abandon any hope of online play and stick to single player where you can at least see the enemy in your shkval at 10km. Multiple times I was datalinked to another player, and when my abris shows I should be right next to another player, there is nothing in sight visually.

[104th_Crunch]

Umm... there should be no difference in draw distance of aircraft and ground units in multi-player vs. single player unless you tweaked something in your SP settings.

 

For other objects it could be the Scenes are set low on the server and you normally play in SP with high. You can manually override this by going to FC2\Bazar\Terrain\Scenes backup Low.scn, make a copy of high.scn and rename the copy to low.scn.

 

FC2 draw distances are much shorter than FC1 and much harder to screw with. Practice makes perfect.

[JasonJ]

I don't know if this helps much.... but I see no difference between multiplayer and single player regarding visibilty of ground units. You shouldn't be having this problem and it's not part of the game.

 

Of course (as in single player) if I am further away than 5 clicks, I can really only find them when I zoom in and look through the windshield. KEY: Rshift - Num* (or just Num*)

 

They are still visible up to about 11 klicks on zoom. They will show up as a tiny black dot and look out of place compared to the rest of the terrain.

 

If I'm using the shkvall from that long distance I also need to zoom that in as well to see them.

 

 

Either you're not doing something right or the visual details are messed up. You haven't edited the graphics.cfg file by any chance?

 

Another thing, if scenes are set to low, I'm pretty sure that military units are still visible at long range. I can still see ground units through invisible buildings when scenes are set to low and visibilty is set to low.

Edited August 25, 2010 by JasonJ

[sweinhart3]

I didnt touch any files in BS folder. I couldnt even see the airport outside of my shkval till I was within a few kilometers. Everything outside my window looks like blank flat ground unless its nearby. Ill try some of the suggestions but my single player game and multiplayer game look completely different in terms of visibility. Even FC2 had further draw distance than what I saw in BS. I was flying at 60-150meters off the ground. Not sure if that makes any difference.

Edited August 26, 2010 by sweinhart3

[Boberro]

Draw distances manually in graphics.cfg. Double or triple values there in sections and you should be happy - of course if you have enough powerful PC.

 

I know setting all on High in LO2 options menu doesn't make futher draw of buildings ect things. I've been a bit suprised why my friend's screen is so POOR on all HIGH... I mean draw distance... buildings have been visible withing 10 km? It's very unnatural IMHO.