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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0024235 | AI War 2 | Suggestion | Dec 15, 2020 3:28 pm | Dec 16, 2020 12:41 pm | |
| Reporter | BadgerBadger | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 2.705 Clarity, Refinement, and Performance | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 2.705 Clarity, Refinement, and Performance | ||||
| Summary | 0024235: Performance settings are confusing | ||||
| Description | Settings like "Disable Ship Models: Off" are very unintuitive to read. Could we change this to use an idiom like "Enable Ship Models: On" instead? I had a couple novices on my MP game last weekend and they were unanimous that it was confusing as currently written. | ||||
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Oh also, having the "Turn on performance logging" option in there is confusing, since I want to be able to tell someone "Just turn off everything and see if your old laptop can play the game", so I need to say "But not the logging one" |
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This is a good catch, thanks! * The old setting "Skip Drawing Ship Models" has been removed, and replaced with one called "Draw Ship Models." ** This is functionally the same, but more clear now. This will wind up removing whatever your settings were from the past, so if you were playing without ship models before you will need to alter this setting. ** Same with Disable Tachyon Beam Visuals, it has become Draw Tachyon Beams and its description has been updated. *** However, THIS one has changed to now default to off, since it really is not needed and uses a lot of performance. You can turn it back on, but it now defaults to off. ** Disable Tractor Beam Visuals has also become Draw Tractor Beams, and it defaults to on. Very people would have changed this from the default. ** Disable Beam Weapon Visuals has become Draw Beam Weapons, and it defaults to on. Very people would have changed this from the default. ** Disable Parallel Faction Processing has become Parallel Faction Processing, and now defaults to on. Again this is something that almost nobody should change. ** Do Not Show Shot Visual Effects has been renamed to Draw Bullets, and now defaults to on. ** Do Not Show Explosion Visual Effects has been renamed to Draw AOE Explosions, and now defaults to on. It's also now clear which explosions are even meant! ** Other than the ship models one, very few of these are used by most people, and all of these are functionally the same as the old versions except for the tachyon beams which are now off by default. ** The general goal here is to make these settings more clear, since folks were finding the wording and double-negatives confusing (we can't not imagine why). ** All of these settings have also been updated to a check model that is slightly more efficient, which is always nice. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Dec 15, 2020 3:28 pm | BadgerBadger | New Issue | |
| Dec 15, 2020 3:28 pm | BadgerBadger | Status | new => assigned |
| Dec 15, 2020 3:28 pm | BadgerBadger | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Dec 15, 2020 3:39 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0060004 | |
| Dec 16, 2020 12:41 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Dec 16, 2020 12:41 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Dec 16, 2020 12:41 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 2.705 Clarity, Refinement, and Performance |
| Dec 16, 2020 12:41 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0060006 |
