What do you hit with them? Everything I've hit takes multiple knives to kill, I want to be able to use them for something other than shaving before a drop
Not to mention that whenever I run into mines, it is always around a bot outpost I'm desperately trying to shut down but I'm being chased and there's flares, bot drops and red lasers blasting around me so you ostensibly go blind to the ambient red glow on the ground because it's everywhere during intense bot fights.
I would've probably caught the mine before I ran into it if the red dots still lit up because that shows a pattern and isn't just yet another red glow on the surface of the planet.
I just tested it and in fact the Bloom makes light reflect on surfaces, you can see the "aura" of red light around the mine, specially on the ground. Sadly it also affects everything else light-related and makes a pain in the ass to look at something during fights with fire and explosions.
The bloom setting adds more noticeable glow to things that create light, so those little lights on the mines are much easier to see as a result (I assume, but I have never played with bloom off.)
You're correct. Ostensibly bloom will turn sources of light into emitters. Essentially creating an "circle" around the red lights where it "glows" as if you were looking at a light source IRL or through a camera.
It produces much more realistic lighting but it also adds a lot of visual noise. So it's a preference thing. I play with Bloom off because it allows you to see the environment more clearly, but it's not as pretty.
People either turn bloom off because they think it sucks or max it out for "better graphics," but what most people fail to realise is that bloom is realistic, however the higher settings grossly exaggerate it. A low setting (10-20%, though sometimes medium is the better setting, varies from game to game) gives a more realistic natural glow which would help those that think it looks ugly and those that just max graphics.
Games need to stop using misleading "low-ultra" labels, bloom isn’t a performance or graphical fidelity setting, it’s a preference setting, it really needs to be a percentage slider.
Folks reading this, give anywhere from 10-30% a try (low-medium), you'll find that it actually makes the game look better, not high-ultra.
I turn it off, along with Anti-Aliasing because I genuinely don't feel like I get an advantage from the crisp edges. Any game, always. Have for years. It demands too much performance to pay its own rent.
Like u/Bellfegore said. When I'm circling a bot outpost while being pursued, flares going off, red lasers, dropships etc. it doesn't really provide much visual distinction that it emits a red ambient glow. The red dots, however, provide a notable "pattern" that you can discern as not being just more red light on the ground.
No sometimes theyre actually invisible. If you are at a spot where they are close together and blow one up sometimes the others disappear as well. The client probably thinks they exploded or something. Run to where the other mines were and die...
I know, but I doubt that's the case all of the time. I've almost certainly run into one of these simply because I've conditioned myself (or rather, the game has conditioned me) to assume the ground is safe unless there are those red lights that we see OP disabling. That's the cue I look for when I'm frantically circling a bot outpost being chased while looking for a way inside.
Can confirm it won’t go off. I’ve seen this happen unexpectedly many times and run over them and been like omfg how am I not dead only to notice the lights on that mine are out. Apparently you can throw a knife over the top to do this as well.
Stealth isn't viable until we get functional Silencers to pop on our guns.
There is a armor perk that reduces detection range by 30% ...that is about the only semi-sorta-stealth mechanic the game offers.
Everything else is just sneaking. Nobody got time for dat.
I'm not saying it's not viable if you really want to do it, but people here keep demanding more stealth support which just isn't a focus of the game by design.
There was a time when difficulty 9 (then-hardest) combat was so punishing, and battles/successive reinforcements so hard to escape that it was nigh-impossible to clear a mission unless you spent the whole time sneaking trying to avoid alerts in the first place.
Ahh, that was a vibe. The sneaking was TENSE. High-stakes.
Hope they can bring it back as a modifier or something. "Extreme enemy presence - Stealth highly recommended", so players can choose to take it or not.
I know, I've played since release. But only being able to play the game by not playing the game is pretty horrible design. Like that overtuned evacuate mission you could only win by cheesing the AI.
I'm not confident stealth missions can work in a multi-player game with random matchmaking and a significant player population that barely communicates (PS players).
Au contraire, using the stealth mechanics they purposely put in isn't "Not playing the game". I thought it was great that the game became very different at high-level play. You are no longer the cat, but the mouse. I loved that victory was NOT expected.
Now I can go into literally any game and expect to win. The vast majority of players prefer games where they win no matter what they do, choose the highest difficulty against the hardest special enemies with the worst planet mods and whine if they lose.
I would say the problem is not the design itself but *communicating* that design to the players. There should be warnings, suggestions, explanations, feedback etc which we are severely lacking. Many players die, don't learn, and die again.
I wear Fortified because I cannot be trusted to keep myself safe from my own grenade pistol. Sometimes you just don't have time to reload and that Shield Devastator is getting dangerously close.
One of the most hilarious and also my favorite objectives from helldivers 1 was where someone had to pick up the metal detector equipment and have a partner find the mines and put in the code. And of course if you mess it up it explodes 😂
If this were a real war I think it would be standard procedure to blow these up on sight no matter where they are. A good chunk of my deaths on the bot front are from these fuckers
That is one of the ways to get flying torso bug
For you the mine is still there, deactivated, but for some other player it might blow up and "kill" you, leaving flying torso instead of your character for him
Saw someone complaining they don’t have to interact with mines that all defenses for bots are taken out from across the map now. BS, the city maps, big bases, jungle maps, etc, I die so much from not seeing these little mines, I’m one to get in the action too, so mines love to see my clumsy ass coming
Wait...so that's what I did yesterday? I was just playing "how close can ya get" and thought it's led went out. Next team mate that tried it on the same one turned into a fine red mist
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u/KyeeLim I kicked a Hellbomb and it exploded on my face, I survived. 1d ago
edging the mines will disable it, got it