option to remove smoke tracer #4231

[dertod]

Can you add the option to remove the smoke from tracers plz ,i played without smoke for 5 years.

[specterx]

+1, posted on this subject many betas ago, please restore the tracer smoke on/off toggle, there's no obvious reason to force folks to play with it on...

[uberian]

Isnt there an option to remove combat smoke? pretty sure I saw that last night.

[haughtkarl]

There is the combat smoke option but I honestly don't know wtf it does. I turned it off but still had tracer smoke and there was smoke still emanating from blown out buildings. Maybe a placebo check mark

[hchris]

There is the combat smoke option but I honestly don't know wtf it does. I turned it off but still had tracer smoke and there was smoke still emanating from blown out buildings. Maybe a placebo check mark

The combat smoke toggle is when a building is destroyed, it generates smoke now if you have combat smoke enabled.

Why would anybody turn off smoke from tracers? It looks really nice and doesn't give you a disadvantage...so why not accept it as a cool feature?

[GOPHUR]

What's the compelling reason to turn it off?

[timmy41]

im guessing that some people feel it obscures their views and hits FPS?

[specterx]

What's the compelling reason to turn it off?

Let's put it this way: I've been playing flight sims for about 15 years dating back to Air Warrior, and the tracer smoke effect is just one of those things I've come to hate. Don't ask me why, I just don't like the effect. WW2OL was great in that it actually gave you an option to turn the thing off, unlike, say, Aces High.

The option was there before, so surely it can't be much trouble to add it back in?

Edited June 3, 2010 by specterx

[haughtkarl]

Performance penalty with tracer smoke enabled? May not be a factor with today's hardware but being able to toggle it on/off has been in the game for quite sometime now and with my older rigs I took a hit in an area with lots of units firing like crazy. So I just turned it off along with muzzle smoke.

[timmy41]

Let's put it this way: I've been playing flight sims for about 15 years dating back to Air Warrior, and the tracer smoke effect is just one of those things I've come to hate. Don't ask me why, I just don't like the effect. WW2OL was great in that it actually gave you an option to turn the thing off, unlike, say, Aces High.

The option was there before, so surely it can't be much trouble to add it back in?

Bullets with phosphorus tracers did make smoke trails though. I havent flown much in beta, does EVERY round make a smoke trail or just tracers?

[juuba]

Compared to 1.30 airplane tracers are not even worth mentioning now

Six fifties shootin':

Them .50 lazers are gone now.

RIP.

I like the new effects - gave me a surprise as a spit was shooting at me, I heard the hits, but didn't see anything - I was looking at the spit.

Then I noticed his guns blazing in the wings and realized that the tracer effects had been toned down, reeaaal down.

Edited June 4, 2010 by juuba

[GOPHUR]

Fair enough. I'll ticket this.