With the Graphics card now dealing with the graphics, can the old explosion effects return?

[Mysticpuma]

I would say one of the most disappointing visual effects are the ground explosions, which have been significantly reduced in comparison to their original (team fusion patched) form. 

Team Fusion created a lot of optimised effects that resulted in some great visual effects with very little CPU overhead in comparison to the original effects at launch. One of those effects that benefitted from TFS input was the bomb explosions.

Here is a video from 2014 which shows bombs going off. The video starts as the explosion effects can be seen. My question is, now that TFS have found the CPU bottleneck and can run the effects through the graphics card, could we see a return to the sweet spot of effects as show in this video?

 

 

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

1 hour ago, Mysticpuma said:

now that TFS have found the CPU bottleneck

That explosion do look good.  Shame that is not used anymore.

Btw  for curiosity what was the bottleneck?

[Buzzsaw]

We continue to work on improving the performance of the game in high stress/heavy CPU/GPU situations.

 

We expect to have good news on this in the next while... which will be tested in the VR Beta prior to release.

[Blitzen]

16 hours ago, Mysticpuma said:

I would say one of the most disappointing visual effects are the ground explosions, which have been significantly reduced in comparison to their original (team fusion patched) form. 

Team Fusion created a lot of optimised effects that resulted in some great visual effects with very little CPU overhead in comparison to the original effects at launch. One of those effects that benefitted from TFS input was the bomb explosions.

Here is a video from 2014 which shows bombs going off. The video starts as the explosion effects can be seen. My question is, now that TFS have found the CPU bottleneck and can run the effects through the graphics card, could we see a return to the sweet spot of effects as show in this video?

 

 

I agree-ground explosions are currently underwhelming.