Can't Turn Off Bloom?

DHoff · 2012-11-11, 10:41 PM

Am I forced to play this game in 1998 graphics mode just so that I can actually see things? My rig has no problem running the game on max settings, but the bloom is so god awful that it looks like what a 110 year old person with terrible vision would see if Las Vegas was underwater at night in a pool full of chlorine.

Bloom doesn't make games look realistic, I thought we learned this already in the early 2000s? It just makes the game look like absolute blurry crap. Please tell me they plan to allow people to have high graphics without the bloom.

-Hoffburger

Rago · 2012-11-12, 01:19 AM

Yes ! Even if you turn it of you are Bloomed XD

Sturmhardt · 2012-11-12, 04:25 AM

+1 for more options, I would like to reduce the bloom too.

Emperor Newt · 2012-11-12, 09:30 AM

+1 and while you are at it soe, how about an option to disable the screenshake while running? It's not like in studies 50% of test subjects (even fighter pilots) experience this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_...ation_sickness

Algo · 2012-11-12, 09:38 AM

It's sad how much companies underestimate motion sickness and colorblindness, i've played really fast fps games forever, but "next-gen-lets-postprocess-that" games are making me hate the experience more than i enjoy it.

Bloom, screenshake, ui clutter, extreme hdr, depth of field, motion blur, tight fovs. Things that only detract to gameplay. I'd pay 15 dollars a month to disable them.

The answer that most companies have to complaints of this type is to enforce everything on rather than off. Tribes ascend had a single console command in alpha to disable all junk postprocessing - it was made hardcoded, i quit the game.
If the current state of graphic bloatedness stays in ps2, ill be forced to fly eclusively to minimize my discomfort, until someone decides to add EXTREME NEXTGEN to vehicles, too.

SFJake · 2012-11-12, 01:55 PM

A game that does not allow post processing effects to be disabled is as bad as not including a FOV option or heck, why not just scrap control options, too.

Its a disgrace. And they don't even make me motion sick or anything, they're just god damn ugly to me. I hate them. Get them the hell out of here. I don't play games on consoles nowadays almost strictly because I can't disable this crap!