Spawned my KABB into a 2.3 RB. Was full overcast and I spawned in complete cloud. Shortly after spawning I could hear a plane approaching, so I climbed out of the clouds and found he was directly on my tail.
This has happened in the past. There has been a recurring issue where planes in clouds create a sort of “fuzzy” look on some machines that makes them see you from across the entire map, allowing enemy aircraft to attack you even though they are completely invisible to you. Apparently it’s back again.
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Clouds are client side, unfortunately
Check this
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Well that completely explains that!
I did notice, on my next spawn, that the same “fuzzing” effect is also happening. The guy that shot me down was still up and I was able to find him easily when he was in the clouds (even in my perspective) because of this GFX issue.
Also clouds are kinda weirdly transparent at times.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/oYAAiZZ17lCP
You can clearly see enemy aircraft across this cloud.
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It just happened to me too during a tank realistic battle while I was in a plane.
In a nutshell, if I gather correctly, when everyone plays cool with full graphic effects enabled clouds are there for everyone.
But if there is someone with low graphic enabled (and not because he has a lousy computer) he’s like a sighted man in the country of blind peoples…
Bumping,
This is a HUGGE issue that needs addressed.
true, it makes obsolete an otherwise completely sound strategy which is actually pretty balanced since you can’t see out of the cloud either.
How do you mess this up? Doesn’t every client receive the same seed upon match load?
probably because clouds use a different rng system which then isn’t even sent to the clients
If it isn’t sent to the clients, then it’s server-side. If it’s not server-side, then it’s sent (or should be) to the clients
I meant the seed, sorry.
It’s gaijin, they probably use AI for 1/2 of their code now, would explain why the entire game has a 90% to break somewhere when the updates come out.
