Have you too been killed by someone you can’t see or hear even though they’re RIGHT next to you? Don’t worry, it may not be your fault. Turns out, it’s part of the game’s coding.
Brought to you by “Gladiator” on YouTube, it turns out Keen Vision not only affects being able to see someone but also if they even render in for the audio! Thought I’d add this for all the folks wondering why they’re watching tanks render in and out or can’t hear someone right next to them.
Surprised me too. I thought it was strictly for arcade but turns out it’s mandatory even for realistic and simulator battles just to know someone is there. I wonder if this is from the anti-cheat rendering change.
It’s part of the internal anti-cheat solution.
Cheaters can’t see tanks if they’re not visible.
LOS renders the tank, and “audible range” renders the tank.
I’ve mentioned it so many times and been attacked so many more times for even saying it that it feels like I’ve been vindicated…
Even though theree appears to be a bug with the system that’s being demonstrated with the video evidence here as it’s not working the way it truely should in some instances.
I am checking this out because it is happening in Arcade Air Battles too. The Higher the tier/rank your stable of vehicles is the worse it gets.
In AB repeatedly in the last three days as I tried to run high alt bombers, I have been checking my situation, audibly and visually before I go into my level bombsite.
At least a half a dozen times I have looked, using mouse look. Nothing there.
I LISTEN. I can nominally HEAR an enemy plane at 3k, I get the wind noise, but not always
I do all of that, do the right checks. Get into my bombsite and I am instantly under heavy gunfire taking hits. There are times when I switch out and still cant SEE what is shooting me, until finally it renders in. I say render instead of spawn. Spawn implies they just appeared there. No they were there the Client didn’t render them in.
For me 4.0 and up makes playing bombers actually unplayable. So this is in Air Arcade Battles as well, not just tanks. Probably in Ships too, but not enough folks play that who make big enough noises about this mess.
hope it doesn’t. Tanks for the longest time were a vast mystery. More than half the time I died, what killed me didn’t render into the scene until after I watched the kill cam. Then they would appear on MY screen as I was in spectator mode, and POOF there they there were just 50 yrds away.
If it is a render distance thing. Then there may be and “options” thing where you can adjust it. I mean you can make Grass go away when in Snipe Mode in tanks, so who knows.
I know it’s a thing in Air Realistic Battles and Simulator Battles for max range render. Really sucks for air sim as well when you’re trying to find targets, but nothing will render in due to a fake spotting skill.
EDIT: I play on max and still watch planes poof into existence at range. Really shouldn’t be a thing anymore seeing how they’re FINALLY putting anti-cheat into the game.
I realised this myself a few years ago. I thought it was the bushes you put on the tank that made you invisible… Apparently, it’s your crew’s skill… So if you’re at 0, you have a crew made up of deaf and blind people… I don’t think that in real life the army would allow disabled people to drive a tank capable of destroying a building… Apparently Warthunder is not realistic at all.
Funnily enough, it used to NOT be this way. I forgot when (life has been hectic so the passage of the last decade has wizzed by) but enemy players used to ALWAYS be rendered. However, when the cheat scandal blew up, this was Gaijin’s fix to that instead of implementing a proper anti-cheat. I really feel like they’ve lost their way on what made the game great back in the day. Then again, they still haven’t fixed the laser guided bomb bug that makes LGBs literally useless so can’t say I’m too terribly surprised by that.
Wow for real… How do people play this game and not look at how crew skills work there has been videos for years on what they do and the game literally explains what they do… Yes if your crew skills are lacking and that tank is not shooting or moving it will not render this is basics… If he is shooting he wil most definitely render but you could be dead before you notice same with moving or sitting still with engine running this applies to realistic and arcade…just lol Imagine the internet being a source of information
It used to be that it was only for the arcade mode marker. Eventually, they changed it to apply to realistic and simulator battle because they wouldn’t install an anti-cheat. Due to this, you can watch tanks phase in and out of existence even if you’re staring at them.
Well they do actually have an anti cheat like you cant even play without it enabled ( tho maybe in arcade mode it might be different dont play arcade so I dont know) and yes the spotting mechs are this way because of cheating your right but that was also just an excuse to find a way to get informed players to spend money on crew skills. If they go back to old way they will make less money and since I make money when Gaijin makes money I dont want it. Now please go buy some GE and spend them I want to buy my son a new supercar for his University you guys paid for