An increase in draw distance would really be nice to those with machines capable of handling such an improvement. If not for playable characters, then at least for the environment. It's a little ridiculous that I can't see flowers or a bush less than 100 feet away and when I get close enough they just magically "appear" on my screen.

In addition to the draw distance, it would be fantastic if foliage and the sort coming into view would do a nice smooth fade in rather than an abrupt "pop up."

As beautiful as the environments are in this game, the low draw distance and sudden appearance of foliage with no warning makes the game feel a bit clunky in that department.


To the rest of the people with "missing" characters and models, it's most likely your ancient HDD looking for files -- Get yourself an SSD. I haven't experienced any "missing" character models in well over a year since I first purchased an SSD and never again will I play a game without one.

You can never have enough sliders. More options are always better.

A draw distance slider would also improve game play performance for low(er) end systems. Draw distance is, when set high, hard on CPU and GPU. So, low(er) end peeps can turn this down to increase FPS. It may even help some who can't currently play the game due to low FPS. Opens up more clients = more subs.. mo $
We are not talking about the "...appearance/disappearance of characters...", we are talking about the distance. If characters would appear sooner, they are still fairly small on the screen, who cares then about the 'popping in'..

I guess EME misunderstood distance for "fading/pop up/in" of npcs/mobs/players.

EME y u no understand engrish? lol

Cmon peeps lets support this thread and make this change happen soon! as EME stated this is not high on their priority list. looks pretty lame to me considering this is a pay to play game. we want next gen mmo that is immersive. we no want pop ups 50m away from our faces. Even wow doesnt have this issue.

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WoW doesn't, but rift aoc dcuo swtor etc all have short ranges even at max.

Quote: gezodiac on 05/09/2012, 03:33 PM - view

not as short as this game. those other games have FAR draw distances.

Quote: Minea on 05/08/2012, 03:34 PM - view

This is so important to TERA. It really is sad that the truth is EME has NO power over fixing this.

EME is nothing more than a glorified bunch of Modders for Tera. Its all in black and white right there in the "blue " quote. They've asked Bluehole studios about the status of draw distance and BHS pretty much said " F off you buncha maggots - the bosses are talking here - that's too much work for us , and you can't do it "

Its pretty awful - but its true.... damn true

We've been complaining about this since day 1, it's been the hottest topic on the forums, and yet they still don't fully understand our complaints, who cares if it doesn't fade in just make everythings damn draw distance as far as BAMs.

It's simple.

maybe they dont understand engrish? shud we speak in asianese?

is there a BHS forums? maybe we can speak out there?