Cheat/hack to remove fog

  • Superlonghurst
    Seafarer
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    I've been wondering recently is there a way for players to remove the fog effect client side? I've had a few encounters in the fog over the last couple of months which I thought were random encounters, so I put them down to bad luck at the time. Even though the other ship came at me on a perfect intercept line and the crew on the guns ready lol. Other times I've dived into the fog in my sloop as a means of escape only to be rapidly caught because by the chasing ship that has predicted the turns I made perfectly.

    I'm aware that in other PC games fog effects can be removed client side to improve performance or to gain an advantage. I did wonder when fog was first added how long it would be before someone worked out how to remove it to gain an advantage has that happened already?

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  • Ruigtand NL
    Master
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    From the crowsnest you can look over the fog a little. Maybe enough to spot the top of a mast?
    Also sometimes its not to hard to predict where a boat wants to sail to since most boats sail in a straight line to their target. So maybe they just sail while watching the maptable.
    If im doing a athena run and i sail east from thieves haven they know i go to devils ridge for a quest..

    By not sailing in straight line to target islands it becomes harder to guess what you are doing.

  • Superlonghurst
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    I'll have to get a friend to test that out. I've gone up in the crows nest in fog before and been able to see over it somewhat. Not spotted a mast in the fog patch with me though, I always assumed the fog is too high. If I'm being chased into the fog I change course several times to throw off pursuit. It's possible to get lucky and accurately predict a course correction by the ship you're chasing but the odds are with the fleeing ship unless the fog has been removed by the chasing ship client side.

  • NeedSmokes
    Commander

    @superlonghurst

    If the other players were on a galleon or a sloop then they can just stand in the doorway of the captains quaters and visibility is greatly increased whilst sailing through fog without having to climb the mast.

  • Reverend Toast
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    You can also point a cannon straight up and shoot over the fog to see ships from above.

  • Superlonghurst
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    @reverend-toast said in Cheat/hack to remove fog:

    You can also point a cannon straight up and shoot over the fog to see ships from above.

    Wondered about that, heard no cannon fire though when this has happened.

    @needsmokes said in Cheat/hack to remove fog:

    @superlonghurst

    If the other players were on a galleon or a sloop then they can just stand in the doorway of the captains quaters and visibility is greatly increased whilst sailing through fog without having to climb the mast.

    That's interesting, it sounds like a rendering flaw. I'm going to try to replicate this later thanks.

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