Got back to the game after a huge break and i got met with bugs rendering game unplayable. The most common i get is textures not loading properly, it usually occurs near the outposts, but i also got it while doing some tell tales (Pirate's life). It is definitely not a problem on my side, as it loads just fine as soon as i get out of some zone around the outpost. Bug also causes most of icons to dissapear, meaning i can't really fight anyone as i have to take much longer to choose cannonballs from a barrel when there are 20 stacks of blank slots. Anyway, some islands have gaps in their terrain which again is probably connected to the issue of loading textures. There are other bugs like diving and getting a white screen, people flashbanging me (which is kinda funny) NPC's doing all sorts of weird stuff, FoTD becoming uncompletable and the list goes on and on. I truly wouldn't care if not for a fact that after a HUGE break I am still stuck experiencing the exact same game with addition of some reskinned voyages. Custom seas didn't add almost anything and as of right now, are used to start TDM's which you could do before that with server hopping. I don't want to even start typing anything about your recent decisions and changes as most of them are downright shooting yourself in a pegleg after you shot your normal leg already. Please listen to the feedback.
Season 20 issues
sounds like its definitely on your end? then again maybe not i havent played this season. im guessing your graphic drivers are up to date but did you corrupt your shaders somehow? because of how modern gaming works you can pollute the shader cache and theres no simple graphic setting in game or out of game that lets you fix this. its kind of a problem with gaming today. you can use something like DDU clean to wipe your shader cache without you having to manually look through system folders to delete the cache. then load the game and wait for the slow boring shader cache to be re-written.
it kinda stinks because i think a natural thing to do when trying out a game is to tinker with settings. but toggling certain settings can corrupt the cache and the games dont warn you of this, nor does toggling it back undo that corruption. so in trying to optimize our performance of a game we can actually make it worse.... though with rares usually programming issues they do tend to reintroduce old bugs. there used to be a rendering issue that was some bug related to multiple monitors. it was fixed at some point in the first 18 months or so of release. something about having multiple monitors that made the game not render properly. though if that was back i would think a lot of streamers would have brought it up to support already
@snarledgull6981 I'm not experiencing anything you are saying. I've completed about 15 FOTD since last week and was able to complete every one of them. Im guessing it is something on your end. The pixels not loading only time I've seen that is people playing on safer seas not regular game. Hope you get it fixed though
