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I noticed on my Mastermind when toggling the Shadow Fall power, that the dark smoke only appears at my feet and no one elses. I know somewhere in the options, there is a way to turn it on so that the smoke appears under the feet of anybody near me.

Anybody know where at exactly in the options I can find it?


 

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That's not an option I'm aware of.

I think the smoke was removed from other players for server stability issues, namely during large raids. Imagine the server trying to render 100 characters, each with even 10 colored varieties of the smoke at their feet.

It didn't matter much before power customization. A character either had smoke or you didn't. Now it can be pink or blue or regular, so the server would have to keep track of all of them separately.


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Not only that - I don't think that was an intentional thing to begin with.


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I believe this was recently updated in a patch to appear only on the casting character, although its effects do carry to teammates within range...


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I just tested this of my dark defender it still gives everyone the smoke cloud under their feet but not on either masterminds or corruptors wierd huh.


 

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I have a newly created dark/dark defender, and SF shows on all nearby players. I have ultra mode on, with particle count turned down to just under 10k. I haven't changed the colors of the powers, though.

My wife has a dark/dark that has customized powers, and the "smoke" doesn't appear on anyone else.

So if you have used the power customization, this could be why it's not showing up.


***Edit: I just checked an old dark MM (forgot I even had him). No graphic for other players.


 

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Originally Posted by Novastorm View Post
I have a newly created dark/dark defender, and SF shows on all nearby players. I have ultra mode on, with particle count turned down to just under 10k. I haven't changed the colors of the powers, though.

My wife has a dark/dark that has customized powers, and the "smoke" doesn't appear on anyone else.

So if you have used the power customization, this could be why it's not showing up.


***Edit: I just checked an old dark MM (forgot I even had him). No graphic for other players.

Doubt it on my dark defender I have SF colored white and it shows under peoples feet the smoke cloud. Maybe the actual color has something to do with it.


 

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Originally Posted by Bocus_King View Post
I just tested this of my dark defender it still gives everyone the smoke cloud under their feet but not on either masterminds or corruptors wierd huh.
*scratches head* That's very weird. So some archetypes have the ability, while others don't. You would think that it would be across the board if it had something to do with server stability issues like during raids (from the other post I read).


 

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*scratches head* That's very weird. So some archetypes have the ability, while others don't. You would think that it would be across the board if it had something to do with server stability issues like during raids (from the other post I read).
Well, the MM version used to debuff the caster's jump speed, too. I don't recall when it was changed, but it was the only version of Shadow Fall that did.


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If i recall it only shows up on hero AT versions of ShadowFall all villan SF's do not show the effect, since red side powers were slitly higher graphics then blue this could explan the diff


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Well, the MM version used to debuff the caster's jump speed, too. I don't recall when it was changed, but it was the only version of Shadow Fall that STILL did.
Fixed.

Shadowfall for everyone used to debuff caster's run speed.
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If i recall it only shows up on hero AT versions of ShadowFall all villan SF's do not show the effect, since red side powers were slitly higher graphics then blue this could explan the diff
Well, each power is it's own copy - sounds like a change that just didn't get propagated properly.


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