Do you like clouds of fog/dust that appear everytime armies contact?

[jamreal18]

If you dont care, just ignore this thread...

I notice that in recent videos released by CA, there are fog/dust that appear everytime armies contact.... When a unit is hit by arrow, melee combat in stormy naval battle etc...

For me, i hate those fogs that appear everytime when units clashes especially when i zoom-in battles...

I like fogs or dust when units run especially in desert but those little smoke that appear out of nowhere when units contact... I dont like those...

I love watching the animations of units fighting but those fogs/smokes...

Its better if those are blood but clouds of fog/dust are really disturbing especially in stormy naval battle... I prefer not to have those in the final product...

Just my opinion...

[Dan113112]

It's dust kicked up by the soldiers in battle.

[ImperialAquila]

Well, some people don't mind. IMO, the dust gives it the all too authentic feeling of battle. I think the best way for CA to go about this would be to include an option to disable them. That way it would cater to those who both dislike and like them.

[jamreal18]

Well, some people don't mind. IMO, the dust gives it the all too authentic feeling of battle. I think the best way for CA to go about this would be to include an option to disable them. That way it would cater to those who both dislike and like them.

Yes, its better if it can be turned off in options for those who dont like those...

[StephanVos]

you mean the annoying little puffs of smoke?

[jamreal18]

you mean the annoying little puffs of smoke?

Yes...

[lazerBAR]

It adds more immersion to me, when I think a mass of people fighting each other where its dry or just dirt, I think lots of dust kicking up from people running and shuffling around making it more chaotic. I just hope it can dirty up troops if they've been engaging in battle a lot. So no, I dont see anything bad about it other than slower pc's being able to run with it, but I'm sure that you will have an option to turn it off.

[jamreal18]

Its good to have those as they were presented in rome 1 wherein smoke only appear when units run especially in deserts...

Seeing those fog appear only when units are hit by arrows and also in melee combat in stormy naval battle is nonsense...

[DavidtheDuke]

It is too uniform look (in how the dust effect is produced). If that requries a ton more processing power to show many different dust animations, I'd rather just be able to turn the effect off. Or if it doesn't require much more power, that's okay, but if that's the only dust animation every going to be available, I'd definitely want it turned off, it looks a little weird, just like the missile trails.

[FEARLESS]

Dust being kicked up by galloping horses and marching men is great if it's in the game but these little puffs don't make any sense😠. If it was to be a large swirlling cloud when armies clash than fine but what this signifies your guess is as good as mine!.

[Chromium]

I'm fine with a bit of dust- as long as they don't make it like Shogun2's perpetually foggy battlefields with zero visibility. How can one fight if the entire screen is a solid white blank?

[Martin N]

Is it persistently there every time 2 units clash? Or is it terrain dependent? If its there on grass for example then i would rather disable it.

[SamueleD]

You make the smoke puffs when arrows hit men? They will become red once you buy the blood pack dlc for Rome II.