Was Hoping Shadow Distance Would Be Improved

There's still a hard shadow cut off way too close to the player. Was really hoping this could be improved for the update because it really kills immersion for me. :/ Ultra settings btw.

 

Shadow draw distance was improved, but just not by as much as people were hoping.

 

Yeah I've also noticed shadows appearing to the side of me on Munich. I think the DFS is simply not going out as far as people (including myself) have been expecting.

 

I hate that "chasing the shadow" effect. Proper immersion-killer. Surely modern high-end systems could afford to have that way off in the distance?

 

I'm 99.9% sure that is exactly the same shadow distance as before.

 

This has nothing to do with DFS. DFS improves the shadow pop in on distant static assets

 

Either way, I still hope it can be improved. There are UE4 games out there with far more distant shadows. Even a hidden .ini tweak would be welcome for those of us with GPU, CPU and RAM to spare.

 

But it does draw very basic shadows further out - this is based on memory so there shouldn't be much of a performance hit. On one of the streams Matt showed the difference between DFS on/off in a stream.

 

Yes. Unfortunately tracks are splines, not fixed graphic assets, so this doesn't help the "creeping sleepers" problem