Hello, was the draw distance always this bad or did I just notice it now? Is there a way to improve it? Thanks for any responses
Draw distance isn't great. Down to performance issues i believe. If you're on pc, ini changes are an option.
Matt confirmed none of these settings were changed between tsw 2 and 3. I think it's due to the different lighting messing up the shadows. As mentioned above a few ini tweaks solves the problem.
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Consult Maik Goetz' post from earlier today; pushing out draw distance in a moving real-time TOD game would crush framerates, especially on consoles. The amount of processing power required increases as the cube of the distance.
