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rohirric-hunter · 17 days ago

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I also want to make a post appreciating the culling in Umbar. It's an extremely big, extremely ambitious city, and although it is kinda laggy, it functions really well. While playing normally I've had moments where I would whip my camera around fast enough to just barely see something load in, so I knew they were doing a lot of culling to make it work, but it wasn't until I saw the city from above that I realized just how extensive it is and how well the illusion works. I wish I had taken some screenshots to show just how much of the city is not loaded in at any given time to demonstrate it. But it's overall really effective use of the tool to build the illusion of a really big city.

#lotro #minas tirith is kind of laggier because they cant do as much culling because of how its built #the player can see a massive amount of the city from most anywhere in it so they cant cull much out without it looking weird #its a delicate balancing act between performance and appearance #anyway. i logged this character out on top of one of the towers in the city #at level 13 #man i wish i had ground my way to 15 #because then i could use a summoning horn to call a cappy up there #hmmm #do i want to leave her there until she gets two more levels out of festival announcement quests?#i do have a spare valar lying around #but i wanted to get this character to 45 and then turtle rock her for easy lixp #hmm hmm hmm #dammit i should have trained her as a scholar then i could send mats from other characters for her to grind off of #i guess for now i will wait and see #this glitch appears to trigger at random #the only patterns i can pick up between this time and the last time it happened are #1. logged into a character in eriador #2. had recently bought a supporter pack on a different server #i really dont think the supporter pack has anything to do with it but it is a common thread #one thing to note is that since this glitch only triggers inside and in mordor (and apparently umbar)#i think it might have triggered lots of times and i didnt notice #i played on that character for almost two hours before i realized it was happening #you just dont go inside all that often in this game tbh #the other thing is that shortly before it started i found a spot of fucked up water and was swimming in it for fun #i dont think this has anything to do with it either #but its a possibility i cant ignore #once again this is a completely benign glitch that doesnt impart an unfair advantage on the player #so ive got no qualms against trying to trigger it intentionally #it just lets me get beautiful landscape shots and see and appreciate how the game is put together

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