Water/amphibious terrains missing a shader layer

[MLC8896]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 107882
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Water/amphibious terrains are missing the “semi-opaque” shader layer between the lighting effect layer and the texture level since laste V&V patch.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Oberve any water surface/shallow type terrain

EXPECTED RESULT

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There should be another “semi-opaque” shader layer between the lighting effect layer and the texture level.

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BEFORE (as it used to be and as it should be):

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AFTER March patch (bugged terrain):

The issue is more glaring when the water/amphibious terrain is mixed-layered with a land terrain:

It shouldn’t look like this.

[Hikiri9006]

I have been wondering this too with a friend in discord, we mod water before and we noticed a huge change and we werent able to find out why even using previous waterjson file, so yeah, i was telling him that they might have changed another thing like if our mods doesnt work, the bug sounds like the cause now that you point it out, hope they take a look at this.

[MLC8896]

Yeah and it’s really annoying gameplay-wise on top of the visual inconvenient too: it’s really hard to differenciate between ground terrain and amphibious terrain because of this bug, and thus hybrid maps are just hell to play on.

[MLC8896]

Any information about this bug being tracked or not?

[Hikiri9006]

Seems nothing yet, newest patch didnt solve it

[Hikiri9006]

Im still waiting for a reply of moderators or something