My understanding is that they nerfed a LOT of the veiw distance settings going into BFA. Many of which can be reverted by altering the CVars maually… Does anyone know which setting I should alter so I can see enemy players from further away?
I’ve HAD IT with entire Horde parties spawning in front of me, when they would have had to been riding straight at me for a good 30 seconds.
The spawning, and sometimes de-spawning, right in front of you may have nothing to do with viewing distance and everything to do with wacky sharding
I’m not an expert here, but I should think if we are in the same zone already, sharding wouldn’t be the issue… Would it?
That’s sharding not view distance. Servers can’t handle more then 5 people in 1 zone.
I’ve been in groups where one moment we were fighting a large group of monsters but then someone leaves or joins and everyone around us fade out and a different bunch fades in.
Is this your situation most of the time? It will be some of the time, that’s for sure.
Get the add-on Advanced Interface Options thru the twitch app
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/advancedinterfaceoptions
It allows to search cvar and change them properly. If there is a cvar that can improve your situation, it will be there.
No, it’s not like that. If they were standing still at a distance I would see them, but if we are moving toward each other, then they do not load in until I am easily within firing range of the whole group… We’re talking that road going up to the turtle camp in Storm Song. They simply don’t load in fast enough for me to be able to react.
The addon is a good find though, I will definitely check that out.
Render distance deals with info in your game files. Enemies, resource nodes and other units in-game are handled by receiving info from the server. No local variables will change that.
Well, my character’s server files must be bugged then, because I cannot imagine the game is meant to be played this way… It’s just frustrating.
I mean I remember, as late as Legion, being able to climb up to the LM in AB and being able to call incs for the whole battleground… But this-- at best, my unit-render distance feels like 1/4 of that.
I do feel this problem in the open world sometimes. But it’s not as noticiable as you describe. There have been many times in which I find myself suddenly near players or mobs that weren’t there before.
They actually increased the draw distance dramatically in Legion. You can see screenshots of people viewing the whole of Tiragarde in one image.
You could never do that pre-Legion.
Honestly, I would have never tried to do that. My only concern is that I simply cant see enemies coming anymore. And I never remember it being this bad at any point in WoW.