Scouting and the Community

Zalethon · 2014-01-27 20:41:15

I don't know that the game's been around long enough for the community to develop its own unspoken etiquette, so I have to ask: where do people stand on high-gamma displays, and taking/cutting together screenshots of houses you're scouting? Yay, nay, gray? (Gray being, I suppose, somewhere in the middle. I liked the rhyme.)

I have an example of the composite screenshots I'm talking about that I'll share once the house is gone, (so as not to ruin someone's game) if anyone doesn't understand what I mean.

kiranearitachi · 2014-01-27 20:56:29

i just got the game on friday and didnt know people were doing these things. I was just taking notes on a text file on combo lock orders and paths

iceman · 2014-01-27 21:23:25

I don't like high gamma displays, even though they've been nerfed (lol), but I'm fine with posting screenshots together. I actually used to record my gameplay(on twitch, which is pretty safe since no-one watches me =P), so I could go back and look at something if I wanted to, but I didn't use it that much.

DethBringa · 2014-01-27 21:54:05

I think the high gamma is frowned upon (at least by me). Screen shotting or recording your target's house from scouting and then using castledraft or similar to map is fine tho.
Thats my opinion.

Zalethon · 2014-01-28 15:23:31

I dislike them, as it confers an unfair advantage on those 'in the know,' but I always turn my gamma up when I'm self-testing, just so I can see what they may see. FYI, I've come to believe that those people who come into a house and then walk back and forth a bunch of times before leaving are using high gamma to try and see around corners... (I've noticed that the way objects fade out makes walking back and forth work really well for seeing otherwise invisible things)

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iceman · 2014-01-28 15:33:40

It doesn't necessarily have to be high gamma - I've done that with a normal screen, and it lets you see stuff you normally couldn't, or see more at once to get a better picture. Which reminds me, I found I bug where you could see if a dog was behind a door... I'm going to try to recreate it...

largestherb · 2014-01-28 16:31:21

my monitor has been on default settings since i got it, i used to be able to see a good 4-5 tiles into the shadows very clearly without ramping up the gamma.

i don't know if i was the first person to notice that everyone was seeing things differently, but i think i was the first person to make a thread going 'wait a minute, is this right??' when i noticed that my laptop could barely see one tile inside the shadow.

i noticed last night, my first time playing the game in a good few months (hooray for personal issues), that there seems to be a little bit of a ghost when pets are moving in sync with you behind a layer of wall. for 1 or 2 moves after they have just gone out of view, you can still see a little bit of doggy shadow lingering.

i'll see if i can take some pictures to demonstrate this quickly.

edit: ahh i think i figured it out, it is the dog shadow taking time to fade out, and i just play very quickly and thought it was just per-movement.

and if you can't see the dogge shadow then it is my monitor being super gamma by default again

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iceman · 2014-01-28 22:23:09

I think that's the same thing I was talking about - I can't see it through the walls in your picture, so I'm guessing that's because of high gamma, but it fairly obvious when the dog moves behind a door quickly.

largestherb · 2014-01-29 03:40:46

ahh! doors! that is what i was seeing the other night. yes yes!

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