Fortunately, they added a workaround with the EV suits that makes the light itself only render for the person wearing it. Everyone else just sees the texture's glowing effect but not the light source itself.

At least, this is what I've observed in my testing. :smile:

WOW, nice pic in stowiki. Sure wished it worked like that for me, would've made 'what lies beneath' a bit more fun if I could've seen what I was shooting at.

...before you ask- my low quality video settings nerfed the beam.

I'll be back... gotta go change my pants...

The flashlight shines an actual dynamic light when on High (and I think Medium) settings. On Low settings, it drops the light (necessitated by the graphics card) and instead draws what we call a splat. Basically a texture that looks similar to a light splash, projected from the flashlight's position, in the direction you're pointing. Admittedly, this looks much worse than the actual light does.

The EV suits are lacking the splat, and unfortunately, on low end, just drop the light entirely.

That's alright, the splat doesn't actually help you see anything. When I was running at lower graphic settings, I kept trying to use it to help me see during the mission you get it in before finally figuring out it was easier just to go without it.

And then later when I was able to actually play with higher graphic settings, I realized why some people found it useful when it seemed useless to me.

I'd like to see the MACO ground set double as an environmental suit.

This would be cool and would make sense, but the Omega set would need a desirable added functionality too if it weren't to be an EVA suit. But whatever happens they should both have fancy lights :tongue: (disabled in social zones :redface: ).