BF2S Forums If You Want to Own Faces, Turn off Lighting and Shadow Detail

It was a bit of a mistake in the design of the game to make it so that shadows can be turned off, imo.  Such a modification changes the actual gameplay.  Effectively, part of the terrain that is perceived by those with shadows 'on' is not there for those with it 'off.'  It is not entirely dissimilar to being able to turn buildings on or off. 

Having said that, perhaps the ATI bug in 1.2 is actually a 'feature' 

Still and all, if you choose to turn shadows off to improve your score, so be it.  I for one find the game more fun and challenging with shadows turned on.

agreed, i used to play with shadows off, but i find it much more enjoyable being able to do so well.  but then i sometimes get tempted to hide in the shadows, but every other leet player has them turned off and it never helps me. fuck the fucking fuckers.

same as above 2 comps one has everything on high and it looks sweet, i find game play better and shadows never bothered me cos when a guy is on a roof you can see his shadow as for night maps everything is crisper and cleaner....other comp is set on low its laggy specially on warlord...night maps are a pain but all in all i managed for 8 months playing on it...thought the servers had something to do with effects as well cos i've played on different servers some have lots of fog/mist where others have none (same maps obviously)...so i guess its irrelevent to some degree...its FPS that counts in most cases, so lowering everything on a low spec comp is really only letting you play at the same speed as everyone else..plus it helps if u got a good internet connection and play on low ping servers....its a bit like that post where a guy drew a cross on his monitor so he could use his sniper rifle unscoped....lol EA/DICE have announced that they will be doing house checks to stop this form of exploit.....