Chimera invisible smoke clouds?

This seems like a bug, and it just cost me a lot of EXP and a failed Pit Of The Chimera map.

In the smoke phase he's doing his thing, but there is no smoke.
I have no idea where he may be, and which places I checked/didn't.

So I just run like a headless chicken until I die.
again and again.

what's going on?

The smoke is now black and much harder to see. I think this is the new smoke effect, for some reason its very dark in dark environments and much less dark in light environments.

I kind of panicked the first time I fought the chimera boss due to this. But if you look harder you will see it.

Pretty stupid change IMO.

I also don't know why this was changed. The white ones were clearly visible while the black ones are significantly harder to see. This makes this unbearable phase-fight even more annoying to run.

Question is how to see it.
Maybe it's my middle-aged eyes or my screen, but I see nothing. No smoke.

Yeah, visibility was dramatically reduced for this part of the fight, as part of GGG's 3.4 rework of most of the game's particle, cloud & ground effects.

I'm pretty sure that they hadn't actually given deep consideration to playability on this particular fight when they did it... As a result, it got overlooked, and is definitely much worse.

I do hope that either GGG makes a permanent solution soon, or at least makes a temporary fix to revert the smoke effect to the old one JUST for this fight.

Just wanted to bump this since it's still very relevant.

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johnKeys wrote:

Question is how to see it.
Maybe it's my middle-aged eyes or my screen, but I see nothing. No smoke.

Having the same problem. I just sell the map from now on. Waste of time. No smoke.

Didn't even notice change O_O

It may be backward compatibility for lower-end graphics cards, I think.
Or lack thereof.

I have an old Intel chip.
GGG are testing on high-end 1080s or whatnot.

Since making this thread, I saw in videos the smoke is supposed to be some half transparent shade of black.
Good choice on a red background *face palm*. But then I tried the map again, actively looking for that, and there was none.

I miss the white smoke.

This does create some undeniable panic, yup. Good thing I was overgeared, paranoid, rewatched guides for 30 minutes before entering boss room, and had special flasks for the entire encounter. Still got really fucking shoddy and I would probably have ended up in standard if I hadn't been ridiculously over-prepared.