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I know this has been brought up a few times before when the game came out but I haven't seen any posts about it recently. Currently, when Bloodhound activates their ult, the FOV increases and causes a massive FPS drop. For me I go from 80-90 fps to around 50. This, combined with the altered FOV, makes it very difficult to use this ult in a combat situation.

Streamers like Shroud have said they only use bloodhound's ult to gain information because of this issue. Taking away the FOV change would make the ult much smoother and would negate the performance impact.

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about 5 years ago - /u/dko5 - Direct link

Yes.

The FOV change is not the cause of performance issues, but rather there's a lot of stuff being drawn when their ult is popped. I do not know when it will be live in the game, but we do have a potential fix in the works for the performance issue. Performance probably won't stay 100% stable even after the fix - but it should get to a place where it doesn't drop as severely to the point where it hinders gameplay as much. I have not personally tested the fix, but I have lots of faith in our programmers :)