Has "Darkness" Changed?

Has "Darkness" always been server side? I know the client having the dark circle around you and blurring is client side, and that can be removed. But i could of sworn that before when you removed darkness you would still see everything like normal as the client was the one hiding things when you had the condition effect. But now i have noticed that even with the client side effect removed, the server actually hides stuff now so the client doesnt see everything.

Is this something that occurred recently or have i just never noticed this before? I though removing darkness on the client side debuffs allowed you to see everything as if you werent effected at all. But unless there is something ive missed in the client i put out, simply removing darkness as i use to no longer works. My screen looks normal, but some enemies are hidden as if im still effected by it.

Also curious. You seem to be getting a ~5x5 square of vision regarding entities etc.

Originally Posted by PKTINOS

Also curious. You seem to be getting a ~5x5 square of vision regarding entities etc.

Ran some shatters.
Before nothing showed.
Now you get a 5x5.

Originally Posted by PKTINOS

Also curious. You seem to be getting a ~5x5 square of vision regarding entities etc.

Yes this is what ive been noticing as well.

Originally Posted by ROBBOBBY

Ran some shatters.
Before nothing showed.
Now you get a 5x5.

What do you mean by "before nothing showed"? I though that when you had the client side debuff removed you could see everything normally before. Whereas now it seems the server limits your view distance even when you have the client side debuff removed. I always thought it was the client that limited your view distance before which is why you could remove it and it was as if nothing had happened.

Originally Posted by toddddd

Yes this is what ive been noticing as well.

What do you mean by "before nothing showed"? I though that when you had the client side debuff removed you could see everything normally before. Whereas now it seems the server limits your view distance even when you have the client side debuff removed. I always thought it was the client that limited your view distance before which is why you could remove it and it was as if nothing had happened.

I couldn't see any enemies. Using the orape debuff it would remove the side effect but I had no vision afaik.

Originally Posted by ROBBOBBY

I couldn't see any enemies. Using the orape debuff it would remove the side effect but I had no vision afaik.

Hmm that doesnt make any sense. Ive watched a lot of youtube videos that say otherwise (from before), like if you watch this one from 2014 at about the 13:45 mark he gets hit with darkness, but he can still see the enemy. From what i recall, the intent of darkness has always been to limit your view distance, but i could of sworn that before you could remove that limitation as it was client side. Whereas now it seems that view distance is limited by the server when you get hit with darkness.

Originally Posted by toddddd

This is strictly using hacks, from my own experience (I think) that I couldnt see any enemies.\
Gonna try to find a hacker clip from my old pc

Originally Posted by ROBBOBBY

This is strictly using hacks, from my own experience (I think) that I couldnt see any enemies.\
Gonna try to find a hacker clip from my old pc

That would be awesome if you have a clip recorded with the debuff disabled. Im really interested to see if it has always been server side and ive never noticed for some reason, or if it just recently got changed to server side like i think it did.

Originally Posted by toddddd

Well I know for a fact that it changed, brb gonna go find it.

I think its always been like that. Atleast from my experience, I noticed it many months ago that the anti darkness is basically useless since it still hides the enemies from a few blocks away. But I may be wrong

It seems that darkness has changed, as it's now server-side or something; maybe to prevent hacking?
Still don't know why they haven't fixed unstable or confuse or something yet, prob since they're client side debuffs.

Originally Posted by MrSurvivor

Still don't know why they haven't fixed unstable or confuse or something yet, prob since they're client side debuffs.

Confuse would be a strange one to handle server side, though i guess possible. It would be hard because the client sends the move packet which sets the position, the server could modify that but it would cause the player to jump around. Same thing with Unstable, the client sends the shot and the server simply acknowledges it. Handling it server side would be very strange.

Originally Posted by toddddd

It would also be not plausible since it would take up much more bandwith and lag would either mean nonconfusion or no shots. Also, confuse server side would mean you cant move until server gets it...highly bad.

99% sure darkness has always removed, server side, the enemies around you further than like 3-4 tiles.

I've found a few from Mpgh, who plays rotmg... THey say that darkness used to remove the enemies, once darkness hit you... But you could still see where to go..

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