"Dirty"-looking textures?

Orz

Thought I'd come back to NS2 after a few months absence, just loaded the new version to see 'blurry' or 'dirty' looking textures, around certain objects? I wonder if it might be anti-aliasing related? I never noticed this before and couldn't seem to get it to turn off. It 'moves around' somewhat in game/while moving, which the screenshots don't show of course.

http://imgur.com/a/Ev6yA

Zavaro

Looks like ambient occlusion. It's really hard to make it look perfect in a map, honestly.

Orz

So you're saying that's supposed to be there? It looks pretty rough - and I'm pretty sure I don't remember this being there before...

Asraniel

You can disable the ambient occlusion option. It will also increase your fps.

METROID

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/136542/weird-ao-dirty-walls-marine-faces-etc

2cough

Was probably the first thing I turned off ever.

Orz

Has there been a change to the Ambient Occlusion to cause this, if this is even what it is? I'm highly skeptical as I've always had AO turned on, and never seen this before

IronHorse

No it's always been there.
High and medium settings of AO will make it better /worse at the cost of more input delay and FPS.

Orz

why have it at all then? If it's obviously only a bad thing?

SamusDroid

Because it makes the game look better