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I've been playing Nuclear Dawn as an Exo a lot, for the achievement Armour Feels Good (Spawn as Exo 50 times in a row).

I've noticed that nearly every time I engage an enemy, my own muzzle flash hides most of the screen around where I'm aiming. Once I can't see, I can't hit the enemy, and he takes me down quite easily.

Is there anything I can do to help this?

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Wear sunglasses. Other than that, see if the muzzle flash is effected by anything the graphics settings. – Aceofgods Apr 8 '12 at 22:39

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The Exo is a suppressing fire support unit, when you are using the minigun and not the siege variant, that does better supporting other softer units than by itself. The minigun is not terribly accurate making aiming it at specific body parts (like the head) difficult. Also, Assaults and sniper units are the paper to the Exo's rock. These classes can deal a lot of damage very quickly and the weapons they use tend to be more accurate, making aiming for the Exo's "softer" head easier. For these reasons, the Exo is best used en-mass to create a wall of bullets or along side allies of different types. Both of these options make the muzzle flash less of an issue because the direction/location you are firing at becomes more important than any specific target.

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On the contrary, the mini gun is near sniper rifle acurate when in lockdown mode, and I find the flash very iritating. I have this problem as well but only on my laptop and not my desktop. I have no idea what causes it, I went through all of the graphics settings on my laptop made them match my desktop etc. nothing worked. It seems to be an effect that my desktop isnt displaying or my laptop is over using. Some people get it and some dont. My only suggestion would be to update your graphics drivers, that was the only thing i couldnt do on my laptop.

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The FOV (Field of View) slider is likely the only thing that is going to give you some help with this issue in terms of options and even then, it's a limited amount of assistance.

There is no other real solution to this problem, it is simply "part of the game" as they say.

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