Originally posted by The Architect
I thought that having reflections slow down computers and having no reflections doesn't, thus a more realistic game would be achieve higher framecounts and be more better looking at the same time.
It will do, but making blured reflections is much harder on the computer though, which makes it more realistic.
Think about a mirror, you render with no reflections and its just a bit of black geo, with OTT reflections it at least can be seen as a mirror. More works needed to get it looking right though.
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