[madamelic]

> you're moving around too fast to really appreciate (or even notice) the difference RT gives you over fake reflections.

You're also at a disadvantage running the graphics on High.

In any game that I want to play at a "competitive" level, I always put the settings to the absolute lowest settings so the computer always gets 100+ FPS.

No reason to even try to optimize. The point is winning, not it looking good. In fact, in some games, the developers have had to go back and make it more fair for higher settings because of low settings hiding tall grass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA

[int_19h]

It's a spectrum, not an either-or. Many people play competitive multiplayer for the sake of overall enjoyment, not solely to compete. For that, you want the graphics to be as good as possible, to the limit of what you can notice while playing the game normally.