To run the game's lighting and material effects smoothly, your hardware needs to meet specific shader model requirements.

: Use a Screen Space Refraction shader that applies a shifting noise texture (like Perlin noise) to distort pixels in a specific area behind engine nozzles.

Jester slammed the stick to the right and punched the countermeasures. He watched the flare trajectory—the shader effects made them look like tiny, burning suns falling away from his wing. The missile missed, but the explosion detonated close enough to rock the aircraft.

"No," Jester said, staring at the furnace that used to be his computer. "It just made it... too hot to handle."