I turned the Effects Level under Graphics to "off" in order to explore negating FPS loss from the new swarm trails. While this did eliminate the trails entirely, leaving only the projectiles, it rendered energy weapons completely invisible for me. That's not good, right?

hehe I found that out myself when I first started playing VO. Thought I could up my FPS while fighting collectors in a storm only to find I couldent see their shots at all.

I've known about this for a while. If I'd have known it was a bug, I'd have said something. Heh.

Doesn't really strike me as a bug. The setting is doing exactly what it says it does, turning off all of the "effects" while leaving "objects" intact (thus you can see missiles but not blaster/cannon shots).

Maybe there should be a warning about turning this setting to Off. Either that, or remove the Off choice, and make it a separate option called "Zatoichi Mode".