underwater color / shader

water should have either a wave shader, darker color or both. so underwater units wouldn't be as clear as unit not under water.
right now it is often hard to tell if a unit is really inside water or not.

Definitely post a screenshot. We don't know what your water looks like.

That's /water 1. What you're looking for is /water 4, known as the "Bumpmapped" water type in the lobby settings.

If your water type is already set to "Bumpmapped" but your water is reset to /water 1 on loading a match, this is likely because you have ATI/Intel Compatibility set to "Automatic", which currently excludes all non-Nvidia cards from the setting of /water 4. To work around this, you can set ATI/Intel Compatibility in the lobby settings to "Off", though this may or may not cause issues if you do use an ATI/Intel GPU.

For the sake of resolving the issue linked above, to anyone lurking: would you mind stating your GPU (or at least GPU brand) and whether this issue affects you? If you do use an ATI/Intel GPU, do you experience any problems when turning ATI/Intel Compaitiblity off?

Huh, I think my water is having the same problem thelaststand's is, is there an easy way to take a screenshot in-game?

Also, something that's been happening for a looong time but I've never thought to mention it is:
The vision radius of moving units lags for me, even though nothing is lagging. It's like the vision radius only updates once a second or something, so it looks super choppy, is this a bug with the game or with my computer? I'm not 100% sure it happens every game since by now I've gotten used to it, but I think it does.

quote: Also, something that's been happening for a looong time but I've never thought to mention it is: The vision radius of moving units lags for me, even though nothing is lagging. It's like the vision radius only updates once a second or something, so it looks super choppy, is this a bug with the game or with my computer? I'm not 100% sure it happens every game since by now I've gotten used to it, but I think it does.

Line of sight will look jagged and laggy if you are using the shaderless CPU-calculated fallback. I don't know of any setting that would cause this, so my guess is that your computer doesn't support enough shaders. Perhaps ask engine devs.