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Remember that cool E3 video which showed the prison cell with the shackles on the wall casting a shadow from the torch ? And on the floor, a skeleton's ribs casting soft shadows inside itself ?

The official boards are going apeshit because it's been revealed for "performance reasons" objects will no longer cast shadows in the final build of the game. NPCs and player characters cast them and the trees in the forests have some kind of generic shadow system but despite all the earlier videos, inanimate objects will not anymore.