Two practical BAR settings questions come up regularly: why planes still show the retreat-when-below button, and whether you can cap your GPU at 60 FPS. Here are the answers straight from the community.
Aircraft in Beyond All Reason still show the retreat-when-below control because they technically remain active units on the board. If you manage to acquire a repair pad during a match, you need a way to pull damaged aircraft back to it. Removing that button would strip you of recovery options exactly when you need them most.
The button exists for edge cases, and those edge cases matter in longer games where repair infrastructure becomes relevant. Leave it alone and use it when a damaged plane needs evac.
Players have asked whether you can make the GPU prevent applications from exceeding 60 FPS. This is a performance tuning question, not a game-specific one. Your GPU driver control panel, whether Nvidia or AMD, handles application-level frame caps. Set the cap there and BAR will respect it like any other application.
Sometimes players check out of a match before commanders even land on the field. When that happens, filing an after-match report is the right response. The BAR community tracks patterns of behavior and reporting keeps things clean for everyone else in the queue.
Understanding your game settings and reporting bad behavior when it happens both come down to the same thing: treating the shared match space like something worth protecting.
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