Friday 2010-03-26 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Richie

And I say again ..It's not a WWII Tree Sim

It is a game set in Britain. There will be little point in releasing a Med' sequel if all countries look the same. It should obviously look like England.
It doesn't yet.
And it is a good idea to let Oleg know that; just in case he can't see it. Or should we wait with that until after release?

Originally Posted by proton45

God, if we waited for them to fill-in and position all that detail, for the whole map and in every town...we could be waiting forever for this sim to be done... ;0

I wasn't being serious about having these features included.

[AKA_Tenn]

there's only one WW2 flight sim out there that has any competition with SoW, and that's IL2... all others at the moment have the same or worse graphics than IL2, and/or crappier flight models, and/or no real multiplayer, and/or are too buggy to even play...

just seeing the WiP screenshots should be enough evidence to say there's never been anything even close to what SoW will be.

the fact is that the majority of people like super easy button bashing games that are super fast paced and don't require any practice or technical skill, so this game falls under a niche category, therefore it HAS to be the best, so that there's no real competition, just to make it worth making...

also SoW game will uses specifically directX, unlike IL2 wich only uses openGL (directX mode is still openGL, just with a wrapper) so it won't suffer from the problems ATI cards have with memory leaks with openGL

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by AKA_Tenn

there's only one WW2 flight sim out there that has any competition with SoW, and that's IL2... all others at the moment have the same or worse graphics than IL2, and/or crappier flight models, and/or no real multiplayer, and/or are too buggy to even play...

just seeing the WiP screenshots should be enough evidence to say there's never been anything even close to what SoW will be.

the fact is that the majority of people like super easy button bashing games that are super fast paced and don't require any practice or technical skill, so this game falls under a niche category, therefore it HAS to be the best, so that there's no real competition, just to make it worth making...

also SoW game will uses specifically directX, unlike IL2 wich only uses openGL (directX mode is still openGL, just with a wrapper) so it won't suffer from the problems ATI cards have with memory leaks with openGL

Rise of flight has better graphics than Il-2. That's the benchmark, IMO, that SoW needs to aim for.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Rise of flight has better graphics than Il-2. That's the benchmark, IMO, that SoW needs to aim for.

I would say better some of graphics features, but not better the photographics look in most cases.
There is always a term of the right use for some of modern technologies. Should not be overdone, or shouldn't be in use totally, because it is wrong in terms of perception comparing to real things.

[Shaderhacker]

Originally Posted by AKA_Tenn

there's only one WW2 flight sim out there that has any competition with SoW, and that's IL2...

I disagree.

The graphics in WOP are indeed superior to SoW (from what I've seen). Now if you want to count every other aspect about SoW over WoP, then that's another discussion. IMO, WOP is the best graphical flight sim released to date. Period.

[robtek]

Yep, Shaderhacker, you've brought it to the point!

...the best GRAPHICAL flight sim...

nothing to add.