no friday update today???

The Kraken · #1 02-12-2011, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Dano

Please for the love of god remove the double negative switches

'No Map Icons', invert the switch toggle and call it 'Map Icons' etc etc, there is no need for added confusion in the menus.

But the logic is consistent throughout the menu: every tick you set increases realism/difficulty. I prefer it that way... but maybe they could include a switch for the setting of the settings menu

Dano · #2 02-12-2011, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by The Kraken

But the logic is consistent throughout the menu: every tick you set increases realism/difficulty. I prefer it that way... but maybe they could include a switch for the setting of the settings menu

You know, in ten years of playing IL2 I've never reaslised that

But still, double negative switches are just wrong and confusing.

The Kraken · #3 02-12-2011, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Dano

You know, in ten years of playing IL2 I've never reaslised that

That's because it wasn't like that in Il2 - the "no omission of deactivated difficulty setting absence"-style labels drove me mad too

Having "tick = more difficult" as a common rule should be quite easier to handle now.

The Kraken · #4 02-12-2011, 10:43 AM

Some random observations (it's getting hard to digest anything new from those videos we've seen):

The individual AI attributes were mentioned before but it's nice to see the complete list now (here) - sure looks interesting.

Other things I've noticed were the flames without smoke in one video (some more variety compared to Il2), the Il2-like "orderly ejection" from spiralling planes (mostly RAF so I guess they maintain a proper queue at the exit hatch

) and the tracers working really well from the cockpit view. Not so sure about the cannon smoke - looks good from behind but the individual puffs when watched from the side are not so great. No big deal though.

And still some visual bugs (the white line on the sea) which are hopefully a side effect of the poor graphics card.

Some text messages (as far as they are readable) show "shared kills" when a plane goes down, so it looks like the game tracks all previous hits and doesn't just count the final attacker. Could be interesting for the MP people.

Anything I missed?

Dano · #5 02-12-2011, 10:48 AM

What on earth does anthropomorphic control do?

David603 · #6 02-12-2011, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Dano

What on earth does anthropomorphic control do?

According to Wiki, anthropomorphic means the attribution of human characteristics to things that are non-human, so I'm guessing its something to do with the AI.