Friday update and discussions 2011-03-18

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

lol, you really are an idiot, "COD IS MADE NOT TO BE ABLE TO RUN ON TOP OF THE LINE MACHINES" Have you heard yourself, your saying that by design this game is going to suck until many years to come.

Ehh, should we just see what I actually posted, before being called an idiot by Tree? (I thought moderators would care about that, btw, but it seems they don't)

Originally Posted by Freycinet

Of course you will need a good gaming rig to fly it at high graphics settings at 1920x1080. And CoD is MADE to not be able to run on top-of-the-line machines at full graphics settings. Built-in longevity.

AT FULL GRAPHICS SETTINGS. That means that you cannot just pile anything on and have the sim run perfectly at max resolution. I'll bet you that that will be the case with CoD.

Actually the developers have already said as much. You won't have "perfect weather" in the sim itself, because it grinds everything to a halt. But they have left the opportunity open for users to use the setting in the Full Mission Builder, as an unsupported feature. In the rest of the sim it will be unlocked later, when computers catch up.

Of course I don't expect Tree to understand a word of this, but I just wanted to communicate it to others in here, so they aren't left with his false quote of what I wrote. He is deliberately misinforming as much as he can about CoD, so of course he does the same about fellow posters as well. I think there will be a position as Ghadaffi Information Minister open for him, now that CoD will come out, which should turn off his faucet of hate towards the sim...

[philip.ed]

Please, the arguing (a masquerade of secret sexual tension) is so two weeks ago. Be sure.

[kendo65]

For months now people have been asking to hear the in-game sounds in one of the Friday updates.

As we're nearly there now (some of us nearer than others - sorry American readers) it seems clear that the devs probably decided some way back to keep sounds under wraps until release. [and not necessarily because they didn't work - Tree ]

Another absence that raised questions for me was the lack of any weather conditions (and clouds!) other than the fine and sunny option we've seen all the way through. I was worried at one point that this was all we were going to get.

Also bomb explosions, ground vehicle damage effects and quite a few others have yet to make an official appearance.

This week we got the first glimpse of the London skyline.

Given this week's video maker's comment:

Originally Posted by biltongbru

The only comment I am prepared to make is that this game will totally surprise everyone.

it seems clear that there is an official dev-imposed embargo on revealing certain features in videos, or discussing them.

But the comment above has me wondering if there are any MAJOR surprises to come - or will it just be features we all expect but haven't seen yet?

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I'd really like to see aircraft collisions with the (speed)trees - remember that SpeedTree demo video from last year?!. Also - I really want to see a Sunderland take off!!

[Biggs]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

Ehh, should we just see what I actually posted, before being called an idiot by Tree? (I thought moderators would care about that, btw, but it seems they don't)



AT FULL GRAPHICS SETTINGS. That means that you cannot just pile anything on and have the sim run perfectly at max resolution. I'll bet you that that will be the case with CoD.

Actually the developers have already said as much. You won't have "perfect weather" in the sim itself, because it grinds everything to a halt. But they have left the opportunity open for users to use the setting in the Full Mission Builder, as an unsupported feature. In the rest of the sim it will be unlocked later, when computers catch up.

Of course I don't expect Tree to understand a word of this, but I just wanted to communicate it to others in here, so they aren't left with his false quote of what I wrote. He is deliberately misinforming as much as he can about CoD, so of course he does the same about fellow posters as well. I think there will be a position as Ghadaffi Information Minister open for him, now that CoD will come out, which should turn off his faucet of hate towards the sim...

whatever... as long as i can run it like this.. ill be happy.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Biggs

whatever... as long as i can run it like this.. ill be happy.

From that screenshot I can already tell its old stuff, a huge amount of options are missing.
HDR, DOF, MSAA, particle settings, distortion effects, PP, Shader model, volumetric lighting, DS - and the list goes on, note that the ss is a pic of the options in "advanced" settings...

Originally Posted by Heliocon

From that screenshot I can already tell its old stuff, a huge amount of options are missing.
HDR, DOF, MSAA, particle settings, distortion effects, PP, Shader model, volumetric lighting, DS - and the list goes on, note that the ss is a pic of the options in "advanced" settings...

DX11 is within the engine...Oleg comfirmed that . Just not enough "stable" f/x yet to exploit in a flight sim of this magnitude.
And just because you don't see every single parameter listed as "tweakable" doen't mean that it is not there...
Some visual features are more "hungry" than others and could simply be included within different settings levels....In other words, Oleg could have decided to keep it simple....

Salute !

[JAMF]

There's something like a glitch that doesn't look right in the clip. When the Beaufighter attacks, there are what look like glowing gasses dropping away. Not likely I'll be seeing it when I game, but just wondering what they are or were meant to be and if it needs fixing.