Friday Update, February 24, 2012

Although I have no interest in driving around in a ground vehicle especially in a flight sim (I have a real one on my drive) I have to say that I am very encouraged by them, Obviously it means they have fixed the 'no tree collision' which is wonderful news and also they will have fixed the issue where you could turn trees off, by that I mean I have my trees on max settings and my opponent has them on minimal I think I’m losing him in a dog fight by dropping down into a clearing and all he see's is just ground and wonders what the hell I am doing!
It’s clear this has now been addressed and will hopefully be in the next patch, I would imagine the massive FPS increase as allowed them to now have a permanent landscape (i.e. cant increase decrease tree amounts), which the guy working on ground vehicles would of insisted on, you see if you had hidden your tank in the woods but your opponent can’t see the woods because he's turned them off it kind of destroys any idea of having ground vehicles that can be used in a simulation/ground war. So, by introducing drivable vehicles we will have a more realistic sim with tree collision and a permanent landscape so I think that it’s great news.

[Fredfetish]

PATCH! PATCH! PATCH! PATCH!

What do we want?! PATCH! When do we want it?! NOW!!! Or, I mean, please sir?

[furbs]

Im more excited by the boost in FPS, it should mean the broken FSAA and AF can be fixed after a year!

FPS boost
Tree fix
FSAA
AI fixes
CTD crash fixed
FM fixes

At last CLOD can rise from the ashes.

Roll on patch Friday i say!

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Although I have no interest in driving around in a ground vehicle especially in a flight sim (I have a real one on my drive) I have to say that I am very encouraged by them, Obviously it means they have fixed the 'no tree collision' which is wonderful news and also they will have fixed the issue where you could turn trees off, by that I mean I have my trees on max settings and my opponent has them on minimal I think I’m losing him in a dog fight by dropping down into a clearing and all he see's is just ground and wonders what the hell I am doing!
It’s clear this has now been addressed and will hopefully be in the next patch, I would imagine the massive FPS increase as allowed them to now have a permanent landscape (i.e. cant increase decrease tree amounts), which the guy working on ground vehicles would of insisted on, you see if you had hidden your tank in the woods but your opponent can’t see the woods because he's turned them off it kind of destroys any idea of having ground vehicles that can be used in a simulation/ground war. So, by introducing drivable vehicles we will have a more realistic sim with tree collision and a permanent landscape so I think that it’s great news.

BlackSix's post that mentioned the trees will eventually have a damage model was very good news. I don't see it happening for awhile though, unless the new graphics engine releases enough resources to allow a damage model for each of the uncountable amount of trees on the map. I believe the developers have already modified "SpeedTree" to suit and hopefully they can modify it even more so, and call it "MuchFasterTreesWithACollisionModel"

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Chivas

BlackSix's post that mentioned the trees will eventually have a damage model was very good news. I don't see it happening for awhile though, unless the new graphics engine releases enough resources to allow a damage model for each of the uncountable amount of trees on the map. I believe the developers have already modified "SpeedTree" to suit and hopefully they can modify it even more so, and call it "MuchFasterTreesWithACollisionModel"

I think I remember luthier saying they were planning to off-load the tree collision detection onto another core. Bit of a problem for those with older processors but then again, they probably won't run CloD anyway.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Although I have no interest in driving around in a ground vehicle especially in a flight sim (I have a real one on my drive) I have to say that I am very encouraged by them, Obviously it means they have fixed the 'no tree collision' which is wonderful news and also they will have fixed the issue where you could turn trees off, by that I mean I have my trees on max settings and my opponent has them on minimal I think I’m losing him in a dog fight by dropping down into a clearing and all he see's is just ground and wonders what the hell I am doing!
It’s clear this has now been addressed and will hopefully be in the next patch, I would imagine the massive FPS increase as allowed them to now have a permanent landscape (i.e. cant increase decrease tree amounts), which the guy working on ground vehicles would of insisted on, you see if you had hidden your tank in the woods but your opponent can’t see the woods because he's turned them off it kind of destroys any idea of having ground vehicles that can be used in a simulation/ground war. So, by introducing drivable vehicles we will have a more realistic sim with tree collision and a permanent landscape so I think that it’s great news.

I hope your right! Except if i'm in a tank I would want to be able to push a smallish tree over....and drive over smallish cars... and drive into houses for cover!

[albx]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

I hope your right! Except if i'm in a tank I would want to be able to push a smallish tree over....and drive over smallish cars... and drive into houses for cover!

hhhmmm.... WorldOfTanks?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by albx

hhhmmm.... WorldOfTanks?

I took alook at WorldofTanks, but it didn't make me want to bother downloading it. I didn't see any inside tank screenshots, do you shoot form the outside view? I'm not much of an FPS'er but enjoyed some offline tank play in RO, and bought RO2 thinking I would be able to do the same, but it didn't have that option. I think it would be rather fun operating Tanks on the new IL-2 series terrain when they have a Tree collision model.

[SNAFU]

Well, lets really hope they fix the trees with the new engine, otherwise 90% of players play on maps without a single tree, so we should wait for the Lybia-Addon for some Tanking.

As far as I understood, WoT doesn´t have so many players, because it has tanks, tactic, graphics or other realism in any way. It is simply addictive due to the scoring and leveling system. Not a single WoT player will move to CloD because in CloD you can drive around in a tank - no the WoT machinery is all about "claning", "leveling", "farming" and who spents more real money into it and is on the score board.
Though I never player WoT, I still play Navyfield from time to time, it is basically the same approach to the teenies wallet.

[Verhängnis]

World of Tanks!