Friday Update, April 6, 2012

[6S.Tamat]

yes there is a difference, a drop of fps for something that probably i'll never see for more than 0,5 sec.

btw hope that will function everything well, but in my personal list of wish things there are tons of stuff about playability before of that.

[ChrisDNT]

Yep, the houses look very good, but for some reason it looks that this studio can't get the landscape colors, for any places in the world, looking right !!!

[mkubani]

I have modelled the Slovakia buildings to match the IL-2 tech. requirements and taking into consideration the fact that 90% of time they will be viewed from at least couple hundred meters. So no need for high res textures or overdone 3D models.

Since CloD offers (or will offer) a ground battle simulation, the houses need to be more detailed. I like the models presented in this update. Style and colours nicely match the terrain. I would love to see the damage model as well. I was hoping that CloD would introduce at least 2 stage damage (light an heavy). Maybe next Friday.

[Ailantd]

In my opinion, while the house models and detail are outstanding for a flight sim, they are only barely good for ground simulators today´s standards.

From the flight sim and aesthetically point of view, there are three items where improvement need to be done to vastly improve the immersion, without which is no important how well done are the buildings or landscape items models:

- Ground surface texture at medium distance.
The nice detail texture and grass is good only for the few closer meters, which you almost don´t see never while flying. The medium distance texture looks always blurred and very low resolution, and I think it´s the bigger landscape flaw in COD right now and it makes spot of ground units very difficult as it fool your sense of scale. So I would add another detail level texture for medium distances and also improve the ground detail texture in cities.

- Landscape life.
For me this is the total immersion killer from a landscape point of view. You have very nicely landscape, but it is a dead landscape. Add some vehicles moving in the road or parked at the cities. Some birds, some animals, some smoke fires... and the magic is done. You have a breathtaking living landscape ( for people with systems that could move that at least ).

- Terrain blending and limits.
While the terrain tiles are very well done and are hardly noticeable but from very high altitudes there are two very clear ways to improve them. Airfields ground texture and blending with surrounding textures could be very improved so it fits in a more believable way.
Roads should impact the textures behind them, may be cutting the terrain tiles patches so roads become real terrain limits like in reality. Also primary roads look smaller than in-texture secondary ones, which looks estrange.

These are my constructive two cents for the landscape.

[Red Dragon-DK]

I have walked arround the pictures again and again, because I thought it was something I had seen before. ITo me it looks like the buildings in same low resolution as IL2 46. As a paper figure is cut out and glued together. I do not think they live up to the high standard that many other visuellt objects have in Clod. Yes it is a FLYSIM, where many flies + 300 meters I belive it still must be a bette resolution and the models should be well be made ​​whit higher resolution for more realistic view. Why go on compromise with this? It is much easier to correct now rather than later. If it is intended that there should be room to walk on earth, it must also look good. Allso for the future.

[Osprey]

Right now I really couldn't give a monkeys about how well modeled a Russian village is. For 8 months I've had to put up with 109's massively outperforming the RAF, and it's getting worse because the 109 drivers are getting more experienced and make fewer mistakes. The only thing I am finding left now is surprise, once that is lost the fight becomes impossible. Can't even out-turn them half the time because of a stupid and incorrect implementation of the elevator trim on the 109 which means they can use it to pull lead, especially against the Hurricane.


It's an absolute joke, it really is.

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Right now I really couldn't give a monkeys about how well modeled a Russian village is. For 8 months I've had to put up with 109's massively outperforming the RAF, and it's getting worse because the 109 drivers are getting more experienced and make fewer mistakes. The only thing I am finding left now is surprise, once that is lost the fight becomes impossible. Can't even out-turn them half the time because of a stupid and incorrect implementation of the elevator trim on the 109 which means they can use it to pull lead, especially against the Hurricane.


It's an absolute joke, it really is.

Have you logged it in the new bug tracker? I know Luthier is monitoring that.

Just out of interest, was there any possibility in real life to use 109 elevator trim to advantage in the heat of battle? Can it be applied too quickly in the sim or is it some other problem? How do you think trim could be better implemented?

[Osprey]

It's on a wheel, like flaps, and takes lots of turning. Try doing that continuously when pull high G and controlling the throttle and pitch. So no, I don't think so.

I don't know enough about the 109 to describe how it should be implemented, we need a nice honest 109 driver who is interested in accuracy and not stat padding.

The whole thing reminds me of that 1946 thing where you could fly whilst blacked out on trim controls.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Osprey

It's on a wheel, like flaps, and takes lots of turning. Try doing that continuously when pull high G and controlling the throttle and pitch. So no, I don't think so.

Nothing magic here, just good pilots with the discipline to have the mind set to use as necessary (I fail in this area)...would you rather to eliminate, and thus be historically inaccurate.

[No1 Cheese]

Yet again utterly bored with the update(as much as i want one) when is the game going to get fixed? A yr on and we get this.Its getting annoying now.
Gents i love the look of the game,the potential but come on guys,stop blowing flowers up there arse,IT NEEDS SORTING!!!!!!


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