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Old_Canuck
03-08-2011, 07:16 PM
That was great kalimba!
Sometimes people really dont think before write.
Indeed! Idiotic posts will increase exponentially as release date draws near. Skimming these last couple of pages brings back some bad feelings from the 10 years I worked at a mental health facility. :cool:
Hecke
03-08-2011, 07:55 PM
I got a stupid question:
Can we have (accelerated) day-night change in those 24/7 online matches?
tourmaline
03-08-2011, 08:41 PM
That's probably why he's such an easy target,LOL.:cool::-):grin::rolleyes::!:
LOL, you must be kidding.
Pilot's size is completely ok!
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8339/aero20100453.jpg (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/aero20100453.jpg/)
This guy obviously had a head twice the average size.
:grin:
tourmaline
03-08-2011, 08:44 PM
Ehhmm, like people said before that actually experienced that summer, it was really dry and hot for an English summer and very sunny, so i think everything looks just right.:cool:
Go out in the fields after 3 months of dry summer and you'll see it's just like that.
On other thing, when bullets are chasing me, i don't care too much about the landscape...
Grass colour at dawn is great, however grass colour at around midday is way to light for England. It is not dark enough green. How boring do the menu screens look. EAW was much better at creating an ambience.
kalimba
03-08-2011, 10:23 PM
On other thing, when bullets are chasing me, i don't care too much about the landscape...
Yeah, but you will once you'll be shot down....:cool:
Salute !
nearmiss
03-08-2011, 11:05 PM
Yeah, but you will once you'll be shot down....:cool:
Salute !
You'll be looking for a soft spot.
DC338
03-09-2011, 06:29 AM
It's not the graphics that create the ambience, the selections screens are rubbish compared to EAW was what I was getting at. They are rubbish, boring and bland is what they look like ZERO IMMERSION.
I reckon it's going to be like ROF mk II. Basically a beta on release, unfinished though with potential. Rubbish interface and a crap campaign, let alone sound, I predict a spitfire lawn mower not a merlin. Happy to be proved wrong but a fiver says I'm not. I'll buy it none the less but I would expect better than what I believe I'm going to recieve given the lead in time. I so want it to succeed because I love this era, yet I'm underwhelmed.
White Owl
03-09-2011, 07:23 AM
Wait... what the hell do selection screens have to do with immersion? Unless you're playing a game that simulates ordering from a drive-through restaurant or something, the immersion starts after the selection screen. It's like claiming the cover art on the box ruins immersion. :rolleyes:
kaisey
03-09-2011, 09:26 AM
It's not the graphics that create the ambience, the selections screens are rubbish compared to EAW was what I was getting at. They are rubbish, boring and bland is what they look like ZERO IMMERSION.
I reckon it's going to be like ROF mk II. Basically a beta on release, unfinished though with potential. Rubbish interface and a crap campaign, let alone sound, I predict a spitfire lawn mower not a merlin. Happy to be proved wrong but a fiver says I'm not. I'll buy it none the less but I would expect better than what I believe I'm going to recieve given the lead in time. I so want it to succeed because I love this era, yet I'm underwhelmed.
Immersion is all in the game play, I am yet to find a better game than the original Red Baron for that.
being invited to join other squadrons , challenged for a duel and navigating your self etc.
louisv
03-09-2011, 12:50 PM
It's not the graphics that create the ambience, the selections screens are rubbish compared to EAW was what I was getting at. They are rubbish, boring and bland is what they look like ZERO IMMERSION.
I reckon it's going to be like ROF mk II. Basically a beta on release, unfinished though with potential. Rubbish interface and a crap campaign, let alone sound, I predict a spitfire lawn mower not a merlin. Happy to be proved wrong but a fiver says I'm not. I'll buy it none the less but I would expect better than what I believe I'm going to recieve given the lead in time. I so want it to succeed because I love this era, yet I'm underwhelmed.
Do yourself a favor man, don't buy it.:confused:
kalimba
03-09-2011, 01:24 PM
It's not the graphics that create the ambience, the selections screens are rubbish compared to EAW was what I was getting at. They are rubbish, boring and bland is what they look like ZERO IMMERSION.
I reckon it's going to be like ROF mk II. Basically a beta on release, unfinished though with potential. Rubbish interface and a crap campaign, let alone sound, I predict a spitfire lawn mower not a merlin. Happy to be proved wrong but a fiver says I'm not. I'll buy it none the less but I would expect better than what I believe I'm going to recieve given the lead in time. I so want it to succeed because I love this era, yet I'm underwhelmed.
Hum....Wait a minute !...Is that you honey ? Are you writing this from your office ? Are you trying to convince me NOT to buy the game so I will :
Wash the dishes
Take out the garbage
Prepare supper
Go to bed early
Take the kids to school in time
Not miss a couple of days at work
Well, my dear wife, it won't work ! Caught you !
Love,
Kalimba ;)
Drum_tastic
03-09-2011, 01:49 PM
hum....wait a minute !...is that you honey ? Are you writing this from your office ? Are you trying to convince me not to buy the game so i will :
Wash the dishes
take out the garbage
prepare supper
go to bed early
take the kids to school in time
not miss a couple of days at work
well, my dear wife, it won't work ! Caught you !
Love,
kalimba ;)
lol
lbuchele
03-09-2011, 02:25 PM
Hum....Wait a minute !...Is that you honey ? Are you writing this from your office ? Are you trying to convince me NOT to buy the game so I will :
Wash the dishes
Take out the garbage
Prepare supper
Go to bed early
Take the kids to school in time
Not miss a couple of days at work
Well, my dear wife, it won't work ! Caught you !
Love,
Kalimba ;)
I'm in tears...:-P
nearmiss
03-09-2011, 02:33 PM
Indeed! Idiotic posts will increase exponentially as release date draws near. Skimming these last couple of pages brings back some bad feelings from the 10 years I worked at a mental health facility. :cool:
Yeah!
Think about it.
You knew the people in the mental health facility were nuts
On this forums they don't come with a file and credentials of craziness.
You have to do your own diagnosis
Richie
03-09-2011, 06:27 PM
LOL, you must be kidding.
Pilot's size is completely ok!
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8339/aero20100453.jpg (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/aero20100453.jpg/)
This guy obviously had a head of twice the average size.
:grin:
Men can come in all different shapes and sizes can't they.
Why wasn't the defiant firing back??? I hope this isn't a sign of bad AI! :(
There are other possibilities beyond "bad AI," you know. For example, gunner could already be WIA/KIA, monitoring something else, OR just plain shell-shocked with eyes as big as saucers. ;)
GnigruH
03-09-2011, 06:57 PM
Men can come in all different shapes and sizes can't they.
So what if they are all the same (very small) size? :wink:
Old_Canuck
03-09-2011, 07:13 PM
Men can come in all different shapes and sizes can't they.
The pilot is leaning towards the camera a bit so his head appears bigger than it is. Ever taken a photo of a fish you just caught and held towards the camera so it would look bigger?:)
There are other possibilities beyond "bad AI," you know. For example, gunner could already be WIA/KIA, monitoring something else, OR just plain shell-shocked with eyes as big as saucers. ;)
At 0.55 you can clearly see the 109 taking hits from the 4 x .303 machine guns from the Defiant, he's pulling a quite tight turn as well, that's what makes me think it's definitely the Defiant
TheGrunch
03-09-2011, 07:38 PM
On a completely unrelated note to the current discussion, I'm just gonna say that I really appreciated the music over both of these videos, especially 0:44 onward on Air Battle, although the music for Air Battle really was more the sort of music you'd expect on a longer video watching a lot of aircraft form up before a scrap. Big panning shots of large formations and that sort of thing.
DC338
03-09-2011, 08:23 PM
Hum....Wait a minute !...Is that you honey ? Are you writing this from your office ? Are you trying to convince me NOT to buy the game so I will :
Wash the dishes
Take out the garbage
Prepare supper
Go to bed early
Take the kids to school in time
Not miss a couple of days at work
Well, my dear wife, it won't work ! Caught you !
Love,
Kalimba ;)
I wonder why so few of the videos have in game sound? (The official trailer has dubbed in sound). I wonder why none of them show a dog fight over land? I wonder why the videos are all shot in the early morning/late afternoon? I wonder why we have Italian aircraft yet no belgium on the ingame map for them to take off from?(http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/sow-screenshots-03-12-2010/)
I guess as it is the 10th here you only have to wait another 20 days till you can find the answers to the above questions.
As I said I'll buy it without hesitation and I think everyone else should too. I just don't want you to have too higher hopes.
kalimba
03-09-2011, 09:01 PM
I just don't want you to have too higher hopes.
I know...You are right...You keep telling me that every night before we go to bed ,honey...But one man can dream...:rolleyes:
:cool:
...I wonder why the videos are all shot in the early morning/late afternoon?
As any amateur photographer will know, things just look better in the golden hours (dawn and dusk).
Evidently they are showing off the graphics by taking footage at the most beautiful time of day. Also colours are much more vivid at this time of day so it is great for proofing. :cool:
Royraiden
03-10-2011, 11:40 AM
As any amateur photographer will know, things just look better in the golden hours (dawn and dusk).
Evidently they are showing off the graphics by taking footage at the most beautiful time of day. Also colours are much more vivid at this time of day so it is great for proofing. :cool:
Exactly.Is the only time when you can get soft shadows.
Exactly.Is the only time when you can get soft shadows.
Unless it is cloudy, however you would lose most of the colour and my bet is that people would start calling it too "dreary". :rolleyes:
Royraiden
03-11-2011, 02:15 AM
Unless it is cloudy, however you would lose most of the colour and my bet is that people would start calling it too "dreary". :rolleyes:
Its not the same, you said it yourself.And yes that would start another debate.
Redwan
03-11-2011, 12:47 PM
Exactly.Is the only time when you can get soft shadows.
Even Rowan BoB with his crappy graphics looks good in the evening light ...
Royraiden
03-11-2011, 12:50 PM
Even Rowan BoB with his crappy graphics looks good in the evening light ...
So its a bad thing for you then?LMAO
So its a bad thing for you then?LMAO
Oh dear, they really do complain about everything don't they... :grin:
Royraiden
03-11-2011, 01:21 PM
New video out,posted by Oleg on his youtube channel.
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