Contact sight problem.. really something to patch!!

[6S.Manu]

Originally Posted by Gollum

Im talking about both. I understand your issues and agree they should be fixed first. However, sometimes spotting anything at all is impossible on the english channel map. Flew an hour yesterday at 4k over the english coast in a 109 and didnt see a thing. The server said there were 15 reds.... maybe they didnt get the memo and were busy defending iceland? I think the issue is that they blend in with the ground too much. They are almost impossible to see looking down. Sometimes ill be lucky enough to spot one and be looking right at it and watch it dissapear completely. If i can spot a house or a single tree from 4k, i should be able to spot a plane. For some reason i think the distance to size scale of the planes is too dramatic. Im not at home to test this but from memmory i think the plane at ground level when viewed from say 3k looks like a dot when a house which are not too much larger then the plane model when looked at from above still looks like a house... could this have something to do with aa being broken. Fir example the dot appears and dissapears sometimes (flashing rapidly) making spotting one even more difficult.

Both the time I've flown online these week there was almost 25 enemy planes... During the flight I've seen none (flying from Calais to Dover and back).

Don't know if it's the scale of the planes... it could be: I'll make some tests.

IMO the main problem is the textures of the background. The textures of the sea is moving nonstop, and they are really detalied: how could you see a AC, a LOD with camo texture (ergo not stable pixels), over that "sea" of moving pixel?

In the LOD you have to avoid the camo effect so that the planes are monochromatic. Or maybe we an use black squared dots bigger than a pair of pixel, like the ones we already have for ships (horrible to the sight... somebody complains about labels... THOSE DOTS ARE LABELS, and you can't even take them out).

It was so easy when, many years ago, the texture could not be so detailed and so the ground and sea were almost flat... you could "easily" spot a black dot over it, also because the resolutions were smaller than the ones used in these days.