better clouds and trees in next patch ?

[whoarmongar]

Im no programmer, I wouldnt want to comment on the games coding etc, but I really dont see how these trees are such a problem.

I have been playing flight sims for longer than I care to remember and I can remember sims from years back that tackled this problem by simply making the forest blocks 30-40 feet higher than the surounding topography. Sure it looked rubbish but if you hit a forest block you died.

At the moment we have eye candy trees that arnt really there, I decided ages ago if they didnt exist I would not have them so I disabled them, sure it looks rubbish but whats the point of rendering something that doesnt exist ?

If it was hedges I could and would accept them, but If I collide with a dirty great elm or oak tree I deserve to and expect to die.

[BigC208]

Treat the trees for what they are, Trees! I've been flying the sim for a while now and it never bothered me because guess what? I don't fly thru the trees.
Have not seen any AI try to escape thru the trees either. I don't fly online. Anyone using the trees there to evade is diluting his gaming experience imho.

Originally Posted by Pluto

I`m not flying Cliffs of Dover anymore anyway until it has drastically improved !

You'll be waiting a long time. This game has hit the wall so far as any further significant improvements are concerned. It's still not smooth, it still has no FSAA, it still looks rough, it still has major bugs, there are still no responses in threads from the devs on major issues and suggestions and queries...should I go on? It's another Luftwaffe Commander...not quite as bad, but still bad enough and still as up against that wall to be condemned for what it is and will always be...an almost great but a failure in the end.

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Langnasen

You'll be waiting a long time. This game has hit the wall so far as any further significant improvements are concerned. It's still not smooth, it still has no FSAA, it still looks rough, it still has major bugs, there are still no responses in threads from the devs on major issues and suggestions and queries...should I go on? It's another Luftwaffe Commander...not quite as bad, but still bad enough and still as up against that wall to be condemned for what it is and will always be...an almost great but a failure in the end.

Thanks for your valuable opinion and here was I flying online on the weekend actually thinking I was having fun, it seemed smooth for me and nothing like Luftwaffe Commander, but now that you have definatively stated that it has hit a wall, I better shelve it myself

Or another idea is you shelve it and go play something else, you have no more knowledge about the future of this sim than anyone else typing here, if you don't like it fine, but why try and put other people off, with what is really nothing more than your own opinion?

[furbs]

Tiger, its not about if you had fun, i can take nice screenies, Frey can make great vids, or others can have a little fun...to get long term support it has to be fixed....nothing else matters.

And they have hit a wall.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by furbs

And they have hit a wall.

Really I forgot that you were part of the development team furbs... What a load of BS.

I am enjoying flying on the repka servers atm and yes it still needs to be optimised but they have stated that they are working on this... In two months if the game still has performance issues then I will start to voice my discontent but until then we should not start presuming things have "hit a wall"

Everyone seems to have forgotten how messed up rof was at release now look at it quite a few planes a fantastic single player career... Just wish people would have some patience and take a breath of fresh air before throwing there toys out of the pram...

[AMVI_Superblu]

i think that the real problem with tree's hit boxes is that we all have different trees setting..
let's make an example..
i am flying in a 1v1 dogfight.. i have trees set to High (lot of trees) and my opponent has them set to low (just some trees here and there).. guess what.. he could collide with trees he can see but not with the ones i see (obviously he doesn't because of lower trees setting).. pretty tricky to explain but if it sees less trees than me, he could collide with less trees than me.. that's the real deal..

[furbs]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Really I forgot that you were part of the development team furbs... What a load of BS.

I am enjoying flying on the repka servers atm and yes it still needs to be optimised but they have stated that they are working on this... In two months if the game still has performance issues then I will start to voice my discontent but until then we should not start presuming things have "hit a wall"

Everyone seems to have forgotten how messed up rof was at release now look at it quite a few planes a fantastic single player career... Just wish people would have some patience and take a breath of fresh air before throwing there toys out of the pram...

Well...im my opinion they have hit a wall...if you look at the last 2 patches the actual fixes that affect the core gamplay have got less and less with the last patch it was 90% fluff...there is a long list of major bugs that need fixing and to my knowledge Luthier hasn't even mentioned most of them (FSAA anyone?).
whats coming in the next patch? or the one after that? wheres the road map or the community manager? last weeks update was some pictures of the team...some people are happy with that...that's great for them...fantastic...i want to know when the sims going to be fixed.

[hiro]

Originally Posted by Langnasen

You'll be waiting a long time. This game has hit the wall so far as any further significant improvements are concerned. It's still not smooth, it still has no FSAA, it still looks rough, it still has major bugs, there are still no responses in threads from the devs on major issues and suggestions and queries...should I go on? It's another Luftwaffe Commander...not quite as bad, but still bad enough and still as up against that wall to be condemned for what it is and will always be...an almost great but a failure in the end.

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February 12, 1999

by IGN Staff
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Based on the conditions under which it was released , SSI's Luftwaffe Commander has a tough war to win. First, it has to gain and hold territory in a market that's already saturated with World War II sims. What's more, it carries the honor of the developer, Eagle Interactive, whose reputation with the hard-core flight-sim community slipped after their work on Virgin's Sabre Ace. The question is, can the game carry off both missions and do so well?

wow how the mighty (industry has fallen) in 10 years saturation to picking at straws