Friday 2010-01-22 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Flanker35M]

S!

Nearmiss..100% agree with you. Graphics are just part of the game. The rest is what makes it good like you mentioned. I prefer playability over eyecandy

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

As stated before (and after) by a few people our brains tend to make us ignore the bad effect, my point is that when we try to concentrate on the gun sights this would be one of the times when it would be noticable. You would need to keep your head in a relatively fixed position (within the viewing angle of the refector sight) and thats when you'ld notice the movement.

It is not that hard with reflector sight, but with iron sight it is. Rise of Flight combined with TrackIR gives good feeling how hard it is to align sights for precise shots while maneuvering and constantly looking around. However, this is true only if you don't use any "magic" button to center the camera.

Eyes (or brains) don't filter the movements in sense of image processing. Instead, they are stabilized on the point where you look. This is possible due to vestibular system, which allows us to feel rotation and linear acceleration. This system allows us to feel when we fall, are pushed, turned and etc. (it even helps us to walk in complete darkness). Also, it sends signals to eyes, so that eyes will compensate for head movement and turn towards the point we want to look at.

Magnitude of effect depends on individual, but in case of vertigo (i.e. too much spinning) stabilization of eyes might become less effective or completely off. So, after multiple barrel rolls you may temporary think that plane shakes much more than before.

[wannabetheace]

Thanks for Friday updates and bonus vid
I knew it is SoW even before the confirmation post

Keep up the good work!!!!

[Qpassa]

Please dont put more vids. I feel embarrased when I see how I get wet

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

I respect all the graphic wish lists, but to be forthright. I'd prefer more tools that let us work with the game play, i.e, programmable mission buiilder, probablistic programming tools for AI performance, weather programming, AI that can't see through clouds, sensible physics, etc.

The stuff that really makes the sim viable is the gameplay. Sure all the graphics is a plus, but delaying the SOW to satisfy all the graphic wishlists will put us even further release of SOW.

We are still all doing this sim with 10 year old graphics and enjoying it. There are plenty of non-graphic things that would give this old hound dog alot of punch.

TD is planning a multi-object editor ability in FMB, AI performance is being tweaked. These kinds of improvements are improvements, graphic improvements are great... but you get used to them pretty darn quick.

+1 !

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Nearmiss..100% agree with you. Graphics are just part of the game. The rest is what makes it good like you mentioned. I prefer playability over eyecandy

For the real success on the market should be both in modern time.
And if we are speaking about fligth sims - we should put even more than two these terms.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

For the real success on the market should be both in modern time.
And if we are speaking about fligth sims - we should put even more than two these terms.

Like buildings and objects at 100% of their size relative to the aircraft

[furbs]

lets hope MuxaHuk hasnt been gulaged for posting that fantastic vid and we get to see a few more...because just look how that vid flew across the net and its affect on eveyone here.

[13th Hsqn Protos]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

For the real success on the market should be both in modern time.
And if we are speaking about fligth sims - we should put even more than two these terms.

You can add

1. Proper INGAME server browser/update system/chat/friends/Squadron tools to the list
2. Guid based keys for anticheat systems.
3. Dedicated Linux based server files with built in GUI server controller so that price of hosting is not as ridiculous as today

Oleg, you have to really push these, this time around.

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

1. Proper INGAME server browser/update system/chat/friends/Squadron tools to the list

Agree.

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

2. Guid based keys for anticheat systems.

In this case i don´t know what you are referring to. It would be nice if you explain a little more this because honestly i got curious.

Originally Posted by 13th Hsqn Protos

3. Dedicated Linux based server files with built in GUI server controller so that price of hosting is not as ridiculous as today

Even if this is something i don´t use, i think its a great idea, because it will allow to squadron lower their expenses on hosting servers.