CoD vs some other sims that model Kent?

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by RocketDog

I think this post unintentionally makes the case against CoD. The problem is that CoD is meant to be representing the South of England in summer, but it actually looks much more like I would imagine parts of the US to look like from the air. When I'm gliding over Wiltshire (top left of CloD's map) what I see doesn't look much like CloD's terrain. The colours in real life are darker and more intense, the fields usually have dark hedges at their borders and the trees are darker than the fields. CloD looks too "pastel" coloured, has a rather lime-green cast absent from real life and just gets the trees and hedges wrong. RoF's landscape actually looks much more like the South of England than CloD does. WoP would look very close if it could lose the filters. It certainly gets the stands of dark-coloured trees and the field colours right. Maybe I should post up some of the pictures I've taken while flying over the actual landscape CloD purports to represent

Whether or not the game looks like the US vs England is not the point. The point is that CoD looks like real life while WoP looks like green puke.

[reflected]

The question is not what CoD looks like compared to other sims, but what it looks like compared to real life, how can it be improved and whether the devs are willing to make those steps or not.

I kinda like the Hollywood look of Wop as well (for what it's worth), but one really can't compare. Of course that's not realistic, and it's just an arcade game with tiny maps.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by reflected

The question is not what CoD looks like compared to other sims, but what it looks like compared to real life, how can it be improved and whether the devs are willing to make those steps or not.

It's closer than any other WW2 flight sim on the market. You'll probably have to come up with something pretty compelling to get changes, and I haven't seen anything that would convince me if I were on the CoD staff.

[ICDP]

Originally Posted by reflected

The question is not what CoD looks like compared to other sims, but what it looks like compared to real life, how can it be improved and whether the devs are willing to make those steps or not.

This!

I could care less how WoP or FSX looks compared to CoD, I look at real life to compare if it looks realistic and at the moment it doesn't.

[Kano_Magnus]

I'm sure CLOD does look realistic but realistic somewhere that isn't Kent

Please note that "David Hayward" doesn't actually own a copy of this game

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Kano_Magnus

Please note that "David Hayward" doesn't actually own a copy of this game

Does ownership of the game change how the screenshots look?

[Kano_Magnus]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

Does ownership of the game change how the screenshots look?

I think it's worth letting people know that when you come swanning on to these threads asserting this that or the other about CLOD that you neither own nor have actually played the game; I also think it's fair to assume you aren't au fait with SE England either if you think CLOD is a near perfect simulation of it. I mean to be fair other games have done stuff as dumb as modelling the Dartford Bridge and M25 (EAW) or mistaking the Blackwall Tunnel for a pair of road bridges (FSX) but this game is far from the realism claimed for it. As for

Originally Posted by David Hayward

No, I'm also saying that there are people who fly over Kent regularly who say the colors look fine.

I presume it's the Labrador that flies the plane then? Your men seem to be in somewhat of a minority, to put it mildly. I mean we have real actual photos on this thread of English countryside, what more do you want? I don't care how much experience you claim to have with aviation photography, you clearly have none with the landscape of England. In summary:

YOU ARE WRONG

Hope that is nice and clear and haze-free for you!

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Kano_Magnus

YOU ARE WRONG

Hope that is nice and clear and haze-free for you!

Too bad for you that the game's devs agree with me.

Hope that clear enough for you.

[pupaxx]

several times I expressed my opinion...I run the risk to be tagged as 'whiner'. But with such thread I can't resist to confirm my opinion on the looking of WoP. For me it's still awesome in his general harmonization.
Remove from your mind the green filter and reflect for an instant on these sequences...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bHkD...eature=related

Very effective 4me, much better than CloD.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

Very effective 4me, much better than CloD.

If WoPuke works for you, that is great. But, if you expect CoD to be changed into a crappy playing pukefest, you are going to be disappointed.