CoD vs some other sims that model Kent?

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Hatch

Most of these look more like WoP tha they do CloD.
Nice shots btw.

If you really think CloD looks more like your pics you're seeing them waaayyy different than most of us.

Not better or worse , just different.

No, they don't look like WoP. There is no puke green hue in my photographs. NONE. Sorry, but if you think the real world is covered in a puke green hue, there is no point in even discussing this with you. Thank God you had no role in developing CoD.

[pupaxx]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

I can, and have, posted photographs that closely match what CoD looks like. You can't do the same for WoP unless you find a really crappy photographer or take the photo in REALLY crappy weather.

The picts you posted are real for sure but I dislike those! I would not a game perfectly adherent to a tasteless photo! I'll prefere a clearly fictious atmosphere but convincing, immersive. It'a videogame! Well, I accept his nature (computer generated image sequencies). Here is the subjectivity.
During Flying legends in Duxford I usually shot 4000 pict in 2 days. 99% of them are inexpressive for light condition but real. I dont print them. Even real restored warbirds are 'toysh' (hope is the correct word) 4 my taste compared to my cultural background and how I dream up on them. When I was a child I made my fantasies on Clostermann 'Big show' (also Playboy ). These fantasies were more rewarding than touch a real glossy restored warbird.
This game may be not photorealistic, it's ok but it must make me dream!Even with green filters.

[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 pupaxx

I would not a game perfectly adherent to a tasteless photo! I'll prefere a clearly fictious atmosphere but convincing, immersive.

That is contradictory. If the look of the game is clearly fictitious, then the immersion is terrible. The game should look as close to real life as possible. I'm also pretty confident that the CoD devs are never going to change the game to look like you want it to look.

[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.

[ICDP]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

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

Hope that clear enough for you.

All that does is make THEM wrong too.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by ICDP

All that does is make THEM wrong too.

No, it makes you wrong. It's their game. They decide what is right.

If you don't like that you are free to go play Wings of Puke.

[BlackbusheFlyer]

Sigh, this is a bit of a pointless discussion. Let's be honest this is a computer game designed to spend some time with our imaginations. If you are really bothered by what you perceive as being unrealistic, go to your local airfield, talk to local pilots and ask for a flight alternatively learn to fly and go do the real thing. You can never capture reality in a flight sim it is pie in the sky.

When I was a small boy I used to chase my brothers around with my arms outstretched screaming yadda yadda yadda, in my mind I was flying a spitfire. What has happened? Have we been spoiled enough that we can no longer use our imaginations?

What we have in CoD is far better a scene then I could have imagined as a child and gives enough to let our imaginations do the rest.

[Lololopoulos]

after reading through this thread i can't help but expressing my opinion too.
Sure most of us want COD to be realistic, but there's also that side of us that want the game to look a little artistic for it to be more exciting. And for the realism fundamentalists, COD now doesn't look that realistic to begin with. It is still a long way from looking "similar" to real world.
I think overall, graphics wise, WOP definitely wins! I mean, look at those series of WOP screen shots posted earlier, especially the first one, (the one with the spitfire), it looked almost like an old picture, or a very well painted painting. I was amazed how the developers could created a landscape of such diversity and eye-pleasingness.

I am an advocate of realism too, but Im ok with the game's graphics being a little artistically designed to be more pleasing to the eye. Who wouldn't want a game that comes from real life, but better than real life?

Lastly, I moans the inadequacies of the game's look and performance. I just don't understand why it still isn't on par with other flight sims, like Rise of Flight and WOP. The only reason I wrote all these is because I care about this game too much. I have faith in it. I just hope the devs don't let us dedicated fans down.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by BlackbusheFlyer

What we have in CoD is far better a scene then I could have imagined as a child and gives enough to let our imaginations do the rest.

The original Red Baron was better than anything I ever expected to see as a child.