Contact sight problem.. really something to patch!!

[conio]

+1

[JG52Uther]

+1

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

It happened to me on the ATAG server yesterday.

I was following a dot, I had an alt advantage.
Then, closing in, the dot disappeared. I made two rounds trying to find out whether it was my eyes that were playing jokes on me or whether it was a ghost dot.

I have had the same thing happen many times, and not just with this patch, from day one.

I am not sure that they disappear from the game or just from my view.. Because one time I did see them appear to disappear, only to look much harder and see that they were still there, just very Very VERY faint. If that is the case each time than the problem is in how the 'dot' transitions occur. As the distance changes, the game loads different LOD of the plane.. Clearly during one of these transitions color of the dot goes from a 'dark' dot to a different color.. And depending on that color the plane can seem to disappear!

As noted, sometimes I can see them after the transition and sometimes I don't so maybe sometimes they do actually disappear from the game?

In either case, they really need to work on those transition colors, it should go from dark to not so dark to light.. not dark to light.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

+1

It happened to me on the ATAG server yesterday.
I was following a dot, I had an alt advantage.
Then, closing in, the dot disappeared. I made two rounds trying to find out whether it was my eyes that were playing jokes on me or whether it was a ghost dot.
Not seeing anything, I changed course going back home....only to find out 30sec later a bandit on my tail


It really needs some improvement!


~S~

I had the same experience several times. In Il2 it doesn't happen. Did you notice if it's related more with blue planes or red planes? imo it happens with spitfires and hurricanes, maybe it's the type of skin ...

[6S.Tamat]

one fast solution waiting for a better one should be to leave the dot closer crossing the lod


distance x = lod only
distance x+ = dot and lod
distance X++ = dot only


i know that there is a better solution, like refining the lods and the distancies, but that one seems to be simplier, cause you need to modify only few parameters for all the planes insthead to modify all the lods

[drewpee]

+1

[KeBrAnTo]

The problem is in fact contacts vanish completely all of a sudden from the sky and then show up again after a few seconds, once you get closer to them.

Definitely a bug and something that should be fixed asap.

[KeBrAnTo]

Originally Posted by Raggz

I have complained about this several times only to be overrun by realism pilots. It's ridiculous playing online for 2 hours spotting maybe one enemy if i'm lucky. It simply kills the fun. I want to play on realism servers without icons and so on but i also want to have fun. I'm giving up and won't play online anymore due to this. I also see a lot of others complain about this when i'm on servers. Last night several players quit after flying around for an hour or two without spotting anything. Something has to be done and fast.

Staying high using B&Z tactics is the core play for a Bf109 pilot and with this problem it's impossible.

I think you're talking about a completely different thing pal, we're not talking about spotting distance but about planes that disappear suddenly from the screen when you get closer to them, and they're actually in LOS at only 100-150 meters or so from you.

[SG1_Lud]

+1

[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.