Friday update and discussions 2011-03-18

[Heliocon]

For the love of god... FIRST
Quote:
"Originally Posted by choctaw111
By design, the game will be able to take advantage of the latest technology for years to come...so if you have a current rig, the sim will always look great.
Tree, if you have said some things to praise Oleg's newest creation, I haven't seen it.
If you like Cliffs of Dover so much, why are you so negative?
I have said from the beginning that Oleg will surpass my wildest imagination and from what I have seen over the years I seem to be spot on.
This is only gaging from the short video cliffs and numerous photos.
I can't imagine what goodies are in store once we have an opportunity to mess around with it. "

This post from choc was against tree, I responded to this post or more specifically this statement: "By design, the game will take advantage of the latest technology for years to come" I said upon release that is NOT true, because the latest tech is dx11 which is not in the release version.

In reply I posted:
"Its a lie, it is not able to take advantage of the latest tech OR EVEN CURRENT TECH. Why? Because DX11 has been available for coming up to two years now and its not ingame (and devs would of known about it/be able to get info before the general public). Now I am not saying that they wont add it in (which they said they are going to do), but if you run it dx9 thats very dated, dx10 is also getting long in the tooth.

Point is on release the game's engine will be antiquated upon release, it may look good, but its foolish to call (and a lie) to say it will be able to harness all the tools for years to come since it cant even use hardware and software from coming up to two years ago!"

While that may of been alittle strong, its the truth, and I picked the word antiquated specifically because of the statement that the game will take advantage of all the newest hardware and software (which it wont).

Seriously this boards nuts, WHEN did I EVER say that there was another flight sim better or comparable to COD? I never said that, but because people on this board are to lazy to actually read they would know what I was arguing about in the first place before people dragged the discussion down by saying I was whinning because of no DX11. I was not doing anything of the sort, I was just saying that it did NOT use the most modern hardware and software. So when you say I am whinning about lack of dx11 on release date - that is wrong.


@Black - this is what you said "...to which you respond with "don't be an idiot making assumptions". Then, someone comes along and corrects the data you based your assessment of our supposed idiocy on, a correction which you accepted. Ergo, self-contradiction comedy.
Do yourself and all of us a favor favor, press the "preview post" once in a while and read what you are about to post before actually submitting it, it will help make you a more likeable person overall"

Actually if you had botherd to read, he never posted his original source, and infact said that current market share was only 5% or less, without sighting a source. He was completely wrong, as he himself pointed out and upon repost he posted up the 17% number and where he got it from, which was correct. If you are going to make a statement you need to be able to back it up and not just fling mud without actually making a counter argument/thesis etc. As you noticed I posted a number and said where it came from, and included a link, something many on this forum fail to do.