Friday 2010-03-26 Screenshots and Discussion Thread

[Richie]

Didn't he say in the interview that all of the ground objects are done for this arena and the next one too.....I pretty sure he did.

[Richie]

And I say again ..It's not a WWII Tree Sim

[virre89]

Like Richie pointed out, ease on the ground requirements it's a flight sim.

[AdMan]

but it's not the 1990s, for games to be taken serious these days they need to have robust lifelike graphics. Which I have no doubt this game will and does already have. But when I hear people say, "it doesn't need such and such because it's just a flight sim" it makes me happy they aren't the ones designing the game, seems like they would be happy with this:


"But the FM is awesome!!"


wake up people, it's 2010, play any other top-selling game of another genre and realize what SOW has to compete with

[robtek]

As always there is not only black and white but also many shades of grey!

First priority are the aircraft with their fm and dm!

second comes, imo, the targets for those aircraft.

third is the terrain and the sea

forth is buildings, trees, scrubs....

fifth is, also imho, the ai. (incl. ai traffic and map population.)

sixth is the variancy of trees, buildings and so on

everything after 5th is "nice to have, maybe later, third party" stuff

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by AdMan

but it's not the 1990s, for games to be taken serious these days they need to have robust lifelike graphics. Which I have no doubt this game will and does already have. But when I hear people say, "it doesn't need such and such because it's just a flight sim" it makes me happy they aren't the ones designing the game, seems like they would be happy with this:


"But the FM is awesome!!"


wake up people, it's 2010, play any other top-selling game of another genre and realize what SOW has to compete with

But the FM was awesome. I remember that it was (almost!) the Domark MiG 29, the graphics were pretty atrocious, the trees looked like inverted umbrellas with panels missing, but if you played it from a RAM disk, it was actually fun to fly, and it did sideslips which you wouldn't get in Falcon or Combat Pilot.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Richie

And I say again ..It's not a WWII Tree Sim

It is a game set in Britain. There will be little point in releasing a Med' sequel if all countries look the same. It should obviously look like England.
It doesn't yet.
And it is a good idea to let Oleg know that; just in case he can't see it. Or should we wait with that until after release?

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by major_setback

It is a game set in Britain. There will be little point in releasing a Med' sequel if all countries look the same. It should obviously look like England.
It doesn't yet.
And it is a good idea to let Oleg know that; just in case he can't see it. Or should we wait with that until after release?

Oleg is a photographer, a good one too, I'm pretty sure he can see it. Oh, not to mention the fact that these shots were very clearly labeled WORK IN PROGRESS....

[Chivas]

It all a balancing act, getting all the graphics, fm, dm, ai, and moving weather pattern detail working with useable frame rates.

Oleg how are your frame rates issues at the moment? I would imagine you have alot of fine tuning to do to see what details can be kept and what details have to be delayed for future releases.

[Insuber]

Hi Oleg,

Good job! Apart from goodies like pleasant trees and grass (the more the better of course ), please pay great attention to the invisible yet fundamental parts, like DM and weapon modeling.

The Il2 history shows us that unfortunately the original flaws and mistakes of machine guns modeling or certain planes' damage model made their way until nowadays, probably with copy-paste from patch to patch.

You can always add later a tree or a spring flower ...

Respectfully,
Insuber