Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

[HFC_Dolphin]

Originally Posted by luthier

There's some presets just like in Il-2, rookie, normal, veteran and ace. However the AI is much more flexible. It has various skills such as shooting, maneuvering, morale, awareness, etc. Each of them determine different behaviors. For example you can have a guy with 100 shooting and 100 maneuvering but 0 awareness, i.e. a blind ace, or a guy with 100 awareness but 0 flying i.e. an eagle-eyed idiot.

The rookie and other presets simply set every single skill to 0 or 25 or 50, etc. Or you can reset them any way you like.

WOW, THIS IS FANTASTIC - A DREAM COMING TRUE!!!

When I first discussed this with Oleg, he had told me that it would be very-very difficult to get to this point and now...here you are!!!

Thank you so much for your hard and fantastic effort to make the experience so good (especially the offline experience, where we can set so many different AI levels and give them a callsign too!).
I just can't wait to fly a campaign, where I'll be comparing my stats to other NAMED and specific AI aces

PS. Just watch out cause whenever I see you, I will give you a huge hug and a kiss for being so nice to us

[furbs]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorin View Post
4. On the Bf109 screens you posted, the markings are not part of the weathering process. Is that about to change in the future?


Luthier- Maybe.

Hmmm...it will look out of place having very nice weathering with markings that look brand new...if there no way round this?
could maybe a 3rd party like MATT manager could sort this for COD?

[DJB]

Originally Posted by luthier

I understand exactly what you mean. I have no idea what kind of resolution you'd propose.

Maybe with a simple pre-flight math operation?

Let's imagine that standard resolusion is 800x600 with 1 pixel minimum plane size. Wel you only have to apply this:

Actual vertical resolution (avr)/Standart vertical resolution (svr) and yo get a magnification factor, and the same with horizontal resolution...

Example for 1920x1080:
1920/800=2.4
1080/600=1.8
Can be rounded to 2x2

Example for 1680x1050:
1680/800=2.1
1050/600=1.75
Can be rounded to 2x2 or 2x1

Greetings.

Edit: Some time ago I say the same, but maybe better explained http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...450#post126450. Please, read this.

And sorry for my bad english...

[t4trouble]

Swiss you talk alot of sense in these forums ~S~
I use 1600x900 i've no prob spot'n the Dots ingame,
even before peeps i fly with lower res's and they
ask what res do i use and are left scratching their
heads

I play at Full HD (1920x1080) and it's very hard to spot an enemy.

[#402FOX]

I never spot the one on my Six

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Hecke

I play at Full HD (1920x1080) and it's very hard to spot an enemy.

You have to spot him ~2.5km away - even at hd he has enough pixels to spot him.

This not addresses only at you but all those who share this pixel disadvantage opinion:

1. SA can not be compensated with more pixels.

2. Even if you spot him at 200km and you have an alt advantage of 2km - if he's an ace, he will whoop your a$$ whatever you do.

There are people out there with 10'000s of kills and several thousand flying hours - even if you had an AWACS you wouldn't stand the slightest chance.
It's the pilot not the pixels.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by t4trouble

Swiss you talk alot of sense in these forums ~S~

I hope you weren't ironic.

You're the T4T from SoV, right?
It's was always great fun to watch you play with 5 enemies on your tail - and often even get away!
Your defensive skills rock.

[t4trouble]

[QUOTE=swiss;221362]I hope you weren't ironic.

No m8 and yes the same guy.
Fearful opponent you are
~S~

[Royraiden]

I cant understand why people are complaining about the visibility of distant aircraft, asking for an enhancement to aid them to spot planes better.Did the real pilots in that era had some device that helped them see distant planes better?It is a challenge to spot a plane far away from you, let alone know which type of aircraft it is and which side is it on, but isnt this fun/realistic?When I first started playing IL- 2 and knew there were bogies at 12 a clock for example, I had really hard time spotting them that I got a bit frustrated. further more when I finally spotted some planes I started shooting only to realize I was shooting friendlies.I laughed because I knew that situations like that happened several times during ww2 and this sim let me experience this.By the way...

Thanks again Ilya for answering more questions!!!