Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[FG28_Kodiak]

Stream also means Strom, and a Strom is larger than a river, in german.
Komm schließlich von da!
But in English a Strom is called major or large river, so its a multiculti misunderstanding

[addman]

Yeah, we have the word "ström" in Swedish. This is getting a bit off topic though.

[Ploughman]

In Yorkshire a very small stream would be called a beck, which seems so similar to your German bach they must be related.

True about the rivers, makes England look like the mouth of the Amazon. I know it rains here a bit, but not that much.

[FG28_Kodiak]

@gromic
Ich sitze so ziemlich genau in der Mitte zwischen Augsburg und Ulm

So now BTT.

[ArJay]

Anyone knows if we'll be able to change subtitle language?

I'm from czech republic and I can preorder collector's edition here, but it will be english audio and czech subtitles. And I really don't want to have menus and briefings in czech. From my experience it tends to be confusing, when I'm more accustomed to specific terms in english.

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by Ploughman

In Yorkshire a very small stream would be called a beck, which seems so similar to your German bach they must be related.

Pretty sure you got that from us Danes during the Danelaw. Here we call it "bæk", and it is pronounced exactly as "beck".

[Gromic]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

Stream also means
Komm schließlich von da!

Geil, ich auch und sitze z.Z. 25km Südlich von Aschaffenburg in Bayern.

Anyway, I'm sure "stream", refers to small, winding bodies of water that usually intersect with a river, entity of water, etc.

Stream in the sense of "strom'"would pertain, for example, to the gulf stream which, IS much larger than a river.

hehe - sorry for going OT. Language can be fun.

cheers

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

Stream also means Strom, and a Strom is larger than a river, in german.
Komm schließlich von da!
But in English a Strom is called major or large river, so its a multiculti misunderstanding

What?

If a 'Strom' is called a major or large river in English
and in English a stream is smaller that a river...

how does Stream mean Strom?

I don't speak German, but on the evidence posted I suggest that 'Stream' in English does not mean 'Strom' in German.

Someone posted, in English, that a stream was bigger than a river. They got it wrong, never mind, let's move on.

[dali]

@kg26_alpha - the photograph can't be compared to what human eye can see. I think too many people here rely solely or in major part to what they saw on the photos/film. In reality things look diferently. One clear example is the perception of depth (which you can't simulate on 2d screen) and it could be done as Rodolphe has shown, the other is perception how tracers realy look like. As far as dynamics of colors and or their hue/saturation, I'm afraid if the release date is realy 25th of March, then there is no time to change that. I'm no expert in programming, but I would presume this is major change in the rendering engine. But there are numerous posibilities on the graphic card settings though...

speaking of tracers - I've been shooting browning 12.7 mm MG from aircraft in my military days, and I can tell you, that they are very acurately modeled in IL-2 already, so I expect that they remain the same or better in COD.

[Richie]

Very high contrast B&W makes a huge difference in photography if that was a colour photograph the tracks wouldn't look so brilliant. It also would depend on the time of day, is it overcast or not etc.