Poll - COD Terrain: Your Opinion

[LoBiSoMeM]

I always like the terrain visuals, only waiting for even more optimization regards performance, some tweak in colours and the final weather system, because these "placeholders" clounds are really bad optimized... And the final water too, of course!

If all this was will be Dx11 finally, my world will be perfect...

[Jatta Raso]

the terrain is good, meaning not very good and far from excellent

i applause this initiative; i also take notice the vast majority seems to agree it needs improvement; after all it's just what has been mentioned (and trolled) to death already. let's hope this result sheds some light to the illuminated so the silly trend of reclaiming all reason to one side may end... and mature productive discussion may finally happen instead of the forum police flamefest that has been going last few days. cheers to the community

p.s. - last day i went online testing the ground attack on repka 2, glad to find out the prop pitch working gradually instead of 2 fixed positions, on Spit mkII; for firts time i had a blast managing my revs, speed and temps, watching my alt etc.. too bad the sound went off after 10min and had to do without... well at least i had some taste of fun. haven't tried the Spit mk I yet, but its FM was broken at the time, let's see today.

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by Jatta Raso

the terrain is good, meaning not very good and far from excellent

Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

[150GCT_Veltro]

Thank for the pool, good idea.

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

i don't share same amount of optimism due to several reasons but we'll see

[furbs]

Quote:
Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM View Post
Well, some have real "orgasms" with RoF terrain, some dislike SpeedTrees, but I laught when look at the "spinning trees" of RoF graphic engine.. ^^

All graphics engines have some flaws. The big ones in CloD today are all "placeholders", minor tweaks in visual and optimization problems. All the basics are there to a lot of evolution.

Placeholders? To be fair, you just made that up.

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by furbs

Placeholders? To be fair, you just made that up.

Water and clounds are stated as "placeholders" by dev team a lot of times.

[Mysticpuma]

I was hoping to have an option 5 in the list as I voted for Option 4 due to the fact there is such a short draw/texture fill distance that everything can be seen being drawn or appearing like popcorn as you fly over the ground.

I could probably live with the non-UK landscape if this was fixed or could be worked on.

Surely in this day and age some use of AF could be used, or even the dreaded (but useful) smog/haze/UV effect to hide the pop-ups?

I don't understand why AF can't be used to blend the object together and then 'bleed' them into view rather than popping them up?

Anyway, Voted 4, but would go 2 if the pop-up could be fixed.

MP

[furbs]

Clouds, yes.

But ive not seen the devs say anything about any other stuff.

Oh you could mean this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G836q...el_video_title

where Oleg said the sound was a "placeholder"...when it wasn't, it was the sound we got.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Water and clounds are stated as "placeholders" by dev team a lot of times.

Yes. But not terrain. One would hope it is a placeholder, but considering how much work the terrain needs, the team can't help but agree that it is a placeholder (i.e. they might have thought it was OK before release, but now they must realise that it could do with a lot of work, once all the other major issues have been ironed out).