August 6 2011 Development Update

[kestrel79]

Thanks for the update!

I'm looking forward to the NEW SOUNDS the most. Can't wait for that. Also some better AA and AF would be nice too, I hope the new graphics engine maybe handles that better so we have less jaggies.

As for the color changes of the terrain I'm not going to comment since Luthier stated it has yet to be tuned, I'll wait for later screenshots that are more close to release.

[jimbop]

Thanks for the update, much appreciated and looking forward to testing the patch.

Rebuilding the graphics and sound engines... Very welcome news especially with potential performance gains but I'd love to know what happened before release!

Very positive update, thanks again.

[Katana1000S]

Yep I know this still needs further tuning so don't jump on me please, but as feedback it does just look look like brightness and contrast turned up, inside the cockpit does make the instruments look more readable, the roundel on the wing looks a lot worse ... also there seems to be a big drop in FPS in the first comparison shot, but no real difference in the other ones.

Screen shots are one thing but seeing things in motion on your own screen are another too I guess.

But I'll leave final judgement until its tweaked.

Good to hear about the sound overhaul, one of the things I was looking forward to was hearing the sound of the Merlin engines in particular, there are lots of examples of the merlin sound in the public domain from various airshows ETC.

After this they really need to address some very outstanding issues though like the radio communication commands.

But good to see more progress

[jimbop]

As far as I'm concerned the quality of graphics in the current release is adequate (apart from landscape colours). If the new engine improves framerate/performance but does little else I will be very satisfied.