New HD video from the latest Alpha test of World of Planes

[NedLynch]

Yeah, well, the video sure does not give any clues about sim vs. arcade.
The logo on their website looks too much like wings of prey, so too arcadey for me I guess.

[Havoc04]

Liked the Flak explosions

It looks alright but you can make anything look cool with editing.

[albx]

Originally Posted by machoo

It looks alright but you can make anything look cool with editing.

It's real time, I downloaded the benchmark, runs very well... but you can't judge if it's an arcade or a sim from that... it's still an alpha. The visibility distance seems very very low.. so maybe will be like Wings of prey with some new features... but i like very much the clouds

[Jaws2002]

Just ran the day time benchmark. Max settings, 1680x1050 (native resolution) average 105 frames, minimum 68.

The lighting is cool, the planes have nice skins, cool, a bit over done flak, crappy water, the clouds look awfully low resolution and very short visibility range.
Gave me the feeling you are playing in a fishbowl, with clouds painted on the walls.

[snwkill]

Yea wasn't impressed from that short video, I didn't see ANY damage modeling, and I saw a plane start spinning out of control simply from smoke with no wing damage...

[Winger]

Originally Posted by snwkill

Yea wasn't impressed from that short video, I didn't see ANY damage modeling, and I saw a plane start spinning out of control simply from smoke with no wing damage...

Alpha... They advertise with DM so i think itll bee added later.

Winger

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by snwkill

Yea wasn't impressed from that short video, I didn't see ANY damage modeling, and I saw a plane start spinning out of control simply from smoke with no wing damage...

Since the ships seem to have better damage models as the planes in this video, I think they'll add more DM for the planes

I think I'll buy this game when it's out, at least my computer can handle it.

[Winger]

Really looks like some competition. As sa preposter said. DM, CEM and most important the FM will decide if this game can be successfull among simmers. The MMO part is certainly a REALLY big advantage too.

Winger

Originally Posted by Winger

Really looks like some competition. As sa preposter said. DM, CEM and most important the FM will decide if this game can be successfull among simmers. The MMO part is certainly a REALLY big advantage too.

Winger

My guess is that when they make it MMO then it won't be a sim. Or why did all the other sim producers not manage to have huge players online at the same time. My guess is that despite the advances in computer technology a flight sim is still very demanding, particularly when with every new generation of flight sim new and more realistic features for FM, DM and graphics are included (which I highly welcome). So for my part I would not expect too much a sim than a game. From the screens and the vids I've seen I also don't like the Hollywood-like "enhanced" visuals which for me is not "enhanced" but regressed as it looks less real.

If one day a realistic flight sim will be capable of MMO, this would be great (at least if the player agreed to play real large operations). If it is just ordinary the furbal game, I am not so much interested in the MMO capability.