Friday Update, February 24, 2012

Originally Posted by Dano

Not sure why you're spending so much time showing us the vehicular side of things when you then go on to say that you don't know when or in what form it'll arrive in. Seems a bit odd to spend so much effort to show it... Though from a ground based perspective the sounds do sound pretty good to me

Classic misdirection. When fans are very focused on something that you're not able to deliver, you show them something flashy, (totally unrelated) but flashy enough to make them forget what they were really interested in before.

[GraveyardJimmy]

Is the video done with the old or new graphics engine? I cant imagine it is what we have at the moment, all the smoke effects would bring my game to a crawl (or at least it does when dust from the prop appears).

Looks great, happy to see the numbers are looking good!

[SlipBall]

Nice work, looking forward to all the possibilities coming together someday.

[6BL Bird-Dog]

Lookin Good
Thanks for the update.

[kyletiernan]

Very nice, looking forward to the new and improved engine!

[jamesdietz]

Tanks are nice but oh for that FPS hit!

[priller26]

Great news B6...BIG THUMBS UP!!!!

Who cares about land vehicles. This is all such a waste of time.

Priority's!

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by machoo

Who cares about land vehicles.

Maybe it is time for another poorly worded poll?

But seriosly..

Based on this thread alone it is clear that alot of people care about land vehicles.. Only time will tell if it is a good decision. All we know for sure in the here and now is that flight sims by themselfs don't have a good return on investment..

Therefore if you want to make a flight sim.. And get people to invest in it in this BF3 Xbox majority world.. You will need to find a way to supliment the sale by opening it up to more than flight simmers.. And if adding manable AAA and ground vehicals in a flight sims does that.. Than it is a win win for flight simmers imho.. Just more targets!

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by machoo

Who cares about land vehicles. This is all such a waste of time.

Priority's!

For goodness sake, give over harping on about priorities. THEY ARE FIXING THE SIM AS A PRIORITY - we all know that.

We've already had the excellent SOUND REWRITE and in a few days we'll also see the much awaited GRAPHICS REWRITE with hopefully a big FPS improvement. Last week we heard about the progress of the GROUND PHYSICS REWRITE, COLLISION MODEL REWRITE and FLIGHT MODEL IMPROVEMENTS including the modeling of airflow over different sections of wing.

Now it's real difficult to show a lot of that stuff in picture or video form and Luthier probably wants to keep the graphics upgrade under wraps due to the colour whine fest we had last time.

BUT, the community demands something interesting to see every Friday. Mmmmm, what can we give them? Ahh, yes, we've got some tasty video of the player controlled ground models - let's show 'em that.

That is all that has happened. No change in priorities, no change in the direction of the product, no abandonment of the flight sim element. Just showing us a cool feature that MAY be introduced in some form one day and has actually been in the pipeline for years. Remember the old name "Storm of War"? The virtual battlefield was part of the Oleg vision from the start.

Now, please stop whining and start treating this as the cool extra feature it is, and a very impressive one at that. If we're not careful we'll go straight back to no updates on a Friday.