Did you guys notice this new feature?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by SNO
The ack is awesome on my end, the nice red explosion and then a round shaped black smoke no dots here.

I see that too the red explosion and round shaped black smoke. My thing is they shouldnt be perfectly round.

Here is a good close up photo of bombers under actual Flak fire.
 You will see what I mean
Flak at a far distance might look round but it sure doesnt closer



Hold on looking for a photo they might let me use
in the meantime look at  the photo of "An airmans nightmare" bout halfway down the page for the example I wanted to use.

http://www.b17warhorse.fws1.com/photo.html

here is another photo but the one in the link is a much better example

[SunKing]

Originally posted by Anchor
My favorite...get buzzed by a low flying A/C when  your in a gv and dust will come up around you.

wow that sounds awesome. I need to drive a GV once the bish horde resets us.

[Edbert1]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
When yiou shoot a plane up close and the little black bits fall off, threy actually hit you and make a noise!

Awesome!

It freaked me out bigtime the first time it happened, I about jumped outta my chair. The question I have is, does it do damage? I care because I love havin the NME pop about 50 feet in front of me.

[slimm50]

The other night in H2H I shot an enemy plane too close, and the explosion/debris killed me, as well. Another time, debris took off part of my wing, or perhaps it was just someone behind me shooting at me, can't remember now. But I remember the debris effect.

[hitech]

It dosn't do damage.

HiTech

[Heretik]

The debris sound is pretty sweet.  First time it happened I nearly jumped out of my skin. Thought I was getting cherry-picked for the hundredth time that night.

[slimm50]

Originally posted by hitech
It dosn't do damage.

HiTech

Heh, guess I was th meat in a "slimm" sammich, then. Won't be th first time.

[GreenCloud]

lolo

dosnt


i coad...


luv it

[rv6]

Did anyone notice this other little ditty? (maybe mentioned in thread somewhere's that I miss't)..

I had the tail shot off, and was going down, from 10k.. a long, slow, ride, backwards! ha!

So,, to kill some time, I squeezed the trigger, and ripped off a long burst, straight up.

What the heck? says I..  A stream of tinkling brass, spent casings are all fluttering up in the slip-stream!!!  WOW!

You never see it in battle (under plane)  Or at least I never did..

This sim is quickly moving from best MMOG to one of the better "Box Sims" as well!  Nice work HT!  Long ways from our days on the GEnie AW network, where planes were represented by little "T" figures in CGA 3 color 12" crts.. haahaa!

RV6  (formerly Sarge)

[Eagler]

Originally posted by rshubert
Check your detail level.  I am seeing red explosions in the center of the black puff, looks awesome.  And explody.

nice but from what I have read, the pilots were only able to see the red centers when the flak was right on them. They judged distance that way. You now see the red center on all bursts.

shells ejecting from planes and guns are pretty cool too as is the dust/smoke on take-off

the two engine spitV isn't bad either  

[Edbert1]

I've never been one of those calling for more eye-candy but I have to admit this is really cool. The flames are my favorite, I watched an enemy go down from close-up and the fire/smoke effects were simply the best I've ever seen. Next on my graphical effect wish list would be cannon strikes that were noticeably different than AP/MG strikes. The smoke puffs are cool, but I'd like to see a little red/orange bang in there too.

Oh man, now I am asking for more eye candy, what has become of me?

WTG HTC!

[slimm50]

Originally posted by Eagler
the two engine spitV isn't bad either  

Eagler, what are you talking about? Are there engine options? I haven't seen 'em, if there are? or is that a tongue-in-cheek reference to the P38:p