WBIII Beta is out!

[funked]

Nice screen, but they forgot the ventral turret AGAIN.  

Eye candy looks sweet!  Let me know when they get to the flight, gunnery, and damage model improvements and I'll give her a whirl!

[Tac]

Westy, mac users already paid MORE for less    

[Staga]

OFF TOPIC !!! (sorry I just had to type that  )

Downloading it right now; Is there something I should know before installation?

[jihad]

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You can take an old ugly hooker off the street, bath her and give her a new dress.

Shes STILL going to be an old ugly hooker under the fresh wrapper.

The HTC team did a fine job in developing WB... they surpassed it long ago with Aces High.

[Gadfly]

Say what you want, the clouds look like clouds.  Real actual clouds, in layers, and moving filmy traces.  
 

Lovely things.

[bowser]

As you can probably tell from others that have downloaded the beta, there's really nothing to get all excited about yet.  A finished product is a L-O-N-G way off.

bowser

[Gadfly]

Jihad, The problem with your analogy is that HTC is the one who applied the makeup to the Hooker and gave her the new dress.  WBIII is a totally different engine and crew.


Not to stir it up, just pointing that out.

[Creamo]

Looks pretty nice. No shark teeth square beach tiles and smog monsters. Matter fact, that terrain is a sight for SORE eyes.

Ill pay for it, why not?

And Ill answer that myself after trying it.

[Staga]

Downloaded it and tryed it about an hour.
Well its still a beta but from cockpit Spits (XIV) wings looked too small ?
Some other issues came up too but its still a beta, Let's wait the real thing.

[Staga]

I'm eager to see what Creamo thinks about it  

[texace]

It doesn't live up to the hype that was posted on the AGW. They say it's better than AH. No, not by a long shot. The full version might be out before Christmas, but by then AH will be even better. Is WBIII beter than AH?

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[Wardog]

Wb is not better in the FM, Gunnery, Balistics but i think they are going to get into detailed damge modeling.

Eye candy is just that! Comparable graphics. Also keep in mind that HT has allway kept the Program very small. Great for guys on modem to download.

But, my main Item above all is the FM. Really the only thing that im concerned about. Ive kept my WB account open all this time just to see how WBIII feels. Tonight i will decide if i cancel it or not. Ive been waiting for FM changes.


Dog out.........

[Karnak]

I can't believe I just wasted an hour on that.

I work in software QA.  I've worked on both games and productivity software.  I have a preety good idea what kinds of changes happen while going from beta to Gold Master.

Its CRAP as it stands now and it is so crappy that I have severe doubts about IEN's ability to fix it.

CRAP!!!

BTW, I played WarBirds and have nothing against IEN.  If they produce a quality enough sim, I'd sign up.  This is just my professional opinion as a Quality Assurance Engineer: CRAP!!!

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Bring the Spitfire F.MkXIVc to Aces High!!!

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[joness]

Wardog, remember that WBIII beta right now is mostly a graphics update. I dont think they did much to the FM but if you wait for future updates im sure they will be adjusted.

And karnak, nice reasons you have there. Im sure a QAE would have to give lots of reasons in his field of work....

joness

[Daff]

Staga, you can change the FoV, between 55,70 and 90 degrees. At 55 degrees, the planesizes starts to look real!.
Tracers, smoke, flames are still all placeholders.
Only 4 planes got 3D cockpits sofar, Zero, 109E, F4U and one more(cant remember).
Viewsystem..well it's there .
It does though appear that every round is modelled now. (you can get hitsprites on ground without seeing a tracer).
Sisu, I've been beta-testing on a few big applications as well and I've seen beta software in a far worse state than that and still come out on top at the end...but there's not doubt about it...still a lot of work to be done...and more than that..it seems reasonably stable too!. (Which is highly surprising <G> ).

Daff

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