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Offline Midnight

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AH Clouds - What for?
« on: February 13, 2006, 10:04:08 AM »
Why is it that we have clouds in AH if they are not going to hide anything?

Flying through clouds has almost no effect on visibility for planes in icon range. There should be a great reduction in visability range when inside the clouds, and icons should be cut to less than 500 yards.

Clouds are fine to see and do hide dots at long range, but I think clouds should be more realistic, otherwise, why bother having them?
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Offline jaxxo

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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2006, 10:05:22 AM »
hmmm..my vis goes down beigtime in the middle of a cloud
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Offline ColdKill

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Re: AH Clouds - What for?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2006, 10:22:04 AM »
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Originally posted by Midnight
Why is it that we have clouds in AH if they are not going to hide anything?

Flying through clouds has almost no effect on visibility for planes in icon range. There should be a great reduction in visability range when inside the clouds, and icons should be cut to less than 500 yards.

Clouds are fine to see and do hide dots at long range, but I think clouds should be more realistic, otherwise, why bother having them?

If the cloud is thick enough, it completely conceals the con!
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Offline Mustaine

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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2006, 10:45:35 AM »
yeah, unless they changed them in the pase few months, last time i flew through clouds they made the icon disappear completely, and you only saw a shadow of the plane when really close.

i actually have some sweet screenshots at home in formation in the clouds, 50 yards away all you saw was the outline of the plane.
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2006, 10:59:29 AM »
I was killing some 14K buffs last night, as I climbed through the cloud layer at 15K his icon faded till it was barely visible. It made it difficult to determine his exact direction. The clouds do have an effect.
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Offline ThunderEGG

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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2006, 11:06:00 AM »
Not long ago I was in a hide & seek fight.  My Yak vs. a 152 in a thick bunch of clouds.  Was one of the coolest fights I've been in.  On some of these maps, however, there's a small spot of clouds here, small spot there, but not very usefull for anything tactical.
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Offline DipStick

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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2006, 12:43:57 PM »
AH Clouds - What for?

Just to bug you.

Sure you'll find something else to whine about soon.
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Offline Kaw1000

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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2006, 01:37:33 PM »
Clouds just ruin my frame rate....get rid of um AH!!!....while your at it get rid of the sunset and sunrise too!!!:D
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Offline RAIDER14

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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2006, 10:31:34 PM »
just fly above the clouds
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Offline bagrat

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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2006, 11:48:38 PM »
eye candy, its to add to the effect of fighting in an earthly scenario.
though we could get great FR if we flew in a white sky, grey land an no trees.

dipstick quit whinnin about whinners
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Offline Wolf14

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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2006, 12:21:39 AM »
if I'm flying in the clouds, the con in front of me disapears but if he was beside me the same distance that he would have been in front of me, he would be visible plain as day.

Why is that?
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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2006, 08:51:59 AM »
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dipstick quit whinnin about whinners

Quit "whinnin" about people who whine about whiners ya whiner. :p
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Offline bj229r

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« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2006, 07:29:23 PM »
The nighttime haze/clouds we saw Christmas eve HAS TO COME BACK!
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Offline ChopSaw

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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2006, 01:35:37 PM »
It bothers me that some of these clouds seem to just hang over selected bases for the duration of the map.  Shouldn’t they move around?  I seem to recall they did in AH1.
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