graphics

[Twizzty]

Look, I just got a new computer. I am running both AHII and IL2 at as high a graphic settings as they will go. IMO, the hires airplanes, vehicles, and objects in AHII look every bit as good as the ones in IL2. Check the hires screenshots an see for yourself. The landscaping is simpler in AHII, I suppose you can't vary the complexity of the mountain polygons for everyone on a slider.  However, considering everything AHII offers, I am content.

Lets put it this way: I still spend 90% of my recreational comp time playing AHII, not IL2.

Couldn't agree more when it comes to plane/vehicle looking great, and when you light them up they fall apart in pieces, very realistic. But the terrain needs to be spruced up a bit, or a bit more added. I have seen some of the SEA maps and they are sweet, maybe running these in the MA would help change it up a bit. Just a thought. <S>

[BnZ]

Couldn't agree more when it comes to plane/vehicle looking great, and when you light them up they fall apart in pieces, very realistic. But the terrain needs to be spruced up a bit, or a bit more added. I have seen some of the SEA maps and they are sweet, maybe running these in the MA would help change it up a bit. Just a thought. <S>

Something that could "spruce" up the MA scenery, would be to vary the color palette. The landscape is too monochromatic, too much green-on-green-on-more green. I think one of the biggest advantages the Sherman currently enjoys is not its armor or gun but the fact that its paintjob blends in with 99.9% of the terrain better than that of any other tank.

[Krusty]

Anyone?  Has anyone heard if we are going to get any new default skins for the panzer and the tigers?  So we no longer tend to have brownish orange tanks in grasslands?

I've only just now seen this. I'm not speaking from authority, just from common sense: Why would they tailor the default skin of a vehicle to a terrain that can and does change every week?

The default skin doesn't have to blend in. It is simply a skin representative of the vehicle/plane itself, removed from any context/location/blending considerations.

So I would have to say "no" to getting new defaults until such time as the models are upgraded to AH2 standards. Even then we may get similar color schemes on our defaults.


P.S. I'd be more than willing to spare a few FPS to bring back the horizon. 17 miles or no, we lose geometry in a very ugly manner when we used to get nice smooth horizon transitions. It's quite off-putting and ugly, and we didn't used to have this problem.