Question for HTC

[kvuo75]

for those of us that cant use the detailed terrain due to hardware issues, is at least a plan to make some better textures than the blurry land that we see right now?

i can understand if it is not top priority, but i was hoping it could probably be comparable to the old version, no?

[Nemisis]

I have a question two, and it's kinda related.


Is it possible to maby not update the graphics on the next version if possible? And I mean so that you don't have to buy a new card to get good grapics? The old graphics are just fine in my opinion. Maby you want to put up a poll about this to see if most people want new graphics or to keep the same ones we have.

[LCCajun]

I have a question to Maby?

[hitech]

Nemisis: I do not rember how long it has been since our last graphic upgrade. This release has been a ground up write of the terrain engine and other major core changes. I doubt we will need another major change for some time.

HiTech

[Sunka]

for those of us that cant use the detailed terrain due to hardware issues, is at least a plan to make some better textures than the blurry land that we see right now?

i can understand if it is not top priority, but i was hoping it could probably be comparable to the old version, no?

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[100hooch]

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[WMLute]

Was talking to a squaddie about this.

It would be great if HTC had a much lower res texture instead of "none", which is what it LOOKS like we have w/o detailed textures on.

Something.

Get 5-10k up and the ground looks perfectly smooth.

[texastc316]

One miracle at a time fellas, they ll get it right.

[Sunka]

Well i hope it don't take to long...i am not playing  like it is.

[Easyscor]

Here I am, disappointed they didn't go further and can't wait to push the new TE to it's limits, and many want to roll back the upgrade. 

I'm positive that Hitech will smooth this out, and in the meantime, some of you may find this thread in the bug forum useful.

[Sunka]

My main point is that you still would have played with no "upgrade" ..now many of us cant or wont play.The economy still stinks many people that normally would do upgrades like they did with AH2 cant now.I would love to upgrade i cant.And a lot of others I'm talking to say the same thing.Again I'm giving it a month of paying and not playing,i will see after that point what happens.

[Nemisis]

Nemisis: I do not rember how long it has been since our last graphic upgrade. This release has been a ground up write of the terrain engine and other major core changes. I doubt we will need another major change for some time.

HiTech

Thanks hightech. You have put my mind at ease...for a while anyway.



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       Nemisis

[Glen69]

 For those of us that cant use the detailed terrain due to hardware issues.
It would be nice to hear that there will be an effort to make the new non detailed terrain slightly more detailed, in that, it is currently very difficult to fly when the current nondetailed terrain causes a huge lack of depth perception. (Especially over the sea and coastal areas.) As i've found myself, enemies and squadmates plunge into the sea or coastline with the same problems. Lower level dogfighting is even more hazardous.

 As you can see from the forums there is a lot of people unable to purchase new PCs, and run the excellent new terrains. For the loyalty many of them has shown over some years, a more playable minimum terrain setting is in my opinion pretty important. I can honestly see numbers begin to reduce out there, because of the current difficulties and dissatisfaction at the lower PC power end of users.
 

[Sunka]

For those of us that cant use the detailed terrain due to hardware issues.
It would be nice to hear that there will be an effort to make the new non detailed terrain slightly more detailed, in that, it is currently very difficult to fly when the current nondetailed terrain causes a huge lack of depth perception. (Especially over the sea and coastal areas.) As i've found myself, enemies and squadmates plunge into the sea or coastline with the same problems. Lower level dogfighting is even more hazardous.

 As you can see from the forums there is a lot of people unable to purchase new PCs, and run the excellent new terrains. For the loyalty many of them has shown over some years, a more playable minimum terrain setting is in my opinion pretty important. I can honestly see numbers begin to reduce out there, because of the current difficulties and dissatisfaction at the lower PC power end of users.
 

[Easyscor]

Well, the new TE hasn't been out a week and we're already in patch 3. I suspect there will be several more patches over the next month as issues are revealed along with repeatable descriptions of the problems. I've watched this company for a long time, and there's no one that takes better care of their customers then htc, give them a little time.

This isn't a criticism of anyone. Some of us have the time to test things in the game, and some don't but those who can't will have to wait until someone with similar hardware comes along to provide enough information to help solve the problem. The beta presented many of us the opportunity to learn something about the new game engine, and provide details on the experience and our hardware. I participated, posted dxdiag data on my rig and a description of how it was running poorly.
I don't believe it's an accident that the game is playable on my hardware. I saw fewer then 5 people in the beta last week, so I concluded that it was either working, or that the only way to gather more responses was to go live and "fix it" after the players started supplying the needed feedback in the form of dxdiag, and reproducible issue reports. It's hard for me to imagine how frustrated they must still be after the lack of participation and feed back in the beta. I see lots of threads about problems, but not to many dxdiag reports are accompanying them.