High Resolution Arena

[LCADolby]

I love AcesHigh. In every way except graphics it is a leader in the WW2 MMO Air Combat Sim market.

I have a vice that I don't tell AcesHigh about, called Wings of Prey

This is AcesHigh in comparision on a 14 month old $800 machine
I get the same FrameRate from both AcesHigh and Wing of Prey (Released 16th March 2010)
Set at 1650x1050, 60fps, x4AA.

First up AcesHigh, it looks pretty good



Wings of Prey is next, and it's just pr0n.



AcesHigh deserves great visuals, but I can see how HTC could possibly be in a catch22.
If it did upgrade the eye candy, the guys on the older PCs would leave for a while or all together, losing them subsrciption income.
They did after all drop Orange and Blue for 1 MA, but if they neglect graphics they could fall much behind their competitors, losing them potential subscriptions from feeble eye candy hunters.

They have the resources according to Skuzzy to make the graphics better, sooo  I'm feeble and I want my eye candy

[ozrocker]

This game is about manly flying not metrosexual appearances

                                                                                          Bat you kill me
                                                                                            Oz

[Wiley]

Nice, Dolby.  What happens to your FR when you get 50 planes in the same area?

Wiley.

[LCADolby]

Nice, Dolby.  What happens to your FR when you get 50 planes in the same area?

Wiley.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197993632034/screenshots/?tab=&showdate=1&filter=app_45300

Like AcesHigh if thing get busy a drop of 10 fps is about as bad as it gets.

[The Fugitive]

Using that picture as a comparison, I don't think it looks all that good. Sure there is more variety of things on the ground, but it looks washed out, and the plane looks like crap to me. Are the trees buildings and things 3D objects? or are they just a picture? I think the sharpness and the brightness of the Aces High terrains look much better. With all the 3D objects I'm sure it takes up much more file space as well as computer power to render.  

[Kazaa]

I also found it strange that my 2 year old, then super computer could run WoP better then Aces High.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that WoP supports Crossfire better?

[PuppetZ]

I would not compare AH with WoP. They are most definitely not the same. Having played both, I can say one is a big(edit : huge) scale war/flight simulator while the other is an arcadish flying game that make up for it's gameplay limitation with the graphic department. I might also note that the sheer scale of the "war" going on is not even close. WoP maps a very small compared to what AH offers. And you dont have 4-500ish player in there at the time. Maybe a few tens of bots/players at most.

 

[LCADolby]

I would not compare AH with WoP. They are most definitely not the same. Having played both, I can say one is a big(edit : huge) scale war/flight simulator while the other is an arcadish flying game that make up for it's gameplay limitation with the graphic department. I might also note that the sheer scale of the "war" going on is not even close. WoP maps a very small compared to what AH offers. And you dont have 4-500ish player in there at the time. Maybe a few tens of bots/players at most.

 

Comparing graphics is all I'm doing. True WoP does not have 500+ humans online and 1000mile square maps in a war.  But give AcesHigh WoP's graphics...

(WP is only arcadish if you fly it on easy)