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Offline coombz

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Your $15 per month
« on: February 03, 2013, 02:00:07 PM »
First off, don't take this thread the wrong way - we have been getting some great updates to AH and I am very pleased with the recent crop of graphical upgrades and the recent updates to (British :) ) planes

However I would like you to take a look at the screenshots below of Nr_RaVeN's excellent work with the terrain editor

Would you like some of your $15 / month to go towards getting some amazing terrain like this in the Main Arena's?

I don't care who makes it. But this shows what is possible with the terrain editor and I am convinced it would be great, not just for us, but to get new players into the game by tempting them with eye candy, to have some better looking maps in the MA.










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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2013, 02:01:51 PM »
Unbelievable!! We NEED this and more like this for the Main Arena  :aok :aok :aok
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2013, 02:04:58 PM »
Very nicely done.
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2013, 02:08:14 PM »
Now that is nice!
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2013, 02:08:30 PM »
maybeeeeeeeeeee....ht should hire someone full time?
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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2013, 02:10:02 PM »
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2013, 02:24:46 PM »
Honest question: Why doesn't HTC hire more workers? Afraid of money or what?

  the game is concentrated on combat, not on shaking the screen.

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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2013, 02:27:21 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2013, 02:30:19 PM »
hard to believe it's the same game  :huh
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2013, 02:44:36 PM »
I don't think half the machines in the game could run those maps, but man o man those look killer.
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2013, 02:47:56 PM »
I don't think half the machines in the game could run those maps, but man o man those look killer.

Make two different arenas, one for people with low-spec computers and one arena with mid-range to hi-spec computers. Afterall its 2013, amazing things have happened within the field of graphics card development, and prices of new cards have dropped aswell.
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2013, 02:49:44 PM »
I don't think half the machines in the game could run those maps, but man o man those look killer.

Yep. All those custom textures and objects on a main arena sized map would probably be a gig or more in size and take forever to download...and then the complaints about that and peoples' bad frame rates would flood the BBS.
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2013, 02:53:32 PM »
I don't think half the machines in the game could run those maps

Well, we have all these fancy new graphics options in the game but no one is forced to use them.

Players with old computers just have everything turned down to low detail, and the beautiful new terrain would look to them just as bland and terrible as the current terrain does on low detail.


Make two different arenas, one for people with low-spec computers and one arena with mid-range to hi-spec computers. Afterall its 2013, amazing things have happened within the field of graphics card development, and prices of new cards have dropped aswell.

I don't think 2 different arenas would be necessary - except if HTC were to come back and say, amazing terrain like this on a large map the size of say, OzKanzas, would be too much

Then I would say personally I would rather have two or three smaller arenas with great looking maps, rather than one big map that looks terrible...but that would be just my opinion and a lot of people more interested in the 'win the war' side of the game would probably disagree
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2013, 03:02:04 PM »
The size of the map doesn't matter.  The PC is only rendering what can be seen.
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Re: Your $15 per month
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2013, 03:10:10 PM »
For HTC:  is there a reason we cant have one of maps used for scenarios as a template, then have an editor place fields around the map in a measured manner so that it can be used in the MA???

Seriously, as you well know there are some very nice maps used in scenarios. If all we had to do was reset where the fields are, add in a HQ and a industrial complex, then why cant that be done?

This is something I have always wondered about and I'm sure others are curious as well.
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