Ohhhh.... Pretty Terrain!!

[APDrone]

Very Nice HTC!!!   

The video sailing through the foliage.. the bark/branches are amazing!!   

 

[TGG93]

Wow that looks great! Tank battles are going to be a lot more interesting!

It's great that HTC agree that the current terrain system is grossly outdated. I will gladly take this over any aircraft update. The current terrains are the thing that stands out for me when I look at AH and not in a good way.

[Volron]

   I'm loving it!

Very Nice HTC!!!   

The video sailing through the foliage.. the bark/branches are amazing!!   

 

Just don't try to take your Tiger or King Tiger through said foliage.

[Devil 505]

Excellent looking terrain HTC.  

Did anyone else notice that the farm had outhouses? Finally, Midway doesn't have to use channel 200 for spewing his crap!  

[Tinkles]

Wow that looks great! Tank battles are going to be a lot more interesting!

It's great that HTC agree that the current terrain system is grossly outdated. I will gladly take this over any aircraft update. The current terrains are the thing that stands out for me when I look at AH and not in a good way.

Same here, terrain > planes.

I am impressed, and this isn't even done yet 

[Midway]

Excellent looking terrain HTC.  

Did anyone else notice that the farm had outhouses? Finally, Midway doesn't have to use channel 200 for spewing his crap!  

 

[Tilt]

Awesome .............

[artik]

Is this only a graphics engine or.... existing terrains wouldn't be usable?   

[Mister Fork]

[CASHEW]

Well get ready for fu**ed frame rate

[Latrobe]

It looks so pretty! Next we need updated explosions, fires, and tracers!  






and a 109T  



Also, anyone else notice the draw distance? We can see trees on the mountain and that looks well beyond the 4 mile range limit that we have now. Maybe it's just me but do you think we're getting increased draw distance!??  
Or maybe I'm not used to seeing things from ground level as I'm too busy flying at 5,000ft.    I'd like for the option to increase draw distance.

[LCADolby]

It's pretty.

I can't quite put my finger on where abouts the terrain is based.

[bustr]

You could always ask HTC to post an FPS test arena of the new terrain including all of the advanced graphics options we have now to turn on or off to see what our individual outcomes will be. I love the grass but, I have to keep it turned off along with terrain bump mapping and all of the other bumping and shadows if I want to keep my FPS in the high 50's during furballs.

[Greebo]

I like it so far. Apart from the extra detail, the colour palette looks more muted and realistic. Never liked the acid green terrain we have at the moment.

I'd suspect the main hit would be on download size rather than FPS. The textures look to be much higher res than the existing ones, which is how they can get ploughed fields etc. to show up so well. So for those whose PCs can run it they may have a separately downloadable high res terrain texture pack in the same way we have a high res skin pack now. Those who have lower grade PCs could then either run the normal low res textures or turn them off as now.

[Tinkles]

Is this only a graphics engine or.... existing terrains wouldn't be usable?   

I would assume that they are updating all the terrains, considering it's hard to use an engine when there are no maps to play on 

Well get ready for fu**ed frame rate

I am quite sure they will give us the ability to lower the graphics down to a suitable degree so the lower quality PCs can play it.

Not really able to play now due to computer troubles