Damage graphics

[Wiley]

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wow man that is sick

That game is simply gorgeous, but you need a pretty beastly system to run it.  My system does fairly ok singleplayer, just can't hack multiplayer in it without too much chop to play.  Maybe the release version will be better optimized (fingers crossed).

If the people at the ragged edge of just barely being able to run the current version are already going to have to upgrade if they want to keep playing, it would seem to me one of the better times to maybe up the requirements a bit more by improving the (dated) damage model.  Pie in the sky, I know bustr wants to be able to play on a TI86, but it seems to me it would be a good thing to do.  YMMV.

Wiley.

[bustr]

So how are you going to guarantee keeping Hitech's light bill, payroll and loan payments paid when you gleefully kick most of his customer base to the curb to have your eycandy orgasmic wish come true?

No takers on that reality hanging over Hitech and his family?

Oops, I forgot, this is the technosphere and reality is verboten when dreams are just tantalizing pixels away and someone else's reality costs you nothing. You just make another account somewhere and pick up where you left off here.

[MrKrabs]

I wonder if W is even in the Alpha 

Anyways, if ya read what Bustr's saying... it would be nice if we could have such awesomeness across the entire spectrum of detail levels but not everyone "and this is the general bread'n'butter of AH" has the systems or are close to being able to get such a upgrade.

Those of us that have to wait a few years to buy this years PC's that are considered beefy enough to regularly enjoy such graphics could be at loss... It doesn't hurt to think about the little guy... We're not a STEAM game community where 80% own nice gaming rigs...

[save]

In AH3 as stated before by HTC, much more work will be done in the graphics card instead of the CPU.
Skuzzy already wrote in here somewhere how much graphics memory you need for the fancy stuff.

Some system with old graphic cards will have to do with less fancy scenery, some may even have to upgrade to make it run properly.

You can probably not run the new game with a old not upgradable laptop or a very low-end graphics card equipped machine.

You may or may not like it, but HTC made a business decision about it.

[Wiley]

So how are you going to guarantee keeping Hitech's light bill, payroll and loan payments paid when you gleefully kick most of his customer base to the curb to have your eycandy orgasmic wish come true?

No takers on that reality hanging over Hitech and his family?

Oops, I forgot, this is the technosphere and reality is verboten when dreams are just tantalizing pixels away and someone else's reality costs you nothing. You just make another account somewhere and pick up where you left off here.

The reality is the game is suffering a LOT more from inability to attract new players than it is retaining people with dated systems.

Wiley.

[The Fugitive]

So how are you going to guarantee keeping Hitech's light bill, payroll and loan payments paid when you gleefully kick most of his customer base to the curb to have your eycandy orgasmic wish come true?

No takers on that reality hanging over Hitech and his family?

Oops, I forgot, this is the technosphere and reality is verboten when dreams are just tantalizing pixels away and someone else's reality costs you nothing. You just make another account somewhere and pick up where you left off here.

Oh haven't you heard, the new graphics system is going to have people joining in droves!!!! 

[MrKrabs]

In AH3 as stated before by HTC, much more work will be done in the graphics card instead of the CPU.
Skuzzy already wrote in here somewhere how much graphics memory you need for the fancy stuff.

Some system with old graphic cards will have to do with less fancy scenery, some may even have to upgrade to make it run properly.

You can probably not run the new game with a old not upgradable laptop or a very low-end graphics card equipped machine.

You may or may not like it, but HTC made a business decision about it.

And this is very true... I had fun while it lasted 

[JimmyD3]

Oh haven't you heard, the new graphics system is going to have people joining in droves!!!! 

I love that positive attitude Fugi!!