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Offline Archie

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2019, 02:59:11 PM »
Found some terrain screenshots they've been posting






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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2019, 03:22:31 PM »
Found some terrain screenshots they've been posting

Again, you understand why showing static, pre-rendered marketing terrain is meaningless, right?

Show me live, in-game video with 50 players fighting over that terrain in real-time and running on consumer grade gaming machine and I'll start to be impressed.

Until then, you're wasting my time.

[edit]  And if they had that, I think they would be showing it off by now if they are planning to release by Fall.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2019, 03:26:03 PM »
Again, you understand why showing static, pre-rendered marketing terrain is meaningless, right?

Show me live, in-game video with 50 players fighting over that terrain in real-time and running on consumer grade gaming machine and I'll start to be impressed.

Until then, you're wasting my time.

lol, I only posted what they are showing, it's not my game   :noid

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2019, 03:35:55 PM »
lol, I only posted what they are showing, it's not my game   :noid

Understood.  But I just want to point out you should be more skeptical in your appraisal of their marketing.

For instance, notice the X-Y-Z coordinate widget in the bottom left of that last image?



I recognize that.  I believe that image is being statically pre-rendered in Blender 3D.  I don't know if they outright represented to you that was a live in-game screenshot, but I don't believe that it is. 

That could be grossly misleading to people.  Maybe Voss is doing their marketing.  :cool:


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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2019, 04:02:26 PM »
Nugetx is that you again?

The polys in the first two screen shots will limit game play to about a 10milex10mile arena with 16-32 people on PC's. Unless those are for Mobile and consol. The last one is large poly that can support 100+ PC players and looks hokey like candy cream frosted mountains to accomplish it. Might account for the photoshopped screenshots you first presented. It also looks like an AI algorithm in each case like L3DT gives as a random mountain generation tool.

This is by human hand and will support 1000 PC players.


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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2019, 04:44:40 PM »
They need to lure Geoff Crammond out of retirement.     His physics modeling was tip top.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2019, 06:32:54 PM »
The new warbirds 2020 terrain really is a callback to the really old terrains of Warbirds 1-2. It stands out and has a very bold palette.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2019, 06:42:47 PM »
In either case, it depicts a 109E from 1940 against B-17G's and P-51D's from 1944 so I'm not impressed.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2019, 04:21:11 AM »
Wild Bill himself  :salute


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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2019, 07:04:50 AM »
Archie seems very gullible. He is very new on the boards.
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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2019, 07:20:46 AM »
Crowd funding spam.   


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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2019, 09:25:23 AM »
Crowd funding spam.

Seems they already found investors as MicroProse is live.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2019, 11:33:42 AM »
Seems they already found investors as MicroProse is live.

I have fond memories of the name MicroProse.  But that is just shell, a shadow.
It's not Microprose without Sid Meier.

I look forward to examining the actual product when it is release.  I wish them luck.  Competition is always good.

but I won't put any credence in Wild Bill's marketing material.  I'll base my judgement on the actual product only.

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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2019, 07:16:37 PM »
Maybe they will bring "hotseat" back as head of customer relations.   :noid  :devil


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Re: Return of Wild Bill and MicroProse
« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2019, 10:32:35 PM »
Don't rain on Archie's one man parade. Let it do that itself.  :D