Author Topic: Night can sombody clew me in, du we get it in MA? (Read 473 times)

brady · « **on:** March 10, 2001, 08:41:00 PM »

If so for how long, it is great would love to see more of it.

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J_A_B · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2001, 11:04:00 PM »

Night = time of mass logging off, because fighting is impossible.

Everything is literally BLACK at night. I can't even see ICONS. I can barely make out my instruments. Same story for the cloudbanks. For a offline sim, or for a civilian flightsim, even for scenarios, this would be fine. But NOT for the MA where I am trying to FIGHT, not fly around and watch the landscape.

Night and clouds suck for MA. They are a good way to ensure that AH STAYS the smallest online flightsim. Personally, I'd rather see more people, and more arena choices.

J_A_B

Rocket · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2001, 11:15:00 PM »

I love the pucker factor of the night. Keeps my SA higher and even the hair on my neck stands up. Bring on more night!

And cloud fights rock

S!
Rocket

J_A_B · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2001, 11:44:00 PM »

I am guessing then that coulds/night don't make the enemies TOTALLY INVISIBLE for you?

Perhaps it's a hardware issue, but I am quite certain that it isn't a hardware issue on only my computer.

J_A_B

Rocket · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2001, 01:25:00 AM »

Jab to me that is part of the realism. A con and I are fighting.. he ducks into the clouds.. now I have to guess where he went or let him go. I have fought many fights in the clouds since they have been introduced. They have saved my bellybutton a few times and caused me to lose the con a few times.
The same with night. It was harder to find the fight but you had to stay on the con or he could really turn the tables on you. Bomber raids at night are just awesome. A real chance of getting thru a heavy cap.
I haven't had a chance to see the new night with more moonlight yet. Think it will really added to the realism once again

S!
Rocket

ElLobo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2001, 02:30:00 AM »

Just did a night run in a arrado 234. Stars and moon are beutiful. Can see Icons just fine especialy red ones. No dots though. It only lasts 30 minutes then Sun comes back up. I like the clouds but they kill my FR in this little 350 PII. Just a little too opaque with the colors especially the whites at night, I know HT is still working on it though

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2001, 03:35:00 AM »

Just saw the night WOW I love it Give me more of it

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Vermillion · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2001, 08:05:00 AM »

Well, I like the idea of night fighting and the cloud banks, but right now they are not implemented very well, at least for my machine.

In both the enemy icons are BLACK for me, not red and not even a dark red. Black, which is almost impossible to see.

I even like the idea that in the "reduced vision" periods, icon settings would go to the reduced settings used in special events,ie enemy icons at D3.

And in the night time, the Moon (ours is a bright full moon fyi) is giving next to no light at all. My experience at night flying in a C-130, was during a bright full moon, there was a suprising amount of light to see by.

But when icons are pure black, and you can't even see a runway at night to land. Things need worked on.

And I have a Hercules Geforce 256 card, using the latest drivers. An extremely common video card. So please don't tell me to upgrade my card/drivers/system.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

J_A_B · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2001, 12:07:00 PM »

I am with Verm, the night/cloudbanks don't make things hardet to see..

They make everything INVISIBLE.

If I wanted to be killed by invisible planes that can somehow see me, I would just turn off my monitor.

J_A_B

Wingnut_0 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2001, 12:54:00 PM »

Jab and Verm..turn up ur monitor brightness. I logged in today when a25 was under the wall cloud and I couldn't even see my wing. But I took off and tried to climb above it.

I have a special settings saved for AH under my vid cards' settings with a higher brightness set. I alt-tabbed and started it and when I went in I could see all the nice details under the clouds. And in full sunlight the extra brightness doesn't affect you that much.

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Luftjagerkorps

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it - Baron Manfred von Richthofen

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2001, 01:02:00 PM »

The ammount of people that clamor for nightime in the arena pales in comparison to the ammount of people that log off when it happens. The same would happen if we had to fight in total cloud cover.

AKDejaVu

Vermillion · « **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2001, 03:44:00 PM »

I have a 19" monitor, and large monitors are notorious for being dim.

I don't have enough "adjustment" in my card and or monitor to brighten it up to usefulness.

Its too damn dark and translucent black icons are impossible to see in combat.

Give me exhaust flame flares, spotlights and landing lights, and I might change my mind. But right now its just too dark for me to play.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

J_A_B · « **Reply #12 on:** March 11, 2001, 03:59:00 PM »

How am I supposed to turn my brightness over 100?

Same as verm, it makes the game unplayable.

Besides, if you people are turning up your monitor brightness, aren't you really defeating the purpose of night?

Without decent graphics effects and dedicated nightfighters, night is totally pointless.

J_A_B

Wardog · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2001, 04:25:00 PM »

Hmm

No problem here with Night fighting or Cloud and storm fights.

Yes the icon go dark, it night time. Expect to miss some cons, kinda the idea. Great time to JABO a field and take it.

The night fights are fantastic, i had a blast. Even more fun was fighting in the storm front. Staining you eyes to pick out cons on the deck against the ground. In the storm front i managed an 8 kill sortie, rtb to hot re-arm and added 2 more kills then landed as our field got capped. 10 kill sortie and no, it wasnt easy!! It not suppose to be easy, it Night and also dark in the storm..

Work for your kills, i did and i think Night and Storm fronts a fantasic place to work on your SA.

Dog out.......

J_A_B · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2001, 05:06:00 PM »

Yep, I'm not working for my kills, I'm lazy, my SA sucks..

SHeesh

Just because the problem isn't affecting you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

What is so hard to understand that it makes the enemies INVISIBLE? As in they cannot be seen AT ALL?

JABO ground tagrets? That might be possible except I cannot SEE the ground at night. I an barely make out the groud in the clouds. AM I supposed to randomly bomb things and hope that there's a target under me? Heck, even the MAP is virtually impossible to read!

Apparently not everyone has this problem--but I am not the only one affected by it.

It is quite real.

J_A_B