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Offline Pongo

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« on: September 09, 2000, 02:34:00 AM »
I think this is a great idea but the way it is working is silly. The icon is disapearing from the sight on FW. Really distracting. I think the way it works with canopy pieces needs some work. Keep it on for the wings and smoke and stuff but the canopy part doenst add to the game.

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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2000, 03:10:00 AM »
 A big thumbs up on this one   .

 The disappering icons not pongo,s post. sorry pongo

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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2000, 03:31:00 AM »
no way!

i love the way it is now
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2000, 04:00:00 AM »
icons disappearing below the nose, under the wings/tail, in the smoke/clouds is all well and good.  I love it.
The problem is the canopy braces.  In the real world we could move our heads in less than a second to see around the braces.  In AH we cannot, as you first must hold the appropiate view key, then use the cursor keys/pgup/pgdn to look around the bars.  This is a major handicap, especially in birds like the zeke and macchis.  I was flying a zeke on point defense at 27 tonight and the icons kept poping on and off so much because of the canopy braces that I started wondering if I was going to have some kind of siezure (and got a nice headache from it).  This one needs a good bit of work IMO.

And let's not forget the icons disappearing when you lay the gunsights of the Lanc on a bandit (all 3 sights are affected in places) and the ostwind when the gun is near the horizontal position.  Almost seems as though the engine thinks there's a solid plate across the gap where the sight looks through the armor ring.

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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2000, 07:01:00 AM »
I saw icons disappear behind ack fire, is this right?

What a great update though!  10 out of 10 for effort!

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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2000, 08:55:00 AM »
Heheehe I couldn't shoot a barn before and it's now 100% harder for me... But , hey, I think we'll get used to it...

The icons also dissapear when Using gunner views in the LanC.

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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2000, 09:08:00 AM »
Uh, did real airplanes have icons?

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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2000, 10:50:00 AM »
Renfield, no, but in a real plane you could move your head to look around the canopy frames ALOT faster than you can in this game.

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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2000, 12:12:00 PM »
to me its not weather real planes had icons. its the effect of having them appear and disapear as you track a target in your gunsight...I was playing in the TA for an hour last night when there where no Icons and I found it easisier to shoot then with them warping on and off. Its not all the time, and planes like the f4 with no bracing for the gunsight are not as effected but on ther FW it is a little distracting.
I am sure that making traking shots harder is part of the objective of this change, but the icon flashing on and off really exagerates it for me.

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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2000, 12:41:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by Pongo:
to me its not weather real planes had icons. its the effect of having them appear and disapear as you track a target in your gunsight...I was playing in the TA for an hour last night when there where no Icons and I found it easisier to shoot then with them warping on and off. Its not all the time, and planes like the f4 with no bracing for the gunsight are not as effected but on ther FW it is a little distracting.
I am sure that making traking shots harder is part of the objective of this change, but the icon flashing on and off really exagerates it for me.

I totally agree. Having the big red icons blinking in and out is very distracting and it makes it very hard to track your target as your eye will always be drawn to the appearing icon.

I'm hoping somewhere down the road icons will disappear all together or if not then maybe the icons can just be made smaller. Maybe just show the distance and have separate colors for each country similar to the AW setup. This would eliminate the country part of the icon.



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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2000, 05:18:00 PM »
The popping on and off distracted me at first too, but after flying with it for a while, I didn't even notice.  Maybe it just takes a little getting used to?


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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2000, 05:58:00 PM »
It's a good feature.  The problem is that the icons are disappearing when you can still see the bandit.