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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: streetstang on January 31, 2005, 01:09:37 AM
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Now that we got these pretty clouds Hitech. Do you think that you guys will ever add weather effects to the MA? Things like Wind or rain.
Big black nasty clouds, like we used to have in AH1 on some maps, but with rain and wind and nastyness. :)
I can hear the frame rate whines already. But I still think it would be cool.
Morph
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i want snow :( will be harder for people to find sheep cough(joc)
hheheheeheh lol
Snow and give me some skis! when im paratrooper:-D and a rocket launcher! hurl down the mountain side shooting panzers..
see!! supreme logic from the supreme beeN!! i have done it!!!
Ill wait for my check via mail HTC damn im GOOD! :lol :rofl
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and windshield wipers for the spitty and mermaids when you crash into water...OH and oompa loom[pas shooting town ack!!
seagulls smashing into planes and hmm whatelse...
1 really realllly fast and quick super plane (modern day) that is worth 500 perk points!!!!!!!!!!!
that would be jolly good fun
megadud
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and i want teh nuke b00m~ big nuke bomb b29 with snow camo to make sheep go baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa b000m! and little oompa lumppas screaming the sky is falling!! omMFGGG we are togins to die!! omfg! Help usses JEbus!
SEgauls attacking your plane like vrooooooooooooooooooooom crap on your windsheild as you scream!!! MAYDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYy vrooooooooooooooooooooom crash!! omFGGG
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YEA! and you could make a movie about it and play britney spears to it and everyone would make fun of it again!!!
btw i liked it cept i wasnt in it
megadud
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oh crap i want teh knight rider car vroo0o0o0m pown noo00bies al day with dat shiiziiinit! yo boom boom! shed talk to you! danger bill spadeonson we on fire!! holly popp batman! *r2d2* DUDUDDUUDDUUuuuuuuuu! beep bepep siren!
OMFGGGGG the predator is coming!!! GET TO DA CHOPPA NOW!!! RUNNNNNN! NOWWW!!!!:lol
mmmm boredness..
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Originally posted by megadud
YEA! and you could make a movie about it and play britney spears to it and everyone would make fun of it again!!!
btw i liked it cept i wasnt in it
megadud
no! i play teh backstreet boys! DU DU DUDUDU backstreeeeets backkkk yo yo yo gansgstasss! werd
Sorry for raping your thread morph...:lol
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ya weather stuff would be very cool
especially when u fly through them, u see mist :) maybe on your cockpit windshield!
"wish"
:aok
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Water!! shoot water it sprays on your window!! lol
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LMAO u need some riddilin..depending on where u r it's at least 11ish....
btw how'd u make them movies?
megadud
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This thread went downhill really fast.
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I dunno why, but I find myself always wanting to land on a dark runway with operational landing lights on my a/c. So, yea, I'd like to see night come back even if just for 15 minutes. And, LANDING LIGHTS!
More clouds, more weather would be cool. Wouldn't rain and clouds actually IMPROVE frame rates? I mean, there wouldn't be as much terrain to draw if you're in the pea soup, right?
Stick lightning flashes ... ooooh yes. :D
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I dont know Tbolt.
I recal alot of people saying their FR went down hill fast when they were in some of those dark places with fog and low lying clouds and what not. I'm curious to see what HT thinks about it.
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megadud is clearly suffering from early regresion symptoms
only one way to cure it, a healthy dosage of AH. (2 ways actually but one of them involves electic shocks..)
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Originally posted by streetstang
I'm curious to see what HT thinks about it.
I hope someone at HTC posts...
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Rain would a be very cool effect but you can hear it now.. all the low end pc's crying over fps loss.
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I believe I once read that low flying pilots in WWII would avoid flying into the spray brought up from firining into the water beacuse it was like hitting a wall, causing their aircraft to crash.
And I also believe that I read when Pappy Boyington was shot down, hitting water from the spray was a contributing factor. Or I could be mixing it up with another book.
I want ground snow atleast, and a overcast sky. Just a white ground and a grey crappy looking day.
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I think the new clouds are a vast improvement over the old, but the "12:00" high sunshine that never goes away seems a bit bland.
HTC, your thoughts?
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you guys did see the new TE is out and the Weather editor?
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Where is the rain? The lighting? ??! :D
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Originally posted by streetstang
Where is the rain? The lighting? ??! :D
ZAP it just hit your plane,took out the engine and instruments, and you can no longer see icons in game because you are disorientated.
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As I understand it - we lost night in AH1 because of complaints of lack of visibility (:rolleyes: ).
Do you not think that mist filled valleys, rain and shadow casting thunder clouds would result in the same?
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Weather would be an isolated thing I would imagine.
When it rains say, in your town, or even your state, is it also raining everywhere else in the world?
If they didnt like it then they'd have to stay out of it. Or would atleast have the choice. :aok
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An excellent response, my feelings exactly - so there can be no excuse; bring that funky weather on!
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Originally posted by Darkish
An excellent response, my feelings exactly - so there can be no excuse; bring that funky weather on!
I like this guy
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I think its a neat thing. But dont get me wrong. I wouldnt go looking for a fight in it.
I like the challenge that comes with any fight, but I doubt I'd be interested in seeking a challenge in which I was unable to see what I'm shooting at.
I SOMETIMES take up a bomber when I'm going to be afk for a while or just can't find a fight. I think in some ways it would be fun/interesting to add this factor to the game.
Not to mention it would probably also make it look alot nicer.
Morph
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I would like to see more chiggers added to the grass just for Morph. :D
If you can see the gauges in the new 38s , then you should be able to spot the chiggers with no problem.
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LOL:lol
You chigger!
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Heavy rain with low hanging clouds would be nice... denying any bombing because you cant see the target and focing the fighters to patrol over the cloud layer... option to totally escape a fight with diving into low vis altitude and vanishing. Some high alt dogfights instead of the grass kissing lawmover circling.
Also equip airports with the 0 vis landing equip... i think it was a two channle radio, indicating left right with lower or higher pitched tones as you went wrong? something like that with the explanation... great stuff... would add a whole new point to "landed successfull".
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Although I wouldnt want global weather, meaning the entire arena is raining, and socked in...this is ww2 afterall and there werent many all weather aircraft, I would like squalls and such to randomly pass through.
Ive often seen areas were the cloud comes right down to the sea, looking like a squall. It would be a good place to hide a fleet. Or if one pass over land, it may throw off an attack at a key base which would be cool. Something the size of 2 -4 sectors blowing through would be nice.
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Weather effects would definately improve the atmosphere in the game. Snow map would be nice too. Why can't the MA have maps varied. I'm so bored of green! The Baltic map could go snowy!
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Originally posted by pyro
Dev Update
We’re fixing some remaining problems with 2.02 and will have another patch out as soon as we get through those. We hope to only have one more patch for this version because the next version is going to be coming out very quickly.
Our development pattern is changing as all our coding resources, i.e., HT and Sudz, are going into full-time ToD development until that is completed. Sudz has one project left before he joins HT in ToD development, and that is an overhaul and upgrade of the film viewer. Aside from that project any more programming developments in the game will be minor or bug fixes until ToD is done.
However, we will continue to release new versions of AH2 while ToD is under development. These versions will focus on plane upgrades and additions, graphical enhancements, and flight modeling updates. Because of that, we’ll be putting out new releases a lot more frequently than we have in the past until ToD is done.
Version 2.03 is already under development as we have a very short time frame for this version. Sudz will have the film viewer updated for 2.03, Superfly is working on updated terrain tiles to give the game a new look, Natedog is updating the Fw 190 shapes to AH2 standards, and we also hope to get some more new graphic effects added in too. There will be an overhaul on the flight modeling of the N1K2 and possibly the 190s as well.
We’ve been having intermittent connectivity issues with the current collocation site that we have not been able to get fully resolved. We are currently considering moving our servers to a new location and have been exploring that option. Should that take place, we will do one server at a time so as not to interrupt service and also give us a chance to make sure the new location is satisfactory to performance and stability.
The new terrain editor and object editor are completed and ready for release. HT just has to finish up a couple of minor details on the cloud editor and the three of those will be released as one package sometime this week.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
The wind effect is easy for HTC to turn on.... However all the other effects...like Rain...Storm Clouds ill bet are well over a Year away given the latest news update.
HT even said it would take a year to update all the AC in AH2.
TOD looks like its going into full swing of develoment. This will likely slow things much more than we think in AH2