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Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: Midnight on February 13, 2006, 10:04:08 AM
Why is it that we have clouds in AH if they are not going to hide anything?

Flying through clouds has almost no effect on visibility for planes in icon range. There should be a great reduction in visability range when inside the clouds, and icons should be cut to less than 500 yards.

Clouds are fine to see and do hide dots at long range, but I think clouds should be more realistic, otherwise, why bother having them?
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: jaxxo on February 13, 2006, 10:05:22 AM
hmmm..my vis goes down beigtime in the middle of a cloud
Title: Re: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: ColdKill on February 13, 2006, 10:22:04 AM
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Originally posted by Midnight
Why is it that we have clouds in AH if they are not going to hide anything?

Flying through clouds has almost no effect on visibility for planes in icon range. There should be a great reduction in visability range when inside the clouds, and icons should be cut to less than 500 yards.

Clouds are fine to see and do hide dots at long range, but I think clouds should be more realistic, otherwise, why bother having them?

If the cloud is thick enough, it completely conceals the con!
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: Mustaine on February 13, 2006, 10:45:35 AM
yeah, unless they changed them in the pase few months, last time i flew through clouds they made the icon disappear completely, and you only saw a shadow of the plane when really close.

i actually have some sweet screenshots at home in formation in the clouds, 50 yards away all you saw was the outline of the plane.
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: SkyLab on February 13, 2006, 10:59:29 AM
I was killing some 14K buffs last night, as I climbed through the cloud layer at 15K his icon faded till it was barely visible. It made it difficult to determine his exact direction. The clouds do have an effect.
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: ThunderEGG on February 13, 2006, 11:06:00 AM
Not long ago I was in a hide & seek fight.  My Yak vs. a 152 in a thick bunch of clouds.  Was one of the coolest fights I've been in.  On some of these maps, however, there's a small spot of clouds here, small spot there, but not very usefull for anything tactical.
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: DipStick on February 13, 2006, 12:43:57 PM
AH Clouds - What for?

Just to bug you.

Sure you'll find something else to whine about soon.
Title: ERR
Post by: Kaw1000 on February 13, 2006, 01:37:33 PM
Clouds just ruin my frame rate....get rid of um AH!!!....while your at it get rid of the sunset and sunrise too!!!:D
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: RAIDER14 on February 13, 2006, 10:31:34 PM
just fly above the clouds
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: bagrat on February 13, 2006, 11:48:38 PM
eye candy, its to add to the effect of fighting in an earthly scenario.
though we could get great FR if we flew in a white sky, grey land an no trees.

dipstick quit whinnin about whinners
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: Wolf14 on February 14, 2006, 12:21:39 AM
if I'm flying in the clouds, the con in front of me disapears but if he was beside me the same distance that he would have been in front of me, he would be visible plain as day.

Why is that?
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: DipStick on February 14, 2006, 08:51:59 AM
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Originally posted by bagrat
dipstick quit whinnin about whinners

Quit "whinnin" about people who whine about whiners ya whiner. :p
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: bj229r on February 15, 2006, 07:29:23 PM
The nighttime haze/clouds we saw Christmas eve HAS TO COME BACK!
Title: AH Clouds - What for?
Post by: ChopSaw on February 18, 2006, 01:35:37 PM
It bothers me that some of these clouds seem to just hang over selected bases for the duration of the map.  Shouldn’t they move around?  I seem to recall they did in AH1.