Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: jihad on August 03, 2001, 10:17:00 PM
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It's come along way from the first build.
The 3D cockpits are pretty good, the external view of the planes are just...ugly and *odd* in appearance, HTC wins hands down in 3D models and skins.
Theres no longer a 180 Linda Blair view and I like the way the head rotates naturally shoulder to shoulder when switching views <IMO just a bit slower would be perfect> and G forces affect rotation speed during hard manuevers.
I would love to see this in Aces High as it makes a big difference in fights and immersion. <steal it HT> ;)
The FM feels ......lethargic - and sense of speed in flight is poor compared to AH.
Control lag *sucks*, this really screws up the game, I don't recall the last version I played being so porked in this regard.
Framerates are good and the engine is very nice although they could use some better ground textures.
I had a crash to desktop that porked my D3D drivers and forced a reboot to use any 3D application - not acceptable.
Weapon lethality is terrible, you have to really put it to someone to ensure a kill and the hit sprites are a bit overdone and funky looking to me.
Online play: *&$%#@! awful warping, planes hop all over the sky and it becomes frustrating real quick.
We're spoiled in AH, <S> HTC and Skuzzy.
iEN will never be a serious contender until they can compare to AH in good connections.
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I'd agree with your comments except I wouldn't say the 3D plane models and skins are quite that bad. The skins do have something about them that doesn't look quite right- the planes look a bit like the paintings in Squadron Books, i.e. an illustration rather than a photo. However, I like the fact that the models have more polygons (and that WBIII uses hardware accelerated transform and lighting to maintain high FPS despite higher polygon count).
The control lag is a major, major pain however and leads to overshoot and pilot induced oscillations.
BTW: if you use snap to view mode the Linda Blair direct 6 view is still there. It's only gone when you use pan to view mode.
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It crashed the second I loaded up. I used to play the earlier build, but the latest will not run on my system at all.