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Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Citabria on April 26, 2007, 02:58:46 PM: you fixed it yay!!! even on my bugged out monitor it looks awsome WTG!!!

good brightness good depth of field and sense of distance and it looks awsome!

only small request which is minor just noticed the buildings with new european textures and windmill look a little dark... but please at your leisure lighten them up to match terrain they are textured awsome but set to old version brightness. they don't bug me just an observation only :D

wtg wtg wtg I am thrilled with this version.
won't even need to make new tiles for my new main arena map these will work great :D S!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Ghosth on April 26, 2007, 03:13:47 PM: Thank you Thank you THANK YOU Thank YOU Thank you THANK YOU HTC!

New terrain back at gamma 1.0 and it ROCKS!

Awesome work! Much appreciated, sorry about all the whines but it was REALLY hard on these old eyes.

A thousand thanks and a thousand blessings on you & yours HT!

Rock on dudes!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Citabria on April 26, 2007, 03:15:11 PM: yep back to good old gamma 1.0 skins look great again terrain looks great everythign looks great!

yay! :D
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Gulp on April 26, 2007, 03:17:04 PM: A special thank you from us low end system guys. Much better.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: whiteman on April 26, 2007, 03:29:05 PM: great i was going to go home after work and pass out, now i'll be sucked in for hours just checking it out. :cry
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Citabria on April 26, 2007, 03:34:43 PM: disregard about the buildings i was viewing them at noon offline. at times of dayw ith sun at angle they look fine.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: hubsonfire on April 26, 2007, 03:46:49 PM: Could someone post some pics of the new stuff, and perhaps TT as well? Gonna be a few hours before I can get the patch installed and running.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Virage on April 26, 2007, 03:49:43 PM: TY HTC !
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Karash on April 26, 2007, 04:03:34 PM: I hate being at work when this stuff comes in...
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Nilsen on April 26, 2007, 04:10:54 PM: Excellent patch!

abit laggy tonight, and i lost UDP for the first time in months but that may be on my end or just lots dl new patch

WTG! :)
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Major Biggles on April 26, 2007, 04:13:25 PM: the colours on the airfield seem a bit wahsed out, but i agree it's a great improvement
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: LYNX on April 26, 2007, 04:59:26 PM: Well done HTC and co.:aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: TinmanX on April 26, 2007, 05:04:20 PM: HTC is the Co :D
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Gwjr2 on April 26, 2007, 05:05:21 PM: as per norm always on top of it unlike many other companys out there :aok

btw how long till TOD :D I heard 2 weeks somewhere :rofl

thanks guys
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Nilsen on April 26, 2007, 05:25:48 PM: omg TT rocks now! :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: SkyRock on April 26, 2007, 05:28:11 PM: The new terrain looks absolutely awesome! TT is perfect! It really is a world of difference and it is great!!!!!!!:aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: GooseAW on April 26, 2007, 05:31:00 PM: Have to say....and not for the first time either...HTC supports and develops AH better and faster than any other company does their game/community!

Thanks:aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Gulp on April 26, 2007, 05:36:39 PM: Tank Town looks great. Harder to spawn camp and lots-o-cover.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Rino on April 26, 2007, 06:28:15 PM: Haven't even flown yet, but looking at the list of fixes in the new
patch is awesome! Someone been burning the midnight oil, thanks
guys.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Kweassa on April 26, 2007, 06:54:50 PM: This, has got to be the most realistic terrain I've ever flied in.

Some people might be thrown off by the washed out look, but add a little contrast, adjust intensity and brightness of the monitor, and pull back the gamma a little bit and its absolutely amazing. Set it up perfectly to your taste and its amazing how different AH feels from the very previous patch.

Frankly, the "feel" of the ground textures are incredibly immerssive both down low and up at alt. At low levels the realistic feeling even surpasses that of IL2/FB - a game that uses advanced graphics touches and some 3~4 CDs.

At high altitudes, the repetitive pattern begins to show, and that's about the only reason that might remind one of how AH is basically an online game that usually uses much lower graphic specs than packaged games. Seeing how AH terrain is modular, this is absolutely fantastic.

Now, the irony is that these ground textures were probably here since version 11 - we couldn't notice it because the texture was too dark and lighting was inadequate. I'm thinking that it probably would have been a shock to HT, Pyro and co. - if they were seeing during the development of version 11 what we're seeing now in this very patch.. man, it must have been an incredible disappointment, because frankly these new terrains, according to what I'm seeing now with this patch, deserves praise and recognition.

WTFG, HTC - this new terrain is a grand-slam home run.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Speed55 on April 26, 2007, 07:00:08 PM: Excellent job. :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Kweassa on April 26, 2007, 07:00:59 PM: These images, were originally taken ay 1600x1200 resolution with the High-res texture pack in use. I had to resize it to 800x600 and change the format to *.gif, but aside that it is absolutely unedited.

The sensation of flight at low altitudes, how the ground textures passes by.. is absolutely stunning.

(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e171/kweassa/ahss22.gif)

Notice the "feel" of the grass, and take a good look at the trees and their shadows. IMO, even IL2/FB/'46 doesn't get better than this when flying low - especially with the smurfy way they've treated the forests there.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: gpa3 on April 26, 2007, 07:13:43 PM: Good recovery from that last nightmare of an update!

I think if we took another poll now, 95% or better would be happy instead of 20%.

Haven't heard any bad reports online yet.

Tank Town changed a lot. More spawns (three for each country), spawns away from town, hedges, houses, barns and more action in the fields outside town.

Very challenging.

A little too chatty on the radio now as a result. Hard to hear tanks. :-)

This I can live with.

:cool:
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Mr No Name on April 26, 2007, 07:21:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Kweassa
This, has got to be the most realistic terrain I've ever flied in.

SNIP

WTFG, HTC - this new terrain is a grand-slam home run.

When Kweassa says this it ALMOST tempts me... I first REALLY started enjoying AH after reading your post-tutorial on bombing. (The old method) Screenshot is cool
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: moneyguy on April 26, 2007, 07:32:32 PM: thanks HTC!! :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: BADR on April 26, 2007, 07:53:54 PM: :aok Vans was ugly enough in the dark :D I feel safer now :lol Nice patch guys
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: SuperDud on April 26, 2007, 07:56:10 PM: Yup, wtg HTC!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: 68slayr on April 26, 2007, 08:06:40 PM: its even worse now that you can see him BADR :p

WTFG HTC:D :D :D
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Pudgie on April 26, 2007, 08:07:46 PM: Nice!!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: hubsonfire on April 26, 2007, 08:16:42 PM: Looks damned good.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Toad on April 26, 2007, 08:18:11 PM: Nice work HTC crew. Thanks very much!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: brucerer on April 26, 2007, 08:26:11 PM: Damn stupid work hours. Have to wait another 5 or so hours before i can go play.

Suddenly i "dont feel very well" and might need to go home and "rest"

GO TEAM
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: cpxxx on April 26, 2007, 08:43:20 PM: Didn't have a problem with the lighting in the last patch other than a small problem with depth perception. That definitely was fixed. The terrain is quite familiar and is definitely more European. In fact the hills remind of my own country. Even the sheep are there :lol Excellent.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: scottydawg on April 26, 2007, 09:59:00 PM: Great job HTC!
The terrain looks better than ever.

Thanks for listening to everyone's shrill whining and fixing everything in a very short time.

One thing though is that rivers kinda got porked with the coastline (see AvA for example). Not a complaint, just noting.

Kudos!

Wait, where's my B25? ;)
Title: WOW
Post by: 4deck on April 26, 2007, 10:48:20 PM: THANK YOU:aok :aok :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: ramzey on April 26, 2007, 10:53:29 PM: nice work HTC, now sky, fog and sea :)

moving blades in windmill:aok
Title: Thank you,
Post by: jazzman1315 on April 26, 2007, 10:59:53 PM: Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you,Thank you.:aok :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 26, 2007, 11:06:32 PM: :aok :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Roscoroo on April 26, 2007, 11:09:13 PM: alot better ... now how about some Washington Sky instead of Texas Smog ?

LWO was pritty foggy vs LWB .
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: eilif on April 26, 2007, 11:13:17 PM: Tried it, LOVIN IT!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Citabria on April 26, 2007, 11:14:17 PM: (http://p38fester.sitesled.com/itrocks.jpg)
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: FiLtH on April 26, 2007, 11:58:40 PM: Thank you for fixing it.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Virage on April 27, 2007, 12:01:08 AM: What gamma setting are u using Citabria?
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Mr No Name on April 27, 2007, 12:17:08 AM: Fester, last screenshot great too... Looks a lot more up to date graphically. I havent seen the last couple of versions but thats much better than mid-December when I left.

Is it any easier to see aircraft inside 1K?
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: BaldEagl on April 27, 2007, 12:20:29 AM: Thank you, thank you, thank you. What an improvement! Did I say thank you?
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Citabria on April 27, 2007, 12:26:26 AM: using good old gamma 1.0 and loving it.
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: MOIL on April 27, 2007, 01:20:18 AM: WooooHooooo back in business!!!
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Vudak on April 27, 2007, 01:52:10 AM: You guys should sticky this thread for the next time we all start complaining about the end of the world :D

Many, many thanks though. This is much preferred :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Sloehand on April 27, 2007, 02:11:46 AM: Nice recovery. Well, done and very quickly all in all. :aok
Title: It Rocks it rocks it friggin rocks! WTG HTC
Post by: Trikky on April 27, 2007, 03:11:41 AM: Excellent job HTC.