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Title: Sneak Peek.............
Post by: Shuffler on April 16, 2009, 11:45:19 AM
(http://www2.hitechcreations.com/screenshots/ndisles/ndislespto.jpg)

NDisles



Nice, very nice!    :aok
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Post by: MjTalon on April 16, 2009, 11:47:31 AM
Holy crap!  :O :O :O :O
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Post by: VonMessa on April 16, 2009, 11:48:25 AM
Nice, but seems like it's lacking something.............

oh yeah,

Where is the Bish Horde?    :D

 :noid


Excellent work,  HTC   :aok
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Post by: whiteman on April 16, 2009, 11:48:46 AM
Think I'm going to cry. Can't wait to see what airfields, towns and all the other fun stuff look like.
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Post by: VonMessa on April 16, 2009, 11:49:10 AM
Anyone know how this will affect skins (if at all)?
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Post by: waystin2 on April 16, 2009, 11:51:34 AM
Mother flipping cool!  Maybe we can have it in...two weeks? :pray
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Post by: Rich46yo on April 16, 2009, 12:08:13 PM
That does look good.
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Post by: PFactorDave on April 16, 2009, 12:08:59 PM
looks very nice, but alas, I fear that my puny computer will not be able to take advantage of it...   :cry
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Post by: Reaper90 on April 16, 2009, 12:12:12 PM
Awesome..... but yeh, I have a feeling that's going to put a decimal place all the way out to the left on my fps..............!!

Hmmm... new 'puter time?
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Post by: Bizman on April 16, 2009, 12:17:20 PM
Holy hole-in-the-donut! At last it seems like someone has taken a peek from an aeroplane, noticing there's mostly rocks on top of mountains, forests downhill and fields and villages in valleys. Will make a huge difference in SA if it comes true. But I prepare myself for disappointment. I bet we'll still see fields and small lakes in negative angled steeps.
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Post by: Saxman on April 16, 2009, 12:30:09 PM
GORGEOUS, but I'd like to see it with the more PTO-based tileset Pyro hinted at. That still looks awfully Euro-centric for what's meant to be a PTO terrain with all the farmland and such.
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Post by: Fencer51 on April 16, 2009, 12:55:24 PM
Anyone know how this will affect skins (if at all)?


Yours will still look bad, they are not miracle workers.  :rofl
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Post by: Easyscor on April 16, 2009, 01:00:14 PM
GORGEOUS, but I'd like to see it with the more PTO-based tileset Pyro hinted at. That still looks awfully Euro-centric for what's meant to be a PTO terrain with all the farmland and such.
Funny, I was thinking just the opposite. That could be the north coast of New Guinea, less the snow of course, and I'm hoping that's a small airfield in the right foreground. :pray It probably isn't.
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Post by: caldera on April 16, 2009, 01:07:06 PM
Nice, but seems like it's lacking something.............

oh yeah,

Where is the Bish Horde?    :D

 :noid


Excellent work,  HTC   :aok

You can't see an NOE from up there. If you could look up however, you'd see a swarm of rook 51s and tempests re-entering the atmosphere.  :D

Looks great HTC.
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Post by: Spikes on April 16, 2009, 01:08:46 PM
Looks like FSX!! NICE WORK!
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Post by: Superfly on April 16, 2009, 01:30:24 PM
GORGEOUS, but I'd like to see it with the more PTO-based tileset Pyro hinted at. That still looks awfully Euro-centric for what's meant to be a PTO terrain with all the farmland and such.

That is the PTO tile set.  And yes, there actually is a lot of farmland in those regions (see Google Earth), though not nearly as much as Europe.  The area in that particular shot is farm heavy.  That is the big mountain southeast of Tank Town on NDIsles.

*And I am trying to make sure there aren't farms on super steep slopes.  ;)
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Post by: Ghosth on April 16, 2009, 01:31:57 PM
Rock on!
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Post by: Treize69 on April 16, 2009, 01:33:14 PM
I'll just be happy if we don't have trains climbing straight up and down hillsides or shooting at you from inside the terrain.

Keep up the great work, lookin' better every teaser we get.  :aok
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Post by: Easyscor on April 16, 2009, 01:36:01 PM
Sweet!
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Post by: Yossarian on April 16, 2009, 01:46:19 PM
HTC, that looks simply brilliant - I can't wait to play on it.  Also, are you going to be redoing the airfields at all, because if so that would be doubly amazing.
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Post by: FireDrgn on April 16, 2009, 02:01:59 PM
Im going to bail out on top of the mountian and play in the snow   Wooooooooot

S<
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Post by: 68Raptor on April 16, 2009, 02:05:39 PM
Looking good!  :aok
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Post by: Husky01 on April 16, 2009, 02:07:46 PM
 :aok
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Post by: Ratpack1 on April 16, 2009, 02:13:53 PM
How many weeks?
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Post by: 4deck on April 16, 2009, 02:16:40 PM
 :O  :O :aok :O :O 

TY HTC
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Post by: thundabooge on April 16, 2009, 02:20:38 PM
Now that is some sexy terrain...Keep up the good work!!  :aok  :salute :aok      2 weeks right???   LOL  :devil
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Post by: morfiend on April 16, 2009, 03:26:35 PM
Anyone notice the Me410 sitting near the building in the lower right???

                  :noid

  Looks real nice!! good work!!
                                               :salute
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Post by: daddog on April 16, 2009, 03:31:03 PM
Very nice!  :aok
Really looking forward to the next update!
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Post by: Pan on April 16, 2009, 03:43:35 PM
It really looks fantastic. 

Congrats on your 10th anniversary and thank you for continuing to make Aces High even better for us all. 
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Post by: Larry on April 16, 2009, 03:46:01 PM
I hope this doesnt turn into another CT.
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Post by: Tr1gg22 on April 16, 2009, 04:01:51 PM
 :rock
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Post by: RoGenT on April 16, 2009, 04:07:44 PM
By the time I am able to play again, hopefully that will be in the game finally. ANd hopefully it doesn't screw with my frame rate.
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on April 16, 2009, 04:35:27 PM
Soon.


It has been in the works for what, 3 months or so now?




With the water and the lighting and the ground details, this is going to be one heck of a update, probably a new version number all in itself.

What we need HTC, is a picture of a new aircraft or newly remodeled one, with the new shader effects and lighting, perhaps, from the cockpit first, oh how we would love to take a guess as to what aircraft it is. you know like a view out the front right window or somethin'. :aok
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Post by: TexMurphy on April 16, 2009, 04:38:14 PM
No the only thing we need to go with this terrain is good looking clouds.... we need to get rid of the 2d clouds once and for all...
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Post by: avionix on April 16, 2009, 04:42:50 PM
I hope this doesnt turn into another CT.

Oh ye of little faith.

Looks great!!!  Can't wait to get shot down over it or go tanking throught the woods.
Title: Re: Sneak Peek.............
Post by: Larry on April 16, 2009, 04:49:37 PM
Oh ye of little faith.



Not after the CT crap. Ill believe it when I see it in game. Until then its just a screenshot to me.
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Post by: Lye-El on April 16, 2009, 07:00:19 PM
Im going to bail out on top of the mountian and play in the snow   Wooooooooot

S<

Screw that! Just got rid of the white crap. Worked in the yard today in a t-shirt for the first time this year.  :D
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Post by: killjoy1 on April 16, 2009, 07:03:43 PM
Is that enough snow for the Shining Bock Beer to stand up in?

Anybody remember the FDB epic expedition to Shining bock?
Title: Re: Sneak Peek.............
Post by: MrMeanie on April 16, 2009, 07:04:32 PM
Nice, but seems like it's lacking something.............

oh yeah,

Where is the Bish Horde?    :D

 :noid


Excellent work,  HTC   :aok

yes the bish horde is missing but it will be there very soon :)  :noid
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Post by: DREDIOCK on April 16, 2009, 07:44:23 PM
All hail the return of a rocky mountainside!

Looks good. No looks GREAT.
Would like to see what the view looks like at 5-10 K though as well
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Post by: falcon23 on April 16, 2009, 07:45:34 PM
AWESOME UPDATE TO COME.. :salute  HTC for all your hard work ....


 The bish horde is there,you just cant see into the TOP of that mountain,it is actually a hollowed out volcano :devil
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Post by: betty on April 16, 2009, 07:47:11 PM
so when exactly with this new terrain come out??? and what is the story on TOD? 2 weeks?? hehe
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Post by: 1pLUs44 on April 16, 2009, 08:27:44 PM
I hope this doesnt turn into another CT.

thanks for the enthusiasm :rolleyes:
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Post by: Dadsguns on April 16, 2009, 08:34:03 PM
Very nice  :aok

I've always wondered what it looked like from the rooks perspective way up here.......   :devil   :D
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Post by: Kazaa on April 16, 2009, 09:25:42 PM
I wish HTC woud raise the RGB value. The colours still look very dull.
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Post by: Treize69 on April 16, 2009, 09:35:32 PM
I like that look a lot better than the eye-burning richness of them after that one update a year or two ago. I had to stop playing for a couple of weeks until they fixed it, would have a splitting headache within about 5 minutes.
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Post by: RumbleB on April 17, 2009, 02:01:03 AM
I can't wait 2 weeks damnit. ARRHG  :furious
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Post by: TheZohan on April 17, 2009, 03:00:08 AM
what are gonna be the video requirements to get that kind of resolution?
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Post by: themaj on April 17, 2009, 06:29:21 AM
Lovin the randomness of it!!! :D
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Post by: JimmyC on April 17, 2009, 07:34:03 AM
It does look great....got me juices flowing..
Do we get to have any inclination on the time frame for this  (yes yes 2 weeks ho ho)
but are we looking at weeks, months or years, fair enough question in my book.
Please can we have a ballpark time frame ty HiTech & Crew  :salute
Jimmy
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Post by: The Fugitive on April 17, 2009, 07:49:52 AM
While I too would love to see a "date" for this HTC NEVER gives out a date until the update is posted. Its just good business. If they they put up May 1st, and some issue comes up it it doesn't get released they don't look so good. If they rush it to put it out on time it may not be ready, and they don't look to good.
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Post by: trotter on April 17, 2009, 07:56:17 AM
I'm no GV'er but I'll ask what nobody else has yet...how is this going to look for vehicles on the ground? Can we get a screenshot of that too?

Nice work HTC.
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Post by: Noir on April 17, 2009, 09:31:25 AM
While I too would love to see a "date" for this HTC NEVER gives out a date until the update is posted. Its just good business. If they they put up May 1st, and some issue comes up it it doesn't get released they don't look so good. If they rush it to put it out on time it may not be ready, and they don't look to good.

Other games that make better business do give dates.
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Post by: whiteman on April 17, 2009, 09:36:59 AM
rather not have the date, Gran Turismo has all but killed itself by giving dates and not meeting them or releasing a game with lots of bugs.
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Post by: hitech on April 17, 2009, 09:50:19 AM
Quote
Other games that make better business do give dates.


My birthday occurs every year on July 15.  This date has nothing to do with AH , but it is a date, so are you now satisfied?

Or if you wish I could choose a date that I know we can be finished, but it would be at least 2 months after the date it really will be released.

Or we could not publish any screen shots until we have finished, so we then could give a release date at the same time.



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Post by: crazyivan on April 17, 2009, 10:01:05 AM
Crazy would own me in  Gran Turismo .
   :rofl yes I would, but ty.

Hey HTC, My B-Day is in April also! wheres my dang present already?

Look closer on the mountain SAXMAN, she isnt german,and her name isn't Heidi. but shes gonna have to do. Blast another 2 weeks.


(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i306/jillianhallfan/Divas/Graphics%20and%20Stuff/Yvonne.jpg)
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Post by: whiteman on April 17, 2009, 10:16:10 AM
   :rofl yes I would, but ty.

Probably would, i have all but stopped playing that one. only time I play is when I'm bored out of my mind and just do TT, I can tell I would get romped on.
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Post by: crazyivan on April 17, 2009, 10:32:56 AM
Just kiddin, will be looking for that F4U1a this weekend. :salute

back into exile I go.
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Post by: Noir on April 17, 2009, 10:34:38 AM

My birthday occurs every year on July 15.  This date has nothing to do with AH , but it is a date, so are you now satisfied?

Or if you wish I could choose a date that I know we can be finished, but it would be at least 2 months after the date it really will be released.

Or we could not publish any screen shots until we have finished, so we then could give a release date at the same time.

Thanks for the direct answer. I understand that giving dates on r&d accomplishments is difficult, but my statement stills stands. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not begging for a date, I'd rather have lots of unannounced improvements. Actually I don't care about dates, when the new features are flowing steadily you just know you're going to get something new pretty soon. Its been 7 month we didn't get a patch and a lot of us players are worried.

Hoping for the best  :salute
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Post by: Grind on April 17, 2009, 10:39:16 AM
I like surprises.
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Post by: whiteman on April 17, 2009, 10:55:35 AM
Just kiddin, will be looking for that F4U1a this weekend. :salute

back into exile I go.

Should be up all weekend, just loaned out most my bank account so I'll be sitting at the house for awhile.  :salute
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Post by: Shuffler on April 17, 2009, 11:02:34 AM
Other games that make better business do give dates.

Most fail to meet that date too. Then you have customers that have a negative feeling towards your company. The only way to be successful at setting a date is to make the target date released to the customers farther out than your actual internal date. Then if you actually meet your internal intended date you look like a hero.

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Post by: Saxman on April 17, 2009, 11:26:26 AM

Look closer on the mountain SAXMAN, she isnt german,and her name isn't Heidi. but shes gonna have to do. Blast another 2 weeks.


(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i306/jillianhallfan/Divas/Graphics%20and%20Stuff/Yvonne.jpg)


What do you mean by, "she's gonna have to do?" They don't come any better than that.
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Post by: Nilsen on April 17, 2009, 11:30:44 AM
Well done HTC, looks nice :)
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Post by: ImADot on April 17, 2009, 12:32:47 PM
I want a date and time so I can rest up and take that day off of work and stay up all night to be first in line to get the update and install it and be all "I'm teh bomb and have a new thing b4 anybuddy else" because I can't wait for anything and have to be first to have everything new and...and...

Take a breath...



Ok.  It'll come when it's ready - until then I can wait patiently and play the game I have now.  By the way, the improvements look great  :aok
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Post by: Boxboy on April 18, 2009, 02:02:46 AM
LOL how many times does Dale have to say he doesn't announce dates?? I have been around since Beta and he has NEVER said anything different.  If you are looking for consistancy that is as good as it gets.  When its done it will be released end of story.
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Post by: StokesAk on April 18, 2009, 02:08:00 AM
stop asking maybe something will happen.
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Post by: 1pLUs44 on April 18, 2009, 02:08:55 AM

My birthday occurs every year on July 15.  This date has nothing to do with AH , but it is a date, so are you now satisfied?

Or if you wish I could choose a date that I know we can be finished, but it would be at least 2 months after the date it really will be released.

Or we could not publish any screen shots until we have finished, so we then could give a release date at the same time.





 :rofl :rofl
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Post by: Delirium on April 18, 2009, 02:16:08 AM
This date has nothing to do with AH , but it is a date, so are you now satisfied?

I'm sorry, but I'm married.    :rofl

If I was in charge, I'd post screen shots of B29s, P80s, Ta183s, Mistels, Go229. Then I'd release the Oscar, the Brewster, and the He111 just to enjoy the high pitch squeal that would take place on the forums.

Then again, I am a sick bastard.
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Post by: Kazaa on April 18, 2009, 02:47:20 AM

My birthday occurs every year on July 15.

I share the same Birthday as Hitech, woot! :aok
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Post by: Die Hard on April 18, 2009, 08:31:08 AM
Looks real nice! I wonder how it will look like down low?
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Post by: Easyscor on April 18, 2009, 09:50:47 AM
Quote from: Delirium
...

If I was in charge, I'd post screen shots of B29s, P80s, Ta183s, Mistels, Go229. Then I'd release the Oscar, the Brewster, and the He111 just to enjoy the high pitch squeal that would take place on the forums.

Then again, I am a sick bastard.

 :rofl       :aok
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Post by: DREDIOCK on April 18, 2009, 10:25:02 AM
Hitech,

Just think of yourselves as cooks.
And everyone is asking when dinner is going to be ready.
Then give the standard cooks/mothers answer.

"It will be ready when its ready."
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Post by: Shifty on April 18, 2009, 11:59:31 AM
Should be up all weekend, just loaned out most my bank account so I'll be sitting at the house for awhile.  :salute

Holy crap the Skipper is a loan shark.

Who does your collecting?
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Post by: icejaff on April 18, 2009, 08:47:05 PM
hes liening thats a picture from google earth
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Post by: Spikes on April 18, 2009, 08:49:22 PM
hes liening thats a picture from google earth
Trust me, it's not.