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Title: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: Kazaa on May 09, 2009, 07:04:14 PM
In 4 years of playing AH2 I have never seen so much cloud density, so low before. There were actually two enemy CVs somewhere inside all that!

Quick film http://www.speedyshare.com/983911567.html
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: moot on May 09, 2009, 07:07:11 PM
This is right now? In which arena?
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Post by: Kazaa on May 09, 2009, 07:09:21 PM
This is right now? In which arena?

Was today in Orange, P7. I've not gone back to check.
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Post by: crims on May 09, 2009, 07:12:43 PM
Been that way for awhile. The fog rolls in almost to the GV spawn point.

Crims
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Post by: moot on May 09, 2009, 07:19:53 PM
Damn, missed it..
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Post by: B4Buster on May 09, 2009, 07:23:22 PM
Didn't look at the video but I assume you're talking about the far east part of the pizza map near the port. Always been like that, makes me lag like crazy  :lol
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Post by: mensa180 on May 09, 2009, 07:26:57 PM
Love clouds like that.
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: Larry on May 09, 2009, 07:27:44 PM
I haven't watched the film but I'm guessing its the ground level 'fog' on the SMPIZZA. Iv seen it many times in the MW. Its great to hide CVs in but trying to land on your own CV is a squeak.
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Post by: Motherland on May 09, 2009, 07:30:59 PM
Yeah, that fog around the port in SMPIZZA is one of the coolest places to play in the game :D
Love that map :aok
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: USRanger on May 09, 2009, 11:24:34 PM
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/584/ahss26.jpg) (http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ahss26.jpg)
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Post by: DamnedRen on May 10, 2009, 12:16:09 AM
Clouds......yum.   :)
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Post by: froger on May 10, 2009, 01:36:24 AM
yep......clouds look nice and real.
   lots of fun for me  :aok
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Post by: Rich46yo on May 10, 2009, 01:47:45 AM
Yeah  :aok count me in. Most of all when you get about 20 fighters zooming in and out of it in a furball. CVs shooting point blank....ect.
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Post by: lyric1 on May 10, 2009, 01:53:49 AM
Some great tank battles are to be had in that soup.
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: moot on May 10, 2009, 02:32:51 AM
I want to try flying a 262 exclusively inside that. :lol
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Post by: trotter on May 10, 2009, 04:06:04 AM
Wow, look at the positive response for cloud cover.

I, by the way, happen to completely agree.

Now, why is HTC so vehemently opposed to allowing more cloud cover in the main arenas? All we want is moving fronts, such as is pictured. Is this unreasonable?
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Post by: DamnedRen on May 10, 2009, 05:21:30 AM
Do you really want immersion? Wouldn't it be nice if there was one arena (one of dem unsed ones :) ) where the tails and noses of the planes were painted a country color? But that was it! No distance readout or plane type. You see the dot you close with it, you visually ID type and variant and you also visually ID country. If it's not your country...have fun!!! :)

What's cool about it is plane types don't have to be country specific like Axis or Allied. The plane you encounter is either your countryman or a bandit. All of a sudden aspect and your views are everything...Kinda like "the way it was".

Ren


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Post by: Helm on May 10, 2009, 08:09:02 AM
Bring on the clouds!!


Helm ...out
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Post by: waystin2 on May 11, 2009, 10:10:54 AM
I was there last night.  Definitely a wild fight with such low visibility. :uhoh
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Post by: druski85 on May 11, 2009, 10:27:20 AM
Fog is fun for the fight, but tough on the CPU :(

What's cool about it is plane types don't have to be country specific like Axis or Allied. The plane you encounter is either your countryman or a bandit. All of a sudden aspect and your views are everything...Kinda like "the way it was".

Ren I think this could be feasible but each country would have to have viciously ugly and bright colors, (Neon Green, orange, and pink, for example)  since a computer screen (esp low end machines) is in no way comparable to real life visibility -- particuarly at distance.  If done correctly, it could be fun in one of the arenas.  Would definately be turning my tracers back on for it :) 
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Post by: Kazaa on May 11, 2009, 10:46:25 AM
Bring on the clouds!!

Bring on the clouds! :aok

I was playing on a 5 year old system when I flew that afternoon, I had 16x AA and could still run 60FPS.
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Post by: shreck on May 11, 2009, 11:50:17 AM
I always try to Gv in that fog bank, would be very very cool for a great GV fight but it is always waaaaaaaaaay to laggy :(
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: Chalenge on May 11, 2009, 12:30:17 PM
All you have to do is fly in circles to collect proxies.  :D
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Post by: waystin2 on May 11, 2009, 12:35:01 PM
All you have to do is fly in circles to collect proxies.  :D

That's funny, because all I had to do was sit in my Wirbel with my engine off to get my proxies.  Heck I even had a couple of smoke breaks! :D
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Post by: Tr1gg22 on May 11, 2009, 04:01:06 PM
were did he go george :O
Title: Re: HOLYCLOUDSBATMAN!
Post by: frosty on May 11, 2009, 04:43:23 PM
Now, why is HTC so vehemently opposed to allowing more cloud cover in the main arenas? All we want is moving fronts, such as is pictured. Is this unreasonable?

Probably the same reason they are so opposed to night fighting in the MA.  Let us know when you find out what that reason is.  :)

In the last Snapshot scenario the arena went from daylight to dusk to night.  Not the half-arsed kind you see in the MA...the sky was dark blue bordering on black.  It was a blast.  Con dots could still be spotted...the only trick was differentiating them from stars.