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Title: Wreckage!
Post by: WWhiskey on May 25, 2011, 08:49:08 PM
Yes  wreckage,  crashed airplanes littering the field,  blown apart tanks  all around a town or base!  at least as long as the craters last!  the craters don't seem to have an effect on anything other than cosmetic value, could we  have wreckage do the same thing?
I see wreckage falling from the sky after a plane goes down, and tank turrets spinning in the air after the kill is registered so I am guessing  there must be a time allotted to this action? :noid
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Raphael on May 25, 2011, 09:08:35 PM
+1
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: SmokinLoon on May 25, 2011, 09:45:24 PM
Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: B-17 on May 25, 2011, 09:51:32 PM
two things to say to this:

OP: there sorta is already wreckage when a plane is shot down. only when you shoot off a piece of the airplane, though. when it explodes, theres a few pieces of flaming something that flies away from the big explosion.

2:
Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?

maybe an option to turn that off? or at least turn it down, like the viewing of ground scenery, from .5 to 4?
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: GNucks on May 25, 2011, 10:39:13 PM
Wreckage could be something that is not kept track of on the server side to save resources. If you just show up to a fight that's been going on for a while you wouldn't see any of the battle effects you weren't near enough to witness happen.

<-- Not a game designer/programmer, but if one asked me how to do it that'd be my guess.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: WWhiskey on May 26, 2011, 12:21:18 AM
Wouldn't having the wreckage of all the tanks and aircraft hang out on the battlefield of X amount of time also tax the servers and pc's that much more?
I don't know,, if they are like bomb craters, then I would guess not but I don't know, however if it is possible, it would be nice to have,, not wanting to slow the game down tho,, just more eye candy!
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Charge on May 26, 2011, 01:12:05 AM
Yeah, or if not wreckages at least flaming engines and parts flying around from planes that smash to the ground at oblique angles and from planes that blow in the air...

-C+
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: 321BAR on May 26, 2011, 06:49:10 AM
so my graphics force a disco? -1
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: badhorse on May 26, 2011, 12:08:47 PM
+1
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: WWhiskey on May 26, 2011, 12:25:02 PM
so my graphics force a disco? -1
like I said,, not if it hurts the game,  but for a short time say 10 minutes or something heck yes, as long as it doesn't hurt the ability to play!
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Wiley on May 26, 2011, 01:37:33 PM
The problem is, displaying more stuff=more work for the computer.  No way around it.

That plus in some vulch scenarios you wouldn't be able to see the runway because of wreckage...  I'm going to go with -1.

Wiley.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: iron650 on May 26, 2011, 03:03:48 PM
at least as long as the craters last!  the craters don't seem to have an effect on anything other than cosmetic value, could we  have wreckage do the same thing?

I have driven a GV through a crater. The craters don't seem to do anything more than make marks in the ground.
+1
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Skyguns MKII on May 26, 2011, 08:16:56 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: BowHTR on May 26, 2011, 09:08:11 PM
two things to say to this:

OP: there sorta is already wreckage when a plane is shot down. only when you shoot off a piece of the airplane, though. when it explodes, theres a few pieces of flaming something that flies away from the big explosion.

2:
maybe an option to turn that off? or at least turn it down, like the viewing of ground scenery, from .5 to 4?

re-read the wish. He is asking if it would be possible for the wreckage to remain on the ground for a little while just like bomb craters do.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: LCADolby on May 26, 2011, 09:55:00 PM
It'll make too much of a mess and kill the frame rate the way some of you base taking horde guys throw your pixel lives away...

In 5 mins an airbase will look like a junk yard
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Scotty55OEFVet on May 26, 2011, 11:53:28 PM
Great Idea, but PLEASE, nothing else added that will cause my 10 yr old computers already strained Graphics card to keep me from playing AH lol. And I know im gonna hear "buy a new computer or GC then" but I am very tight on cash lol.  :ahand
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: B-17 on May 26, 2011, 11:59:48 PM
but then you hear "go and get some money" instead. its a never-ending circle, you see?  :P
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: prowl3r on May 28, 2011, 11:11:41 AM
+1 but to assuage the rest it should be on ur pc only not for the server to do that way u only see wreckage u witnessed when ur killed the battlefield resets keeps from killing other players view and gves more immersion to the player. also an option to turn it off in graphics should be an advanced option not a default
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: atom360 on May 28, 2011, 11:20:13 PM
maybe to create the ruble of the parts of the plane like if in AX VS. AL if a british shoots down a ju88 now thay  can make something out of it

                                          ;)
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: 321BAR on May 29, 2011, 08:20:14 AM
like I said,, not if it hurts the game,  but for a short time say 10 minutes or something heck yes, as long as it doesn't hurt the ability to play!
so when a 50 vs 50 furball happens then what? speaking of which, anyone wondering what would happen if a GV's cover just went poof?
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Raptor05121 on May 29, 2011, 04:24:37 PM
+1

Aces High is the least demanding game on my computer, and its almost 3 yrs old with a DDR3 GFX card. Its not like we're playing Crysis 2 here guys.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: 321BAR on May 30, 2011, 11:17:03 AM
+1

Aces High is the least demanding game on my computer, and its almost 3 yrs old with a DDR3 GFX card. Its not like we're playing Crysis 2 here guys.
i've got a gateway... case closed...
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Skyguns MKII on May 30, 2011, 01:05:05 PM
i still say +1, if your able to have thick forest of trees in the game your PC is more than capable of seeing temporary wrecks on the battlefield. I don't think people really understand the concepts here. frame rate wont drop as much as you may think or perhaps not at all. Theres no "junkyards" if wrecks disappear and its not like its gonna be all over the spawns and bases. Not to mention if you have people spawn camping and people continuously up, there wrecks act as decoys of somewhat potential.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: mensa180 on May 30, 2011, 01:57:28 PM
There are sliders for corpses in many other games, why not AH?
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Flipperk on May 30, 2011, 11:44:33 PM
i've got a gateway... case closed...

Sucks for you, why should I suffer for you?

This is the computer I bought, added a  9500GT for $40:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330531115188&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Runs AHII at 75+FPS with everything on.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: Flipperk on May 30, 2011, 11:46:31 PM
Great Idea, but PLEASE, nothing else added that will cause my 10 yr old computers already strained Graphics card to keep me from playing AH lol. And I know im gonna hear "buy a new computer or GC then" but I am very tight on cash lol.  :ahand

If your so tight on cash why are you paying for a game? That's like saying I am so broke, but I am going to go out and buy cigarettes and booz.
Title: Re: Wreckage!
Post by: BaldEagl on May 31, 2011, 12:42:59 AM
Consider this.  You're a tanker and have wreckage tuned on.  There's a Panzer hulk between you and some enemies so you sneak in behind it to camoflauge yourself.  I'm one of the enemies.  I have wreckage turned off and what I see is you sitting in the open.

There's no doubt it would affect frame rate just as skid marks do on the track in a racing game but here even the lowest end computer will be forced to run these extra textures just to keep things even and they'd have to be there for everyone, whether you witnessed it or not.

-1