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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: fats on November 03, 1999, 10:28:00 PM
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Thought I'd let everyone ( reading this board ) know that HT popped in [ edit ]to the arena [ edit ] this night and said he flew through the first cloud in AH tonight.
Sadly no word on the Fw 190A-8.
//fats
[This message has been edited by fats (edited 11-03-1999).]
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eh hem,
Wheeeeeeeeeeee HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Ya Baby!
I feel that this is a positive development.
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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG
lkbrown1@tir.com
http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1 (http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1)
Very Opinionated Person.
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Cool!
Hope the T1 gets installed before clouds are released. Connects are great right now but theres gonna be a tidal wave!
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Finally !
And I will go one step further. Fellow player told me they look as in SDOE. How, and where he got that info, I don'-t know, but I would surely like those (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Hristo,
I/JG 51
Jagdgeschwader 51 “Mölders” (http://www.angelfire.com/ut/jg51/jg51.html)
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I believe natedog is on vacation and he is doing the FW190-A8
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Tommy (INDIAN) Toon
Cherokee Indian
My Homepage
Where you can find the Key Commands in files for Word6 Wordpad and text mode.
indians Homepage (http://www.geocities.com/~tltoon)
Aces High Word6 and Wordpad Doc's available on my web site.
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I asked HT about the clouds on the first day of the beta. He said that they're very much like the ones in SDOE, except better (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Don't know how much of "marketing" there is in that statement, but that's what he said.
Personally, I'm dying to see the clouds! And then, if only they would tune down those id tags... Even better, I think it would be great if the tag would disappear completely if the plane was in a cloud. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
But, I don't think the clouds add too much to the host's workload. I believe the front end handles the clouds just like it handles the landscape. Atleast in SDOE, the host's FE gives a random number at the game start, which forms an identical cloud pattern for all players in the game.
Basically, all the host would need to do, is to give the "cloud pattern code".
Camo
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Camouflage
XO, Lentolaivue 34
www.muodos.fi/LLv34 (http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34)
"The really good pilots use their superior judgement to keep them out of situations
where they might be required to demonstrate their superior skill."
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Well, they made this great game already. So why would anyone think they can't handle the clouds ?
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Hristo,
I/JG 51
Jagdgeschwader 51 Mölders (http://jg51.cjb.net)
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So is so cool! Can't wait (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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129 IAP VVS RKKA
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Vacation??? Oh no! How can they let him leave the office with the 190 unfinished??? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Sascha
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I was waiting for that post Sascha
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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG
lkbrown1@tir.com
http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1 (http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1)
Very Opinionated Person.
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I second the motion on "Player ID/Icons" turn off when in a cloud. (Would sort of defeat the purpose of clouds if you could see people lurking in them by their Icons)
Man this is gonna make for some WICKED bounces.
"Who knows what's lurking in them there clouds" MuHahahaha. Scary. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hope it's not a rumor.
Bring on the CLOUDS HTC !!
Arc T
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It is no rumor; HiTech was there in Bold Blue last night about 9:00 PM EST talking about the clouds. I was engaged most of the time and didn't read it all, but there was so much salivating going on I thought the runways had been foamed!
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I am back and putting the final touches on my FW190.
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Nathan "NATEDOG" Mathieu
Art Director
HiTech Creations
-=HELLFIRE SQUAD=-
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We can d/l by 5:00PM EST? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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--- Natedog: ---
I am back and putting the final touches on my FW190.
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So perhaps my timing of a sober weekend couldn't be more perfect!
//fats
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No, there won't be icons displayed in the clouds.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
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I hope the cloud display code is hack-proof. If somebody manages to disable clouds on his FE...
miko--
P.S. Do I get a radar on my Bf110?
[This message has been edited by miko2d (edited 11-04-1999).]
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[tongue-in-cheek]
If the clouds are volumetric, wouldn't we have icons that faded in-and-out? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Clouds. Somewhere to run into people you don't see. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Cool, guys. Very cool!
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Ya I bet it'll get yer heart started when you saunter off into that cloud being all sneaky and then see that B17 appear out of the mist at your 12 o'clock nose on. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
r2ch
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Is it safe to assume the clouds will be moving?
If so, arriving at the target with a greyed-out norden may entail more use of the carpetbomb technique (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Glars
RNZAF
http://glarsmaps.warbirds.org (http://glarsmaps.warbirds.org)
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Now this sounds GREAT!! My only red flag is this:
I sure hope the otto code is masked by clouds as the players will be. I heard in "Brand W", the sun (that other major vision impedement) doesn't effect otto the way it does the live players. Now *that* sucks.
It sure would be nice for the clouds to move and change shape, but that's *really* gravy. Give us good-looking ones that stay static until the pattern changes, and we'll STILL be ecstatic!!!!!
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No otto!
Im on cloud 9 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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I am hoping there is a certain level of transparency for short distances in the clouds, just like in real life. If I am flying in close, close formation with my fellow fighter, I should still be able to see him in a cloud. Maybe this is too much to hope for initially, but I'd like to see it eventually. The concept would promote top-notch formation skills.
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HiTech or Pyro, will there be a frame rate penalty????
If not...
WTFG!!!!!
If so, um, how much?
--Westy