New cities look fantastic

[horble]

Great job HTC! 


Hope to see some big juicy bomber raids for me to intercept more often now 

[Kazaa]

It's bloody impressive, 8K of city and doesn't impact FPS. Amazing coding by the HTC staff and I hope the towns are next!

[saantana]

Screenshots? 

[Dragon]

Screenshots? 

Won't do them any justice, you'll have to do a fly-by.    Incredible detail, Fantastic work HTC.

 

[usvi]

Very well done,a round of applause to all at HTC who made the new cities.
The new flak towers look imposing and fearsome,just like the real thing.

[Krusty]

And there is a LOT of flak!!!

It's crazy thick!

In Ar234s at 22k, doing over 400mph level when I drop, I pickle my ord then bank high and hard for a full about-face to bug out, and the ack is pegging me nonstop.. takes out my oil, then another kills an engine, took me apart.


Crazy thick! Like 10 CVs underneath you!

Got out of there in my last plane.

[Skulls22]

Well, I did a flyby of the city, and it looked exately the same. I updated ah2 so im at the 17.1 version. I was also offline in the TA terrain.

Do I need the hi-res texture thing?

[dunnrite]

Are you looking at the airfield towns or the actual city?

[LYNX]

NEW STRAT SYSTEM

This version changes how the strat system works. The current zone system has been replaced with a more straight forward system where strat targets are clustered in a city and the effects of damaging strat objects inflicts global damage on a country rather than being localized to a zone. The cities are large, covering around 8 square miles. They consist of the various types of factory complexes, an industrial city center which serves as the function as the city strat, and a surrounding residential area that is not bombable and has no strat value. Cities are heavily defended with numerous flak towers and guns.


Large maps start with their city closer to the front. If one of the surrounding airfields around the city is captured, the city will be evacuated to the rear. You can see which airfields will trigger an evacuation by selecting zones after right clicking on the clipboard map. Any damage already inflicted on strat objects will stay with the city when it is moved but the damage timer will reset thereby extending the down time. The airfields surrounding the rear city location are uncapturable. Small maps only use 1 city per country and do not use the evacuation mechanism.

While we wait for screenies to be posted lets look at the facts.  All the strat targets are localised.  What an excellent step forward.  Well done all at HTC.  This means strat players will mount large ops with escorts to destroy all the strat in one go.   This in turn will lead to high alt defence.  In essen's the fight will be dragged up into the air where some feel it belongs.

Note:-   the damage is then transferred over to the next city when the zone field / zone city  is captured (larger maps).  This means it is worth while defending your strat.  

Conclusion:-  you lucky lucky buggers.






This will not effect furballers.

[Skulls22]

Are you looking at the airfield towns or the actual city?

went to the icon that said C

[horble]

Well, I did a flyby of the city, and it looked exately the same. I updated ah2 so im at the 17.1 version. I was also offline in the TA terrain.

Do I need the hi-res texture thing?

I believe they updated the maps to show this off, so you will have to go online to get the new maps and check it out.

[Strip]

Landing successful bombing sorties now generate an arena message.

[mia389]

Flak guns work! Here is my first sortie to an enemy city

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOICOV3GN8

[TequilaChaser]

I was also offline in the TA terrain.

You need to use the current terrain, like what is up in LateWar Orange or LateWar Blue arenas at this time.........


I doubt the TA terrain is updated to include these new cities yet........ ( however I could be mistaken ! )

edit: whoops, horbel beat me to it....... in any case though...........

[Motherland]

Well, I did a flyby of the city, and it looked exately the same. I updated ah2 so im at the 17.1 version. I was also offline in the TA terrain.

Do I need the hi-res texture thing?

No you just need current main arena maps.