About the new terrain

[Tinkles]

Exactly.  But if HTC can bring the eye candy up to par with IL2 and WT, the hundreds of players in a persistent arena.  No waiting for matches to launch...  Those could be big selling points to draw new players into AH.

Then they get slapped in the face with the learning curve 


I think the graphics will be very nice, I am anxious to see the new terrain engine at it's full glory.   

[shoresroad]

And how about switching to real maps of Europe, North Africa and the South Pacific to make Aces High more like a WWII flight combat simulator.  AH has a fantastic plane set and FM's but these Fantasy Island maps and chess piece enemy combatants really hurt immersion no matter how good the game looks.  The MA is like flying WWII planes at Disneyland for crying out loud.

What do we have...about 12 or 13 fantasy maps we rotate through.  How about 12 or 13 different regions of Europe, North Africa and the South Pacific instead.  And what about those guys called the Allies, Germans and Japanese.  I think they had something to do with WWII also.

I'm not suggesting changing game play except switching to two sides and creating real world WW2 maps with the new graphics engine.  How about instead of the great TWO SIDED tank battles and air battles at V85 we have great tank battles and air battles at Kursk.  The strats could be Berlin and London on a different map.  The argument that we can't use real WW2 locations because it wouldn't be politically correct is a stretch...WW2 ended 68 years ago!  Hitech has the planes for the best WW2 air combat simulator and we're flying them in fantasy worlds.  I just don't get it...never have.  Put the same plane set over Europe, North Africa and the South Pacific in the 1940's with the new graphics engine and they've got a game that can't be touched by the competition.  And taking a few liberties with base placement for balanced play on real world maps hurts immersion much less than playing on fantasy maps for the same purpose IMHO.

[Easyscor]

Water will be change to have full 3d wave effects.

Will there be a way to turn full 3d waves off for rivers?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Then they get slapped in the face with the learning curve 


I think the graphics will be very nice, I am anxious to see the new terrain engine at it's full glory.   

Offline practice with bots. This is how I got into WB.

[Karnak]

I'm not suggesting changing game play except switching to two sides and creating real world WW2 maps with the new graphics engine.  How about instead of the great TWO SIDED tank battles and air battles at V85 we have great tank battles and air battles at Kursk.  The strats could be Berlin and London on a different map.  The argument that we can't use real WW2 locations because it wouldn't be politically correct is a stretch...WW2 ended 68 years ago!  Hitech has the planes for the best WW2 air combat simulator and we're flying them in fantasy worlds.  I just don't get it...never have.  Put the same plane set over Europe, North Africa and the South Pacific in the 1940's with the new graphics engine and they've got a game that can't be touched by the competition.  And taking a few liberties with base placement for balanced play on real world maps hurts immersion much less than playing on fantasy maps for the same purpose IMHO.

That makes a good single player game, but a bad multiplayer game.  One side always has the numbers and there is not a third side to prompt combat.  Do three sides always work better, no, but they are better than two on average.  To do two sides you really need balanced teams as they do in sports. 

[ImADot]

The argument that we can't use real WW2 locations because it wouldn't be politically correct is a stretch...WW2 ended 68 years ago!

Who ever said we don't use real-world locations because it not politically correct? 

Real-world locations almost always dictate that any battle be two-sided. There has been plenty of discussion regarding the game being two-sided versus three-sided, and HTC decided that there shall be three sides for gameplay.

If we had real-world locations, I would assume we would only have aircraft available that flew in those areas. So what would the fans of Japanese aircraft do if a Kursk map was up? What would German fans do if a Solomons map was up? Would everyone flock to the Allied side and have very few on the Axis side on certain maps? Would that be good for gameplay?

The AvA uses two sided maps. Special events use real-world maps. Whether to go there or not is a choice for people to make. If you limited the main arena sandbox to certain geography and planes, you no longer give people a choice of what to fly, and many will just log off or quit the game altogether.

[bustr]

Then they get slapped in the face with the learning curve 


I think the graphics will be very nice, I am anxious to see the new terrain engine at it's full glory.   

I have to think with all of the crumbs in the last year Hitech has been dropping that our game is about to change dramatically. With the AI being tested in the AvA, it's highly probable a 2 week newbie combat arena will be introduced with ongoing AI that they can up into along with shooting at each other. Along with bad tempered Mods looking to kick out vets posing as ankle biters.

With the physics model well matured over 13 years, we will see much better graphics. Look up Shader 3.0 and read the specs. From what I read, I'm hoping it means many of us will no longer have the FPS problems that have plagued players over the years. Including shadows will not be the high FPS hit for some that they are now.

One question: If our new waves will become 3D and large like I saw in a Shader 3.0 example. Does this mean landing in the water smashes our planes? Will we see breakers on shorelines now?....

[PFactorDave]

I have to think with all of the crumbs in the last year Hitech has been dropping that our game is about to change dramatically. With the AI being tested in the AvA, it's highly probable a 2 week newbie combat arena will be introduced with ongoing AI that they can up into along with shooting at each other.

I would love to see some AI missions running in the MA.  Stuff happening all over the place all the time.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

  If somebody doesn't cut down there trees at the end of the runways, I'll hire a lumberjack to do it. A few of my B-29 newbie flights were taken by those little buggers. I remember ranting (that's what I do best) about this in some country chat... the knights maybe? To which somebody replies "Why hire a lumberjack when you have a perfectly fine plane."... I'm sure some of the other newbies have had the same problem... I used to.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have to think with all of the crumbs in the last year Hitech has been dropping that our game is about to change dramatically. With the AI being tested in the AvA, it's highly probable a 2 week newbie combat arena will be introduced with ongoing AI that they can up into along with shooting at each other. Along with bad tempered Mods looking to kick out vets posing as ankle biters.

With the physics model well matured over 13 years, we will see much better graphics. Look up Shader 3.0 and read the specs. From what I read, I'm hoping it means many of us will no longer have the FPS problems that have plagued players over the years. Including shadows will not be the high FPS hit for some that they are now.

One question: If our new waves will become 3D and large like I saw in a Shader 3.0 example. Does this mean landing in the water smashes our planes? Will we see breakers on shorelines now?....

This is the crazy part, by sticking to ancient spec AH can't make use of modern GPUs. D3D9 (which AH apparently doesn't even fully use at that) has a huge load of bottlenecks which have been fixed in latest incarnations.

[guncrasher]

if you're 1:10 under dog when base take happens, award 100 perkies. Only dumb people would horde after that as balance would be more beneficial whatever way the base take would happen.

only dumb people would think that 100 guys wont jump at the chance to get 100 perks.  so now you have a horde of defenders whining that they didnt get the perks because too many upped to defend.


semp

[guncrasher]

1:10 under dog when base take happens, award 100 perkies.

-you are stupid, you killed the goon/m3 and cost us 100 perks.
-just landed 1000 perks!!!!!!  did you fight anybody?  naw man, i was at 30k following a horde taking bases.
-ah crap too many defending no way to get 100 perks going somewhere else.

so many possibility to get 100 perks by not defending or fighting.  if it sounds to good to be true, it is.


semp

[Tinkles]

-you are stupid, you killed the goon/m3 and cost us 100 perks.
-just landed 1000 perks!!!!!!  did you fight anybody?  naw man, i was at 30k following a horde taking bases.
-ah crap too many defending no way to get 100 perks going somewhere else.

so many possibility to get 100 perks by not defending or fighting.  if it sounds to good to be true, it is.


semp

Oh, come on now. Don't need to bash the guy.

Sure, it might not work in this case, but at least he is trying to think of something to solve the problem.

[guncrasher]

Oh, come on now. Don't need to bash the guy.

Sure, it might not work in this case, but at least he is trying to think of something to solve the problem.

but you see the problem is that some people think that some others dont fight they way they think the game should be played.  I am not saying either way is right but what i am saying is the point of the game is to have fun.  so if you arent having fun then you should step back a bit and think about what YOU can do to make it fun for YOU  without trying to force others to make it fun for YOU.


semp

[ReVo]

but you see the problem is that some people think that some others dont fight they way they think the game should be played.  I am not saying either way is right but what i am saying is the point of the game is to have fun.  so if you arent having fun then you should step back a bit and think about what YOU can do to make it fun for YOU  without trying to force others to make it fun for YOU.


semp