New FM for Aces High II ?

[straffo]

F4UDOA AH do a bit more than receiving and sending data
I'll list the minimun I can guess :
-send data
-recieve data
-update from data
-compute damage
-compute gunnery
-compute FM
-manage input
-process vox
-predict other airplane position


that's a lot to do

[F4UDOA]

The FM I luv.

I wouldn't change it even if it were AH II. I complain about specific flight characteristics but the feel of the game is excellent.

Straffo,

I realize there is alot going on. However how much is being done on their servers and how much is being done on our front end. The graphics I believe are a function of our PC's power. What is being sent over the data link should NOT be affected by increased graphics. The tough stuff you mentioned is on HTC's side on their severs. Which is exactly my point. My only point really.

Why is this? Probably because HTC puts there effort into more challenging aspects of the game such as Ballistics, Telemetry and a host of other functions. Their servers must be monsters to handle it all. The questions i have is more to do with what happens on our end, the PC.

[NHMadmax]

is it AM or PM in the MA or the CT?  I dont know what we are on about the FM or CV or GV and what the hells a VH or FH or BH. and the there is a PT also. So i will just say TTFN cuz i have a headache now please use real words so i know what hell you are on about

[lord dolf vader]

loopin in a b 17 fully loaded crewed ect

560 mph vert dives ( with control ) in p 38s  yea i have film.

totaly lack of really bad control probs 51s were famous for leading to flat spins.

all kurt tank products


are these flight model problems or htc decisions?

 without knowing how can we really say we need a new one?

[DamnedRen]

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Originally posted by Griego
I would like to see bullet holes in my canopy,planes etc...>>>

Bullet holes in your plane and canopy? Im sure theres lotsa guys willin to help you out. >>>

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I think the reason you see bullets tumble in the old ww2 films is because the camera's were so lousy. As far as accellerated stalls go. If you snap onto you back pulling g's at 225 mph you have experienced it. You might try zooming in when you shoot some dude,. You will have no trouble seeing him light up from the "small explosions"

[WhiteHawk]

You guys gonna make gtting a kill a semi annual event.  
The gunnery is fine.  Do we want
1.  Jammed guns??  Hell no!!
2.  Overheated engines??  Hell no!!
3. 60 mph wind gusts that blow our little spittys around like
    drunk butterfly??  Hell..err..ok..i like that one.
4.  Mechanical defects??  hell no!!
5.  Radio shot out??  That would be interesting
6.  Oil on windsheild?? No way!!
7.  Ice on window of russian planes?  ok
8.  Blood spattering cockpit hits??  Hell yes

[gatt]

Originally posted by -aper-
FM and DM of AH is kinda old. IL-2 is by far ahead now.

Wrong  

[john9001]

for those that missd it, AHII will not replace AH.

AHII is a temp working name for what was going to be mission arena, HT did not like the name"mission arena" and is looking for a new name.

[Pongo]

I want gun jams
overheated guns
broken radios or no radios on planes that didnt have them.
Fuse malfuntions on rounds.
Increased unreliablility for re ups.
Wind gusts and low level fog at fields...

[Mathman]

Originally posted by john9001
for those that missd it, AHII will not replace AH.

AHII is a temp working name for what was going to be mission arena, HT did not like the name"mission arena" and is looking for a new name.

Uh, read his original post again.

[udet]

i want La7s to have a 50% chance of exploding on take-off.

seriously now...

I'd like a more detailed DM.
I'd like stalls to be modelled with buffeting and removal of the stall horn on the planes that in RL don't have one.
I'd like spins to be harder to get out of.
I'd like more poligons on planes.

[Kevin14]

Originally posted by Griego
I would like to see bullet holes in my canopy,planes etc...

  In other words better graphics in cockpits since this is what you see all the time. When i land i would like to see the damage on my plane.  

  I would like to see planes blow up or pilot died when there planes on fire.  I would like to see fire in cockpits or oil on canopy.
 

  I would like to see better tracer graphics. Like tracers that tumble like in the WWII guncam I've seen.  small explosion on planes when there being hit like IL-2 . or Warbirds.  I would like to see a smearing of oil when I follow a plane to close that is leaking oily smoke


  I would like to see a better FM where you have accelerated stalls.  oh i could go on and on  

Whew, 7 "I would like to see"'s. Btw, the FM in AH is great, but the DM is not, thats the only thing that IMO needs to be changed

[DarkHawk]

< S >  F4UDOA

You want a big PC download , Try FA3.5 the download is 350+ meg, or you can buy the box version.

DarkHawk

[-aper-]

If the new game engine requires bigger download it's ok.
But if the new game is improved only in graphics (like wbIII compared to wb2.77) I would prefere the game wich has better choice of planes. In other words I would like Aces High with 100+ planes and current graphics instead of Aces High II with new graphics but few planes and the same FM/DM/ and gunnery.

HTC probably worked hard on Aces High II last year or even two years. We can see it by drastically slowing down the development of current versions of Aces High. And probably Aces High II is rather closed to betta now. Thats good from one hand that they made this move smoother (compared to iEN with WBIII). From the other hand they had a nice chance to improve the FM/DM/Gunnery at that moment. We'll see...

[OZkansas]

Since HT is now a pilot I bet there are some ideas he will want to implement in the FM that currently aren't in it:)