caldrail Wrote:RAF209_Benge Wrote:This leads to an interesting question ?
That could be phrased this way
Who is DM, planemad?
Who is plane mad, DM?
Is DM plane mad?
or is DM just JM an thus just quite right
I see. What we have here then is a possible multiple personality syndrome linked to an aviation obsession, reinforced by inability to deal with the real world and instead resorts to an abstracted episodic or mission based conceptual world view, encouraged by outsiders who do not understand the deep suffering of those with deep rooted envy of birds and heroes of former conflicts?
Sounds familiar
Serious point though. Looking at the screenies it looks great except... Erm... Well to my eyes the enviroment is not so good. I mean this as helpful criticism, but the clouds look false. There's no depth or detail to them, no layering, nor any impression that they're water vapour building toward a rainfall somewhere. Clouds are fascinating and deeply important for a realistic enviromental effect. Unless you happen to be flying in combat, whern staring at the lovely textures and colours will probably get get you shot down. Oh well...
I Have bought VSF and i can say that you can make clouds look almost whatever you like. They are as real as they can get. Better than IL2 IMO. And MSFS X. It uses Dirext X instead of openGL, so it looks a bit noisy...That a directX graphics feature.
VSF engine has even weather forecats possibility. You can alter weather while playing.
I'm sure that CK is even better than VSF.
VSF is a SANDBOX tool with some nice game elements. CK is a complitely new game that uses VSF engine with andvance graphics.
I was a bit cynical when i heard that DM is not using IL2. But now i think that it seems to be a good decision.
Plus one thing more: DM is not working for a big Company, like IC. Or Ubisoft, this is the first combat sim that Quslity Simulations is making.
DM is also doing it because I know he loves WW1 aviation.
Constructive critism is a good thing, it helps to make game better. But judging whole game after seeing few screenshots...
I'm sure that CK will be a pretty good game.
IL2 is by a mile best combat sim and that's it. But let's give some other makers possibility to show they own versions. I'm sure that there is room for many new sims or games.
And VSF is pretty cheap (27€ incl. VAT). Cheaper than most of the PC Games out there...
You can also buy it and try to make own planes. It is fun and maybe helps to understand the difficulties about making decent combat sim from scratch...Besides you can test the clouds with the demo.
BTW. Those new WW1 models for IL2 are beautifull too. I have DL:ed them all and i enjoy flying with them. But i'm also waiting for the new CK as am sure it will be just as good also.
I have Rise of Flight, but i didn't like it..... I waited for that game for years..
OT:LOL somehow this remains old UBI days when we were waiting Pacfic Fighters. OMG. I loved that P-47 won teh war discussion or OLEg's FW 190 FM is porked....with graphical demonstrations...
Love & peace
kap