Visibility 20 Km!

Hitman · 03-08-07, 09:09 AM

From the UBI main page interview with Christian Hrisc -excuse if you already knew this-: "you have a radius of visibility of 20 km "

Finally a realistic visibility radius, and not the original 8 km in SH3!

That will sure add a lot to the game experience.

Flanker15 · 03-08-07, 09:16 AM

Thats good! The "mysterious blue fog that sort of looks like the sky but isn't" will be less obvious now.

Barkhorn1x · 03-08-07, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitman

From the UBI main page interview with Christian Hrisc -excuse if you already knew this-: "you have a radius of visibility of 20 km "

Finally a realistic visibility radius, and not the original 8 km in SH3!

That will sure add a lot to the game experience.

That is good news - but will it cut both ways??

IOW, will the escorts pick up your sub at 20KM? Wasn't this kind of thing always a problem w/ SHIII - you see them and they see you - even though you are tiny (and low in the water) and they are huge (and high) by comparison?

AJ! · 03-08-07, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

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Originally Posted by Hitman

From the UBI main page interview with Christian Hrisc -excuse if you already knew this-: "you have a radius of visibility of 20 km "

Finally a realistic visibility radius, and not the original 8 km in SH3!

That will sure add a lot to the game experience.

That is good news - but will it cut both ways??

IOW, will the escorts pick up your sub at 20KM? Wasn't this kind of thing always a problem w/ SHIII - you see them and they see you - even though you are tiny (and low in the water) and they are huge (and high) by comparison?

That could be a problem but only time will tell :p

This will make the game look even more stunning and add to attacks on the enemy. It will be breath taking seeing a convoy around 15km away with that distance blur effect on

Yak · 03-08-07, 10:34 AM

That whimpering sound you now hear is the cries of fifty thousand PC's realising what a humbling experience its going to be for them...

Drebbel · 03-08-07, 10:36 AM

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This will make the game look even more stunning and add to attacks on the enemy. It will be breath taking seeing a convoy around 15km away with that distance blur effect on

But how big will that convoy be on a typical monitor ? 1 or 2 dots

Let get out the glasses

FAdmiral · 03-08-07, 10:51 AM

If the game is anywhere near reality, the sub should see smoke long
before it sees any ships.....

JIM

Threadfin · 03-08-07, 11:15 AM

Exactly, the SH3 engine didn't allow for AI spotting of smoke, only when the ship itself came into view. Would be nice to see that change.

03-08-07, 09:09 AM	#1
Hitman Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 6,109 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 2	Visibility 20 Km! From the UBI main page interview with Christian Hrisc -excuse if you already knew this-: "you have a radius of visibility of 20 km " Finally a realistic visibility radius, and not the original 8 km in SH3! That will sure add a lot to the game experience. __________________ One day I will return to sea ...

03-08-07, 10:51 AM	#7
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	If the game is anywhere near reality, the sub should see smoke long before it sees any ships..... JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

03-08-07, 11:15 AM	#8
Threadfin Ace of the Deep Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,163 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Exactly, the SH3 engine didn't allow for AI spotting of smoke, only when the ship itself came into view. Would be nice to see that change. __________________ What? Behind the rabbit?

03-08-07, 09:16 AM	#2
Flanker15 Seaman Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 32 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Thats good! The "mysterious blue fog that sort of looks like the sky but isn't" will be less obvious now.

03-08-07, 10:34 AM	#5
Yak Torpedoman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Here, sometimes there Posts: 113 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That whimpering sound you now hear is the cries of fifty thousand PC's realising what a humbling experience its going to be for them...