I won't - I'm not that either.

Nate

Interesting.....you have quite a bit to say when it comes to comments here that go against the grain so to speak whilst being an "unpaid, off the pay role, unofficial tester\PR rep" for ED, perhaps you are both of these roles....just off the books yet backed by the 'official' moderators and community managers, as per us subordinates\consumers who go against anything you say on the 'official ED forums' and is swiftly removed or refuted by those 'officially' in place by ED perhaps. Although you may not wear any 'official' title, ED still supports anything you have to say. Therefore, not being directly supported by the title of 'tester' or 'PR Rep'.....you may be in contention for the Jim Mackonochie trophy.....the trophy that is 'unofficially awarded by ED\TFC' to those who dedicate their posts to become aspiring moderators and community managers at the official ED forums.

None of this is true.

Nate

I'm one of the ones who got caught up in the 2.1 install SNAFU. Followed bad advice and deleted some of the autoconfig files which reverted my 2.0 to 1.5.6 forcing me to completely reinstall everything from scratch. No reversions...
In turn, I had to use the DOS commands to force 2.1 to find Normandy and install. Finally, I got some time on Sunday to explore the new product. I was unimpressed honestly. Broken input control files and extremely long load times are what I noticed first.

Clearly, Deferred Lighting was only showcased during early or late in the day. The horizontal light during those times makes the shadows look amazing, but anytime else it's just meh... The glass like textures on camo aircraft and cockpits is just terrible. I'd like to hear how Wags overcame that during his Su-25 videos. Tried it over in NTTR and was met with textures that are monochrome and no longer blended with each area. This was enough cause to turn off the DL function until some proper attention is given.

I could go on and on, but to put it bluntly, I'm pretty dissatisfied. I'm sorry but ED really delivered a poor visual environment outside of certain times of day/weather conditions (aside from trees and buildings that I can hide behind finally and water that looks very life like). By his own words, they knew the contrast and brightness was an issue, but pushed it out anyway along with many other graphical anomalies. Hopefully it wont take another year to get sorted.

Ah, the old Normandy glitch.....obviously 'ED's official testers' have spent far too much time flying the F-18C and not enough time testing Normandy....

No. I'm not a beta tester for ED.

I won't - I'm not that either.

None of this is true.

Are you calling me out as a liar? More than happy to supply quotes

I was unimpressed honestly. Broken input control files and extremely long load times are what I noticed first.

Clearly, Deferred Lighting was only showcased during early or late in the day. The horizontal light during those times makes the shadows look amazing, but anytime else it's just meh... The glass like textures on camo aircraft and cockpits is just terrible. I'd like to hear how Wags overcame that during his Su-25 videos. Tried it over in NTTR and was met with textures that are monochrome and no longer blended with each area. This was enough cause to turn off the DL function until some proper attention is given.

aside from trees and buildings that I can hide behind finally and water that looks very life like

By his own words, they knew the contrast and brightness was an issue, but pushed it out anyway along with many other graphical anomalies. Hopefully it wont take another year to get sorted.

As for the water, I don't know - could it be because VISUALS are a huge part of FLIGHT?

As for the water, I don't know - could it be because VISUALS are a huge part of FLIGHT?

Are you calling me out as a liar?

All visual improvements contribute to FLIGHT immersion and thus to COMBAT FLIGHT immersion.

Did you seriously just mention COMBAT? OMG, where do I possibly start............

All visual improvements contribute to FLIGHT immersion and thus to COMBAT FLIGHT immersion.

You possibly start with FLIGHT.

You might want to expand into things like visual disorientation studies etc. A high fidelity visual simulation is part of all this; like with all features, some additions can be of greater or lesser value, but they add up.

Or you can start at where you and Ice decided to whine about an added feature as if it was something bad.

@Ice I see your angle, but for low level operations water can be very important for gauging height. I launched from the back of a DDG and was impressed with the movement, reflectivity and spray.

As for the rest, I'll try and capture a video of what I was referring to in Nevada and with the modern jets. Screen shots at least.

The lovely water effects may be beneficial........for anyone walking around the payware carrier in first person mode. Looking forward to that said no-one ever. But it's all part of the DCS COMBAT experience I'd wager.