posted 11-29- 10:36 PM               

Welp it illegal ops everytime I try to run it.

posted 11-30- 02:24 AM               

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posted 11-30- 03:22 AM               

Grrrr...I am not yet able to afford the GeForce 2 MX I was hoping to get. Ah, well, it probably wouldn't work anyway.

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posted 12-01- 01:25 AM               

Major banding of colors in the sky, ground colors look like something out of a cartoon, another lousy prop texture (they should'a hired Tail). This was with the game running in 1024X768 in Direct3D with trilinear filtering on.

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posted 12-01- 09:51 AM               

Hey, is there a way to get a 45 degree view up, like the 8+5 numpad view in SDOE?

posted 12-01- 03:10 PM               

I didn't notice any changes between this and the alpha version of the demo I DLd a couple months ago. They both suck and It reminds me too much of EAW.

I like the touches of realism, but the graphics suck. Under full realism, even when being light on the stick, the buffeting made flying overly difficult. The cockpit shaking and stuttering graphics, especially when close to the ground, made the game unplayable at times.

While shooting down a bomber, my wingtip touched the wingtip of another and I instantly exploded. I quickly lost my interest past that.

posted 12-02- 02:24 PM            

But there's a ton of stuff to shoot at. I haven't got a chance to really put it through it's paces, but it seems to be OK to me. Reminds me alot of EAW..which as good thing.

posted 12-03- 05:28 AM               

I too get 'stuttering' and what appear to be lousy frame rates, especially when terrain comes into view...there are other things I don't like, also. Views is one...not that they are bad, but that they take too long to learn...that was one of the things about MigAlley I disliked. Another is that the only flyable Demo mission is a combat one - a quick free flight to learn some of the keys and commands would have been nice, and to experience learning what the FM can and cannot do. I could do that from the combat mission, but if I crash or get shot down - highly likely in combat if you are fumbling around looking for things - it is pretty frustrating to exit the mission and have to CTD because you don't have the damn CD in the drive because THERE IS NO CD - IT'S A DEMO!!

But...*sigh*...it is indeed a demo, and there is definite sign that a excellent sim may be on it's way. One question I do have is - if they are going to release a demo, why is there no place at Empire's or Rowan's site for feedback? That alone is what scares me about the final release...and I guess I will have to buy it to find out.

Good old Caveat Emptor.

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posted 12-03- 07:30 AM               

I managed to get my graphics smoothed out by turning off the raised trees, ground shadows, and reflections, set the texture detail to medium.

I find the guns on the spitfires very ineffective.. it takes my whole ammo load to bring down one bomber and sometimes that doesnt even do it. Maybe i just need more practice.

I noticed when you knock out an engine on a bomber it doesnt fall out of formation I hope they fix this in the released version.

If the dynamic campaign is very good this could be a great game, hard to tell from the demo.

TS

posted 12-03- 12:29 PM               

Do you guys remember when demo ment.

Demostration of what the game was like?

Not a beta test. Not a public beta.

But a representation or small snipit of what could be exspected from the final game?

Thats what a demo is.

This (if there is to be any improvements to the game) IS NOT a demo. It is a beta test or something of that nature.

If this is a demo, there is no way I would buy the finished product.

I really think companies should start calling these things what they are.

A demo usually comes out AFTER the game comes out to get all the people who didn't buy the game right away. To give them a taste of the action and hook them. Like the first level to an adventure game.

Some where some how this industry got lost and started handing out alpha and betas and don't even provide as pointed out a place to respond with bug reports.

Silly people. When will they learn.

Handing out garbage and calling it a demo (in my mind a representation of the finished work) is a HORRIBLE idea.

posted 12-03- 06:35 PM               

Since when did the Software industry care whether it released Beta' sas demos......they SELL Beta's as finished products!!!!!

How many games come out now without a very rapid need for patching? I'm talking about such wonders as B17II ( CTD's etc) and other games equally guilty of using the paying public as testers.

I haven't bothered to download this game demo yet, since I have seen so many people having real problems getting it to run.

I have to agree, a Demo should be an advert for a game, should be error free, and should make you really want to go out and spend money! If the demo is shoddy...how good will the finished product be?

And to put it all in perspective....

posted 12-04- 12:52 AM               

yep so true WTG.

Welp Dan if this is how the game is going to be its going to be a POS with all the trouble people are having with it.

Semmern It won't even start for me, i don't even get a main screen or nothing you see the edges of a window start to form and then it illegal ops.