We released a preview of some of the changes you can expect when 1.31 goes live. Please take a minute to check out the new screenshots and movies.

I'm back when hills are no longer pyramids made of 4 triangles. 

PS: sup, DOC?

i wonder why the game runs so poorly with the lack of depth now and how it is going to run like a wet dream with all the eyecandy?

Also, i notice no fps meter with the ground video's. Was that on purpose?

If you look at the air video, the fps meter hovers around 29 -30 fps with nothing going on. With my 295gtx i run around 150 fps. I also notice someone got sloppy editing the video at the end where the fps was at 24 fps.  :(

Originally posted by willemakit

i wonder why the game runs so poorly with the lack of depth now and how it is going to run like a wet dream with all the eyecandy?

One post wonder - Are you a sock puppet for BF1942?

About 12 of us from the 2001 days are already planning on coming back once this update is live.

not at all.  i have only read posts before never commented. But after watching the new video's i noticed that and wanted to see if anyone knew the answer. See i do remember the sneaky trick of hiding fps crs did at e3 years back.

Hiding? That's just not something people usually show.

one would think ,but with crs it is better to put a stickup note over the fps meter than turn it off. lol i guess the 12 fps didn't look so good.

If you look closely at the notes you will see that they are going to be able to increase the fps, more so than they did in 1.29 or 1.28.not sure which that jumped my fps from 45 to 90 plus in city fighting. That fps complaint is more out of date than you know.
 

ok

Before - After Screenshots which show the difference with the new update

....looks nice

Acualy this looks like big changes...I'm temped to re-sub. This game still has one thing NO other game in the MMO market has atm "open totaly interactive world." It's also historicaly accurate.

Very interesting indeed, I'll have me eye on this one.

Nub's!

Honestly they are only updating the graphics a little and the ragdoll effects.  They are making mechanics changes to the capture routintes and the ability to shoot at enemy once your Depot has been captured has been lost in favor or stopping griefers from spawn camping in a spawnable depot..  Unfortunately they are not adding anything new to do or anything decent mechanics wide from the previews.  This may change in the release as they may have been keeping something secret which they often do.  If you left the game because of the boring aspect of something you were playing then you will not see anything new to do in the previews.  So I would wait till after release which seems to be forever since this took almost a year this patch.

The basic problem with this game is that they dont test it thoroughly enough and things get broken that they spend the next 4 months fixing.  I think it is quality control of the original code or at least that is what the dev team keeps saying as the main excuse... "old code is full of stuff not needed or they dont understand?"  Take for example the graphics update on they spent so much time on for the bridges.  They are nicer than the old ones but a bridge has fewfunctions and that is to cross, buld or blow up.  When it was put in you would think they would look at it yet they dont.  The ATGs guns (m1) in particular can no longer sit on the bridge and kill tanks approaching.  The collision routine is broken making the atg bounce all over and sink into the bridge.  A previous patch allowed the infantry fall through if a boat was passing underneath.  They fixed the boat problem and seemingly created the atg problem.  A vicious circle that has been the major reason this game has never achieved the same status of other really nice MMPORG games as far as graphics and such.  There are mechanics that worked 4 years ago that have been broken for 3.5 years after a patch caused them not work.  So what you did that was fun before you cant do anymore. ( ex is getting infantry onto your boat with the crew nets) .  It is really frustrating from a dev side I am sure but even more so from a paying customer side.

I would wait if you are looking for something new.   

Originally posted by spizz

Before - After Screenshots which show the difference with the new update

....looks nice

 

 

Be aware that most of that nicety  grass stuff , the players can turn off because of FPS issues and you cannot hide in safely.

 when will it go live?

Originally posted by angriff

Be aware that most of that nicety  grass stuff , the players can turn off because of FPS issues and you cannot hide in safely.

Actually it says in one of the blogs that some things won't be able to be turned off no matter what for balance purposes.  I'm going to assume one of those will be grass.  Let's hope so.

Originally posted by WesKhan1

Originally posted by angriff

Be aware that most of that nicety  grass stuff , the players can turn off because of FPS issues and you cannot hide in safely.

 

Actually it says in one of the blogs that some things won't be able to be turned off no matter what for balance purposes.  I'm going to assume one of those will be grass.  Let's hope so.

On thing you must learn if you ever want to play this game is never hope.

Originally posted by angriff

Originally posted by WesKhan1

Originally posted by angriff

Be aware that most of that nicety  grass stuff , the players can turn off because of FPS issues and you cannot hide in safely.

 

Actually it says in one of the blogs that some things won't be able to be turned off no matter what for balance purposes.  I'm going to assume one of those will be grass.  Let's hope so.

 

On thing you must learn if you ever want to play this game is never hope.

I've played it and......ya you're right...sigh

 This game will always be a failure until they remove the AI that kills you through bushes after you just spent 10 minutes running into town.

The grass clutter than you can turn off is not something you can hide in anyways - the tall grass that you can hide in is not clutter, and can not be turned off.

See you are in here trolling Angriff ;)

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