News End of Summer 2019 - Development notes

Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by J-F Chardon, Aug 19, 2019.

  1. Olaf Hülse

    Olaf Hülse Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    I would definitely recommend Raceroom Raceway as going off track results every time in a Black/White flag. Cut should be set to StopnGo, as it's the strictest one of the R3E ones (You get penalised after 5 harsh violations or so)
     
  2. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    Now when seeing how ACC runs, or not runs in VR, I actually hope they stick with the graphics engine they have!
     
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  3. pixeljetstream

    pixeljetstream Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    Sticking to technology that is more than 10 years old is not acceptable either.
     
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  4. Pekro

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    Just an example of what people can do with an old graphics engine.
    The graphics engine of this simulation is 20 years old...
     
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  5. totalgamertb21

    totalgamertb21 Active Member

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    BMS?

    Is that a B-Tech AMS?
     
  6. Vale

    Vale Well-Known Member

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    No from me to a cool down lap and to anything else that delays the next race on MP mode. Loading times are already long enough as it is.
     
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  7. Skybird

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    Oh man, now I feel old. Is it really that long ago already that I found Falcon 4.0, the RP 1-5 patch series, learned the basics of maintaining the Windows 98 PC in a fit state and finbetuning options as if my life depended on it, and for long times had some of the most intense and immersive simulation experiences in my gaming career? "Falcon", the hairs in my necks still raise by the mere sound of the word. Still so many things in it that it does so much better than DCS: the environment: the campaign, the monumental immersion: second to none, many tried, all failed.

    Steel Beasts Pro. PMDG's range of Boeings and study sims for FSX. Hundreds and hundreds of manual pages and checklists printed out. It were crazy times. It were good times!

    I played Flight Simulator 2.0 by Sublogic and Falcon by Spectrum Holobyte already on Commodore Amiga.
     
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  8. Karting06

    Karting06 Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    Cool down lap could also be useful in SP ;)
     
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  9. heppsan

    heppsan Well-Known Member

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    If it works better I see no point in changing, you don't want to change just for the changing..
    But if they do change, I really hope it will run smooth on both monitors and HMD's!
     
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  10. pixeljetstream

    pixeljetstream Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    @heppsan
    It doesn't work better: no dynamic light, no modern shading for weather fx, CPU bound etc. Those limitations exist in this game since it was released and fundamentally nothing has changed.

    All other aspects of the game have improved over the years, except for this, here it's stuck. So it's the technology stack that holds them back.

    Going forward is not a binary choice of using ue4 exactly like acc did and sticking to what they have.
     
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  11. Turtle Power

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    No 3 screen support in ACC .....FAIL!!!!!!

    Edit: triple screen is finally available for ACC, disregard this message
     
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  12. SpaccoTutto1999

    SpaccoTutto1999 New Member

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    but try switching to dx11 and upgrading your graphics engine like it did iracing costs too much?
     
  13. Balrog

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    Nobody has touched on this, but I think moving the backend into the cloud is also a great step, this way the server app can scale automatically based on the load (current users) and there is a potential to make the website even more responsive. (It would have been great if it happened earlier, but at least it will happen at some point.:))
     
  14. Skybird

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    Maybe I am suffering from Monday morning syndrome and the fact that I still had no coffee today - but what was it again, this "AWS"?
     
  15. Balrog

    Balrog Well-Known Member

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    https://aws.amazon.com/
    But now I expect a long post from you explaining us why we should avoid it at all costs.:)
     
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  16. Karting06

    Karting06 Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    Amazon Web Services
     
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  17. Jorgen Wahlby

    Jorgen Wahlby Well-Known Member

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    When we now are in the AIR... let's look at something erhh... funny :D (Totally 2 Episodes)

     
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  18. Roman TRT

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    "server can now be set with a Message Of The Day"
    not work today?
     
  19. Turtle Power

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    Just quickly regarding the new update or patch notes? Do we know approximate dates without saying soon :p
     
  20. Karting06

    Karting06 Well-Known Member Beta tester

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    Soonish :D
     
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