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If they can some people will exploit these to give themselves advantages far beyond what’s realistic. They won’t need radar anymore. That sort of exploit shouldn’t be possible. If that’s the sort of gameplay you want then you should just play on a server with the full labels selected. Realistic air combat is not about fighting fair.
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But it’s an exploit if anyone can just alter it. Like simply lowering their resolution to make them bigger. Well we certainly don’t need any more. And not ones that are this egregious. Just because some people cheat doesn’t mean giving up on every exploit. I think most people do care. Right. We don’t want to be forced to decide between looking at an ugly game or being at a disadvantage.
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The thing is they could just fix the dot labels to do exactly that and then get rid of the spotting dots. It doesn’t make sense to have two features that are nearly identical. Dot labels can also be turned on or off and controlled as mission settings like they should be. Spotting dots are like forcing labels on for everyone.
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It might be something as simple as 1080p gets one pixel and 2160p gets 4 pixels. That’s actually what it looks like on my screen. The trouble is even a single pixel is too large for a distant target. And there’s only so much finesse possible. What does 1440p get? What do all these other combinations of displays and super sampling get? I don’t think there’s a solution here other than to just scrap the whole concept. Without any dots DCS can replicate RW visibility rather well. Leave the dot enhancement as dot labels where they belong I say.
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According to the Navigraph survey 97.4% of flight sim players are male. So… Character customization is a very cool feature in games today though.
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Yes that’s my chief takeaway from the video. Those dots are ugly and gigantic. The fact that they vanish is secondary. Honestly they should all be eliminated if they’re like that. I think that video was of the old 2.9 version though. I don’t play CW but I’ve had plenty of visual range combat on the modern severs and what I see (even with dots off ie v2.8) seems pretty realistic to me. You realize hunting for targets is most of what happens in real life air combat, right? If the real world had dots radar never would have been invented.
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Indeed the zoom view is a better solution than smart scaling. Smart Scaling: Enlarges the target but leaves everything else at the same size. This look really awkward and over-enhances the target. Zoom View: Enlarges the whole scene equally. That’s a better solution. It doesn’t produce ugly results and it doesn’t make targets excessively visible. It’s also better at solving the resolution problem. You need to document comments like this with screenshots. Show us a shot of empty space with a label over it indicating an invisible aircraft. Aircraft at this range are easy to see in DCS. At this range the dots are hardly a factor.
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You can’t separate the two of those. I’m sure most players want both i.e. realistic visuals. A game today isn’t going to put the work in on all the graphics and modeling only then to give you giant sized aircraft hanging over an undersized carrier deck. Just not going to happen. I’m not referring to just a varied FOV setting but doing this on the fly as in the zoom view. That’s the better solution all these sims use now. Just make everything you see bigger equally as needed instead of just the target. That eliminates the need for smart scaling altogether.
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Again it might make sense on paper but when applied in an actual game it just becomes foolish. It also doesn’t take into account the player using a variable FOV which would just invalidate all the data and the very concept itself. It’s only using a single reference for screen size res and distance. That’s not the case for a game played on varying hardware. It’s a waste of time bringing this up over and over again because ED has said many times they have no interest in it. If that’s what you’re looking for then you’re in for disappointment here.
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The Serfoss study was done for a Doctorate of Philosophy degree. I don’t think there’s any evidence it was ever used in any real way. And it might make sense on paper but in an actual game the results are farcical. That’s honestly a more reasonable solution than encouraging players to lower their resolution.