New Black Shark Screens! 15th June

[rekoal]

dont know if this has been posted or not so here you go!:

 

http://www.lockon.ru/index.php?end_pos=982&scr=products&lang=en

 

rekoal

[Mustang]

Nice lookin MT-LB model there :)

[Shaman]

1.2 is slowly becomming some sort of armoured simulator :D

[rekoal]

ok quick question you know the cobra shoots mavericks? whats the russian equilent?

 

rekoal

[Force_Feedback]

Will we have the Drozd on the T-80U (to defend against those Vikhrs)? :P

 

Will the tanks use reflective smoke to confuse the guidance and visibility?

 

The Russians have the Kh-25T, which has optical, laser and radio command guidance, of course it's not as "small" as the Mav.

They also have some new missiles based on the Shturm with optical seekers as well, but those ain't operational.

[Starlight]

apart from new stunning 3D models for armor, are there any known improvements on gameplay (AI logic and Mission Editor for example...) ? I think they are much more important than 3D models....

[dynamocl]

v1.3 LOTS, Lock On Tank Simulator. Persistant online multiplayer campaign, players command air and ground assets in real time....

 

time to wake up.

 

 

Tanks popping smoke and taking defensive action against airborne threats would be nice to see. Makes it a little more interesting for us ground pounders (not that we have been spoilt already with FC and BS).

[Solidburn]

That's actually not a bad idea....might make an interesting challenge for the Dev team and we'd finally see a Top-Notch Tank sim to boot

[RvETito]

Hmm...yeah right... another armoured vehicle... Do we really need more of them???!!!

[Pilotasso]

apart from new stunning 3D models for armor, are there any known improvements on gameplay (AI logic and Mission Editor for example...) ? I think they are much more important than 3D models....

 

Yeah, Im beggining to think that the screenshots and the models depicted on them are mainly for publicity. Gameplay is what matters and we still know very litle about it, if any difference at all besides the helicopter.

[Witchking]

wow....to think about it...imagine....a tank uses smoke pods to throw one at a far location and one on itself....so from the air we ground pounders are confused about where the real target is...in the meanwhile....a vulcan is trying to pin us down.

 

PLEASE ED>....u r making soo many improvements. MAKE this addition to make lomac ten times more interesting.

[Witchking]

oo...and btw....can ED implement lights for those ground vehicles at night time??

[Guest Cali]

The new ground units that they are adding look good, But do we really need them that detailed? Since we will be FLYING and destroying this units. All we see is new screenshots of the ground units. How will the game play be? Once it's finally done how will it effect FPS <--that is the main concern that 99% of lock on fliers have.

[Starlight]

Yeah, Im beggining to think that the screenshots and the models depicted on them are mainly for publicity. Gameplay is what matters and we still know very litle about it, if any difference at all besides the helicopter.

 

the AFM for the helo was a huge investment by ED, but I said since the beginning that better AI and overall gameplay would have been more appreciated.

 

And, another critique: why make such detailed 3D models for APCs when the F-14 and many other aircraft use old-generation 3D models? AFAIK it's still a _flight_ simulator, even if copters can go way down to the weeds...

[Starlight]

The new ground units that they are adding look good, But do we really need them that detailed? Since we will be FLYING and destroying this units. All we see is new screenshots of the ground units. How will the game play be? Once it's finally done how will it effect FPS <--that is the main concern that 99% of lock on fliers have.

 

The FPS maybe won't be much affected, since the LOD concept should come to help (or at least I hope so). But still we will have better MTLB than Flanker, better LAV than Tomcat.... it doesn't make much sense.

When flying you can spot things from very far, but as many pilots say, ID'ing them is still very very hard (unless you have TV/EO/IR optics on board)

Aircraft are much larger and you can fly formations with them, so detail is more needed there...

[ALDEGA]

AFAIK, (at least some of) the new models were created by community members. Don't forget LOBS is about a helo air-to-ground engagements (relatively slow flying as well), meaning it's interesting to have more variety in ground targets.

 

Anyway, you want the 3D modelers to sit idle while the programmers revise the program code? ...

[Witchking]

well..instead of sitting idle....why can't they make immersion improvements like better structures at teh airfields. We need stuff like that. Better explosions...better fps management. that is what the gfx dept must be doing. Better effects rendering at smoother fps. *cough IL2* :joystick:

[fragal]

well still nice to see something new imo, theres even an explosion and everything! :helpsmilie:

[Cobra360]

ok quick question you know the cobra shoots mavericks? whats the russian equilent?

 

rekoal

 

The Cobra can't use Mavericks. It uses BGM-71 TOW and the AGM-114K Hellfire. Russian counterparts are the Vikhr and Ataka. The Russian counterpart to the Maverick would probably be the Kh-25.

[Sleek]

yea i think it's about time we saw a combat video of some sort to show the gameplay and how it's running at the mo..i realise it's not fininshed yet but...c'mon...

[Witchking]

yeah....I wonder why they wont show us the new TERRAIN enhancements and the new trees (I know they did not add speedtree due to limited time and resources and yada yada...)

[Shaman]

yeah....I wonder why they wont show us the new TERRAIN enhancements and the new trees (I know they did not add speedtree due to limited time and resources and yada yada...)

You mean new terrain coverage over Georgia?

 

ED could surprise us and add Turkish airbase.. who knows ;) That'd be best screenshot of them all.

[Guest Cali]

I understand about the slow flying copter but do we need to know the guys eye color? And I hope they fix the blast radius of the bombs. Some bombs are useless unless you get a direct hit.

[Shaman]

I understand about the slow flying copter but do we need to know the guys eye color?

Oh yes.. then you can always be so cool on the radio and say! I flew so close I could recognize their gunner eye color :)

 

When I look at highly detailed human models I still don't get it why 1.2 will not have new A-10, F-15, Su-25, Su-27, Su-33 models! This is so unfair. :disgust:

[GGTharos]

THat's pretty simple ... ED isn't making the models, they're accepting what artists feel like creating for the most part.