Ambience & Labels

[Zakatak]

2 requests for future ED titles that I think are desperately needed.

 

1. Ambience

I haven't played A-10C yet so I don't know if this was fixed, but in every ED title, I felt alone. The skies felt so lonely even though plenty of things were flying in it. Nobody but my wingman/tower spoke, and only when I acknowledged them. I can't hear any background chatter, as if my radio is dead. Sitting parked on the apron, you can't hear any birds chirping or wind howling or rain tapping. My pilot is completely mute and doesn't like breathing either. It sort of bores me to only have the sound of turbofans accompany me for 95% of the flight.

 

For future titles, it would be nice to have ambience on the airstrips, it would be nice for ALL friendly units to make call outs when they, say, fire a missile even without triggers. Include the sound of the pilot breathing, a la Falcon 4. And before somebody says, "LOL! NO!", then just turn it off.

 

2. 'Aid' Labels

 

When it comes to labels, you can choose 2 options.

 

a) cheat by giving yourself EZ Mode IFF, and ruin your graphics with uglyness

b) handicap yourself by not be able to spot and identify targets at 3km, even though the human eye could do much better

 

So I think we need another label option besides on/off that allows us to realisically find targets, because in real life at 5000m, targets aren't 2 pixels that blend into the terrain. Here is what the "middle" option should look like.

 

i) ships appear as tick marks at 8000m, names appear at 4000m

ii) planes appear as tick marks at 7000m, names appear at 3500m

iii) helicopters appear as tick marks at 6000m, names appear at 3000m

iv) ground targets appear as tick marks at 5000m, names appear at 2500m

v) missiles appear as tick marks at 4000m, names appear at 2000m

vi) all labels, friend or foe, appear grey to remove EZ-IFF and not look terrible

 

That is all.

Edited July 14, 2011 by Zakatak

[Jona33]

AS far as I know ED added radio comms for all units in A-10. I don't think labels like that were added but that's a good idea.

[Krebs20]

I'm pretty sure you can edit the labels in LUA so that they show any color you choose. Also I think you can edit labels to show at different distance. If someone pointed this file out I'm sure we could get everything you asked for with labels. I don't know if you can have different types of unit show at different distances. If I have time ill work on this later. I would mind labels if it was only a tick mark the whole time. Then at least ill know to investigate it with the TGP.

 

I remember a thread on this subject a long time ago in FC2. Of course you can't play online with any server that integrity checks.

[slug88]

Yes, you can already achieve all that labels stuff with some minor editing of Labels.lua in DCS:WH, probably similar in BS and FC2. And I can confirm that your first wish is already implemented in WH.