WWII Online Patch [Nov 07, 2002, 4:32 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The WWII Online
Downloads Page now offers the version 1.7 patch for the
massively multiplayer game of World War II combat. This
post to the WWII Online Forums by producer Chris "Mo" Sherland
features details on what's new and different in the new version, which includes
hardware T&L support as well as gameplay tweaks, additions, and fixes.
>It's incredible that you don't understand that.
I understand it, but some unsuspecting readers on this board might not. I clarified it primarily for their benefit.
>And you can fill up that limit pretty damn quick if you're
>assaulting an AB (that means Army Base). Since all the
>enemy spawns out of two points in that small area, in a
>popular town it's *damn easy* to hit the "64 visible
>player entities at any one time in the forward looking
>viewport area of space location" limit. (was that enough
>words to describe it this time? or do you need more?)
That's enough words to tell me you're probably wrong. You've actually seen *64 enemy soldiers all looking at you at the same time*? I doubt it.
It is very easy to have more than 64 in the general area, but it's very very hard to have more than 64 all drawn in such a way that there's a 65th in front of you, firing at you, that you can't see.
>Especially since YOUR OWN TROOPS count toward that limit.
>Oops. Probably didn't want any mention of that coming out,
>did you? Well, it's true. Your own side counts against
>that same '64 limit' (being the limit mentioned above -
>hopefully I don't have to describe it fully once again).
Yes, but the preference is to draw the people right in front of you first, and then enemies, etc. So unless you have, say, 64 of your buddies all line up single-file in front of you, you're still going to see that German in front of you firing at you. (That example might not be exactly right, as the algorithm for drawing preference is complicated.)
>So in truth, you don't *have* to have 64 ENEMIES firing at
>you to get killed by an unseen unit, you merely have to
>have 64 PEOPLE, friendly or not, in your general area.
No. In truth, you pretty much HAVE to have 64 ENEMIES firing at you to get killed by an undrawn unit. Because any other friendlies around won't get drawn if there's an enemy looking at you, unless they are right in front of you.
Bruce
I understand it, but some unsuspecting readers on this board might not. I clarified it primarily for their benefit.
>And you can fill up that limit pretty damn quick if you're
>assaulting an AB (that means Army Base). Since all the
>enemy spawns out of two points in that small area, in a
>popular town it's *damn easy* to hit the "64 visible
>player entities at any one time in the forward looking
>viewport area of space location" limit. (was that enough
>words to describe it this time? or do you need more?)
That's enough words to tell me you're probably wrong. You've actually seen *64 enemy soldiers all looking at you at the same time*? I doubt it.
It is very easy to have more than 64 in the general area, but it's very very hard to have more than 64 all drawn in such a way that there's a 65th in front of you, firing at you, that you can't see.
>Especially since YOUR OWN TROOPS count toward that limit.
>Oops. Probably didn't want any mention of that coming out,
>did you? Well, it's true. Your own side counts against
>that same '64 limit' (being the limit mentioned above -
>hopefully I don't have to describe it fully once again).
Yes, but the preference is to draw the people right in front of you first, and then enemies, etc. So unless you have, say, 64 of your buddies all line up single-file in front of you, you're still going to see that German in front of you firing at you. (That example might not be exactly right, as the algorithm for drawing preference is complicated.)
>So in truth, you don't *have* to have 64 ENEMIES firing at
>you to get killed by an unseen unit, you merely have to
>have 64 PEOPLE, friendly or not, in your general area.
No. In truth, you pretty much HAVE to have 64 ENEMIES firing at you to get killed by an undrawn unit. Because any other friendlies around won't get drawn if there's an enemy looking at you, unless they are right in front of you.
Bruce
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