REQUEST: reduce scratches on canopy

+20

Very often I can't see a bloody thing. Please fix!

Please ask maintenance to polish it! :)

In real life when you have a really scratchy canopy, in dusk and at dawn, it's really bad! Sometimes I have to get my lateral references to know where I'm going.

+20

There are enough visual limitations in video games compared to real life, we hardly need game developers going out of their way to make use feel more senseless. If they want to be concerned with realism, how about enhancing the graphics and giving us better focus and 200 degrees of peripheral vision. No? Then screw the obfuscating crap.

+22

+50

just so we get into the higher numbers

because vision in Games are allready bad enough with all those "effects"

Agree with this. Please dial the scratches back by about 30 to 40 percent. The density and opacity is too high - coming from someone who has flown 20+ year old PC9s irl.

Agreed! I know in real life people can't "zoom" their vision but I think we need to balance gameplay a bit with real life... when zooming in the scratches are really a pain.

Good news. Can't wait to test this.

It's so badly scratched that it would have been replaced if it was real

Edit: Need to check it out

I was on last night. Still couldn't see the airport 5nm away if I zoomed in. It's absurd.

Just confirming the scratches seem a lot less now in the Open Beta, also we saw some real nice condensation effects going on at times.

+8

Are you rockin the latest Open Beta or Stable?

Beta. It was at dawn. It's about the same as it has been though but it's stupid that if you zoom in the scratches become giant. I wish they had them like they did on the mirage.

if you zoom in the scratches become giant.

...... Isn't that how zoom is supposed to work....

Haha. I haven't seen what you mean as I use a mod in my canopy, but that statement seems funny.

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...... Isn't that how zoom is supposed to work....

 

Haha. I haven't seen what you mean as I use a mod in my canopy, but that statement seems funny.

 

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Yeah I see how that could sound odd lol. It isn't natural though for two reasons. One, they seem to grow relative to the canopy. By that I mean you zoom in a little bit and they get huge, it's like having a half inch thick gash in your canopy except it's a spider web of them that completely obscure your view. Two, IRL your eyes can focus past them and they aren't a big deal or they would have been buffed out or the canopy would be replaced.

It's already hard enough to see things in dcs because your brain can't compensate for movement or shaking, which is how humans easily spot moving objects. Your eyes can't focus on distances because you are in fact looking at a screen not far in front of your face, and DCS is limited in resolution compared to your eyeballs. We don't need another thing making this needlessly more difficult. The canopy wearing works great on the mirage. It needs to be like that on the harrier. I also shouldn't be able to see less of something when I zoom in, that's just counter intuitive haha.

The scratches look over done - having said that I’ve never sat in a AV-8B. When I worked on Blackhawks I never saw anything that bad.

Razbam can you make an option to turn them off?

i cant even see the scratches, i have dirt and flare turned on, and all settings to high. what am i missing? also raindrops don't show up either despite the box being ticked

My canopy looks strange as well. The scratches are gone, and the light reflections on the glass are very poor. If I'm on a concrete portion of a runway/taxiway the cockpit gets washed out a little.