Daishi2442 wrote:It is fatter, has a highlighted red rear sight post, bullets are now correctly colored, magazine is bakelite, a few other things as well.
Hmm, makes me wonder what it was like before...
In my opinion, it is still the least well done firearm in Project Reality; the dust cover needs reworking (especially at the back, right in front of the player's camera) and the magazine they have on it doesn't exist in real life. The orange "bakelite" magazines (which aren't actually bakelite) don't have the ribbing in real life, whereas the plum and black versions do (which are representative of AKS-74Us from the '80s onwards). Other than that, it's general modeling and texture things such as a big broken polygon on the front of the rear sight (it's on the right hand side), gaps in the mesh of the front grip (which is okay since you can't really see it from the player view), a general lack of detail along the sides, and the weapon is a bit too small (8.8%).
By all means, this does not mean that 0.95 is a bad release. What I mean is that with such good content streaming in now, it would pay to think about remaking some of these weapons which have been in the mod for a longer time.
EDIT: If I wanted to be hypercritical, I'd say this about the texturing of the vehicles:
1. Some of them look REALLY really good, where I've actually had to stop and examine it from all angles because I really loved how it looked. This is the case with probably most of the vehicles.
2. Some of them aren't great. The main problems are:
- For air vehicles, it's usually noise on the texture which would have been intentionally put in to quickly get extra detail. Unfortunately, it makes an otherwise nice helicopter or jet look like it's made of carpet.
- For some armoured vehicles (some IDF vehicles in particular), oversharpening is a problem. I know it's common practice to add a sharpening pass over the top of the texture when it's done to compensate to compensate for sharp edges lost to filtering, but only do ONE pass. It's definitely easy to over-do it.
Well that's my rant haha, read it or ignore it if you want, I don't mind.
. Still 25-50 meters seems way too small to me. Especially on maps like Basrah.
