I am thrilled by the inclusion of The Slot map. Finally, one of the most important maps of the PTO will be available.
Considering that the Pacific theater is rather lacking in Il-2 and that it will probably be revisited very late with SoW (Med and Eastern Front are always mentioned first), are there any special plans by Daidalos Team to give it some special treatment? Would be lovely to shorten the years until the PTO reappears with SoW.
Map wise, The Slot is obviously a big step already. Team Pacific has a New Guinea/New Britain map in the works, would that be a possible candidate for future inclusion even though it is made in reduced scale? Or would that be off limits?
Are there any plans to add new ships? Many important warships are missing, though I understand that there are legal limits for some of them. But what I think would be even more important would be a wide selection of smaller ships and crafts as targets, like barges, tugs, trawlers, LST, LCT, LCI etc. For a map like The Slot, ships are the primary ground targets.
I was pleased to see the improved effects for sinking ships (life boats, debris). Are there further plans to improve the damage model of ships? Strafing ships was an important practise in the war, which currently does not translate very well in Il-2 (has no effect except for some hard to destroy AA-guns on newer models). For example a 1-in-50 chance to cause a catastrophic fuel or ammo explosion when strafing small crafts would be great. This would be a great reason to keep strafing targets of opportunity, you would never know if you are lucky. It would also be nice to add ship damage to the scoring (to be usable in online wars and dynamic mission creation).
Lastly I would like to suggest to make open AA-mounts on ships very easy to destroy, but also revert them back to action again after perhaps 60 seconds. This would be a fine simulation of gunners taking cover when under attack or fresh operators replacing fallen gunners. This would allow us to suppress the ships defenses for a short amount of time. The current damage model of destroyed AA-mounts and smoke could be replaced with an intact mount but without crewman. If the Il-2 code allows, the gun could still be completely destroyed with sufficient fire.
Anyway, these are just some ideas. Thanks for your great efforts.
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