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Originally Posted by baronWastelan
You are making suggestions based on development screenshots; Oleg has made it clear that those do not represent the level of "historical accuracy" that will be in the final product. You have a lot of excellent info but at this stage of development these exterior markings are all to be taken as "place-holders".
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Re-igniting this thread. Several posts in this thread a month or more ago were similar to the one above. They expressed the opinion (or paraphrased an Oleg comment) that all the weekly update Screencaps were
merely 'fillers',
WIP's, etc, and that historical accuracy considerations and critiques were therefore unfounded, inappropriate.....Not to worry oneself over. Assurances were made that the the final product would,
of course, show historically correct skins.
Since then, there have been a number of new postings around the internet, including unofficial videos and official Trailers for the Product.
Every Spitfire shown in any screencap or video has depicted the misaligned, 'stepped', Code Letter pattern...which was quite clearly the exception to the norm of WWII RAF code letter pattern. Easily an estimated
90%, admittedly not
all, of all Spitfire photos and artist 'Profiles' show the letters horzontally aligned.
On the other hand, all COD Hurricanes seem to have the code letters correctly/appropriately aligned.
Now that Release of COD is just a bit over one month away, can one assume that the Spitfires will, in fact, have historically accurate skins for those RAF Sqdns included? After all, if the default template for all the SOW:BOB Spit skins
had been created during WIP development with the stepped, non-aligned place holder lettering, surely there has been sufficient time to make the required correction before release of COD.
Bottom line: If the lettering can be done correctly for the Hurricanes and other aircraft (the Blenheims for example),it would seem easily doable/correctable for the Spitfires as well...before release.
imho