I found the AAA site
http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/index.php
I dl the engine and weapon sounds mod, and the two map mods.
There is just so much going on and the mod makers are having a field day.
More power to them.
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I think their map mods are pretty good, but they are mostly color improvements. Most of the maps still need more work.
Trees do not grow in Salt water. The idea of all the trees is great, but taking trees beyond the shoreline into salt water should not be.
The Pacific Islands were covered in Jungle.
Roads and tracks were barely seeable from the air, because of trees and foliage.
Trees often extended very close to beaches, often overhanging waters edge.
Trees and greenery was everywhere, especially Pacific Islands, mostly jungle.
Lakes, rivers and streams should have trees along waters edge borders.
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The water that runs from the oceans inland should not end in a nice soft arc, they need to end in sharp jagged narrow ends or tentacled ends.
You will always see trees growing along the waters edge of any body of water, this is never the case in IL2 maps. Trees love to grow beside fresh water and border all lakes, rivers and streams all over the world.
There are large open spaces of land in IL2 maps bordering the edges of all rivers and streams, which is just not the case. There are certainly some open spaces around such areas, but nothing like in IL2 maps.
There are large open spaces on both sides of all roads and tracks. I always hated this because finding the ground enemy was always too easy and the combat engagements just seemed stupid.
The IL2 maps/battlefields are just laid out in perfect view for attacking aircraft to find and destroy ground targets.
It would be great to have partially concealed roads and tracks making it hard to find the enemy, and conversely the enemy could hide. Much more realistic.
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Don't get me wrong I like what has and is being done. The current map mods are mostly a green up or winterize some maps. Maps is definitely the big bug-a-boo for the Pacific war theatre. The maps are nowhere near as good as they can be at this point. Burma looks pretty good but you still have the same kind of issues with trees not bordering water, streams, rivers, roads and tracks.
IL2 maps are just too neat ---