Other requests:
Apparently, the SBD had a slip indicator which was visible when looking through the sight.
Also, not all tube sights were "telescopic" as they are represented in the game. They are used to project a cross-hairs on a target without parallax problems associated with iron sights. The pilot can keep both eyes open, tracking a maneuvering target with one eye, and using the other to determine his aim point. In game, the use of these sights restricts view, making tracking difficult.
I would suggest that Shift+F1 moves the view much closer to the sight, allowing the player to see both the cross-hairs and objects in his periphery.
Aircraft changes (I don't claim to be an expert, but I've seen other members/sources bring some of these up):
- Zero roll rate: apparently roll rate suffered at higher speeds due to wing-flex caused by the large ailerons and wing structure. It seems in Il-2 that this loss occurs too late.
- Ki-61 has wrong interior color, and should be a khaki/green. It also lacks fire-extinguisher for fuel tanks (maybe engine?).
- Rufe has wrong interior color. Should be blue-coated silver.
- Ki-27 and other Army aircraft had a dark blue-grey interior.
- Exterior color for Japanese aircraft wasn't pale-grey/off-white as in game. Instead it looked Taupe or grey-green, and was surprisingly dark (ex. Ki-27, Ki-21, undersides for most aircraft). It faded and became chalky in sunlight, but was tough and didn't often chip. Dark green, if applied over this, didn't chip (ex. some Zeros). If the green was applied directly on aluminum, it would chip easily (ex. Ki-43, Ki-84, N1K). The natural-metal undersides would have dulled quickly and can appear like light-grey in B/W photos.
Here are a couple models (not my own) illustrating this:
Conventional view:
Revised:
-LaGGs, Yaks, MiGs, Il-2s, etc. should have light grey interior surfaces.
- Il-2s from 1941-1943 should have dark-green and black camouflage(dark-green and brown is not correct). From 1943-45, dark green, dark grey, and Earth brown. It's possible that some late Il-2s had Earth brown replaced with dark blue-grey present on fighters.
an example of early scheme:
Late scheme:
Another late scheme (it's unknown how many were painted like this):
Rare color photos:
- The same dark-green and black applies to LaGGs, Yaks, etc. The green on in-game LaGGs is too bright, and the black looks like dark grey. The later war scheme of two-tone grey over blue was sometimes applied in a "splinter" fashion, but research indicates that "wavy" and "splinter" probably didn't coexist on the same airframe as we have in La-7s, etc (compare fuselage to wings).
Wavy/serpentine:
Splinter:
- The Hurricane series could use upgraded skins. It would be nice if desert examples had sand filters. A Hurri Mk.IV for use in late-war scenarios would be nice, and so would a Mk.II D (anti-tank guns).