Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

[Alien]

I would love to know if the game will support such things as barrage balloons attached to ships starting from August 7th or equip of 19th squadron: Spitfire Ibs, or Ju-88s using their blenheim-likeness to fake land and drop bombs while landing gear rising. Or the fact that at least once blenheim joined the junkers formation and started to shoot.

[AndyJWest]

Also a little bit of fancy flying (you can collide with each one of those wires).

Was the Gladiator listed as a flyable? Ah well, it is now...

Looking good. Very good.

[Stanger]

Man the planes look so awesome. Good work.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Sheong

The pilot bailing out in the last picture lookeds like Adolf Hitler.

If that is Oleg, you're in deep shit. No SoW for you

[BigC208]

The flames coming out of the wing of the Ju88 convey a real sense of speed and motion. Smoke looks very realistic as well. Coming along fine.
Has anyone else noted that Groucho Marx, flying the J88 cannot reach the rudder pedals? Only noticed it after enlarging the picture to 200%.

[PhilHL]

ahh those wires... that makes me want to test the damage modell of the planes

the crew looks great... and the planes are not low poly. i think they are fine. btw: the canopy of the ju88 isn't round in realife also, i think that was the very first post refering to.

I guess ic games is using pictures of team members for the pilot skins, at least maybe they did it in il2 so.. maybe it is oleg lol

just a little note: the wires of the radar station are not allways proper connected!

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by BigC208

The flames coming out of the wing of the Ju88 convey a real sense of speed and motion. Smoke looks very realistic as well.

I agree. Smoke and flames seem to have developed really well in the last few weeks.

Originally Posted by Luthier

We've done a lot of stuff this week, enough for a few updates. Today we're focusing our new and improved aircrews.

Does this mean we'll be treated to more updates this week? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

[madsarmy]

Originally Posted by Fansadox

Very nice screenshots but for the love of god start using AA + AF

The game runs to choppy with those on

[philip.ed]

Please; don't do weekly updates.

Do an update every other week that shows a video. Theses pictures, no offence, are boring without showing new features (this week is an exception). I hate seeing you take time out to put these together when you could be working on the game. A video once a month would be awesome and keep us entertained enough.

[philip.ed]

This is looking so good; the crew look real! Question; will the effects for tracers be 3D or 2D (currently they are 2D in Il-2). I'd love to see how the tracers smoke trails could look and react in game.
Regarding fire; does it spread? This is too much to ask, I know, but I just wanted to know. I think I read somewhere that fire could spread and so I am curious if it starts out small and grows in size (as the fire in those shots looks lethal)