Friday 2010-09-24 Dev. update and Discussion

[Richie]

Something I find weird is this is the best pic of the 109 in my opinion and it's 8 or 9 months old.

[|ZUTI|]

Hi Mr. Maddox.

I'm also one of those that are impressed with what you've shown. But, if I may repeat my old question that you already answered in the past with "will know later". It is about map making. I was wondering if you already decided on the map size that will be available to users to create. I just remember that bug maps will be for in-house development but some small scale maps will be possible to create by the community. If you have decided I would very much appreciate the info. And if we will be able to start making them as soon as SoW - BoB is out.

And one more. Will dedicated server come much after initial release or simultaneously?

Thank you very much!

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Richie

Something I find weird is this is the best pic of the 109 in my opinion and it's 8 or 9 months old.

How about these?

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...113736copy.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...113433copy.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...628_105144.jpg





From: http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/restranger/




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[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by Richie

Something I find weird is this is the best pic of the 109 in my opinion and it's 8 or 9 months old.

Many recent shots did not show the full range of features we've seen in some previous updates. For example the fresnel reflection has been missing in the last few weeks' plane shots, which makes a huge difference especially in the non-lighted areas. Texture quality settings also seem to be turned down.

Whether that indicates that not all of the presented features will make it into the final release because they were more experimental and too taxing on performance in the end, or that the team is simply holding back on showing the full quality for later stages, is anyone's guess (Luthier has already explained that he's testing on a lower range system). But even if no additional graphics features are added, it should be clear that anti-aliasing and better texture filtering will make a huge difference still.

[proton45]

I have a question (as I sit here wondering about the future of the game)...

We know that the weather will be modeled in great detail, but I'm wondering about how the effects of rain will be handled in the new game. Could the rain turn dirt to mud? Lets say you "take off" from a dirt runway and sometime during your sortie it starts to rain "cats & dogs"... Will the dirt runway turn into a slick and mushy mess on your return?

I'm thinking that this type of detail could (also) have interesting effects in future releases of the SOW series...think about the invasion of Russia and all those "battlefield airstrips" that froze solid in the winter and turned to mud in the spring.

I guess what I'm wondering, is if the "map" will have a damage model? Is that the right term? Will bombs change the landscape permanently? Will rain turn dirt to mud? Will lakes freeze in the winter or will their be separate maps for the summer and winter?

[Stukadriver]

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Stukadriver

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

It will runing good on Vista. We almost all run it here on Vista and several guys - on W7.
I'm on XP and Vista

[Richie]

Do you think any videos will be shown in the up coming updates?

[Insuber]

Hi Mr. Oleg,

When will you release the hardware specs?

Thank you,
Insuber

[Auger73]

Originally Posted by Stukadriver

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

I would strongly suspect you are having driver issues.

I've run IL-2 on XP Pro, XP Pro x64, and Win 7 x64. Aside from the installer quirks, it runs well on all of them.