Friday 2010-10-15 Dev. update and Discussion

[Spudkopf]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

If you mean speech of gunner. Yes, some are missed and even not used comparing to original first Il-2. With the changes of AI in time some speeches in Il-2 were forgotten by other than original AI programmer. I told him many times, but it wasn't corrected. Just in several cases for the speeches was correction comparing to original complex and some time random AI speech in Il-2.

G’day Oleg thanks for the clarification; yes the gunner speech was what I was referring too.

I’ve been a big fan of the Stuka ever since the B model became flyable as a patch to the original Il2 (as frankly my Dog-fighting skills suck), however I can’t say that I can ever recall the Stuka gunner AI being audible when jinking to avoid flak and seeing that the Stuka was not flyable from the outset out of the box this may explain why.

As I only rarely fly soviet aircraft it tends to be a little bit of a pleasant surprise when my gunner tells me off during my erratic evasive manoeuvres, but now that I know this I might just deliberately fly inverted at low level just to piss them off

But most importantly I hope your son was feeling well enough to have been eventually able to get in his dive bombing practice over this weekend? I’m currently trying to convince my 13 year old to do some Il2 flying on the PC instead off those brain melting FPS games on his 360, so I bought him “IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey” to try help bring him across, but I’ll also now need to get a 360 compatible joystick instead of those game controllers.

[T}{OR]

Thanks for this great update.

Originally Posted by Hecke

You said there will be seperate EXE for 64 bit support.
Will SoW BoB make use of for example 8 GB Ram?


Bye, Heck

This is a good question. Especially since I am thinking about either 1156 (8GB) or 1366 (6GB) system for my next build. Depends of the CPU and RAM, what will SoW benefit from more.

Can you answer this for us Oleg?

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by T.}{.O.R.

First of all, thanks for this great update.



This is a good question. Especially since I am thinking about either 1156 (8GB) or 1366 (6GB) system for my next build. Depends of the CPU and RAM, what will SoW benefit from more.

Can you answer this for us Oleg?

Thanks

I think yes. I will ask main programmer for sure.

[Ctrl E]

hi oleg. will there be people in those beautiful vehicles ou have made? and troops on the ground?

[Eki]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the regular updates and answers.

Wanted to ask a small question about in game player statistics: Is SoW going to have a pilot logbook, that will keep track of pilots flight hours (online and offline), flown sorties, air/ground kills, gunnery accuracy etc.?

It would be a nice feature and interesting to see how you have improved your flight skills after countless flight hours.

[Trumper]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

On Monday we should compile the version for NVIDIA.
They will make/check separate drivers that to show their new equipment with SoW at exhibition in Moscow in the beginning of November in our showroom. That will be demonstration fro my hands and not for all yet.

I wonder what can be made of this comment,how far down the line would they have to be to get video card makers involved.

[Xilon_x]

Dear Oleg maddox if simulator SoW not have the wind is negative.
wind is a important physic factor.
EXAMPLE direction of wind.
GLIDER airplane not fly if not have Wind.
Wind cold or wind hot.

glider airplane.

instrument meteo for take direction and intensity of wind.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

Personally I'm not too worried. I guess people are simply irritated that the SoW updates don't show constant improvements in every area; it's obvious that the team is still experimenting with many aspects. Most screens released so far focus on certain aspects, and many people fail to see this (usually ignoring the shown features and commenting on something else).

So far we have not seen a single screenshot that combines the best aspects shown in individual screens.

I think the same too. It's just seems people worry so much about anything they might not like, to the point of completely missing other things that are in fact very well done

[dduff442]

Well I was impressed by the difference between the dull-weather shots (this Fri) and bright-weather shots the other weeks. I think people forget how England in late August/September can look different from its normal self. My guess is that tuning everything to look good in different lighting conditions is sure to be a tough job.

I'd say let room for the critics so long as they're not obstinate or rude.

If I had to pick, I'd say go for a slightly unrealistic dark look purely so that really bright things like the sun and fuel explosions etc. create a dramatic effect. The eye quickly readjusts to a 'look' so long as its consistent.

The point about smoke-blackened buildings and streets is excellent, IMO. I suppose the fact that small towns and large cities use the same buildings would be a problem -- small towns in the country wouldn't suffer as much blackening.

Actual smoke over such a scene in winter time would be very atmospheric -- imagine the St Paul's looming out of the winter haze as you're on the tail of a 109, or on a 'tip and run' lone raid in a Bf-110. Something to look forward to!

dduff442

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

Dear Oleg maddox if simulator SoW not have the wind is negative.
wind is a important physic factor.
EXAMPLE direction of wind.
GLIDER airplane not fly if not have Wind.
Wind cold or wind hot.


glider airplane.

instrument meteo for take direction and intensity of wind.

Dear Xilon_x, if spaghetti not have the tomato is negative.
Tomatoes are important factor to Italian food.
EXAMPLE look of tomato.
SPAGHETTI not exist if not have Tomato.
Tomato cooked or raw.


Spaghetti pot


oven control amount and intensity of heat.

**back to normal**

You just called Oleg Maddox an idiot! Not directly, but you just explained to a guy making a flight simulator that WIND IS IMPORTANT! Then you went on to explain that gliders need wind to fly. Maybe next you could tell him how to dress himself or tie his shoes. I'm sure he'd appreciate that as well.