Friday 2010-12-03 Dev. update and Discussion

[addman]

OMG! weathering slider! multiple bomber formations! callsigns! I might just have soiled myself, great stuff Oleg to say the least.

[zakkandrachoff]

*The final name will be STORM OF WAR Cliff of Dover? Or Battle Of Britain?

*mmm, i believe that the airfield need have is own logo for the task or operation. Bombers, CAS, GAI, interceptors, destroyers.

*a hurricane, never do a mission made to land ing German airfield

*When we do a checkpoint, we will have some tool for know the autonomy of the airplane to know if we can return to the base or not?

*I want to see some Bf 109 or Bf 110 shooting that 20mm cannons bullets and see the smoke. Pleeeeeease

*In every place I read that Korea or Afrika will be the 2 series. For me, I don’t like Korea, I like Afrika or Battle For Moscow. I want my Bf 109 F-4

[NSU]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Yes, sorry my friend.
I remember you request for planning new you own campaign add-on.

yes, now i have all infos

maybe a good screenshot from London

[PeterPanPan]

Full map below ... looks good eh



PPanPan

[Trooper117]

Brilliant.. This is the info I have been waiting for. I almost feel I can leap straight in and start making my own missions straight away.. it's instantly recognisable from the IL2 FMB..

[klem]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Yes, sorry my friend.
I remember you request for planning new you own campaign add-on.

There is a LOT to be positive about in the FMB, an obvious improvement on what is in IL-2.

A bit Off Topic I know but it's the first we've seen of the map and I am disappointed that we will not be able to make missions for the Battle of France or the broader Bombing aspect of the period. The most we can do is Dunquerqe. I know its BoB but I had hoped for a map extending East more.

The Battle for France is inextricably linked to the BoB, starting 10th may, same aircraft, experience/development of tactics, rolling straight through to Dunquerque and on into the BoB after a short pause.

OK, turn the flame throwers on.

[David603]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

Not exactly, there is a scrollbar on the right, so there must be more in the south

Had a quick look on google maps, and from the scroll-bar I would estimate the map extends south to somewhere around Le Havre.

[Letum]

Thank you again Oleg.
Will there be a winter map with this release?

[Upthair]

An idea about the image below. In the "Action" slot, things like "Tight horizontal Turn", "Barrel Roll", etc, can perhaps be added for AI pilots. AI planes performing these manoeuvres endlessly can help us practise gunnery against online opponents.

[Upthair]

Originally Posted by Upthair

An idea about the image below. In the "Action" slot, things like "Tight horizontal Turn", "Barrel Roll", etc, can perhaps be added for AI pilots. AI planes performing these manoeuvres endlessly can help us practise gunnery against online opponents.

Oops, I did not express myself clearly yesterday.

I think that one of the major roles of offline play is for a simmer to practise aerial gunnery, and adding those manoeuvres in the Action menu can expand this role .

In online dogfight, you often approach and attack an enemy fighter that is currently engaging a friendly of yours, and, for example, doing a tight horizontal or oblique turn towards your friendly. Also, the enemy is not aware of your approach and therefore continues the tight turn without any change. You then fire at an opponent busy fighting with someone else. This situation is particularly common when your tactics is hit-and-run or boom-and-zoom in a hot air combat. But you need good gunnery to attack such a target successfuly with only one pass, gunnery that lets you fire precisely at the enemy with high speed and from any angle.

So to create such single-player missions with the suggested new "Action" options will be a help for the simmer to practise gunnery against specific aerobatic manouvres. But we need to let the AI perform those manoeuvres repeatedly, without being influenced by the player's presence.

Well, it is just a small idea that might be worth listening to. Thanks a lot Mr Maddox for reading it!