Friday 2010-12-03 Dev. update and Discussion

[JG52Krupi]

Lol well said.

I understand why some ppl are frustrated, Oleg should say something on this as clearly some of us were expecting a larger map.

Personally I would have liked the south west to be present but I'm not too bothered.

[brando]

Originally Posted by flatspinman

hopefully not bothering reading the last 5 or so pages.

+100%

[JAMF]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Then again, for security reasons the actual map for BOB SOW may not be what we are seeing in the screenshots. Afterall, the SOW is about the Battle of Britain. It just doesn't make sense for a BOB to not have all the groups covered.

Let's hope they still have the map as "in development" because, as it was pointed out in another forum, the Basin de l'Atlantique wasn't built till after the war.

Center of image: Harbour to the left of Dunkirk


"Today" : Harbour roadstead to the left, docks to the right, near city centre


Aerial '44. Harbour and sea access near city centre. Would overlay the image above to the right quarter.

[Asheshouse]

That 1944 aerial image looks awfully similar to the details on an il2 map which I've seen somewhere.

[Rodolphe]

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First of all I would like to thank Oleg and his team for this interesting glimpse of the FMB and Map.

Originally Posted by JAMF

Let's hope they still have the map as "in development" because, as it was pointed out in another forum, the Basin de l'Atlantique wasn't built till after the war.

@JAMF
This issue could be more complex to solved.


Anachronism and map

Years ago, when the '1946' title became available, the included 'Bonus' DVD allowed us to discover the early phases of development of the so eagerly-awaited BoB SoW.

Among other subject, that video uncovered the dev'team members at their respective 'Battle station", depicting some of the today well-known aircraft, vehicles, buildings, miscellaneous objects and map.

With one scene, we could overlooked Maxim K', working on the South-East Canterbury area with the Map Builder tool.



At that time I was a little worried about the referential map data used to create the in-game map. For example, the M2/A2, the motorway connecting Dover to London was depicted (in red on the above picture) on the referential map which most certainly confirmed the use of a modern, post WWII map edition. Hopefully this motorway is not represented on the game map. ; ))




Last summer, the BoB SoW July 09th update, the following screenshot had a first example of anachronism with the existence of the King George VI Reservoir (opened only in November 1947) .







With this update, I still have some worries with the publication of the latest screenshots.

Let's have a look on the rapidly expending post war urbanization of towns and cities and compare the extract of this Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 1940's edition map with the BoB SoW Map.





We can observe the quite larger brown cities areas of the future game map compared to the original 1940'S map.


A closer look at the town of Southend






Now I go back to my armchair next to the open fire with a wonderfull feeling of drowsy tranquillity.

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[Sutts]

Oh dear, looks like someone's been relying too much on google earth. Shame we didn't see the map sooner. This explains why all the fields have modern day tractor tramlines too. And the 1947 reservoir and so on......

You'd think they could have found a period map to use.

Just hope modders have access to the main map.

Shame.

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by klem

I am English, I now live on the South Coast near to Brighton. I was born in SE London under what had been the V1/V2 alley and 300 yds from a major triple railway junction that got plastered several times. I played on bombsites and have got p*ssed in Croydon.
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I hope you support Palace


So much for answering questions though. I don't expect Oleg to answer the questions posted but I would expect if he says he's going to. Disappointed.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Osprey

I hope you support Palace


So much for answering questions though. I don't expect Oleg to answer the questions posted but I would expect if he says he's going to. Disappointed.

I used to watch Palace occasionally but tbh football's never been big with me. I did once make the mistake of watching Millwall at home play Middlesborough. There weren't too many fights but by the time the p*sshead behind me on the terrace had spent 90 minutes shouting "c'mon the 'burrar " I had more 'product' in my hair than Jedward. ecchhhhhh!

Oleg finally answered the 'Map' questions here:-

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=17629&page=5

[Osprey]

LOL! I'm an eagle too I thought there was always the chance that you didn't like the game but at least you've been and you recognise your area Last time i saw Dillwall they were ripping the seats out of the Arthur Wait to throw at us. I haven't been for a while but I did have a season ticket for several years at one time.

It would have been nice to actually get some response to the many questions asked on this update but there's virtually nothing.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Osprey

LOL! I'm an eagle too I thought there was always the chance that you didn't like the game but at least you've been and you recognise your area Last time i saw Dillwall they were ripping the seats out of the Arthur Wait to throw at us. I haven't been for a while but I did have a season ticket for several years at one time.

It would have been nice to actually get some response to the many questions asked on this update but there's virtually nothing.

See, this is where I REALLY look ignorant. Do you know how many returns I get from google for "Football Eagles"? I don't remember a team being called the Eagles back then but it was a long long time ago. I was more into Air Cadets, shooting, flying, motorbikes, early marriage, not early enough divorce, golf, new marriage, kids, no golf, overdrafts, virtual online combat, a generous sprinkling of career along the way and a few pubs.