Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY - For 4.11

[Gunshi091]

Hello TD and thanks a lot for your work ;

So my question is : Will you add Japanese planes in future updates ? just a question

My request is : Please change the AI , it really kills immersion as it is , i'm aware of the cpu limitation and that the AI will never be in the same conditions than the player , but i'm' sure it is possible to make it less ridiculous as it currently is , it is great that they don't see through clouds now , i'm grateful , but i think we should go further , what needs to be improved is to cut the ability of the AI to fly like UFO's as much as possible ( dives at mach 1 with fragile airplanes , climb like a helicopter at low speed with a 6 ton aircraft or when they overstep by a huge margin the speed limits and maintain ridiculous energy while doing crazy manoeuvres etc )

I'm not asking for a perfect AI respecting law of physics rigourously like the player has to , or having black outs etc ... , i know it is technically not feasible , i just ask for an AI using better tactics , for instance an AI that boom and zoom with Any plane like real pilots , an AI that is possible to surprise (veteran or not , pilots were humans ) and an AI that doesn't have the UFO zoom climbing script Veteran/Ace currently have which is a complete immersion killer . AI has to be smarter or at least if it 's not possible to make it smarter , make it so it doesn't cheat physics as much as it does currently and still make us believe we are in World War II and not star wars , the skill level "rookie-average-veteran-ace" should reflect the AI pilot skill and not the ability of his plane to enter the matrix


Anyway I know many posters here play online and may not bother about my request , but really i"m pretty sure more than 2/3 rd of players are offliners and changing the AI would make a HUGE difference for the majority of the community , many of us work and have a family life with demanding schedule , so we play essentially when we can and offline is where we spend by far the most time , so please anything that improves the offline experience would be amazing , thank you very much for your work TD and good luck

[wildwillie]

My WishList:

Updated eventlog output that lists:

When a player damages a ship(Chief or static) with bomb/rocket. Currently you only get an eventlog entry when the ship is destroyed. Something like: "xyz_static damaged by pilot:plane at xcoord ycoord"


More damaged by messages when a pilot damages another aircraft. Currently it shows a lot of damage messages in chat, but it would be great to have those in the eventlog as well.


Flyable B5N2


Thanks for all the updates you have delivered so far...

[IceFire]

I'd still love to see a flyable Typhoon Mark IB someday. Maybe in a future IL-2 release or... probably more likely... Cliffs of Dover addon.

Really I love any new content so I'm pretty much happy no matter what gets released. Bring it all on

[Fafnir_6]

Ahh, I see about the "return to base" command. It should be added to the Rottflieger menu as well. A worthy request to be sure.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[TinyTim]

Overhaul of damage modelling.

I'm probably barking into the moon I know since it would mean a gargantous amount of work, but DM in my opinion really is lagging badly behind any other major aspect of the sim in term of quality.

It would be pure joy to see IL-2 in perfect mode on 3 displays without that little flickering black square at the lower left corner. SANS FoV Changer conquered the tie fighter appearance where the wings used to stick forward on the outboard monitors but it would be great to see IL-2 in perfect mode again.

[secretone]

Originally Posted by IceFire

I'd still love to see a flyable Typhoon Mark IB someday. Maybe in a future IL-2 release or... probably more likely... Cliffs of Dover addon.

Really I love any new content so I'm pretty much happy no matter what gets released. Bring it all on

I agree that the Typhoon would be a worthy addition to the game if only because of its great historical importance. But I would like any computer model we get to properly reflect the "warts" of this flawed aircraft - relatively unreliable motor, vibrations, weak tail sections, cockpit fumes etc.

[klem]

Please revise the Spitfire landing characteristics to improve energy absorption and prevent it kicking into ever-increasing lurches to destruction (and some other aircraft ?)

Please revise the size of the Tempest backplate to give a more realistic rear view. The result may not be 'to scale' but the inability to look around it is not realistic, it is said to have had a very good all-round view).

If it won't condemn my other requests to the bin, 6DOF. Much work has already been done in the community. There is another thread and poll demonstrating the majority feeling of the community and it's acceptance of very minor graphics oddities over the obsolete fixed-head view which simply no longer rates a place alongside all the other great improvements to this wonderful old sim.