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[McFeckit]

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

Which certainly is nonsense, as the zooming system tries to what the eyeball MKI can do all at once. Wide field of view which a much higher resolution then any monitor is capable to display at the moment. The zoom is a cheap attempt to get those capabilities into the sim, but it's better then nothing.

[SEE]

My cache folder is full of what I think are custom skins, logos, emblems, etc Jpeg, Bitmap, all sorts and one for a BF that looks cunningly like an allied paint job from above......hmmm? Ban them I say!

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by SEE

My cache folder is full of what I think are custom skins, logos, emblems, etc Jpeg, Bitmap, all sorts and one for a BF that looks cunningly like an allied paint job from above......hmmm? Ban them I say!

If people are flying a lot online and have quite a few skins in their cache folder from other regulars, I assume that would help reduce stutters?
In il2 online wars most hosts asked people to set their netspeed lower, as apparently that helped.
il2 had a simple 'skins off' setting for hosts, and I'm surprised that is not present in CoD.Either they forgot, or assumed skins would not be a problem any more...

[klem]

Hi Bliss

Have you considered having 'engines warm' on your server?

If we consider that we are 'at readiness' the groundcrew would have kept the engines warm ready for a scramble. Also, I know I say don't take off from a field under attack but sometimes I do and to sit there being vulched while the engine warms up is a bit annoying and unreal.

There may be reasons why some guys would want to sit and wait for the engine to warm up but that's not very realistic from an operational point of view. Its ok if you're just wanting to go through the whole process off line just for the added realism of a test flight.

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by klem

Hi Bliss

Its ok if you're just wanting to go through the whole process off line just for the added realism of a test flight.

Yes we want. There was many airfield all over sthern england (dispersed) and so does we have some choice fro re-spawning. If you intend to arrive at 15kft over the front line (wich shld be the coast of England during BoB) then choosing an airfield 50km away from the coast seems to be more a logical choice.

I am always surprised how the action on ATAG can be so packed low ard hawkinge or high over the Calais (!?).

[SEE]

Why is it Hawking that seems to attract the low level sorties? Manston and nearby rarely gets that level of attention so I use those bases

There were 60 players last night, I and another player escorted a flight of Wellingtons to and from the target without a single attack.

It seems that a lot of players on both sides prefer and enjoy the low level sorties which is why I think Trumps suggestion could help though my gut feeling is that it probably won't (it takes a while to get to around 20K) and not a lot happens player v player. When you do get the odd escort, the challenge of confronting any escort and downing the bombers is far more satisfying and more in the spirit of the BoB (for myself and a few others anyway). Which is OK...each to their own!

[klem]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Yes we want. There was many airfield all over sthern england (dispersed) and so does we have some choice fro re-spawning. If you intend to arrive at 15kft over the front line (wich shld be the coast of England during BoB) then choosing an airfield 50km away from the coast seems to be more a logical choice.

I am always surprised how the action on ATAG can be so packed low ard hawkinge or high over the Calais (!?).

Whether they were at Hawkinge, Biggin Hill, Hornchurch or Duxford the engines would be warmed and ready to go for either a 'cockpit readiness' scramble or a more leisurely planned sweep/escort. Remember that both pilots and aircraft were kept available at various stages of readiness, all ready to go. They weren't like us, just leaping in and out of cockpits whenever we feel like it. If we like to think we are at 'cockpit readiness' the engines should be warm. If not we should wait in the briefing room until the ground crew have warmed them. btw, tests were carried out that showed the Merlin could be run from cold without any significant damage other than, IIRC, reducing its hours before maintenance.

This is not me trying to avoid being vulched - thats a risk you take even with a warm engine - its just unrealistic waiting around for the engine to warm up.

EDIT: cheesehawk I didn't realise that. You mean that CEM is disabled if you select warm engines? Another bug on the windscreen of real life

[MK.Mr.X]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

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Originally Posted by McFeckit

Mr. X uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

Hmm .. And what's wrong with that?
I am 10 years flying in the IL2 and I have never seen such a statement ... It's a game! Do you have good eyesight? Large monitor? .. But in others, poor and small, so that the theme of nothing ...

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

On the contrary 30 degrees FOV ( zoomed in) gives you realistic dimensions of objects because average monitor occupies about 30 deg. of your real life(RL) FOV in your room. Only in this mode ingame 30 dg. = RL 30 deg.. That is why it is included in game.

60 and 90 deg. FOVs included in game because in RL our total FOV is about 180 degrees. You can check it if you raise your hands to your sides and move fingers you can see movement of both hands with peripheral vision without moving your eyes.

Ingame 90 deg. FOV is only an attempt to squeeze RL 90 deg. into a small monitor window which occupies only 30 deg. of your RL FOV. Thus with 90 deg. ingame FOV all objects appear more than 3 times smaller than in real life

This is a known game-design issue: average monitor can not provide realistic 180 deg. FOV and only 40-50 inch panels can provide about 90 deg. RL FOV.