Friday Update, February 17, 2012

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Osprey

This is what happens when you lose half a wing.

Duxford Flying Legends (Sunday show) 2011, the one that didn't crash lost the wing

this one is an example of making it home with extreme wing damage, not all significant wing surface damage results in an instant and complete loss of control



note: afaik no carrier landing was attempted however, they ditched in the water once they reached the carrier taskforce

I'm sure the devs have long since stopped reading this thread, but what are the drivable vehicles going to add to the game? Are you planning on adding other multi-player modes besides "dogfight"? Are you planning on some manner of Battlefield 1942 style play? If this will be usable in online play, will someone driving a tank or a truck count towards the number of people able to fly aircraft? Assuming a game is limited to 64 people online. If one person is on a tank, does that mean that there can now only be 63 people flying online?

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

I'm sure the devs have long since stopped reading this thread, but what are the drivable vehicles going to add to the game? Are you planning on adding other multi-player modes besides "dogfight"? Are you planning on some manner of Battlefield 1942 style play? If this will be usable in online play, will someone driving a tank or a truck count towards the number of people able to fly aircraft? Assuming a game is limited to 64 people online. If one person is on a tank, does that mean that there can now only be 63 people flying online?

Seriously? It looks like these features aren't even at beta stage yet.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Hmm,

I think they've well been modeled long ago, like many modules with this sim. It's just now they are finally able to put them together.

Reading between the lines long ago about the detail level of the ground units, I definitely saw this coming. Notice these videos are almost 2 years old. It's no wonder they showed hatches opening etc! It's because people will be in there!

Good stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvPlp...ure=plpp_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WKU...ure=plpp_video

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

Hmm,

I think they've well been modeled long ago, like many modules with this sim. It's just now they are finally able to put them together.

Reading between the lines long ago about the detail level of the ground units, I definitely saw this coming. Notice these videos are almost 2 years old. It's no wonder they showed hatches opening etc! It's because people will be in there!

Good stuff!

My only fear is that every game that tries to be everything to everyone (FPS, land vehicles, sea vehicles, and air vehicles) ends up doing no one thing very realistically.

The BF series and RO are perfect examples..

Both have so so first person shooter aspects
Both have so so ground vehicles aspects
BF has so so air vehicles aspects
BF has so so sea aspects

WWII Online is another, but I have not tried it in years so I don't know its current state, but when I did try it, it too was so so in each aspect

There is only one game that has done a good job of this.. And that is the ARMA (aka operation flash point) series.. They do it all (FPS, land vehicles, sea vehicles, and air vehicles) but their main focus is on the FPS aspect. That is to say all the vehicles are secondary and not very realistic in how they operate

If 1C takes that approach, where their focus is on flying, and the rest is secondary I think we will be ok as flight simmers, Some say that is the impression they get from 1C reading the Russian forums

But if 1C tries to apply the level of detail in their planes to all the ground vehicles.. Well my fear is they will loose their focus on the flight simming aspect.. I fear the long standing rule of jack of all trades, master of none will be hard to beat