4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Janosch]

Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead

There's a cheat that lets you fly around without fuel and without your engine ever overheating that works on stock servers, I've seen it discussed on a Russian server forum

That's not proof that such cheat exists.

Of course, it's logical that if you fly without fuel (it's spelled "gliding"), the engine won't run, and therefore it doesn't overheat.

[nic727]

Flyable C47 where you need to drop paratroopers over enemy base

[stovak]

Speaking of C47s, I've noticed that if you have icons on, the C47 and Li-2 are both labelled 'Douglas'. Didn't they used to be labelled 'C47' and 'Li-2', at one time, or am I remembering wrongly? The other DC3 variant, the L2D, gets its own label.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by stovak

Speaking of C47s, I've noticed that if you have icons on, the C47 and Li-2 are both labelled 'Douglas'. Didn't they used to be labelled 'C47' and 'Li-2', at one time, or am I remembering wrongly? The other DC3 variant, the L2D, gets its own label.

There's some inconsistencies in some of the labelling... but it wasn't too unusual for aircraft to sometimes be identified by their parent companies. A few updates would be good to label the C-47 and Li-2 specifically. The IL-4 is also labelled as a DB-3 which is appropriate for the earlier versions but not for the IL-4 version which is otherwise represented separately.

Very minor corrections.

[Treetop64]

Lol, wow.

Sita is psychic.

[nic727]

Today I want to talk about the futur. What about a new engine for v. 5.00?

I was looking at some Warthunder screenshots and I know this game is arcade, but the graphics are amazing. I was thinkg about we could take a graphic engine like Unreal Engine 4 or just making a new version of the current Il2 engine... (for that we should just take two years without Il2 1946 update and just focus on improving the game engine) The only thing I don't know is how to completly update the game like that? Maybe a new disc version like a completly new game, but just called Il2 Sturmovik?

There are the pictures I was looking to :

[Treetop64]

Frankly, I never thought that War Thunder's graphics - while nice - were all that great (mine are at full-sliders at monitor resolution), especially in the resolution for most of it's aircraft textures, which seem primitively low (though it's a big help with optimization). War Thunder's graphics leaves room for improvement by contemporary standards.

It does feature a lot of new effects like light ghosting, bump mapping, etc. and some other fluff like Sepia, Vignettes, and other filters. I will say that the terrain is quite nicely modelled when cranked to full terrain resolution, however.

At any rate, talking about implementing such drastic changes and building a new environment using IL-2's antique engine is pointless, and it's been discussed before. It's like trying to compete in modern motorsports by installing a turbocharged hybrid V6 with KERS into an old Lotus 49. Cool to talk about and carry out, but ultimately pointless and wasteful and, in the case of IL-2, hardly possible.

In this case, it's just smarter and more economical to build a new game from a clean sheet, as has already been done with BoS. Besides, the modding community has produced some very good maps and effects that maximizes IL-2's capabilities and, in some ways, stresses them. That is about as much as one can expect from this old girl.

Keep in mind that the IL-2 environment is more than twelve years old now...