Friday 2009-11-20 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[SlipBall]

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personally i am in favour of a keyboard key that would bring up a schematic of our aircraft, with a colour coded damage status. with for ex black marks where some damage was taken, with yellow marking important damage, and red marking critical damage (coolant or fuel loss for ex, structural damage that can soon lead to complete complete structural failure etc..). as initial damage leads to further deterioration, the colour coding might change over time while we are still flying, engine overheating and seizing etc). there might be other ways to do it, for ex bringing up a notepad with a "damage report" etc..




This sounds like a Terminator movie, I don't like it. I think that if you have damage, then its time to get out of there and try to get home.

[genbrien]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

(quote)
personally i am in favour of a keyboard key that would bring up a schematic of our aircraft, with a colour coded damage status. with for ex black marks where some damage was taken, with yellow marking important damage, and red marking critical damage (coolant or fuel loss for ex, structural damage that can soon lead to complete complete structural failure etc..). as initial damage leads to further deterioration, the colour coding might change over time while we are still flying, engine overheating and seizing etc). there might be other ways to do it, for ex bringing up a notepad with a "damage report" etc..




This sounds like a Terminator movie, I don't like it. I think that if you have damage, then its time to get out of there and try to get home.

agree
it's a sim, not an arcade game... in real life you dont have a nothing indicating what was hit or not.... only gauges, feelings and visual references

[PeterPanPan]

Hi Oleg,

This post is not specific to Stukas (which look superb BTW) but I wanted to ask an 'environmental' question.

As the summer of 1940 was a hot one, will we see heat shimmer above the ground, from ground level? Particularly on the concrete runways?

I think this effect would greatly add to the realism and immersion of the airfield environment. Presumably, it could be toggled off if it was too resource hungry for lower spec machines?

Or were all airfields 100% grass in 1940, and so heat shimmer didn't really happen?

Many thanks

PPanPan