Friday 2010-12-17 Dev. update and Discussion

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by tourmaline

It's a game, if you want realism, fly the real thing.

By the way, every fryday there is something new to whine about, i am quite sure Oleg and team will do their best to make it as realistic as possible but not losing to much fps ingame. You want to be able to fly the darn thing, are you? Ultrarealistic will also mean huge hit on pc!
Oleg allready said that ultrarealistic is not for the moment, otherwise no current pc is able to run this game!

I wish you lot would stop referring to SoW as a simple game...it's not. It's a simulation of a very important piece of history (certainly to us British). Many of us grew up on wartime stories and the accounts of our grandparents of this particular period. I for one have always longed to experience what it must have been like to be there (from the ground and the air).

Historical accuracy is really important to many of us and fictional effects however well intentioned will spoil the overall impact of the title.

Originally Posted by tourmaline

It's a game, if you want realism, fly the real thing.

By the way, every fryday there is something new to whine about, i am quite sure Oleg and team will do their best to make it as realistic as possible but not losing to much fps ingame. You want to be able to fly the darn thing, are you? Ultrarealistic will also mean huge hit on pc!
Oleg allready said that ultrarealistic is not for the moment, otherwise no current pc is able to run this game!

Exactly! There is a reason why actual flight simulators (military and commercial) use what are essentially supercomputers (20 core+ systems).

One reason is rendering the sim onto a few displays (sometimes almost 360 degrees) and another is the colossal number crunching dedicated to ultra-realistic flight modeling, flight systems, damage modeling, and a host of other things that you don't have the time or resources to put into a game, which is what SOW is.

They might call this a flight sim, but no matter which way you cut it, it's sill a game meant to generate sales and revenue. Real sims are designed to do neither, they are commissioned by a government body or a commercial sector and made with little thought put towards hardware requirement, money, or fun-factor. The only thing they really have in common with SOW and other flight sims with regards to development might be "development time" but in a lot of cases they're being made at the same time the actual aircraft is being developed so it's not that much of a race.

[II/JG54_Emil]

Originally Posted by tourmaline

Otherwise we will get about 50 pages of people complaining about the fire, fumes, whatever...
It's never good enough for some...It's just a game, it doesn't need to be ultra realistic.

As a simulator it does have to go ultraralistic.

And therefore the flames a re to bright at daylight.

[alexei1789]

it was not a request, but a simple question...

for realism, i would never have thought by myself about the exhaust flammes for a flight sim !

Merry Christmas Oleg, develommental team and the forum