Friday 2011-01-14 Dev. update and Discussion

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by timej31

Would be nice if it was.

Oleg did say yes to this a while ago. That ROF windsock is very well implemented with the gusts etc.

[David198502]

hey guys!this is maybe a bit off topic and a stupid question,but i dont want to open a new thread because this is certainly answered in one sentence. i always wondered for which reason the balloons are for?what do they do??you are all encouraged to laugh about that lack of knowledge.and excuse my bad english.

[brando]

Originally Posted by David198502

hey guys!this is maybe a bit off topic and a stupid question,but i dont want to open a new thread because this is certainly answered in one sentence. i always wondered for which reason the balloons are for?what do they do??you are all encouraged to laugh about that lack of knowledge.and excuse my bad english.

The balloons are tethered by steel cables and placed on the approaches to important targets, with the intention of interfering with bombers and spoiling their bombing runs.

[Abbeville-Boy]

some had a parachute attached to a cable designed to break away when struck
grab hold of the plane then act as a drag on it
you know the outcome of that

[Rodolphe]

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1. And this Fordson Sussex Barrage Balloon Tender truck is also available in the game.













2. Thanks for the Update.


Happy to see some new "objects" on those screens.



60cm Flakscheinwerfer (Flak-Sw 36)












Bosch Anlasswagen, external power supply cart









QF 3 inch 20 cwt









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do you guys think the anouncement next week will be on friday or already earlier?

[robtek]

As the announcement will be coming from ubi and not from OM, nobody, except ubi, can do more than, maybe educated, guesses.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by Hecke

do you guys think the anouncement next week will be on friday or already earlier?

Not sure. These things tend to get a little muddled. Ubi seems to think the game is coming out in March. Oleg says this isn't true, but he thinks Ubi will make an official announcement this week. Ubi may not make an announcement this week... etc etc. Must be hard for the left hand to know what the right is doing sometimes.

[winny]

Originally Posted by David198502

hey guys!this is maybe a bit off topic and a stupid question,but i dont want to open a new thread because this is certainly answered in one sentence. i always wondered for which reason the balloons are for?what do they do??you are all encouraged to laugh about that lack of knowledge.and excuse my bad english.

A picture paints a thousand words...



Some worked like this and some had a fixed cable which dragged the plane down.

This lead to some interesting German experiments in cable cutting!