1C Team Questions and Requests (closed)

[335th_GRAthos]

Type of improvement:
Increase the level of upward lift of the wings and make the difference of "loss of airlift" from one side (e.g. when a wing is missing) more severe.

Explanation of proposals:
If you lose a tip of the wing, the plane is easily controllable with the remaining aileron.
In reality this should be much more difficult.
Picture #1. Wingtip+aileron is missing, no problem to control the airplane and land it. This is too easy.


Picture #2 & #3
Half of the wing neatly sawn off. Airplane is at the limit and difficult to control. But it should be impossible to controll this damage at all as the good wing would produce so much lift that it would cause the plane to enter an uncontrollable roll which could not be recovered by the compensation from the remaining aileron.



Benefits:
Increase realistic response of the plane.

[335th_GRAthos]

Type of improvement:
Fix the "sound radar" of the Spitfires and Huricanes

Explanation of proposals:
Flying in a Spitfire/Huricane you can hear an approaching Bf109 coming from the behind and low (impossible to see it in the mirror) and you can take evasive action.
You can hear it from 200meters (min) and some from 300meters (max I have witnessed)

I have not experienced the same inside a Bf109.

Benefits:
Improve the realism of the game

[335th_GRAthos]

Type of improvement:
Make a "cockpit view" with the gunsight of the Bf109 centered on the screen (and free movement of the view) just as we had in the original IL2FB.

Explanation of proposals:
In the original IL2FB you could have the gunsight in the centre of the screen and still move your head freely around.
Now this is not possible, you only have one of two alternatives:
1. You are inside the cockpit, can move your head freely in all directions to scan the sky but, the gunsight is not centered.
2. You have the gunsight centered but your head movement is limited to approx 45° to the left and to the right.

I believe in reality the Bf109 gunsight was centered to the right eye so there was no need for complicated movements for the German pilots.
Because your simulation cannot show the difference between the left and the right eye view (at least as long as no 3D is available), you have penalised all German Bf109 pilots with your solution.
Unless if we buy TrackIR with 6DOF or Freetrack, in order to be able to make the adjustment through the extra hardware
Just fix this!

Benefits:
It is back to historic reality and it saves our money (no need ot buy 6DOF TrackIR or a camera+freetrack (freetrack is not working with TrackIR).

[335th_GRAthos]

Type of improvement:
Correct the Pitot-Heater indicator of the Bf109

Explanation of proposals:
The pitot-heater (Staurohr) lamp does not indicate when the heater is ON

Benefits:
minimal, just some improvent of the realist cockpit instrumentation

[klem]

Type of improvement: Automatic disconnect or aircraft destruction/pilot kill if on-line ping fluctuates above 1000 more than 3 times within 3 minutes.

Explanation of Proposals: Some players will use the PrtScr or other method to 'warp'. i.e. suddenly shift position dramatically, when they are about to be shot down, preventing the attacker from taking his shot. The proposal will also affect fair players but that is unfortunately the penalty of a bad connection which other players cannot help with. The ping levels and timings could be a server side setting so that mission builders can experiment with the best settings.

Benefits: Fair online play and the removal of players that cheat.

[Bonkin]

Type of improvement:
Allow markings to be applied to static aircraft in the FMB.

Explanation of proposals:
Currently all static aircraft have no markings. For mission builders creating realistic airfields it is desirable to show parked up aircraft (or aircraft undergoing maintenance) with the correct historic markings for greater realism.

Benefits:
Improve the realism of the game.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Question :
To dev team regarding the SpeedTree technology. We all know the problems with them: shimmering,LOD changes and what not. I scoured thru SpeedTree forums and saw similar issues with trees and also solutions. Add that there are new versions of it etc. So my question is that has dev team worked with SpeedTree Inc and using newer version and tools? Can anything be done with trees?

Thank you in advance..

[Richie]

Type of improvement: Ju-88 fuel cock levers.

Explanation of proposals: It's so hard to find these behind the Ju-88's seat. Could the hidden icons be made larger so you don't have to hunt around for ages trying to find them.

Benefits: Makes things a little less frustrating.

[jimbop]

Type of improvement:
Compass and gyro view improvement

Explanation of proposals:
Provide a compass and gyro view OR remove the control stick from the Glance at Dash view. It is difficult to see the compass and directional gyro, especially in allied planes.

Benefits:
Easier to navigate and I'm certain it wouldn't have been that difficult to view compass IRL.