4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Ventura]

Great stuff!

If possible in FMB, make Test Runway4 same length as Test Runway3/2 (under 'Stationary Ships) so that a base/airfield can be made with plates that AI will fly to and land on. Currently, Test Runway 3/2 (textured with Marston Matting) does not allow players to taxi off of them without damage. Aircraft 'bounce' and usually loose landing gear.

Most terrain, especially on Pacific Maps is overgrown and prohibitive to any long runways.

[SuperEtendard]

May be i am wrong, but can you just merge 2 runways to make a single larger one? I saw some videos of FMB in which people merged objects in order to make personalized things... Can that be applied to create the larger runways you need?

[yak9utpro]

i'm sorry to be irrelevant with the previous posts but the "no updates is good news" is making me a little nervous.What is going on no updates for so long?

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by yak9utpro

i'm sorry to be irrelevant with the previous posts but the "no updates is good news" is making me a little nervous.What is going on no updates for so long?

Boring behind the scenes work.

[TexasJG]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Boring behind the scenes work.

I'm very much hoping for patch 4.13 to be a reality also.

Multiple engine heavy's have always been my personal favorites to fly. As such I have been looking forward to this patch even more so!!
The new bombsight functions, along with the new co-pilot positions are absolutely ground breaking (pun intended) for us heavy iron users.

And then there's the new B-24.

It would be really nice to see some of the proposed Luftwaffe heavy's which never made it into production, make it into the simulation someday,
such as the Me-264B, Ta400, He 274/277.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by TexasJG

I'm very much hoping for patch 4.13 to be a reality also.

Since the 4.09 release it's always been the same story... TD posts a bunch of updates, then its quiet as things are prepared, and then the worries begin. I'm not sure why. The patch always comes along. Remember... it's a team of volunteers. They have day jobs and families.

Multiple engine heavy's have always been my personal favorites to fly. As such I have been looking forward to this patch even more so!!
The new bombsight functions, along with the new co-pilot positions are absolutely ground breaking (pun intended) for us heavy iron users.

And then there's the new B-24.

It would be really nice to see some of the proposed Luftwaffe heavy's which never made it into production, make it into the simulation someday,
such as the Me-264B, Ta400, He 274/277.

Having some flyable heavy, four engined bombers is a blast. I agree completely! Having the Pe-8 has been so much fun. I've flown many a eastern front bombing mission in it with all of the stations modeled... its really quite a blast. The B-24 will also be, I suspect, similarly if not more of a great thing seeing as its so iconic in the west.

Our Dedicated Bomber Squad group will be enjoying this and all of the bomb option enhancements for sure.

Those are some pretty obscure choices. I had to look them up. While they weren't entirely unknown to me... still very obscure. Fascinating from a aviation history perspective. I don't know if we'll ever see them... I am excited by the prospects of the He177 project. It's a AI type for now... but I believe its intended to be made flyable if time and resources are available. As far as optional Luftwaffe "heavy" bombers go... this is the one with a range of use including at Stalingrad. Technically it is four engines although only two propellers.

[gaunt1]

Originally Posted by TexasJG

It would be really nice to see some of the proposed Luftwaffe heavy's which never made it into production, make it into the simulation someday,
such as the Me-264B, Ta400, He 274/277.

He-111 and Ju-88 is painfully weak and useless from 1942-1943, so in my opinion, there is no place for those prototypes in this game until we get an useful LW bomber that was produced in series, like the Do-217 or He-177 first.

[ElAurens]

I agree, there are so many types of aircraft that were used in numbers, that would be more beneficial to the sim overall, than these "paper napkin" proposed aircraft that did exactly nothing.

Notably, Japanese Army bombers and attack two seater types.

Kawanishi H6K "Mavis".

Lockheed Hudson and Ventura.

D 520

Hell, even the CAC Boomerang can be called far more important than the German never built aircraft.

Not to mention the ship models we desperately need.

[TexasJG]

Originally Posted by gaunt1

He-111 and Ju-88 is painfully weak and useless from 1942-1943, so in my opinion, there is no place for those prototypes in this game until we get an useful LW bomber that was produced in series, like the Do-217 or He-177 first.

Agree! the Do-217 and He-177 would make very appropriate and useful addition also, which I'd very much like to see.
As the simulation is IL-2-1946, hence the Me-264B, Ta400, and He 274/277.
Other 1946 heavy bombers, the Ju-390, 6 engines (2 prototypes built) and a FocKe-Wulf "1000x1000x1000" proposal, would make great additions.
If I had the skills, software, technical data, and time, (actually I do have the time) I'd have a go at them myself. I'd likely start with the Do-217.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by gaunt1

He-111 and Ju-88 is painfully weak and useless from 1942-1943, so in my opinion, there is no place for those prototypes in this game until we get an useful LW bomber that was produced in series, like the Do-217 or He-177 first.

Definitely the Do217 or He177 would be great. Also it would be nice to have the Me410 as the A-1 and B-1 variants were used heavily by bomber regiments as they "upgraded" from the Ju88 and He111. Useful in a variety of other roles as well.