Oleg Maddox's Room #1

[Thunderbolt56]

Personally, I hope the non-flying aspects of user inter-activity are kept to a bare minimum. Manning AAA emplacements has already been said to be included, but I feel if additional interactivity on the ground is added, it will be more of a BF1942 instead of a detailed, high-quality flight sim.

[igitur70]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Personally, I hope the non-flying aspects of user inter-activity are kept to a bare minimum. Manning AAA emplacements has already been said to be included, but I feel if additional interactivity on the ground is added, it will be more of a BF1942 instead of a detailed, high-quality flight sim.

Ok, you're welcome

But I dont get the argument though. As far as the accuracy of the flying aspect is not in question, I cant see anything being lost in such a development. The realism of the sim experience would not suffer at all from it, but on the contrary would allow the player to evolve in an world of intricated events, just like it was in real. But ok, that's just me.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Personally, I hope the non-flying aspects of user inter-activity are kept to a bare minimum. Manning AAA emplacements has already been said to be included, but I feel if additional interactivity on the ground is added, it will be more of a BF1942 instead of a detailed, high-quality flight sim.

Personally I hope 3rd party development, if not 1c, take the land and sea elements of the "sim" to the same level as the Aircraft eventually.

There is far more potential for this not turning into BF1942 style of "game" if done right, in fact some dogfight servers on HL are not far off BF1942ish "air quakes" at present

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

, in fact some dogfight servers on HL are not far off BF1942ish "air quakes" at present

Too true

[Antoninus]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Personally, I hope the non-flying aspects of user inter-activity are kept to a bare minimum. Manning AAA emplacements has already been said to be included, but I feel if additional interactivity on the ground is added, it will be more of a BF1942 instead of a detailed, high-quality flight sim.

I second that. Oleg and his team needed 5 years to cover most of WWII in Il-2. If they want to redo all theaters with BOB engine featuring a much increased level of detail plus include controllable tanks, ships and infantry it will either take forever or will become arcadish at some point.

[mazex]

Holy cow! That map making tool looks just awesome. To bad that we are not allowed to do full size maps ourselves. At the other hand, I understand that with a tool this easy - someone would do a full map of the med in quite a short time etc...

Another interesting thing is naturally that OpenGL still seems to be the favoured API Now that OGL in Vista has become quite OK in SP1, I don't feel bad about that.

/Mazex