4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[IceFire]

ElAuren's is right... Newer products have new and better engines from the get go and that is where the future will be but IL-2 1946 has enormous strength in the variety and depth of detail of content. It will take a successor years to get there.

I will say that I think IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad is the most likely in my mind to succeed. It's launching with 8-10 planes which is about what the original IL-2 Sturmovik launched with in 2001. Give it some time.

[gauderio]

IL2 Sturmovik 1946 interface is almost perfect.
No need to do something different as the clickable panel and other real bullshit they did in Cliffs of Dover. Improve graphics would be enough. The same interface, the same variety of aircrafts and maps from IL2 1946 with better graphics would have a new game a great success.
IL2 1946 should be the basis for any other simulator that wants to succeed.
It's not because i'm accustomed to the controls or the interface. It's because it really is the best system. Here in Brazil we have a phrase for this, something like "should not make changes on the team that is winning".

I do not know if IL2 BOS will be a success. It may seem so at first because it is new, but it is limited. Only one map, only one scenario, only German and Soviet aircraft ... The CLOD is equal and it's boring. I have the CLOD and I refuse to play that crap. And who wants to fly P51 does what ? I like the variety of IL2 1946. I have HSFX and UP3 with DBW. If they can improve the graphics i'll fly the IL2 1946 by another 20 years. No other simulator outperforms the IL2 1946.

sorry my english again

[Derda508]

Well I do have CloD and with all the ATAG Patches it is beautiful. When I want to see nice landscape, and water and when I want to see the sun playing on the control panel, then I fly around with CloD for 10 or 15 minutes.
When I want to have a WW II airwar sim, then I turn on Il-2 1946 and fight on hundreds of maps with hundreds of different aircraft.
And when I am in a fight I really don´t have time to enjoy the landscape or care about some nice little shadows ...

[TexasJG]

Daidalos Team, Thank you for the really great work you have done!!

[seamount]

I hope this is the right place for my post.

First of all thank you Daidalos Team for what you did and what you are doing.

Now what i would like to see in IL2:
I "quick" record my manouvres to see how i perform a barrel roll, hammerhead and landings too but the ntrk never show what i did. in recording of 5-6 minutes it's very bizarre, for instance, that when i go to see the tracks, the plane is not able to re-make the barrell roll I performed, it just begins to roll then stops.
when i land (maybe an almost perfect landing) the plane go half under/into the concrete of the track, etc etc.
when i shoot at a plane, in the playback i see the enemy plane breaking and 1-2 seconds afterward i see the fire of my mg ...

I know many people have the same problems

i think this is a big problem because sometimes it's very funny to see it and maybe create a movie but how to do it with those problems ?
but, more important, i think that to learn "how to" one of the most useful thing is to see how they came on your 6, how they approached you and/or how they react to your attack/defence ... so not just fun/movie etc.

so i really think that it would be very appreciate by the community if it could be fixed

[Treetop64]

The longer a replay is recorded, the lower it's "resolution". It's as if the recording function has a fixed budget of data points. If it's a short one or two minute recording, the data points are very close together and you get very precise replays. If the recording is, say, ten minutes or more, the data points are spread further apart and you see "gaps" in the replay.

[felix_the_fat]

another replay problem may arise thru the weather settings.
Early versions of Il2 did not allow variable wind settings. With later versions though, having turbulence "on" can upset the replay of a track, as the turbulence is newly generated "at random" with each replay, and so differently affects trajectory of aircraft, etc. So, turn weather off, if you want to record.
Felix