Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[Hunger]

Its refreshing to see that there is still a lot of life in this venerable Sim, team Daidalos amazing work certainly helps to make the wait for SOW and beyond easier.

The aircraft in the Pipeline certainly open opportunities for a wind range of Med. scenarios (Like the Raid on Taranto) and even Spanish civil war ones.

Now to my point, a couple of years back Pacific Fighters was released, while being a really good game on its own it conveyed a feeling that something was amiss compared to Il-2 Forgotten Battles, the planeset had some holes and some Iconic Ships were replaced by generic placeholders.
Why in some cases understandable (like for the ships stationed in Pearl Harbor).
The lack of flyable torpedo and Dive bombers (Where is the Helldiver ? and the Yokosuka D4Y Judy ?) as it seemed related to an rather unfortunate licensing quarrel which shook the development and finances of the Sim.

My question is how are your plans for the PTO ?. Is there a chance for you to implement something there or would you be skimming a murky legal boundary ?.

On a personal level and purely from the game-balance perspective. (Not realism in this case) when playing online I sometimes feel that the japanese side (Jaaf) lacks some dedicated mid war heavy bomber interceptors.
Namely the Ki-44 Shoki and the Ki-45 Toryu (Both build in sizeable numbers) which even when not flyable could be a good addition to extend the variety of the planeset.

Thank you for your gallant effort and keep up the good work

Kind Regards Hunger

[Qpassa]

Would be created in the next versions a new Bomber for the germans? The VVS has the A-20C which is great with his FAB 1000,and fast,and can attack other bombers.
But the germans with the JU-88A4 can't make anything of it (except attacking with the 2X2000 SC)

[csThor]

The PTO has a major problem ... it's called Northrop - Grumman I won't go into details but this one seriously limits the potential projects to begin with (i.e. TBF and derivates plus most US Navy ships). Not to say the PTO won't be touched at all (i.e. the Slot map will be made official) but ATM there's no "plan" since we are arms-deep into 4.10.

[robtek]

Is there a possibility to get working speed and altitude instruments for the bombardier in the g4m (Betty)?
Also in the cockpit i haven't found a correct working speed indicator above 300km/h.
Afaik the IJN used knots to measure airspeed and in knots the airspeed indicator would have the range it should have.

[MBot]

Originally Posted by csThor

The PTO has a major problem ... it's called Northrop - Grumman I won't go into details but this one seriously limits the potential projects to begin with (i.e. TBF and derivates plus most US Navy ships). Not to say the PTO won't be touched at all (i.e. the Slot map will be made official) but ATM there's no "plan" since we are arms-deep into 4.10.

It is truly a shame that the Northrop-Grumman "situation" also affects ships and especially the critically important Yorktown class carriers (Yorktown, Enterprise, Hornet). If I remember correctly, there was even once a dev update for PF with WIP screens of the Yorktown.

Still, some nice USN ships might still be possible. A quick wiki search (obviously not a reliable source for such delicate matters) revealed the following shipyards other then Newport News worked on major warships:

New York Naval Shipyard:
- BB-55 North Carolina
- BB-61 Iowa
- BB-63 Missouri

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- BB-56 Washington
- BB-62 New Jersey
- BB-64 Wisconsin

Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- BB-60 Alabama

New York Shipbuilding Corporation
- BB-57 South Dakota
- CVL Independence Class

Fore River Shipyard (General Dynamics)
- BB-59 Massachusetts
- CV-7 Wasp


So out of these it might be possible to build at least one fast Battleship (class). The Wasp might be an interesting option. Next to do service in the Med (which seems to be a Daidalos Team pet theater ), it is also very similar to the Yorktown class, though smaller. So it could also act as generic carrier to substitute the Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet. Of course assuming that General Dynamics are not jerks like NG... With this ships, the USN fleet would already be in pretty good shape.


Anyway, I am looking forward to 4.10 and what what DT has up their sleeves next.

[ElAurens]

I believe that most of the shipyards you have listed do indeed fall under the N-G umbrella, owing to decades of mergers and corporate takeovers.

It's really a sad situation.

[Billfish]

Originally Posted by csThor

The PTO has a major problem ... it's called Northrop - Grumman I won't go into details but this one seriously limits the potential projects to begin with (i.e. TBF and derivates plus most US Navy ships). Not to say the PTO won't be touched at all (i.e. the Slot map will be made official) but ATM there's no "plan" since we are arms-deep into 4.10.

Could you possibly comment on whether or not the Ki-61 in the sim is being addressed in any form in 4.10?

K2

[csThor]

AFAIK not yet.

[steppie]

With you adding the Slot map to the game are there any plan to have the B5N2 (kate) to the game, without this jap aircraft and it make it a one side battle when it come to making carrier campaigns and with out the Kate being available and it make it hard for this being an aircraft that play a major part in the Solomon island campaign.Jap carrier aircraft suck when it come to a descent pay load and when it come to attacking the heavy ships and near impossible to damage or sink.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by steppie

With you adding the Slot map to the game are there any plan to have the B5N2 (kate) to the game, without this jap aircraft and it make it a one side battle when it come to making carrier campaigns and with out the Kate being available and it make it hard for this being an aircraft that play a major part in the Solomon island campaign.Jap carrier aircraft suck when it come to a descent pay load and when it come to attacking the heavy ships and near impossible to damage or sink.

I think the biggest problem with the Kate is the lack of a surviving example and enough cockpit resources to accurately model it. That was the issue a number of years ago.