Friday 2010-02-12 VIDEO and Discussion Thread

[Sutts]

Thanks for the update Luthier, work in progress or not, it's looking great.

I'm really pleased you've started showing us some real game footage, it's increased confidence no end.

I realise the ground textures are still being worked on but one little point I'd like to confirm.....I thought I saw a few fields with modern day tractor "tram lines" - parallel lines in the crop designed to allow tractors to more easily apply fertiliser and sprays. I'm certain 1940s era fields would just have appeared from the air as a uniform crop since horses were still very much in use and the few early tractors were certainly not working the fields in the same way as they do today.

I realise you are probably quite aware of this. I just thought I'd mention it as it was the one thing in the Memphis Belle movie which looked completely wrong to me - I have spent a good deal of my life on farms though!

The 1940s British landscape looked quite different to today as the hedges were generally much higher, the fields smaller and less uniform in shape with many more lanes which have since been lost to the post war field enlargement scheme. Also, at the time of the Battle of Britain, wheat stooks and traditional pitched hay stacks (loose hay - no bales) would have been an obvious feature in the landscape. Self propelled combines and balers were only just appearing so neat lines of straw and stacks of bales would have been a rare sight in those days.

I'm sorry, you probably know all this but just in case. I do appreciate this is a flight sim and at the end of the day it really doesn't matter but if the textures are still in progress then it can't harm to get these little 1940s details right. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has read about BOB pilots belly landing in wheat fields during the harvest or crashing through a hay stack.

A couple of pictures of stooks and haystacks:

Thanks again and please don't take this as a criticism.

[rpgielow]

Hello all Il2's friends

Thats video its is a nice one, but it let me a bit afraid about the future

The video seems very low FPS... That was beacause you had to use you friend computers that its not a top rig or we have to wait more work to narrows down the performance issue ???

Is there any potential date that you can say, not promisse, when minimum and recommend specs will be available ???

It should be the year's second best news from you guys The first one will be the release or pre-order dates o course

Bye and thanx for all these years fun in IL2 that will never die like Rock and Roll (It will be the Counter-Strike of flight simulators)

[Alien]

Originally Posted by rpgielow

(It will be the Counter-Strike of flight simulators)

No, it will be more like Left for Dead 2 or Mass Effect 2 of simulators

[Flanker35M]

S!

Better off with Mass Effect 2 which is a great game, not just like the others being as deep as their title name

[MOG_Rumboy]

Is SOW going the same way as IL2 for in cockpit views?

Looks like it might - No pilot in the cockpit when you're flying in cockpit is what I mean.

Just always felt a bit weird having an empty seat under me and the stick and rudders moving of their own accord on the screen - would prefer a body!

No biggie I guess and certainly nothing to delay its' release over!!

Keep up the great work.

Rum

[Foo'bar]

No legs/arms in cockpit by MG. Possible for third party though.
Oleg and Ilya stated several times.

[T_O_A_D]

Nice vid, Baited Breath waiting on it.