My questions for Oleg:

1. Will players with high graphics settings have advantage over the players with low graphics settings in recognizing the dots?

Just as many modern PC games, low graphics settings will give a player more visibility than the high graphics settings. Because low gaphics settings tend to remove many resouce-eating eye candies such as AA, AF, HDR, fog, extra details like grass and dynamic lighting ect. While it definitely reduces the burden for low-end PCs greatly, it also enhances the visiblity dramatically. It is unfair for those who have spent a long time on saving money for up-to-date hardwares in hope of the most immersive graphics but turned out getting worse visibility than out-of-date machines.

This is the very reason why many professional FPS players tend to use extremely low screen resolution and graphics settings. And visiblity is much more important for flight combat simulation in my humble opinion, especially in servers with icons disabled.

In IL2, one can achieve much better dot visibility by turning off AA, AF, setting screen resolution as low as 800x600, setting object lighting and landscape lighting to flat. Yes, under such settings, IL2 looks very ugly. But it makes distant dots incredibly easy to spot. When playing in no-icon servers, this is a great advantage.

So, my request is to at least make high graphics settings have the same (if not better) dot visibility as low graphics settings in BoB so that we won't regret spending hard-earned money on high-end PC hardwares .

2. Will BoB include a much more detailed encyclopedia for all the objects showing up in the game? For example: The actual service time, service area, service squadron for each aircraft variant. This will make building historical missions much more easy.

3. Will you include a virtual testing field with all kinds of necessary testing tools in BoB for FM testing and Weapon testing ect. and then we can export them out to a program like il2compare? It would be extremely useful for us hard-core simmers.

Woah , easy tigers . I think that people are blowing my post out of proportion here. The term "wonder woman cockpit" is well known across the community . Maybe the term"fischer price cockpit" may of offended less. I for one know that il2 caters for many people at many levels. I do not believe it should be abolished and as Oleg said it should b used as a stepping stone to access the other settings of the sim. I have my opinions same as the next man. But i do not deserve flaming for an opinion i have been asked to give.

Don´t worry Weasel, with the exception of Insuber post, i think nobody was flaming you.
I don´t like wonder woman cockpits either, but as Lucas... wrote, if its an option to use it, it can´t hurt, and maybe its not something that take lot of resources and time to implement, like it is with the virtual pilot in cockpits. :)

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Yeah!! Jeyeah!


Thanks for the updates, they are getting uber and Über !


I like whats coming along and the ships are well done. Even the sinking ship . . . people were waiting on the combat footage.

Given that the release will be better . . .


In regarding the cockpits, I like full cockpits better, in wonderwoman view I tend to crash while ground attack or landing, or take off, I need a frame of reference.

But I can dogfight much better in wonderwoman view . . . however Oleg wants the game to be playable by all:

Hardcore simmers and people just looking for something a tad more realistic than arcade . . .

I would like it if there was an option for semi transparent / translucent cockpits like other's have been asking.



In regarding cockpits . . . I like the way IL-2 is . . . Other pilots can see you but in cockpit view you can't see yourself.


Also people have been asking for first person bail outs as opposed to seeing it 3rd person. I would like to have both . . .


Pilots are coming along great.

ANd thanks for the Friday updates.

hiro, you gave me incredible question to ask, thanks!:
Will there be option in replays to jump to some else cockpit view, not only your plane's? Of course only for those planes with modeled cockpits!

Nice idea, that would be a great training tool to understand aces' techniques ... but what about privacy ? (kidding of course)

It could be a selectable option of the server "view from others' cockpits", why not ?

Nice one Alien!

Insuber

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Shape is pretty good. I was talking about the texture. You need a bit more detail for the surface and ridges here.

+ 1000

There have been so many people complaining about this for years and years. Myself at the forefront. The problem is that the focus is on allowing low hardware platform players to play. Regardless of the effect on fairness.

A very high percentage of online war pilots fly on low settings for the increased visibility for this very reason. It gives them an 'edge'

1c are not going to fix it no matter what you will read in these forums. Its more important to them to sell another copy to somebody on marginal hardware.

** Just do your best - 1c promises you a good 'combat flight' experience not 'fairness'

Life is not fair mate -

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