www.riseofflight.com
 

Think I might get Oleg this for Christmas. :grin:

www.riseofflight.com

Heh, do you really think it was pure coincidence, that Nice-it promised a news update on BoB for today? LOL :grin:


I bet a lot of naysayers still do..... :rolleyes:

Notice how one of the features is the ability to direct artillery fire from the air. An imaginative and original idea.

That train looks like a nice target to me.

I wonder if Oleg can beat that.

Yeah, awesome news.

And now consider the possibilities of why we have an Autogyro in Bob ;)

Are you being sarcastic? :)

Not only was spotting and artillery direction the original & primary function of military flight in WW1, well preceding the development of the armed interceptor, it has also been done before in a WW1 on-line sim.

In Dawn of Aces, written by iMagic back in the mid-Nineties, it was possible to type a target's map co-ordinates into the chat-bar and call in ranging shots followed by a small artillery barrage.
It was certainly imaginative and original back then, and I'm glad to see the feature has been revived in this present-day evocation.

But new to sims it ain't.

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I think so.

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...280BR56_00.jpg

I dont think Oleg made that train it was a third party loco.

That picture is taken from the official news-update from May 13th, 2006.

Of course it was not made by Oleg. I doubt he models anything at all. ;)


I didn't check this particular one, but I guess it shows one of the first project from Foobar, who officially does the modeling for the railroad-stuff in BoB. If this particular one is going to be included is unknown, but maybe this link will give you a hint of the standards for BoB:

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...3/m/2181080123

* All WIP, of course and subject to changes and decisions wether or not it's going to be included, but certainly not a pure fan-project.

Having played Theatre of War I have to wonder why the formally KOTS people who are now Rise of Flight did not stick with the IL2 engine?
Not one of the graphic's jumps out and grabs me. The planes are so-so as good as you will see on IL2 now. The water is the same and the ground towns and trees all look very IL2-ish or worse CFS3-ish.
A WW1 sim is fought down low and slow and the terrain just looks flat. Yes there are trees and hills but not much else.
Look at the convoy of ambulances or the mounted AA gun. It looks so IL2-ish and very flat terrain not a bump in sight. The road looks like it has been painted on. As for the massive scar of trenches across the whole of europe, well they just look like dark brown terrain meshes with cut-off trees sticking up. The tank does not look like any ww1 tank i have ever seen either (but I will take their word that it must be authentic. ) I stand corrected that is what a German tank looked like.
The cities look good but again not much better than we see in the current IL2.
Don't get me wrong I am buying the game without doubt and I will have many fun hours flying but a next generation flight sim it is not. :(