[jermin]

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money for up-to-date hardwares in hope of the most immersive graphics but turned out getting worse visibility than out-of-date machines.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.