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Originally Posted by TeeJay82
Dude your supposed to fly planes... not sit on the ground
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Tjay, that shows you are not very well informed on this sim
oleg intends to expand SoW with features that allow you to control some ground vehicles (including tanks), and some ships etc.. ie it is his ambition to create a fully integrated air/ground/sea ww2 environment. many of the needed components are already built into the sim engine (which is why many of the ground vehicles look so detailed, and why it has taken so long to create the new sim). most people that have followed the oleg creative trail hope these new elements will be gradually activated once the main flightsim part of the series has started bringing in money (to recover their expenses and fund future work). right now oleg has already confirmed several ground vehicles are drivable, but it looks like it wont be included yet at release time because of other bug fixing priorities and the looming release deadline.
at release time you/we will already be able to control some individual AA guns at airfields, and switch to that position in the same way you switch to another plane (or vehicle in future), so you can use them to defend airfields (or create a flak screen ?)
what oleg hasnt specified is the calibre of AA gun we can control, i had presumed it would be high altitude AA (both brittish and german) which would have meant the german 88's. it is possible however this will only be the smaller AA guns (which would not make them very effective, except against very low flying aircraft strafing an airfield)
so if we can control large AA guns like the 88's, it would be a perfect test for the game engine to do some ballistics testing by firing at a known target 4000 or 5000 m away