Patch 4.10 - Development Updates by Daidalos Team

[TheGrunch]

I'm literally frothing at the mouth for these additions, this is exactly the stance that I was hoping DT would take, tackling the remaining major deficiencies of the game head-on.

[tama]

Thanks four your work!

Is it possible to add more FOV options for widescreen displays and triple monitors? (via TH2Go, Eyefinity, etc...)

Link of A FOV enhancer made by San's: IL2FOVChanger

[PE_Tigar]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Waypoints are fine for AI, because the AI needs routing. The player doesn't need waypoints. Player needs navigational tools that make sense... like those we are getting in 4.10.

Umm, I need waypoints and tracks plotted, but just as points and lines on the map without GPS-like small airplane icon. I plot tracks and waypoints in real life when flying visual or by dead reckoning. Of course, those waypoint-related triggers suck, I agree with that.

[Fergal69]

I would like to say thank you to Daidalos Team for sharing their proposed schedule of updates for 1946. Despite SOW being in development & hopefully for release soon, it shows that there is still a large following for 1946.

I myself wll purchase SOW, but will also kept flying along in 1946 as well due to it being a different theatre of war.

Some planes I would like to see as flyable are......
FW189
ME410
JU52
HE177

[PilotError]

It is good to see the DT plan for 4.10 , both for contents and with a time scale for release ( along with a time scale for the following patches as well ) .

Just out of curiosity I was wondering whether you plan to release the patches to the time scale, or when the content is ready ?

What I mean is, if you run into a problem with let's say the Henschel for example , will you release the 4.10 patch at the beginning of April without the Henschel update and leave it for the next patch, or will you delay the release until the Henschel update is ready ?

I know everything you are working on is still WIP, so I don't mean this as any criticism. I'm just wondering if the patches will be released by time ( I must say I prefer the idea of a patch every 5 months or so ) or when all the stated content is ready ?

Keep up the excellent work.

[FC99]

We will try to release patches at planned time but if some important and complex features are 90% finished than we could postpone release.

Keep in mind that whole work by DT is done for free and in our free time so RL can be an issue sometimes and interfere with our plans. We would love to pay our bills with work on Il2 patches but unfortunately that is not the case so only thing we can guarantee is that we will give our best to do things as planned.

FC

[Viikate]

Originally Posted by PE_Tigar

- please add the option to leave the waypoints and plotted courses in the map without the little "GPS" plane when flying full real. Ability to edit the map before flight or during the flight (to add comments such as times, observed points of interest or targets, and altitudes between waypoints) would be most welcome too.

- please add airfield data to the maps (name, primary runway direction and elevation would be sufficient, at least for the larger, more permanent airfields).

- in radio calls, clearance should be asked for and given for a particular runway. Now, especially online, everybody's landing haphazardly wherever. I understand that adding this to the voice calls would require a lot of work, but to add it in text shouldn't be such a problem. An option to ask for the runway in use and basic weather info for the field would be good too.

Thanks for good ideas. Minimap path without icons is already possible. Those labels we have already considered. Maybe each waypoint on map could include bearing and distance to next WP. I personally would like to have some sort of map aid like in Silent Hunter 3 but simplified. Click & hold mouse button do draw a line and it includes distance and heading from line start to end.

If airfield has Lorenz blind landing system installed, there is a international ILS icon visible on map with the runway heading. Alt info could be added there easily.

Last idea probably gets too complicated compared to the benefits it offers. Online air-quake warriors would still takeoff and land using taxiways.

[PilotError]

Originally Posted by FC99

We will try to release patches at planned time but if some important and complex features are 90% finished than we could postpone release.

Keep in mind that whole work by DT is done for free and in our free time so RL can be an issue sometimes and interfere with our plans. We would love to pay our bills with work on Il2 patches but unfortunately that is not the case so only thing we can guarantee is that we will give our best to do things as planned.

FC

Thanks for the reply FC99.
I was merely curious about how you planned to release the patches.
I realise that all of you in DT are working for free and out of the goodness of your hearts.
I , for one, am hugely grateful for all the time and effort you are putting into this.
Thanks again.

[daidalos.team]

Today's development update posted on the first page. Enjoy.

[Tbag]

Very cool update, the imroved engine controls are most welcome as are the not so blue sky at high altitudes! Thank you very much!