Some ideas: Pilot reactions

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I'd reckon that a setting in the conf.ini would be enough, or a passworded "gore" option if it came to that.

I doubt we'd ever get anything that visually traumatic, to be honest - Oleg has always had a very conservative view on gore in IL-2.

That said, this is a wargame. To abstract the fact that we're dropping bombs and shooting down flimsy metal/wood frames filled with people from hundreds of feet up in the sky seems very odd to me.

If someone is so worried about their children's views, thoughts and emotions while playing games, should they be playing such games in the first place?

There are plenty of ways to stop content being viewed if the mechanisms are in place to begin with, and if the child is intelligent enough at 12 to be able to figure out a conf.ini file or crack a password system specifically to get at the gore, then I daresay that kid is intelligent enough to handle a little blood on the screen.