4.11 overheat and engine damage test results

[Jumoschwanz]

Originally Posted by WhistlinggDeath

Just got in about 30 min over lunch with the P51 D-NT. What a mess. It went from an already fairly strong overheat model to overheat every single pass now if you push it above 90% power and pitch.

And you learned more about the IL2 patch 4.11 in a 30 minute lunch than the guys who worked on it for many months? you are a genius.

Why would you use above 90% pitch when in the 4.11 readme there is a long text on the new overheat models and sentences specifically talking about how pitch management and engine rpm is important?

You don't seem to understand that IL2 4.11 is a different flight sim than IL2 4.10.

JG27 and Team Daidalos post solid facts and test results that not only show you do not know what you are doing with testing, but show every single one of your claims to be in error.

I remember on Hyperlobby there was a nice online pilot named VSO that quit flying when IL2 Forgotten Battles came out because he said it was far worse than the original IL2. He could not adapt to the new features and flight models etc..
Anyone can see that over the last ten years Oleg and Team Daidalos and everyone else that worked on IL2 made incredible and vast improvements in it over the years, they have done a stunning job. It may not be apparent from patch to patch, but if you load up the original IL2, or an early patch of Forgotten Battles etc. you will absolutely not want to go backwards.

I have seen other pilots actually quit flying IL2 simply because they were not good at it and could not stand being shot down over and over again, they just did not have the aptitude for it.

As IL2 continues to improve and it offers more historical and complicated features, and flying a WWII aircraft WAS a complicated task and took a lot of intelligence to do well, I think we will see more and more people either not able to grasp all the concepts and methods needed to use all of it's Hard Settings, or complicated features just as in real life, not everyone has the aptitude to fly a real WWII aircraft or any aircraft at all.

If someone does not like the new features that IL2 4.11 offers, like WhistlingDeath, then they can simply turn them off in the control panel, or start their own server flying the version of the sim they are most comfortable with, or also like WD, simply hack the flight sim and make aircraft to suit his individual wet-dreams of WWII aviation history.

I was never the best or smartest IL2 pilot and I never will be, but I have always really enjoyed IL2 and was always thrilled with the gift of new free and paid for patches.

When a patch has changed the way IL2 or my favorite aircraft has worked, in ever single patch over the last ten years I have been able to practice and figure out a way to get the same job as always, shooting down opponents, done.
I and a long, long list of others always welcomed new features that took IL2 on hard settings further from being a Game and deeper into Flight Sim territory. There are a LOT of real pilots that fly IL2 that have praise for it.

I am sure that this long list of IL2 faithfuls are very glad for 4.11 and welcome it's changes, and also know that in any future patches that minor flaws and bugs will be worked out.....