Patch 4.10 - Development Updates by Daidalos Team

[6S.Maraz]

Thanks for your reply.

Originally Posted by akdavis

1. Is the Hs-293A or Hs-293B modelled? If the former, will some Allied ships be able to jam the weapon's guidance (after the technology was captured at Foggia Airfield in October 1943)? Perhaps a new ship type could be added with a jamming radius around it?

It is a HS-293A (radio guided); we could put some kind of ECM in further releases, but probably not next one.

2. Should not the Hs-293 tail flare be red?

It looks that different colours were tested. Red was found to confuse with tracers, so a light blue flare was adopted at the end.

3. Razon was not used in combat during WWII. Why not include the VB-1/VB-2 Azon (AZimuth ONly) that was dropped with significant success by B-24 groups in both Europe and CBI?

Azon is probably of limited use (no big sources of azimuth error in game at the moment). Maybe in further release it will have a sense.

4. Multiple Azons/Razons could be dropped and guided simultaneously. Will we be able to do so? Also, the bomb load of different aircraft would have different colored smoke trails so each bombardier could distinguish and guide his load separately from others dropped by his formation. Might this be selectable through loadouts?

Actually multiple Azons/Razons could be dropped, but guidance was the same for all of them, in the wishful thinking that corrections made for one were good for all the bombs. Instead, each bomb had its own tolerance, so dispersion ,when dropped together, was big. Anyway this will be implemented, AI will be able to drop a bunch of Razons, guide one to the target and hope that others willl and close to it.

Unfortunately we do not have a flyable plane to drop these bombs (B-24 or B-29) so they remain of AI use only.

5. All these weapons (save the Bat) were controlled by analog joysticks. Will we be able to bind sight increase/decrease and sight azimuth to control axes? This would also be useful for more realistic control of the K-14 gunsight (gunsight range was by analog input through a twist grip on the throttle).

No, at the moment they will be guided like the X-4.

6. Will Razons and Bats be AI-use only? We do not have any player-flyable platforms for these weapons. (Or maybe there is a surprise coming? )

Bat will be fitted to F4U, as it happened at the end of the war. Razon will be AI use only.

Maraz