Friday 2010-07-30 Dev. update and Discussions

Originally Posted by zauii

Early in development...oh reaallllly?...
Anyway great update.

I mean in terms of terrain, and lets be honest we are not going to see SOW this year.

[Derzasi]

Sometimes I think people complain just to to show how "smart" they are....
C'mon is "just" WIP, let them work...
Thanks Luthier

[the Dutchman]

When it first was announced i was in my 40's when it will be released i will probably be in my 50's............my god!

The only good point for me for not releasing the sim this year is that ubisofts rights on the name will end (as far as I heard) and so MG could get rid of these hijackers.

[Bloblast]

These pictures look like finished to me. Great!

Love the ground detail from above in picture 1.
Great improvement on the ground colours.

Those markings on the 109's look great as well. We probably will also get a technical officer markings.

[zapatista]

Oleg & Co,

thx for the update !

the aircraft look great. good to see more groups of AI flying missions together

one minor question: how tall is the average pilot in BoB ? the hurricane pilots look a bit smaller then the average pilot would have been in ww2, with loads of headroom clearance (which was only the case for short pilots in hurricanes afaik). this might be a minor issue

BUT for the 109, either the pilots are VERY small or we have a a proportion issue again with the aircraft (unlikely since luthier said aircraft were modeled to the milimeter). BUT we know an average sized male pilot in 1940 was cramped sitting in the 109 cockpit, with his head almost touching, or even touching, the canopy (see earlier video posted on this forum a few weeks ago, showing modern youtube video of a pilot for an english tv show sitting in, and comparing, the amount of room and access to controls the brittish/german pilots had).

historically the germans pilots were VERY cramped in the 109 with little room (unless the pilot was "jockey sized"), yet they seem to have loads of room in the current 109 BoB cockpits

[Feuerfalke]

BUT we know an average sized male pilot in 1940 was cramped sitting in the 109 cockpit, with his head almost touching, or even touching, the canopy (see earlier video posted on this forum a few weeks ago, showing modern youtube video of a pilot for an english tv show sitting in...)...

Average size of a male human in the 1930s in Germany was 167cm. Most fighterpilots, like Galland and especially Udet were almost not commissioned, because they were too small for the military standards. Comparing that to a modern man with an average size of 176cm for Europeans is silly.

Beyond that: Totally agree with TB56. Same fuss every week. I hate missing Oleg or Luthier's posts later in the thread, but I tend to just read the first page of a thread and ignore the rest. Total waste of time and energy.

[Novotny]

Thanks for the updates Oleg. Sorry about the forum regulars.

[jocko417]

Originally Posted by Hecke

The only good point for me for not releasing the sim this year is that ubisofts rights on the name will end (as far as I heard) and so MG could get rid of these hijackers.

Now that is the most exciting thing I've heard in a long time, if it's true. Ubi$oft has a long history of meddling with things and forcing titles out before they are ready, all to the detriment of the developer.

[Novotny]

Hecke, you're missing the point. Oleg is not looking for feedback here, he's just letting us see a few pics because he knows the community really wants to see them.

The arrogance which leads people to think that Oleg wants to know their opinion astounds me.