Friday 2010-11-19 Dev. update and Discussion

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Richie

Are the airfields going to take on relistic damage from bombs etc. making it very it difficult to take off? If so this will make the real "Battle Of Britain" missions a lot more fun.

When talking about craters in another recent thread, mr. Maddox himself said that taxing over them does cause damage.

I don't know how this is calculated and how long the craters will persist (eg in a multiplayer scenario, or if damage carries over even in the single player campaign), but the fact that they can ruin your day has been pretty much confirmed. According to mr Maddox, that same pic of the damaged hurricane with the collapsed main gear that you posted was due to taxing over a crater.

Cheers

[Friendly_flyer]

Sorry I'm late to the party:

Wohooo, Daffy! Bloody neat pictures of it too!

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Richie

I just found a pretty informative map

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ritain_map.svg

Some really good maps:

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by He111

What are you raving about toss-pot? It was all in the doco, at the end of the war when all the allies marched in Victory celebrations, the Poles were not allowed to, thanks to Churchill who was scared of annoying the soviets. It's very sad that the Poles proved themselves more than adequate in the BOB but few are willing to acknowledge that! You have a serious attitude problem.

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The moment you called me a tosspot is the moment you proved your lack of knowledge for your argument.

You have a massive chip on your shoulder, you make yourself look an idiot comfortably.

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Well, actually it wasn't Churchill who declared war, it was Chamberlain, although Churchill had advocated gearing up for action since before the re-militarisation of the Rhineland.
I'd say the Allied diplomats were stymied, rather than stupid, but you're certainly correct about us 'footing the bill'.
On the other hand 'victory at all costs, no matter how long and hard the road may be' may have included the financial cost, which of course bankrupted the Empire Churchill loved so much. A price he was prepared to pay to see the downfall of 'a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime'.
Thinking about the society we now 'enjoy', I often wonder what he'd think of it.

Precisely, which is what angers me so much about idiotic viewpoints like He111 expressed. The cost to the UK to fight Germany was a massive price, and I'm not talking about money alone. When I look back on it after hearing these sorts of comments a part of me just asks why we just didn't bother and let Hitler cut up Poland for good while we made hay from it all instead. Of course there was so much evil going on that would've been morally contemptible so not withstanding the political position of a strong German empire we did what was right - but it's not enough for some Poles, they are bitter about why we didn't do anything about Stalins massive army Ultimately Poland was simply a weak nation that we stood by as best we could. Maybe if the Poland weren't so keen on handing themselves a Baltic port after WW1 and carving Germany in two and upsetting their other neighbours by taking their territory from 1918-21 then perhaps they would've been bypassed in the first place.

[csThor]

Hardly. In the eyes of many germans Poland was simply a ... pardon the term ... bastard state which existed solely by the grace of the Entente and which contained areas many germans considered ur-german. And this wasn't just the opinion of the right-wing extremists but many conservative and even center to left-leaning ones. Or should I remind you that it was the Entente who declared that Upper Silesia was to be given to Poland despite a 59,4% pro-german vote in a plebiscite in 1922 (a remarkable vote given that many non-german nationals seem to have voted for Germany, too)?

[Igo kyu]

While all of that is probably fine (meaning I'm not up enough on the history to question it), what did get in Churchill's craw as I understand it, was having to send the Poles who survived fighting for us in the BoB home to Stalin's tender mercies, and often life in Gulags for fighting for "the enemy". I don't know what the numbers are, but that isn't something I'm happy about, if it happened to one that's one too many.

[FS~Lewis]

To save me trolling as I guess someone has already asked this question.....

so...

Does anyone know what the spec of the PC's that were used at the Igromir 2010 show in the 'Battle of Britain' exhibit?

I know that they were under powered for the sim...but it would still be valid info to have an idea of what may be needed upon release...

Thanks...

...lew...

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by FS~Lewis

To save me trolling as I guess someone has already asked this question.....

so...

Does anyone know what the spec of the PC's that were used at the Igromir 2010 show in the 'Battle of Britain' exhibit?

I know that they were under powered for the sim...but it would still be valid info to have an idea of what may be needed upon release...

Thanks...

...lew...

From memory: I5 processors, 2 GB RAM (the minimum is 3) and an nvidia GTX 460.
The poor fps in some of the videos was due to memory loss as a consequence of the insubstantial RAM. I'm sure there was a picture posted somewhere of the complete specs, but I can't find it ATM...

[Mick]

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/attachmen...3&d=1288883202