Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

[The Kraken]

What people really mean when asking about the "dots" is this: will LODs only depend on distance, or also on object size, resolution and field of view? Because if the switch to a dot representation only happens when the render size is about one pixel, then there's no issue anymore.

[Feathered_IV]

One more question Luthier and I'll leave you alone

Probably the one feature I really hope to see in CoD is improved crew interaction. Can you comment on AI crews, will gunners call out surface and air contacts? Will navigators give you course headings and corrections, and will bomb aimers guide you in on the bomb run?

The crew members of other sims are really only decoration and it would make the player feel far less alone (and much more immersed in the sim) if their virtual comrades could fulfil their basic functions within the aircraft.

Hope you can answer!

[Tbag]

First of all thank you very much Ilya and Oleg for your time and for answering all these questions. So here are mine:

1. Can you comment on the maximum number of planes that will be used in a mission in the stock campaigns?

2. Will the Lysander and the Ju52 make it into the initial release?

Not sure if you have answered these before, if so I missed it and probably someone else can aswer

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by luthier

Yes, that's what we hope to see, real humans teaching you to fly online.

Outstanding. This will tremendously help in teaching other pilots formation flying and other skills.

What about bombers and copilots (I know LW and RAF had single seats but for latter add-ons)?

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

One more question Luthier and I'll leave you alone

Probably the one feature I really hope to see in CoD is improved crew interaction. Can you comment on AI crews, will gunners call out surface and air contacts? Will navigators give you course headings and corrections, and will bomb aimers guide you in on the bomb run?

The crew members of other sims are really only decoration and it would make the player feel far less alone (and much more immersed in the sim) if their virtual comrades could fulfil their basic functions within the aircraft.

Hope you can answer!

This is a million dollar question, spot on Feathered_IV. I would just like to add - will there be any control over AI gunners? Something like: "engage only incoming bandits", or "engage all nearby fighters or bombers", "hold fire" etc...

Also - I presume that in CoD they won't fire at the blind spots in the sky wasting ammo at the same time and will see if there is a friendly bomber in their line of fire?

Thanks.