Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

And of course,if these guys have been beta testing for months,they are going to rip us apart online!

No, Il2 flight model was very close to RL, CoD won't be very different from that.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

No, Il2 flight model was very close to RL, CoD won't be very different from that.

It sounds like normal flying will be very close to the original IL-2 but stall fighting will be extremely difficult and it sounds like putting bullets on target will also be difficult.

The stats showing your hitting percentage and percentage of damage on enemy aircraft will also be helpfull. Having flown mostly German aircraft with explosive shells it was easy to tell when you were hitting in IL-2, but non explosive shells didn't give much feedback that you were putting bullets on target.

[Blackdog_kt]

I think flying will be very similar to IL2 with some added challenges here and there.
What's going to be the difficult aspect of it all is juggling with all the extra stuff in the midst of combat.

Whereas in IL2 i can slam the throttle forward, throw the stick to the side and pull back the moment i hear "break" on teamspeak while getting eyes on the bandit and waiting for the HUD messages to tell me if something is wrong, in CoD i'll have to look at 3-4 gauges inside the cockpit at the same time i'm doing all the above.

I guess after a while we'll settle into the habit of preconfiguring every single system on our aircraft for any given incident that might arise in certain phases of flight, instead of waiting for something to happen and then react to it.

In this sense i guess that the beta testers will in fact have some slight advantage over the rest of us, because they will have already formulated their mental checklists and picked up on certain good habits that they'll probably proceed to teach us about in a painful way

[Richie]

[QUOTE=Chivas;221964]It sounds like normal flying will be very close to the original IL-2 but stall fighting will be extremely difficult and it sounds like putting bullets on target will also be difficult.

I liked the old IL-2 Flight Model.

[RAF74_Winger]

Originally Posted by Richie

I liked the old IL-2 Flight Model.

So did I, but the slow flight regime was its greatest shortcoming. I will be looking forward to the new model.

W.

[Eklund89]

Im so exited from all the info that i shake in my chair! I hope there is alot of people buying this game so they get funded to continue with patches and real nice updates! If i had more money i would definatly donate money if that is possible.

[Defender]

There are A LOT of WWII sim aviation enthusiasts and IL-2 still has a massive following, I'd be very surprised if this sim didn't do well financially. Flight sims in general seem to be making a small come back so hopefully commercial success for this sim follows.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Defender

There are A LOT of WWII sim aviation enthusiasts and IL-2 still has a massive following, I'd be very surprised if this sim didn't do well financially. Flight sims in general seem to be making a small come back so hopefully commercial success for this sim follows.

I think it will be something like 2001 all over again.

[Redwan]

Originally Posted by Defender

There are A LOT of WWII sim aviation enthusiasts and IL-2 still has a massive following, I'd be very surprised if this sim didn't do well financially. Flight sims in general seem to be making a small come back so hopefully commercial success for this sim follows.

Flight sims are making a small come back ? Did you know that Microsoft is ending the FSX serie ? It means that the rentability sucks .... You should reed the news ...

And in such a context, it won't be easy for BoB to take it's place on the market as the graphics will be very poor for a modern simulator (no wheather effects, cartoony clouds, problems with the aspect of trees when seen from far, unrealistic textures ...)

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Chivas

It sounds like normal flying will be very close to the original IL-2 but stall fighting will be extremely difficult

Definitely going to have to pay close attention to air speed/speed over ground, especially with any kind of high wind in the mix.