Oleg Maddox's Room #2 QUESTIONS & REQUESTS TO OLEG ABOUT BOB SOW

[hiro]

LOL with the vehicles


I'm laughing in regards to vehicles. While it is a cool and break from the norm type of features, it just opens up extra humor in the game!

It just shows the degree of detail BOB SOW in that we can use vehicles, man AAA, use radar.


Will the sultry english female radar officer's voice be dubbed in? Most likely we will get Q instead though.



future threads:

Japanese / German vehicles driver is on the wrong side.

Shift + F1 adjusts that.

oh wait you have to hotkey "American driver toggle" and press that first before Shift + F1



I jump in the vehicle and start the engine but it won't go.

Map a key to "Parking brake toggle" and press it.




I can't use the JEEP's guns / I use the JEEP's machine gun but it crashes into something.

Press P to switch to the gunners seat. Note: JEEPS, as well as all vehicles don't have auto pilot.




Everytime infantry gets close my tank blows up / infanty blow up everything.

Infantry are modelled to use sticky bombs, since each infantry has 4 pairs of socks they can do this several times. Keep your tank moving and run over / machine gun them.

A patch is on the way to fix this since they can do this unlimited times.









I'm lookin to more peopel complaining that "Aircraft are over modelled! I can't make it to the tree line with out getting hit. People can see my outline in the moonlight." to

"I hate driving jeeps, sometimes the herd of duckbilled dinos runs me over when the T-rex is chasing them!"


and then the usual complaint of ace vehicle AI possessing the old ace sniper bomber gunner.
Getting a plane clubbed out of the sky by a 88 mm first shot is impressive.







And the worst would be "You can use vehicles, but it'd be cool to go FPS like arma!"


Even though the writing was on the table:

Oleg: "No battles with infantry. We are doing flight sim."







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I definitely want enhanced sounds. Like I said before. Oleg n Co roll out the Duxford with a bunch of great sound engineers and record plane sounds. They can then to the old school / vintage machine gun restorer (and shooter) guys and get the gun sounds.

Add in movie sound effects mixing (THX or something)

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There was an page where Werner Molders mentioned soem 109 details. I would like that put for every aircraft, not just the 109.

"Il-2's Hellcat flies like a Wildcat with a tad bit more speed, won't work anymore"


And for 1946 planes that never flew, maybe a compromise between supposed designers intentions with the plane and with current understanding of engineering by panels of experten from different disciplines (engineering, pilots, etc)






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Joystick and keyboard combos is a novel thing, maybe not necessary but cool. I would also want being able to put or program several commands to the same keypress.

Like I could drop wheels, and tail hook for carrier planes. Or for the gamer oriented, program the key presses for manual gear. I know the hard core simmers are saying 'whats the point of having manual gear when you can program automatic."

But some like game aspects. Hence the wonder woman view being put in and air quake servers still in existance.


I have a feeling this feature may not be put in.

- Direct X 11 or 12 has to support this with gamecontroller devices and keyboards

- most serious IL-2 players eventually get a HOTAS set up which in that case combat important controls are already set to the HOTAS and non combat important but functional goes to key board or multifunction keypads / panels.

And most joysticks have virtual keyboard with their driver / program control software, so this can already be done.



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The tube thing . . .

#1 the games not finished

#2 the game's not finished

#3 the sim hq link that showes the internal spitfire's picture, the tube isn't visible at the angle the pic is taken.

#4 That's like saying no pilots will be in the Sim because the recent last fri spitfire pics are ghost ridden or the ME-110 props will never spin because the photo shows them not spinning.

It's complaining that the game is too expense and system requirements are too high, when neither MSRP nor sys reqs are released yet.





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2 important things to include in the mortgage BOB.

hopefully I won't have to take out a mortgage to build a PC that supports BOB, and to get the game as well.


Oleg is putting lots of details, so those will be in there. Like the 109's leading edge slats in IL-2 to cockpit open / close for carrier planes and seat adjustments.

We just haven't seen the a/c specific features n exclusive details round yet.

The track thing of being able to stop and add to recordings on the same track sounds like its is a possibility.

Oleg mentioned they are documentaries, movie makers anticipating they will be using the BOB SOW engine, so this could very well be a feature.



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