Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

Avat · #1 11-15-2009, 04:15 PM

1. Oxygen system failures on high altitude (often in early months of BoB on Hurricanes Mk1)

2. More things to break in cockpit (like electricity fail, sparks from gauges etc.) and more available mechanical failures

3. Viewable pilot's hands and legs inside cockpit (and an ability to turn it off, just like in DCS)

4. Feeling like you're only small gear in war machine (lot of action everywhere)

5. Movie actions (just look at Call of Duty series - these guys are masters in emotion creation)

6. Bad airfield conditions like mud etc (hell for late german pilots)

7. Human animation (this Euphoria is great)

8. "Beepers" used by RAF to identify squadrons on radar

9. Full weather implementation

10. Crew members moving, talking, screaming inside planes

11. Every button available to click, everything available to turn off or turn on! Every gauge working! Just full working cockpit!

12. Bailing out and falling on a parachute - everything in 1st person perspective

13. Heavy pilot's breath in cockpit while under heavy G, wounded etc

14. Lot of radio communications, i dont want to hear 20 times same text in one mission

PS. Sorry for my poor English

SlipBall · #2 11-15-2009, 11:11 PM

Flying over the black forest and you spot her, I did'nt really see that, did I?

edited: may be against the rules, unsure

ECV56_Lancelot · #3 11-16-2009, 12:46 AM

- Se depth charges explosions.
It would look cool if you are flying over the north sea or the channel and find one or several destroyers throwing depth charges trying to hunt a submarine.

LoyalNine · #4 11-16-2009, 02:01 AM

1. I would like to see a user history more like Falocn4:AF that you can carry with you from one install to the next. Total time, a-a kills, a-g kills, ect...

2. An in depth After Action reporting system.

3. More of a campaign engine (again) line Falcon has. Falcon is years old and still has a campaign that pulls you in like no other and makes you feel as though you are part of a war enviorment that is truly alive.

4. I would like to see airfields have fuel depot (gas), Hangars (repairs), Office areas (morale or leadership maybe...) and runways (for taking of and landing obviously) depending on what you hit and damage you inflict could mean losing that item there. For instance if the fuel is 100% knocked out you can respawn there but start with the fuel you landed with. Or if they are damged, depending on teh amount there is again a points or time penalty to use it. If the just hangars are knocked out you respawn with a full tank but you still have damage or a time penalty to take off...

5. Damage that stays (Damaged) until its fixed somehow. If you launch an attack on an enemy airfield and crater the beginning middle and end of the runway than good luck talking off... of if you just crater one side of it it would have to be a short takeoff. If teh damage shaowed it would also allow other to know what to target because they can see it. I would love to see big smokin craters in the middle of a BLUE runway

6. Lastly I would like to see Voice Comms and a Hyperlobby style multiplayer area built into the game. None of these gamespy crap so many games use... sopmething tailored for the IL2 flight sim crowd. It may convince others to try online multiplayer if they see us catting it up in comms via voice and/or VOIP.

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I love this sim. - Oleg and the devs you guys have done great over the years.

Igo kyu · #5 11-16-2009, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by LoyalNine

5. Damage that stays (Damaged) until its fixed somehow. If you launch an attack on an enemy airfield and crater the beginning middle and end of the runway than good luck talking off... of if you just crater one side of it it would have to be a short takeoff. If teh damage shaowed it would also allow other to know what to target because they can see it. I would love to see big smokin craters in the middle of a BLUE runway

Eh? Fixed by the player? that doesn't sound like fun.

Runway craters would have been filled in a few hours at most (as they used to say at the time, there was a war on).

If you mean bullet holes should not evaporate when the graphics card gets bored of them, I'm with you, but if you want everybody to suffer unrealistically long-lasting effects from offensive actions, I'm absolutely not.

LoyalNine · #6 11-16-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Eh? Fixed by the player? that doesn't sound like fun.

Runway craters would have been filled in a few hours at most (as they used to say at the time, there was a war on).

If you mean bullet holes should not evaporate when the graphics card gets bored of them, I'm with you, but if you want everybody to suffer unrealistically long-lasting effects from offensive actions, I'm absolutely not.

I mean this for campaign wars... not dogfight server type stuff. If you take out an airfields C&C as well as runway its gonna take a while to get back in teh fight. (how this is modeled in game via point/time ect.. would be a call on the devs part I guess. Would be a good way to keep/commit the other side from having/using resources. A well placed airfield was always a tasty target.

I am coming at this from Falcon4 where this sort of thing makes a difference in a campaign.

Igo kyu · #7 11-17-2009, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by LoyalNine

I mean this for campaign wars... not dogfight server type stuff. If you take out an airfields C&C as well as runway its gonna take a while to get back in teh fight. (how this is modeled in game via point/time ect.. would be a call on the devs part I guess. Would be a good way to keep/commit the other side from having/using resources. A well placed airfield was always a tasty target.

I am coming at this from Falcon4 where this sort of thing makes a difference in a campaign.

I don't know how long you're expecting it to take to repair an airfield. There were a lot of people in Britain then, and the roads were adequate, so getting a thousand labourers or squaddies to a particular airfield to dig soil into holes wouldn't have been an insurmountable problem.

If there were no other airfields affected, it wouldn't even matter, particularly in the BoB where there were many airfields around about. Many were just big flat fields, in those days fighters didn't need the landing room they do now.

Aircraft factories would have taken much longer to replace.

It's not as if an airfield is an isolated installation that is unaffected by it's surroundings. If you are thinking of airfields as items that have to be self sufficient, that reminds me of Command and Conquer, I don't want BoB SoW to become a clone of that.

MikkOwl · #8 03-10-2010, 01:24 PM

Life is too short to read through all 14 pages to make sure it has not already been suggested. Here goes:

Friendly fire (bomber gunners being jumpy, being bounced by friendly hurricanes/109/110's and more).
Undisciplined wingmen go off chasing enemy.
Pilots trying to show off, doing stunts, flying too close perhaps etc. Consequence ranging from commander (angry) interruption, nothing at all, or actually crashing. Happened in the real war (109's stunting over POW camps holding airmen - British doing victory rolls over their airfield when coming back from sortie but having damaged airframes they did not know about).
Pilot or crew unable to get themselves extracted from their plane when trying to bail (heart breaking panicking heard over radio). Can include those stuck in burning cockpits.
Accidents pertaining to ground crew & vehicles & aircraft. Including fuel ignited by someone smoking, severely fatigued pilots veering off left on take off (109's especially) heading straight into the crew barracks (happened).
Landing gear not coming down on some aircraft when about to land. Sometimes pilots unaware. Sometimes someone telling the pilot (also if player) that their gear isn't fully down.
Blacked out pilots (can be due to injury, G-loc or altitude poisoning) causing the plane to do erratic flight behaviour (including loops, or leveling out from dives into crazy zooms) - and the other pilots who see it voice their reactions on radio "wake up!" "pull up!" "jump!" etc.
Pilots & Crew voicing brief shocked reactions to seeing own side bomber/plane get shot down in brutal ways (explode, crash into ground, split in half etc).
Unintentional crew-strikes (replace bird with air crew). Not very likely but still :p
Pieces of aircraft striking own aircraft (oil/coolant over the hood, aircraft parts causing damage, even severe damage to own plane). Falling debris is dangerous.
Smoke in cockpit.
Own canopy will not jettison or open - stuck! Better find some way of ditching it somehow.. And if on fire, well...
Knocked unconcious temporarily on bail out.
British airbase crew running/scattering like crazy when they see bombs falling towards them (I have seen similar in a mod showing AA crew abandoning their gun when scared, and soldiers jumping off and running from their transport trucks - amazing stuff)
Civilian motor vehicles doing funny things if scared (fly towards them low level from the front and they drive into the ditch)
People on the ground being seen ducking down when aircraft flies low over them.
Pilots trying to join enemy formation - thinking they are friendly (but realizing at some point that they are enemy - when alongside or when still trying to approach).
People on ground running towards any crashed/ditched aircraft, including failed landings.
Armed civilians (hunters with shotguns or rifles) as well as soldiers shooting at any 'target of opportunity' passing by. Not a big risk, but they could get real lucky (bye bye coolant/glass cockpit window etc).