Spitfire graphical shortcut

Spitfire23 · #1 02-01-2010, 02:55 PM

Yeah i've noticed it before, i remember it quite clearly as i recall spotting a mkIX and as i gained on him it magically turned into the XVI, i was rather confused and had completely forgot about it until you brought it up.

Not noticed it with any other aircraft yet though, im guessing they did the same with the La series

FOZ_1983 · #2 02-01-2010, 05:53 PM

With the XVI you'll notice if your in cockpit view, your actually in the IX cockpit. If you rotate your ehad and look behind you you'll clearly see the radio antenna on the fuselage and also the lack of a teardrop canopy.

Ah well.

Lexandro · #3 02-01-2010, 06:56 PM

Yep saw this myself. I got confused myself. It was in similar circumstances but with me I spotted a Spit IX diving into a cloud off my port side and turned to chase. I punched out of the clouds and saw a Mk XVI in a shallow climbing turn and I was a like "Where did that IX go to then? He must have looped in behind me" and was looking for a target when there was nothing there.

It wasn't till I actually had a training mission in a Me109 against MkXVI spits that I realised It was a graphical shortcut.

SgtPappy · #4 02-01-2010, 08:47 PM

This lack of attention to anything is getting me a little frustrated.

I think I may trade in this game. Wings of Prey has more attention to detail but even it makes blatant mistakes.

Back to IL-2 1946 for me. Peace out, ladies and gentlemen.

gbtstr · #5 02-02-2010, 03:18 PM

Yeah, noticed that. Can be a little disorienting at times. Usually, it doesn't matter much though, because I'm shooting at Spitfires anyway.

mattmanB182 · #6 02-02-2010, 06:20 PM

It has actually made me forget which plane I was chasing a few times. Its kind of funny to think about it.

GRRRRR!!!! The Spit pilots must be working on some sort of cloaking device! So far they have gotten the wingtips to disapear! Warning to all other Luftwaffe pilots: BEWARE!!

draux · #7 02-02-2010, 07:20 PM

The amount of detail they paid to the maps has made up for all the small things like disappearing wingtips. After five months of playing, Im sill astonished by things you can find on the ground. I heard that one of the guys on the dev team spent two years in his basement demodernizing satelite imagery.

If you're ever bored, choose one of the maps (Dover and Berlin are best) in the game and open up google maps. It's crazy. Maybe Im just easily enterntained.