Non Friday 2010-04-15 Development Update :)

[philip.ed]

Guys, as I said before, BoB2 supports hundreds of A/C and with this, of course, there will be tons of parachutes in the sky in a big dogfight. The sim handles this well, and with the right PC there is little in way of fps loss (at least to make a difference to the human eye).

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Guys, as I said before, BoB2 supports hundreds of A/C and with this, of course, there will be tons of parachutes in the sky in a big dogfight. The sim handles this well, and with the right PC there is little in way of fps loss (at least to make a difference to the human eye).

no offense, but you've seen "tons" of parachutes in BoB2? I've seen somewhat less than that in IL2 and it was a slide show. I'm only going by that as a concern when the parachutists are so articulated as in Oleg's video. I used to own Rowan's Bob, and can vouch for seeing tons of aircraft, though, and without a frame hit on a single core processor. I hope we see that many in SoW without a frame hit. I can live with a simplified rendering of many 'chutes in the air, but if I ain't one of them I hope to be too busy to count them!
Flyby out

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Flyby

no offense, but you've seen "tons" of parachutes in BoB2? I've seen somewhat less than that in IL2 and it was a slide show. I'm only going by that as a concern when the parachutists are so articulated as in Oleg's video. I used to own Rowan's Bob, and can vouch for seeing tons of aircraft, though, and without a frame hit on a single core processor. I hope we see that many in SoW without a frame hit. I can live with a simplified rendering of many 'chutes in the air, but if I ain't one of them I hope to be too busy to count them!
Flyby out

Bearing in mind the plane is in a state the chaps can get out, then yes! It's all dependent on the amount of planes.
Of course you have a slight fps hit, which increases on lower systems, but compared to Il-2 the amount of planes you can have is in another world. If BoB is your thing, then it knocks Il-2 for six, even a modded Il-2