Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Doogerie]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

This game is going to cost me my marriage! I will spend so many hours just flying around, looking at things!

A little weird that the battle of brittain only lasted a few months, but I will be playing out his battle for years..

Skarphol

well with all the user made missions that will come out+ all the offical addons from olegit could well cost you your house and pet's as well just rember to eat and drink

[Kudlius]

It is so cool, it is fantastic

[BG-09]

Oleg, what about EXPLOSIONS engine...I really expect something HUGE from your team... really...
Please check my post about the EXPLOSIONS on the main forum screen.
Brilliant job, again!
~S!

[easytarget3]

awsome,i have new screen for my desktop

does the AI spotting/vision is also obscured by the smoke?i mean will they see trough it or not.thanks

[Skarphol]

It is so amazing how the water looks so different in the various screenshots! And it looks absolutely fantastic! The same goes for the sky. I think it looks very realistic. Its jawdropping.

Skarphol

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by csThor

The Bf 110 shows fighter-style markings with the extremely rare disk as tactical symbol of a IV. Gruppe (at the time of BoB there were no IV. Gruppen in the fighter branch, I./JG 77 became IV./JG 51 sometime in autumn 1940 but did not carry the tactical emblem of a IV. Gruppe until 1941 and then it used a +). But Bf 110s carried the full 4-character code (see the lengthy manual I sent along with the destroyer emblems for the correct codes).

We should have as many as possible. Ilya did this shot and put just as sample.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by =XIII=Shea

Again brilliant screenshots oleg,delighted to see that the tire,s can be bursted,will this be so for all planes oleg?

For all.
It may happens during combat... or during landing by the case.

[csThor]

Yeah, well ... diversity is a good thing if it's limited to what was there. Bf 110s never carried fighter-style markings so they're not neccessary there.

As to fighters and their tactical markings it's sufficient to say that having a - (II. Gruppe), ~ (wave) or | for III. Gruppe is all you need for BoB. A IV. Gruppe needs just two markings - a smaller version of the ~ (late war) and a + (for mid-war, i.e. IV./JG 51). I'd have to check if the circle/disk was used as well (perhaps with IV./JG 1 but I'm at work and do not have my books here).

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by sgran

Oleg, Will the Short Sunderland be flyable? I doubt it but i'd like to fly a seaplane or flying boat. Great effects on the smoke and flak as well.

No. But as I told, if all will be fine with BoB life as a sim on the market then many planes may became flyable by third party.

Also this plane still can't drop the bombs. We don't cancel it, but at the moment we have more important things to do. The stystem for bomb racks in this plane is very unusual that to make it looking realisticflly working (with reloading in air from fuselage by rails). In worst case we will have simply bomb loadout just as external looking bombs, without lift system (really complex to make looking realistic, at least at the moment )

[F19_lacrits]

Very very nice!!!
Flak puffs are impressive in their detail and irregularity. The water looks like it's from a camera shot.

On the Sunderland flying boat, the second engine counting from the left.. Is the exhaust slightly off it's alignment with the engine? Compare to the other three engines with their exhausts and smoke trails.

These friday screen shot teasers are getting better and better.. It's the happening of the week!