What Sim will SOW be?

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by furbs

With current Hardware i cant see we will be able to have large scale BOB battles that we have read about.
To feel we are a pilot taking part in the BOB we would have to see at least 60-70 (and thats a small scale battle) planes in the air at the same time.
The closest ive seen to that sort of battle has been 2-3 missions in WOP and will all know WOP is very limited in what we call a flight sim and is no where near what SOW will be.

It all comes down to the AI handing, which is the main bottleneck with Il2 (and other sims as well). Try Wings of Victory for really huge air battles, i.e. hundreds of planes at the same time. Which is achieved by simplifying the AI behaviour for planes which fly in formation, and even more so for far-away planes. Doesn't come without its issues (there's a reason why only the 2nd installment was finally playable, the original Rowan version was a buggy mess) and I never really got caught on that sim, but it sure has the right amount of planes in the air.

No question this will be interesting to see, and with far more impact on how the final game will play out than variations in tree size...