Friday 2010-09-10 Dev. update and Discussions

[Peffi]

Originally Posted by Tbag

Navigation without an airspeed indicator? Might get difficult very quickly!

If you were a pilot you would know how to navigate without an airspeed indicator. Wonder if you have the same problem if the speedometer brakes in your car, but you probably don't have a drivers license.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Would be really cool if the "failing" pilot would be screaming visually (+acoustic).

In fact, I don't think people who fall - scream at all.
I know I wouldn't, I would just think "oh ****!" and take my last breath.

[Sutts]

Wow, looks great Oleg. Things are really coming along nicely. That 109 cockpit is simply stunning. Ice looks great, fire looks great with the flames licking back, sea is amazing. Also the trees look so much better now.

I have a couple of questions.

Will the Thames be given 3D river banks at some point? I think I remember the team mentioning a mesh system that could support such a feature.

London is a vast city. Today it is covers an area over 600 square miles. Not sure how much it has grown since 1940 but even if it was a quarter of that then it's still a huge area to cover in buildings. How will the areas outside the center be portrayed please? I can fully understand that covering that kind of area in 3D objects will simply not work with today's computing resources.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

[philip.ed]

I think you'd scream without thinking the minute your chute didn't open or you realised you were going to die. but let's not get morbid here


Oleg, will the chute snag in trees? So can a pilot get himself stuck in a tree? It'd be great to land in a tree, and have a clip of the chap getting bustled by the home-guard....
"good afternoon..."

(how many times can I say tree in one sentence?! Eries'll get a hard-on)

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Well, thank you



Heh, i agree. I just get carried away when i'm enthusiastic i guess.

Maybe i should take up writing after-action reports when the sim is released, that way i could vent without cluttering up the entire forum. In fact, i'd be more than happy to contribute a piece about as long as my previous post to be used in the promotion of the simulator/as an introduction in the manual/on the back of the DVD box or whatever else promotional, but to do that i would actually need to get my hands on something like an early demo...yes, i know, "don't push your luck"

However i'm sure there are others who can do just as well or better than me and that gives me an idea (since i'm all ideas that end up being done by others ). Maybe we could have a fan-fiction writing contest here in the forum when the time of release draws near. We could vote the best entry and the piece would be used in some form of official promotion for the simulator with the author getting credited on the DVD Box or in the manual, or maybe he would get an autographed copy of the simulator. It would definitely be a more creative use of our typing than splitting hairs over non-final screenshots or going at each other's throats all day long

Back on the topic at hand, did i already say this was probably the best update in terms of pieces-finally-coming-together? I don't know if they will make the October intended release date, but i'm 90% confident we'll finally see SoW on the shelves within the next 3-4 months, maybe even earlier

Nice post Blackdog.

I was just thinking the other day what effect truly realistic weather conditions, huge clouds, fog, ice etc. could have on our simulator experience.

I live in an area of the UK where many a fighter and bomber came to a sudden end flying into high ground at night or in bad weather.

Just imagine if SoW allows us to replicate the sheer terror of flying into a bad weather front in failing light while returning to base - without the aid of an electronic map...

I can imagine the tension now....you're not entirely sure of your position and visibility is decreasing rapidly. Before you know it you're flying on instruments alone. You gently let down through the cloud but still no sight of the ground. Then the buffeting starts as you approach a storm front, or the icing begins to creep across the canopy. You panic a little and decide to turn 180 degrees and get out of this desperate situation.

But you've lost your bearings now and are pretty much lost. Need to find somewhere to land soon - fuel is running low. I could go on but I'm sure you get the point. Flying into a vast ground hugging cloud system could be a truly scary experience in an area with high ground threats. I think that would certainly get the heart pumping.

I'm really hoping immense cloud systems and low visibility scenarios are part of SoW. The ability to disable the moving map would be great too - much temptation to cheat in such dodgy situations.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I think you'd scream without thinking the minute your chute didn't open or you realised you were going to die. but let's not get morbid here

Just found on YT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=QNBZ...eature=related

They don't scream.

[fireflyerz]

Ya dont know what your talking about, its a fact that some do and some dont, and if they do they can be heard from miles away by people on the ground....FACT.

OUUTTCHH. I actually didn't mean that serious i just didn't like so much that the face of the pilot was still the same.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by swiss

In fact, I don't think people who fall - scream at all.
I know I wouldn't, I would just think "oh ****!" and take my last breath.

Maybe there should be an option to choose:
- Curse
- Scream
- Pray
- Inhale and be silent
- Make cawing noises and flap your arms
- say "oh dear" and then forget to hit the ground (throw yourself at the ground and miss)

A must have feature

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Avimimus

Maybe there should be an option to choose:
- Curse
- Scream
- Pray
- Inhale and be silent
- Make cawing noises and flap your arms
- say "oh dear" and then forget to hit the ground (throw yourself at the ground and miss)

A must have feature

" Make cawing noices and flap your arms " LMFAO