So, about that little red light...

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

Meanwhile, those Hurricanes seem to have vanished from view. The flight of Emils is desperately trying to relocate them. Suddenly number 4's engine brews up with white smoke streaming back. He rolls inverted and leaves his plane. Fight's on! Then there's that damned little red light!
Flyby out

i am really looking forward to BoB, but untill there are more details about features and improvements, we can only speculate on how realistic that scenario will be.

has oleg even confirmed we will get real size maps ? right now most maps in il2 are scaled down to reduce flying time to target. additionally you'd need to have varying fuel consumption with the aircraft being flown with different engine settings (mixture, rpm, headwind/tailwind, heat, altitude etc), which i dont think is the case now.

[JG52Uther]

IIRC,and it was years ago LOL,Oleg said there would be an 'online' map and a realistic map.I could be wrong of course.
For some reason he thinks a lot of people want quick arcade furballs instead of a long flight with time spent forming up,getting into formation,and flying for 40 minutes to get to target!
Even one of the unofficial maps for il2 will involve an 8 hour flight across Europe and back.

[Flyby]

I know what you mean, Uther. I once made a coop mission over the Pacific. It would have lasted over an hour, but everyone got tired of just flying along to the target, a nd left. But surely someone will want to recreate the full realism of taking off, forming up and flying to the target area. I'd like to do it, but it would make for a bad coop if the Luftwaffe had to do all that to fly to the combat area while the RAF had to sit and wait for the "scramble!" alert. Still, it would make for a nice coop for the hardcore... Will probably be a bad idea to do so on a belly full of beer though!
Flyby out