Friday 2010-12-24 Dev. update and Discussion

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

I doubt that the canopy of the Duxford's Emil does anything has in common with the original canopy any more. It looks like a replica, not made very well. Last april I went to Duxford and took a closer view to it.

Here's a painting of the event... Not solid proof but it's an older type in the painting also.

[Sutts]

Here's the original photo I believe. Canopy matches the one we see in SoW.
I accept that both canopy styles featured in BoB 109s though.

[easyhomewin]

Originally Posted by Zorin

I believe you mean Gloster Gladiator, cause the Meteor is the 1944 jet.

No I mean the meteor. As I sugested earlier not in the inital release of the game and obviously not to take part in any BoB missions but if developers go a bit crazy introduce addons with jet engine fighters as they did with the original sturmovik.

[Sutts]

Here's a 109 with later style canopy shot down Sep 16 1940 at Manston:

The second is just a beautiful summer airfield shot in France.

[Sutts]

In the second Oleg shot with the 110 over a town, notice the church in the right hand corner. First church we've seen I believe. Important landmarks when navigating without map icons IMO.

[Baron]

Is it just me or does it look like the Bf-110 pilot is wounded or dead to?

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Baron

Is it just me or does it look like the Bf-110 pilot is wounded or dead to?

If your talking about the fourth picture then yes he does, the rear gunner looks in better shape.

[Tbag]

Originally Posted by Sutts

In the second Oleg shot with the 110 over a town, notice the church in the right hand corner. First church we've seen I believe. Important landmarks when navigating without map icons IMO.

There are thousands of these churches in southern England, I doubt they would help much when navigating! But they certainly add a lot to the atmosphere of the game!

[kancerosik]

Originally Posted by dflion

The colour saturation on all pics is looking much better.
I liked the pic of the 30+ Wellingtons flying along - very impressive!
Finally the pic of the Spitfire flying at 'o' feet over a German airfield - looks very realistic.
Thanks
DFLion

On the Spit low pass capture, the shadows of the objets doesnt match. Nice, but seems to be a photoshop work. Am I wrong?

[Stiboo]

Thanks for the replies about the 109E3 canopy, I've just never really seen the original 109 canopy in photos and paintings over the years.

I've not seen any screenshots of Oleg's 109E3 with a retro-fitted 'square' canopy so it looks like it's not in the game.

It seems very strange that this is the only 109 version in BoB? As the E4 and E7 were so very similar, Oleg and team must have made a financial decision thinking about future paid add-on packs for the series to the loss of the BoB game, why model an a.i. Beaufighter that didn't really see any service until January 1941 but not model all the Emils that flew July - Sept 1940? is this Pacific Fighters all over again!

I'm guessing a Friday 15 th April UK release date.