Good to hear that FC!!!
BTW, an 1mb image (the same that a skin) with today´s internet broadband it s more doable I think.

Holy s**t! That wolud be a great addition to the game!
For on-line you could define special limitations for size, format etc.

Hope you'll not change that.
To meet a Coca-Cola spitfire or a Blaupunkt Bf109 when playing on line an historical or semi-historical mission is really unpleasant. :(

I can definitely see where the problems would come in. Would using compressed JPEG or PNG help? We'd be talking about images in the 100kb range instead of ten times that for skins. Course get 60 players on a server and I see the scaling being difficult potentially.

Offline would also benefit. Certainly more practical there.

I may be wrong, but I think you guys are misinterpreting what FC99 said about briefing photos.

In my opinion, I think that what he meant was that briefing photos would be tied to the 'Skin download' setting in your Network Setup tab (see screenshot).

So, if the server/host did not have that setting checked, the briefing photos would not appear. Also, if the server allowed custom skins but a player had that setting unchecked, they would not see any briefing photos.

Anyway, that's what I think FC99 meant. I don't think he meant that briefing photos would negatively affect network traffic.

Aviar

So they only load the map image when the mission has launched, no good for coop mode then where you need the recon/target image in the briefing ?

I'm wondering if someone could have a look over the Ki-43-II and Ki-43-II Kai.

These both have three problems:

1) Wingtip condensation trails during hard manoeuvring appear out from the wing rather than along the wingtips on other aircraft.

2) There is a smoothing group error on the bottom side of the aircraft.

3) The the Ki-43-II series are armed with Browning .50cal instead of Ho-103 12.7mm. The Ki-43-Ic is correctly armed.

A couple of those are probably easy and others are probably hard.

Another Japanese plane request...

It would be nice to have a Ki-84-Ia model that represented rougher operating conditions. The Ki-84 as entered assumes the top quality level and best fuel types available for it. Without getting into a giant debate on the merits of that... it'd be great if there were a lower fuel quality variant (sort of the opposite of a the high boost Bf109K-4 C3) with reduced performance. Some top speeds quoted at 380-390mph instead of the 430ish mph that it has in current iterations.

In the absence of a Ki-44, it'd be handy to have a mid to late war Japanese fighter that was better than the Ki-61 but slightly lower performing than the higher quality Ki-84. Weird idea?

It'd be helpful balancing out some online scenarios. To be clear...asking for an additional Ki-84-Ia model and not a change or replacement to what currently exists.

Don't know, it's been 3 years since we tried that and all I know that this never went further. It's not me who was making this so I can't tell you why we never finished this feature.

No, I meant that downloading pictures can be a net traffic problem at least that come up when we were discussing this inside DT.

Thanks for the update on this topic FC99!!!
Could you tell us if there are plans to include this feature (briefing pictures) or similar in 4.12 or 4.13?