Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[IvanK]

Its called 4.09m, the previous beta version was 4.09bm.

[Bloblast]

Is there the possibility to put the new planes in the current dynamic campaign?

[Juri_JS]

Originally Posted by Bloblast

Is there the possibility to put the new planes in the current dynamic campaign?

I have tried to add the Fokker as flyable plane to the Finnish Dgen campaign, but it didn't worked. It's disappointing that we can't use the new maps and aircraft in Dgen.
An update of the Dgen.exe file would be nice.

[kennel]

I dont think currently we will be able to use any of the new content for offline dynamic campaigns until DGEN is altered and from what I have read it doesnt sound promising.

Lowengrins DCG on the other hand may work but it will take some work with alot of trial & error.

Is the dynamic generator side of the sim being neglected because of lack of resources? Or is it considered unimportant in comparison to the online experience. There are some brilliant DGEN campaigns out there, I own BOE, Ostfront & the Last days as well as the free to the community dgen campaigns by Ian Boys, Boelcke, Veltrut, Jumo & Enjoy.( there are others but I cant remember the authors names) I have seen a definate improvement in the AI performance since the new patch & it seems really strange that 4.09 gives new planes, new maps & a better performing AI & yet currently these can only be used in static campaigns or online.

It seems strange, however you never know what is around the corner with IL2
Team Daidalus has proved that so heres hoping.

[csThor]

The problem of the DGen is that it's not a Maddox Games in-house development. It was made by Starshoy, who hasn't been seen for ages, and AFAIK there is noone around who really knows what the exe contains. And given the structure of development back then when FB was in the making I doubt anyone but him has the source code or has gotten a look at its innards (AFAIK, again).

As for the offline vs online argument. I am an offline only player. Online with its ever-present sportive dogfight-contest, fighter fixation and late-war addiction is just not my cup of tea. As such I am of course interested in giving offline players enough "meat on the bones" to enjoy that part. However, and this is my very personal opinion, I am not a fan of the so-called "dynamic campaigns" in spite of having been part of the development team of "Ostfront". I greatly prefer decent hand-made campaigns, which are IMO much better at creating immersion than the DGen/DCG products. The latter aren't dynamic in the sense I need a campaign to be dynamic - while playing a mission. They produce the same canned missions a FMB user can dish out, but regarding briefing, ground-object placement and coordination of air assets a human mission builder is just infinitely superior to either of the campaign generators.
As a result of this I have not concerned myself with dynamic campaigns for a long, long time and so I don't know about the latest developments or the state of DGen.exe (for example). I don't know if Daidalos' coders can do something about DGen, but given their workload on currently-running projects I doubt they can throw more than a cursory glance at it. If it's easy to do, I guess it's doable. But if it takes someone to really "reverse engineer" the thing I don't know if there's hope for the patient.

[Azimech]

I support JVM's trimming proposal. A whole battery of control modules in the room doesn't look very pretty and is expensive. A single button is a nice idea.

[Aviar]

For some strange reason, I also support JVM's trimming proposal. In part, because he explained it so well. He made some very valid points.

Actually, I can see it as part of the Difficulty settings...or possibly a conf parameter. This way, the players who may disagree with this option would not be forced to use it. Heck, we already have settings such as External View and No Cockpit. I don't see Auto-Trim as being any more outrageous than those options.

Aviar

[Metus]

Thank you for the new patch !

No other game fascinates me over such a long time period as IL2 does.

Is it possible to make the new airplanes viewable in the "View Objects" ingame screen?
Maybe it's just my installation but I cannot find them
I don't need the text; only want to see them if it's too much work.

Thank you.

PS: Looking forward to further patches

[96th_Nightshifter]

Not sure if this has been asked before and I'm not about to read through 40+ pages

Is there any possibility of any of the higher quality of MOD aircraft that have been produced ever being "officially" added via one of the future DT patches?

The Spitfire MK.XII, MK.XIV and the A3 FW spring to mind and I'm sure many of you know about the high quality Whirlwind and Lancaster that are being worked on over at RAF662.

Just curious as I would love to see some of this work officially recognised.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by 96th_Nightshifter

Not sure if this has been asked before and I'm not about to read through 40+ pages

Is there any possibility of any of the higher quality of MOD aircraft that have been produced ever being "officially" added via one of the future DT patches?

The Spitfire MK.XII, MK.XIV and the A3 FW spring to mind and I'm sure many of you know about the high quality Whirlwind and Lancaster that are being worked on over at RAF662.

Just curious as I would love to see some of this work officially recognised.

I definitely agree. I almost suggested this myself, I'm not sure why I didn't. The Spit XII and XIV are the only ones I have personal experience of that I'd say were up to the right standard. The flightmodels I can't comment on (they definitely aren't uberplanes), but the models certainly are almost perfect.