Friday 2010-02-19 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Skoshi Tiger]

With all these different type of detection gear at our disposal, I keep on thinking that it would be great to have a player manable 'plotting table'. Where the location and altitude of the various contacts would be displayed.

A member of a on-line squadron could use teamspeak (or a built in Radio Communications???) to vector his squadron members onto the enemy contacts. Of course the historical accuracy and limitations of the various detection devices would need to be programmed and as the various devices are located and destroyed by the attacking planes those stations would not be able to send in any more plots!


I know one person wouldn't be flying but they would be able to co-ordinate their teams efforts.

It would also give a real reason for finding and taking out the listening posts, other than points!

Cheers and thanks for the updates.

[AndyJWest]

a player manable 'plotting table'

If you want 100% authenticity, it should probably be 'womanable'. This would certainly add a lot to the experience. One for third-party software, if not in the initial sim.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

If you want 100% authenticity, it should probably be 'womanable'. This would certainly add a lot to the experience. One for third-party software, if not in the initial sim.

100% correct, now where can a bloke buy a WAF uniform......

Did I just think that or type it??????? Hmmmmm! donuts!

cheers!

Edit! - Could be a great way to get our spouses involved in the sim!!!

[FS~Lewis]

On reading of Battle of Britain engagements I find that a lot of spitfire/hurricane pilots complained of having to disengage because of oil and debris from the luftwaffe aircraft when they were chasing from directly behind. Some found it so bad they were forced to land simply because they couldn't see well enough to carry the fight....

Will this be replicated in the new game?

[AndyJWest]

now where can a bloke buy a WAF uniform......

Um, WAAF to be exact. I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged - and no, this isn't feminist revisionism. On the contrary, I suspect that the presence of female voices on R/T may have had a significant effect on morale, not least because whoever was responsible for WAAF uniform understood the workings of the minds of young adults of both sexes, and how dressing women up in 'male' attire made them more sexually alluring...

Sorry, I'm letting my anthropological studies get in the way here. What I meant to say is: Oleg make it authentic, give us WAAFs.

[Skarphol]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged..

Are you indicating that the WAAFs will be undermodelled in SOW:BOB?
That would be a shame...

Skarphol

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Um, WAAF to be exact. I have a suspicion that the WAAFs may have had more effect on the BoB than historians have acknowledged - and no, this isn't feminist revisionism. On the contrary, I suspect that the presence of female voices on R/T may have had a significant effect on morale, not least because whoever was responsible for WAAF uniform understood the workings of the minds of young adults of both sexes, and how dressing women up in 'male' attire made them more sexually alluring...

Sorry, I'm letting my anthropological studies get in the way here. What I meant to say is: Oleg make it authentic, give us WAAFs.

Seriously. Will we really have to wear those WAAF uniforms?
...And what about the female pilots that were employed transporting aircraft from one place to another, will we have to use those uniforms too? I really am unsure if I can afford the sim if that will be the case.
My budget will stretch to the silk scarf, but not the stockings, and to be honest I'm unsure if I can even get away with heels at my age.
Please development team, remember that some of us are on limited incomes.

By the way, what colour underwear did Badar wear?

[Les]

Dooblay eenconsekwonce.

[Les]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

With all these different type of detection gear at our disposal, I keep on thinking that it would be great to have a player manable 'plotting table'. Where the location and altitude of the various contacts would be displayed.

A member of a on-line squadron could use teamspeak (or a built in Radio Communications???) to vector his squadron members onto the enemy contacts. Of course the historical accuracy and limitations of the various detection devices would need to be programmed and as the various devices are located and destroyed by the attacking planes those stations would not be able to send in any more plots!

I know one person wouldn't be flying but they would be able to co-ordinate their teams efforts.

It would also give a real reason for finding and taking out the listening posts, other than points!

Cheers and thanks for the updates.

While it's not totally different to what we have now in overall concept, (wherein, one team is tasked with defending an airfield or other position, the other with attacking it,) the inclusion of player-controlled ground-based units has so much more potential for player interaction that it could result in a whole new co-op or team vs. team game-play mode.

With the defenders using player-manned radar, listening devices, and anti-aircraft weaponry to locate and destroy the in-coming attackers, preferably with someone in a commander role to co-ordinate the information being gathered. As a defender in a static position, you also might be able to choose where exactly on the map you initially appear, if you're not in a mechanized, mobile unit altogether. There could be your usual player-manned or AI planes scrambled as well. And, just to keep it interesting, if there were planes still available, as a ground based defender you could swap positons and get into one of the planes and join the air fight once and if the ground-based action dies down, but it would obviously limit your whole teams ground-based info gathering and defending capabilities.

As an attacker, you could have some fore-knowledge of the defenders positons, or you could be totally reliant on what you see once you get there. In this case, as a pilot, you'd have to get a visual fix on a defence position and hold your view on it until it 'locks in' and then appears on your in-game map. You might have to also manually pass on this information to your other team-mates so it appears on their maps too. You'd also have to make more decisions about which targets to attack. You could do a pure hit and run, focussing only on pre-determined targets, getting a head-start on any pursuers, but at the same time knowing that there probably will be more pursuers because you didn't take them out while they were on the ground. Or you could try to totally destroy the opposing forces while they're still on the ground, but at the same time have to deal with more direct oppositon, maybe even enemy aircraft (probably AI) called in from nearby.

I'm sure others who have thought about it could suggest other details that would make it more interesting too. In any case, it certainly has potential.

Les.

Nice pictures, but not the best of updates. I hoped we may be seeing a little more with only 6 months to go before release.