Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[erco]

Awesome- just fantastic!!!! You guys rock!

Now, here's the big question- if you fly through the smoke, does it react to the aircraft's passage? I'm thinking of those air-to-air shots where the subject aircraft is climbing out of an undercast, and the wingtip vortex is causing the cloud to swirl.

Now, if you guys can do THAT, amazement, joy and anticipation will be unrestrained!

[slm]

Great pictures! Maybe in some future update you could show smoke from bomb explosions?

[smink1701]

A few things that would be really neat to see in the final version…

1. In looking at historic gun camera footage, many times when a plane is being riddled with bullets one of the landing gear will drop down…like a wounded animal. If this was programmed to happen in the game on a selective, random basis, I think it would be really cool.

2. With the obvious detail and photo-realistic quality being built in the game, it would go a long way in removing the cold robotic feel if we could see a wounded or killed pilot slumped down in his seat. Don’t want to be gruesome but even a spray of blood on the inside of the canopy. This was war and those that fought died. I think this would add a HUGE degree of realism and make the game come to life…or death.

Anyone else in agreement?

PS…if either of these requests add a day to the release date, please disregard all the above.

[PilotError]

Wow!

Another amazing set of screenshots. Looking great.

The flak looks really scary, as does the flames.

The water looks absolutely perfect.

The damaged tyres should make for some interesting landings, although I think that the Stuka pilot has a lot more to worry about than his tyres.

A fantastic update this week with 15 pictures, each as good as the next.

Thanks.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by sgran

Oleg, Will the Short Sunderland be flyable? I doubt it but i'd like to fly a seaplane or flying boat. Great effects on the smoke and flak as well.

No. But as I told, if all will be fine with BoB life as a sim on the market then many planes may became flyable by third party.

Also this plane still can't drop the bombs. We don't cancel it, but at the moment we have more important things to do. The stystem for bomb racks in this plane is very unusual that to make it looking realisticflly working (with reloading in air from fuselage by rails). In worst case we will have simply bomb loadout just as external looking bombs, without lift system (really complex to make looking realistic, at least at the moment )