Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by AdMan

tl;dr

it's a flight simulation game dude, get over it

that was my only point

Which was nothing to do with the discussion (which was about who plays this game compared to other genres) other than a chance for you to stroke your e-penis and get obsessive about definitions and naming conventions.

Originally Posted by AdMan

lol at being scorned over a faggot joke

Yeah, because straight up insulting people counts as jokes now.

Oh well, never mind AdMan, you'll always be my favourite humourless definitions-nazi.

I loooooved the way that Sky Crawlers looked, I errrrr...just got bored of the story waiting for stuff to happen when I started to watch it ages ago, haha. Looks like I should have been more patient! Not sure how authentic the smoke and such are, though, they're very exaggerated I suspect, does look awesome, though. Actually, watching that, what it seems is missing in SoW compared to most people's expectations is the mixing of the fire and smoke into one plume near the source of the smoke...they're always two seperate effects that are not necessarily emerging from the same location. The fire also seems to be overly bright towards the middle compared to movie effects and such that most people compare to. Once again I don't know how relevant that criticism is.

[Viking]

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"We all know the drill. Read briefing. Take off. Follow waypoints. Engage target. Maneuver. Go home. Debrief.

I'm looking for some ideas to break up the monotony. Things that make you jump out of your seat. Things that immerse you in the game world. These can be based on historical events, or these can be your own ideas, as long as they're rooted in reality.

This means things that happen before the mission, during the mission, or after the mission. Interesting new mission types. Events. Features. These can be one-off events we may try to recreate during the mission, or more general ideas such as "it'd be cool if X did Y when Z".

And yes, while it'd be extremely cool if a variety of highly detailed civilian females with 20 types of historical clothing walked the Prince of Wales pier, and propwash of you Spitfire affected their skirts, and it'd be even cooler if the captain of the German schooner dropped his monocle when a flight of Blenheims appeared on the horizon, but let's try to keep in mind that we have limited development resources and a tight schedule.

I have lots of ideas of my own, but I'd like to keep them a secret. So I may be a little vague further down the thread when I see an idea I've already had or something new I'd like to use.

Also, please try to keep this thread constructive. Let's use it to offer new or add to existing ideas. Let's not turn it into a heated discussion of why you think a certain idea sucks."

Time gentlemen!

Viking

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Viking

And yes, while it'd be extremely cool if a variety of highly detailed civilian females with 20 types of historical clothing walked the Prince of Wales pier,

Anything other than a bikini and I couldn't care less.

my $.02

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Which was nothing to do with the discussion (which was about who plays this game compared to other genres)

that was a discussion you were having with yourself, I was suggesting a "holy sh... did that just happen moment" as the thread title asks for. Then you and a couple other people started throwing a tissy fit

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by AdMan

that was a discussion you were having with yourself, I was suggesting a "holy sh... did that just happen moment" as the thread title asks for. Then you and a couple other people started throwing a tissy fit

I didn't throw a hissy fit, I just pointed out why your suggestion might not be appreciated by a fairly large proportion of the people who play the game. ElAurens threw a hissy fit. I think you're likely to see lots of weird and wonderful experimental aircraft like that appear if the 3rd party addon industry takes off.

I'd like to see occasional confusion from AAA about which aircraft they're meant to be shooting at. Seems to be a feature of a lot of pilots' memoirs, cursing friendly gunners.

[WTE_Galway]

Well all I want personally is different colored smoke so I can make pretty aerobatic and air race screenshots

[Skoshi Tiger]

Has anyone asked for exahust stack fires if we over prime our Merlins? Of course we'ld need some ground crew with extinguishers!

What i really hope for:

People running around on the airfields, maybe pilots running to their planes.
It makes the athmosphere much greater.

[katdogfizzow]

Youre flying in a bf110 heading toward your target when fireworks pop off on the ground and launch high flying, 480 foot-long stout wire cables 600 feet in the air; with a parachute on each end! ....projectile barrage cables!

(Nobody believes you when you get back to base)

Churchills favorite secret weapon: parachute and cable launchers (UP: "unrotated projectile" PAC: "parachute and cable device" )by Prof Frederick Lindemann