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

[David603]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

Another question: Will Zuti's MDS be available for offline missions or campaigns? I'm making a guadalcanal campaign and it would be nice to have the ability to land in the middle of the action and refuel and rearm. This would also be good for Blitzkreig campaigns i.e stukas landing rearming, and taking off again to strike more targets in a short time frame.

The mod version of Zuti's MDS allows this, so I don't imagine the functionality will have been removed in the official version.

[Tempest123]

K thanks, I've never tried the mod version, so I might give it a whirl.

[Fafnir_6]

Hello all,

I am wondering if DT would consider working with some of the sound mod makers out there (Jafa, Tiger33, et al) to replace the sounds of stock IL-2 in some future patch. If not, what are the issues that would impede such a cooperative effort?

The sounds of IL-2 have always been the sim's weakest spot (I think most users would agree after using one of the sound mods out there). The impact of better sounds is significant in terms of immersion and would contribute greatly to the simming experience of all IL-2 users with no performance hit. Heck, even Jane's World War II Fighters from 1998 had infinitely better sounds than stock IL-2 has today.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[bf-110]

True,but someone said that the sounds that have on internet for IL2,god knows who made them,recorded or such thing.
Still,I totally agree with replacing the sounds.

[WTE_Galway]

To be honest the original IL2 sounds work better on my system than the 1946 ones. As far as 4.09 is concerned the 4.09 sound DLL's do not work at all with my older Athlon and I needed to put the 4.07 DLL back.


In terms of meeting user expectations ... the tricky bit is most users expect the same sounds they hear during a flypast at an air show. The sounds inside a cockpit are quite different to the sounds an observer on the ground hears.

In players expect to hear the same sounds they hear in movies or at air shows (the distinctive growl and whistle of a DB flying past for example) they are bound to be disappointed.

[Fafnir_6]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

To be honest the original IL2 sounds work better on my system than the 1946 ones. As far as 4.09 is concerned the 4.09 sound DLL's do not work at all with my older Athlon and I needed to put the 4.07 DLL back.


In terms of meeting user expectations ... the tricky bit is most users expect the same sounds they hear during a flypast at an air show. The sounds inside a cockpit are quite different to the sounds an observer on the ground hears.

In players expect to hear the same sounds they hear in movies or at air shows (the distinctive growl and whistle of a DB flying past for example) they are bound to be disappointed.

Hello,

I'm not sure about the performance of 4.07 sounds versus 4.09 ones, since I didn't notice any change in performance between them on my old Athlon 1800XP (but then I wasn't really looking). I haven't had as many sound reliability problems with 4.09, if memory serves. What sound card/chipset do you have? In my request, I was more interested in how the engines/guns sound rather than the software mechanics of the rendering of said sounds.

I agree that some users' expectations may be unrealistic, but I suggest you play/watch youtube of Jane's (it should run nicely on your Athlon) or try the modded IL-2 on a faster computer (performance degration due to mods are not due to the different sounds but to other stuff). You'll see then what can be reasonably expected sound-wise from a flight sim. Stock IL-2 sounds...SUCK... There is no other way to put it after experiencing some of the other flight sim sounds out there. I personally feel that effort put towards fixing this is not wasted (plus most of the content creation is already done).

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[csThor]

Don't expect it (to put it mildly). DT doesn't have the expertise in this area and I doubt any of these "Soundpacks" do not contain samples that weren't taken from gawd-knows-where.