Friday 2010-10-22 Dev. update and Discussion

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Sutts

I'm a complex systems fan too. SoW will be a huge hit if it manages to combine the complexity of MSX add-ons with the great combat environment of the IL2 series - with options to simplify of course. I'm so pleased the team have given us clickable pits with the promise of more complex systems.

If Oleg can tap into the MS study sim brigade as well as the growing IL2 fan base then sales should be strong for the new title.

+1

Even if MS come up with FSXI they will not be able to compete when it comes to the General Aircraft market especially if we see third-party releases including non-combat and modern aircraft (and considering that third-parties will have the possibility to make their own small maps).

I wonder how well it will work as a train sim..I imagine it will be very simplified though, otherwise that would be another nice market. I could just imagine the frustration of online train simmers, constantly being harassed by pesky dive bombers!

[SlipBall]

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Even if MS come up with FSXI they will not be able to compete when it comes to the General Aircraft market



If the SU-26 is in the release, look then for MS to loose many followers rather quickly

[Insuber]

Don't dream, the force of MSFS is the world-wide base of maps, apart thant the thousands of add-ons for long-courrier flights aficionados.
Given the higher quality of the terrain, I'm afraid that SoW will have a very long way to go to reach such a huge square mileage of maps.

[ElAurens]

Apples and oranges isn't it really?

As I have said many times, MSFS in it's countless variations is not a flight sim. It's a flight procedure simulator. A very different market indeed than a combat flight simulation. I doubt that any of the wannabe ATCs and trans Atlantic "pilots" in the Microsoft product have any clue what a proper FM or DM is, nor do they care. It's all about the procedure of flying, following the script (flight plan) of their "flight" to the letter is what is important to them.

The cattle car driver's viewpoint is very different than ours is.

Where SoW can make inroads into the "civilian" flight sim market will be in aerobatic flying and virtual air racing. Both of which depend a lot on proper modeling of the aircraft both structurally and in terms of the performance envelope.

Oleg:

It would be good to have the dynamic reflections of the gauges as a graphics option. PCs are getting rapidely faster, so i don't think it's far from now that pcs can handle also these reflections without much fps drop.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Oleg:

It would be good to have the dynamic reflections of the gauges as a graphics option. PCs are getting rapidely faster, so i don't think it's far from now that pcs can handle also these reflections without much fps drop.

Maybe for the future, but it's only a small feature, isn't it?

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Oleg:

It would be good to have the dynamic reflections of the gauges as a graphics option. PCs are getting rapidely faster, so i don't think it's far from now that pcs can handle also these reflections without much fps drop.

We have already been shown dynamic reflections of one kind...though not showing real time reflections...maybe a user will find a way to do that in the future.

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...-on-gauges.flv

From:

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/restranger/


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[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Apples and oranges isn't it really?


Where SoW can make inroads into the "civilian" flight sim market will be in aerobatic flying and virtual air racing. Both of which depend a lot on proper modeling of the aircraft both structurally and in terms of the performance envelope.

I agree, that's why I'm looking forward to the SU-26 and that I believe, will be the talk of many of the MS aerobatic/racing boards

[kedrednael]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Don't dream, the force of MSFS is the world-wide base of maps, apart thant the thousands of add-ons for long-courrier flights aficionados.
Given the higher quality of the terrain, I'm afraid that SoW will have a very long way to go to reach such a huge square mileage of maps.

The poligon grid size of the map from SOW is adjustable. Oleg already said it was possible to make a map of unlimited size (a sphere)