BoB SoW and SONAR

[Madfish]

Never flown open cockpit either. But I can make an elaborate guess being that you can't hear anything at all anymore. Three hints:
1. An open cockpit at higher speed will catch all the turbulences thus creating an amazing amount of fluctuating pressure. This will make hearing an engine much harder if not impossible, depending on the engine type.
2. The pilots have been wearing equipment. Like a hat, helmet even and almost always they had earphones for radio com.
3. Also opening the cockpit might be close to retarded as almost no plane was able to actually close the cockpit again in flight. Getting into a dogfight with open canope however would be absolutely deadly. You'd have a lot of drag, probably die from low temperature and also the turbulence would surely affect your sight etc.

I have flown online on a random server and joined a guy, trying to be his wingman. He then told me to "fu** off already" and not to follow him. Well, later I found the reasons. Even with your own engine sound present it obviously works in IL-2. On top of that some people hack the game so it won't have any engine sound for them.


So in summary I agree. We shouldn't able to hear engines unless REALLY close or if it's huge armadas of planes approaching (bombers). In fact during battle you could barely hear machine guns firing because the overall noise was so incredibly loud.

[Dano]

Oleg already stated this isn't an issue in BoB.

[rollnloop]

This is great news Dano, can you point me to the post or thread ?

[AA_Absolute]

Oleg words:

"2. In Il-2 the sound engine was designed for HiEnd sound cards. It was so different sounding on Hi End and on regular cards.... On simple motherboard cards of some producers the panning was so simple, that we was unable to control it or regulate the distance... and some people begun to use it... In BoB we will have completely new sound engine that will not depending of type of sound card. We simply did own panning code, etc..."

[rollnloop]

Thanks m8. I've read this, and see no mention that SONAR is gone for good, but at least there's hope.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by rollnloop

Thanks m8. I've read this, and see no mention that SONAR is gone for good, but at least there's hope.

That was Olegs answer to the Sonar issue. So it should be fixed. I've never heard other aircraft on my hi-end systems. It was rather annoying hearing others on-line talking about hearing other aircraft.

[AA_Absolute]

Sonic radar or "SONAR" ruined my sneak attacks for ages... Is the bad unsolved bug of IL2 series.

I'm very happy in SOW lost this exploit and lots of pilots are forced to check six.
Sonars lovers in SOW need fly with red arrows... fine"!!!

[Dash 8]

Originally Posted by Chivas

That was Olegs answer to the Sonar issue. So it should be fixed. I've never heard other aircraft on my hi-end systems. It was rather annoying hearing others on-line talking about hearing other aircraft.

I also don't hear anyone else with my audigy 2 card. I also don't think the stock sounds of IL2 are bad or sound 'like a lawnmower' as I have read others say. As Oleg said, it was designed to be played on a high end sound card, which it sounds good on. I can hear the whine of the turbo in a 109, and all sorts of little pings and knocks in the aircraft engines. Even the P51 has its distinct whistling sound with my Audigy 2.

But I am glad that BoB has this fixed and will run on a wider range of sound cards and onboard sound.