Friday update and discussions 2011-03-04

[White Owl]

Both videos look great! Thanks very much for the update. I'm hoping and praying that there will be some way to get a Collectors Edition in the USA.

However, I have to agree with others here that the pilot in freefall is a weak point of these videos. I've jumped out of airplanes a few times, and let me tell you... if you go unstable and start tumbling like that guy was doing, things happen very very fast. Going unstable isn't like most of the Youtube videos of experienced skydivers maintaining control in freefall. Tumbling is chaotic, violent, disorienting... it's fast. The guy in the video looked like he was placidly drifting in outer space like Xilon_x said, not spinning out of control in a 150-200 mph wind.

But of course that's only a small gripe, and not too relevant to the big picture here. Just about everything else looks better than great. Oleg and team, I have great faith that the airplanes you're producing will handle like real planes, even more so than the first IL-2. As long as the flight modeling is still up to your very high standards, I'm sold. Everything else is just fun little details.

Apologies if this has already been addressed, (I haven't been following these forums as long as many others) but is the taxiing in Dover improved on the original game? Do we have two separate toe brakes? Will airplanes roll on smooth pavement even with the engine at idle if you take your feet off the brakes? Are the various tail-draggers prone to ground looping if you're careless with your steering?

[bf-110]

Great wallpapers!
You could do shirts with them,Oleg!

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by White Owl

Both videos look great! Thanks very much for the update. I'm hoping and praying that there will be some way to get a Collectors Edition in the USA.

However, I have to agree with others here that the pilot in freefall is a weak point of these videos. I've jumped out of airplanes a few times, and let me tell you... if you go unstable and start tumbling like that guy was doing, things happen very very fast. Going unstable isn't like most of the Youtube videos of experienced skydivers maintaining control in freefall. Tumbling is chaotic, violent, disorienting... it's fast. The guy in the video looked like he was placidly drifting in outer space like Xilon_x said, not spinning out of control in a 150-200 mph wind.

But of course that's only a small gripe, and not too relevant to the big picture here. Just about everything else looks better than great. Oleg and team, I have great faith that the airplanes you're producing will handle like real planes, even more so than the first IL-2. As long as the flight modeling is still up to your very high standards, I'm sold. Everything else is just fun little details.

Apologies if this has already been addressed, (I haven't been following these forums as long as many others) but is the taxiing in Dover improved on the original game? Do we have two separate toe brakes? Will airplanes roll on smooth pavement even with the engine at idle if you take your feet off the brakes? Are the various tail-draggers prone to ground looping if you're careless with your steering?

Spit and Hurri had a single brake lever on the control column. The brake pressure to each wheel was controlled through the rudder pedals..just like it is already in IL2.

[AdMan]

great, for a flight sim anyhow

[Sauf]

Re the pilot bailing, yes once he went into the D (arch) position he should have stabilized, but then i thought of the current model we have. and I realised it is a major improvment in a small part of the game, so am completely happy with it. These things can be improved as the game matures over time.

[He111]

Why wasn't the defiant firing back??? I hope this isn't a sign of bad AI!

BTW, noone uses Wallpapers anymore, it's all videos! Can we have a downloadable looped video clip .. please!

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[Coog]

Originally Posted by He111

Why wasn't the defiant firing back??? I hope this isn't a sign of bad AI!

There are other possibilities beyond "bad AI," you know. For example, gunner could already be WIA/KIA, monitoring something else, OR just plain shell-shocked with eyes as big as saucers.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by Coog

There are other possibilities beyond "bad AI," you know. For example, gunner could already be WIA/KIA, monitoring something else, OR just plain shell-shocked with eyes as big as saucers.

At 0.55 you can clearly see the 109 taking hits from the 4 x .303 machine guns from the Defiant, he's pulling a quite tight turn as well, that's what makes me think it's definitely the Defiant