Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY - For 4.11

[Zorglub5]

IL2 is a fantastic game but despite a large french community, there is not a single pilotable french plane from the 1940 era. Without asking for planes that have served only in France (D520, MB152, Amiot 143, Léo 451, etc.), the following ones would allow great "battle of France and low countries" scenarios and could also be useful to other nationalities:
- P36 Hawk (US service, e.g. Pearl Harbor), H-75 (french service), Mohawk (british service): already available as AI plane.
- MS406 (french service against Germany and Italy, finnish service against Russia): already available as AI plane.
- Potez 631 and 63.11 heavy fighter / reconnaissance plane (a french Bf 110!).

Also, to play the British Air Force in France (BAFF), a Battle would be great (cousin of Fulmar added as AI plane in 4.10 patch).

THANKS!

[csThor]

Hold your horses, fellows. Yammering about this or that type of aircraft having been added or not is pointless.

First and foremost is the fact that anything Daidalos has added so far was made by somebody in his own spare time. Which means what the modeller made was up to him.
Now you've mentioned the jets and the Lerche. Tough luck - nothing Daidalos did. These were either created by Maddox Games or Luthier's Russian Rocket Games for the 1946 release. You got a complaint that no Meteor was created? Take it up with Maddox Games and Russian Rocket Games.

And lastly about the types Daidalos did add. Most were "leftovers" from the Il-2 and Pacific Fighters development (i.e. the CW-21 was such a case). Others were made by our team members because of their particular interests - the Slovaks had an interest in their Avia and Letov, the Finns wanted their iconic Fokker D.XXI, our italian members wanted some more of their own types and the Henschel Hs 129 was a type the community wanted for years (myself included).

So ... for any type to be created it takes hard work and dedication. Daidalos is a small team and does not have a large number of 3d modellers. There are simply too many types possible and too many theaters to cover to make everyone happy and a lot of groups with particular interests would like nothing better than to monopolize TD for themselves. Which, of course, is simply impossible. And because of that - lots of potential projects, little time and even less manpower - we gotta prioritize our efforts and concentrate on certain areas. If your particular area of interest is not in it ... sorry. We're simple humans and not magicians.

[76.IAP-Blackbird]

Absolutly right, I`m a modder in the Strike Fighter 2 comunity and I know the amount of work for a single airplane. So you have my respect.

I`m thankfull an ambitious team took the work over after 10 years of gaming. We flew even this sunday evening one of our events. IT`s still a great game and realy thank you for your hard effort!

[Stealth_Eagle]

How long do you guys think it will take to get the Fulmer, Do-217, Cant Z(forgive me if i am wrong but the aircraft I am trying to refer to is the new Italian bomber), the Swordfish flyable?

I saw a project a while back about making the PE-8 flyable. Is that part of an official patch or just 3rd party things that I don't need to ruin my game?

Your team has shown great dedication to this community however small it may be relative to other games. Thanks for all of your support.

[kennel]

Thanks for your comments csThor, I do understand that Team Daidalos does what they do for free & the love of IL2 & real life must always come first,we are all in the same boat there so thanks for sharing

[kaix12]

Originally Posted by csThor

Hold your horses, fellows. Yammering about this or that type of aircraft having been added or not is pointless.

First and foremost is the fact that anything Daidalos has added so far was made by somebody in his own spare time. Which means what the modeller made was up to him.
Now you've mentioned the jets and the Lerche. Tough luck - nothing Daidalos did. These were either created by Maddox Games or Luthier's Russian Rocket Games for the 1946 release. You got a complaint that no Meteor was created? Take it up with Maddox Games and Russian Rocket Games.

And lastly about the types Daidalos did add. Most were "leftovers" from the Il-2 and Pacific Fighters development (i.e. the CW-21 was such a case). Others were made by our team members because of their particular interests - the Slovaks had an interest in their Avia and Letov, the Finns wanted their iconic Fokker D.XXI, our italian members wanted some more of their own types and the Henschel Hs 129 was a type the community wanted for years (myself included).

So ... for any type to be created it takes hard work and dedication. Daidalos is a small team and does not have a large number of 3d modellers. There are simply too many types possible and too many theaters to cover to make everyone happy and a lot of groups with particular interests would like nothing better than to monopolize TD for themselves. Which, of course, is simply impossible. And because of that - lots of potential projects, little time and even less manpower - we gotta prioritize our efforts and concentrate on certain areas. If your particular area of interest is not in it ... sorry. We're simple humans and not magicians.

I totally understand as I know a little bit about 3d moddelling, and I think your team has done amazing work over the years. Could I ask what are the potential projects though like what are you working on or are wanting to work on.

[csThor]

Originally Posted by kaix12

Could I ask what are the potential projects though like what are you working on or are wanting to work on.

Please accept that I will not speak about ongoing projects. That is neither my job nor would it be wise. Like I said we're all doing this in our spare time and sometimes "real life" strikes. One of our members had two very interesting projects running when, about a year ago, real life struck and he had to put his work and his membership on hold (he's still in that limbo BTW). So you see it wouldn't be a good idea to speak in detail about what is going on ATM. But a Meteor is not on the scope ...

[Jack_Aubrey]

I would like to see more flyables heavies, a bigger map for central/western europe (so we could go from North sea to Germany, even with a fake island so you dont need to draw the UK), more japaneses airplanes flyables (or at least IA), i tthink this one is a WIP but it would be great that the IA could get lost if you fly inside a cloud....
And smaller patches.... even size of just one plane.

[aquila26]

Im qualsiasi modo facciate e quualsiasi decisione prendiate ....
sempre e comunque un grande e sentito grazie

[PatrickRus]

Originally Posted by kaix12

But the meteor is a incredibly important plane and I don't know why it wasn't included in the game before in any of the patchs since they've managed to do some other new fighters (dxxi for example) to a very high standard but they havn't done the gloster meteor which was the only allied jet in serviice in the war and instead we get prototypes or ones that came after the war (heinkel lerche 3 is one of them which is also impossible to land and fly so no one barely uses it)

Well, I never said anything about Meteor. In fact, personally, I would like to fly it in game, and don't dislike that request, because it's pretty intresting and well known aircraft, even if it didn't fought a lot. But only if TD or someone else would have time and wish to make it.
But some request are just "pffft".

To make this post more useful on topic
Kind of a flaw or mistake. Sight's sun dimmer (I don't know how it's exactly called in english) click on erect or retract is still heard, even if sight don't features dimmer. Not that it's a big deal, just noticing. Also, dimmer is almost useless, sun is darkened just for a little bit, and you still can't see planes that go to the sun.