Messerschmitts vs. Hurricanes over the Ärmelkanal. Yet ANOTHER vid by me, sorry.. :-)

[MACADEMIC]

Hi Freycinet,

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. I don't have the game since my computer would not run it, but what I see certainly looks very inviting. I hope you don't mind some observations/questions though?

It seems to me that the looking around/zooming is not as fluid and smooth as one would expect in real life. I don't know if that has something to do with your TrackIR setup or if that's just the way the game is. In Wings of Prey this seems much smoother, although I don't use TrackIR for that but an analog stick. The other thing is that the sudden switch to a close up zoom view (for shooting) and to flyby view, which for me kill the otherwise excellent immersion.

It would be great to see a video purely from the pilot's view from start to end, without any switch zooming or flyby views, just as a pilot would have seen it. Perhaps just a slight leaning forward with Track IR to get a better sight on the target, but not as much as the switch zooming does (too unrealistic I think).



MAC

[Freycinet]

Thanks for your comments Macademic!

CoD only has three zoom settings and no seamless change in the degree of zoom. I really need the zoomed-in view for shooting, so there is unfortunately no way around the jumps in zoom setting.

It annoys me a lot that I cannot set two buttons on my joystick to "zoom in" and "zoom out". Preferably smooth zooming in and out, but if not then at least jumping from one zoom setting to another. As it is, I have to make do with fully zoomed in on one button and medium zoom on another. Fully zoomed out I can only get via the keyboard! (Because I don't want to dedicate three buttons on my stick to the three zoom settings) - Quite galling really, because it is a step BACK from Il-2 Classic, where I had a zoom in/zoom out function.

Yeah, the fly-by views can be discussed. I didn't have them in my first couple of movies, but choose them for the later ones, to give some visual interest to the more quiet periods of the movies. I love them visually, but the fly-by sounds (except on the newly made Tiger Moth) are really quite bad, obvious place-holders. I'll probably stick with them, but I totally see that there can be different points of view (sic...) about such views, since they do indeed take you "out of the cockpit".

So you are in Malta? - I love that country! Have a photo gallery from Malta here, if you're interested:...
http://dalsgaard.eu/2009-08.Malta/2009-08.01.Malta.html

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

Thanks for your comments Macademic!

CoD only has three zoom settings and no seamless change in the degree of zoom. I really need the zoomed-in view for shooting, so there is unfortunately no way around the jumps in zoom setting.

It annoys me a lot that I cannot set two buttons on my joystick to "zoom in" and "zoom out". Preferably smooth zooming in and out, but if not then at least jumping from one zoom setting to another. As it is, I have to make do with fully zoomed in on one button and medium zoom on another. Fully zoomed out I can only get via the keyboard! (Because I don't want to dedicate three buttons on my stick to the three zoom settings) - Quite galling really, because it is a step BACK from Il-2 Classic, where I had a zoom in/zoom out function.

Yeah, the fly-by views can be discussed. I didn't have them in my first couple of movies, but choose them for the later ones, to give some visual interest to the more quiet periods of the movies. I love them visually, but the fly-by sounds (except on the newly made Tiger Moth) are really quite bad, obvious place-holders. I'll probably stick with them, but I totally see that there can be different points of view (sic...) about such views, since they do indeed take you "out of the cockpit".

So you are in Malta? - I love that country! Have a photo gallery from Malta here, if you're interested:...
http://dalsgaard.eu/2009-08.Malta/2009-08.01.Malta.html

Hey Freycinet,

Thanks for your reply! Pity there isn't a seamless zoom in/out function, perhaps they'll include that later? In Wings of Prey it's available, however I try not to use it even though that means that my shooting is rather bad. I accept that for the sake of immersion.

Yes correct I live in Malta, more precisely in Gozo, but originally I'm Austrian. It's a wonderful country and I'm very happy to be here. Your pictures are just fantastic - are you a professional photographer?

MAC

P.S.: Perhaps you know, but i'm quite excited that the sequel of Wings of Prey will have a Malta scenario. I look forward to flying over my house

[Freycinet]

Ah, then you probably know the taxi driver...

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How do you turn off the text table?

[Bloblast]

Nice video,

You did not use your 1 minute boosts, you might want to use this against spits!

Radiators open for 50% is enough I found out.