4-12 wish list (Merged)

[_1SMV_Gitano]

Originally Posted by =FPS=Salsero

I hope you might consider sending me a sketch of the terrain (as much details as you can, and I won't make it public) so that I could make a few hints for the places for temporary airstrips for dogfight servers.

Default airfields will be those actually used in the campaign. You could place custom bases anywhere, using spawn points and changing the bumpiness of the terrain.

[Lagarto]

Could we see some work-in-progress screenshots of the Tunisia map? How big is it going to be?

[Pershing]

Originally Posted by Lagarto

Could we see some work-in-progress screenshots of the Tunisia map? How big is it going to be?

+1

[=FPS=Salsero]

Gitano, this really does not work (e.g. if you get a slope), plus you can easily get the trees growing in the middle of a runway.

Let me stress one more time - we need
1. A few patches of level terrain, at least big enough to accomodate type 5 temprorary runway OR, which is really much better- a proper airfield (maybe stripped of all buildings - just an airstrip...)
2. No trees there
3. Prefererably, but not mandatory a slightly different bitmap, good for a landing strip, not for a ploughed field.

You can see something like in Normandia pre-invasion maps in places that later on become the airstrips on the post D-Day map.

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BTW...
Is it possible to expand the "Atlantida" island on the Normandy2 map, making it 3-4x bigger, with another 1-2 airfields, and maybe a seaport on it?

I have attached a sketch of such map, plus the suggested AF locations for a few other maps. I would dearly like to see the proper "field airstrips" in the indicated places.

[_1SMV_Gitano]

I'd say is too early to show some screenshots. In any case the map will cover from Sousse to El Guettar (north to south) and from Youk-les-Bains to the coast (west to east), incuding Kerkennah Island, in front of Sfax.

List of planned airfields.

Youk-les-Bains
Tebessa
Le Kouif
Kallat Djerda
Gafsa
Thelepte
Sbeitla

Kairouan
La Fauconniere
Mezzouna
Sfax El Maou
Sfax Polo Range
Mezzouna
El Djem

Sfax seaplane base
Sousse seaplane base

Some additional, historical airfields could be added in the list.

[nic727]

can you say if you plan a new smoke model for 4.12

[viktor94]

Please add all the new aircraft into the DGEN in 4.12!
And the FM-2 should get some rockets

You did a great job with 4.11!! Love it!
Thanks for your work.

[Lagarto]

Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano

In any case the map will cover from Sousse to El Guettar (north to south) and from Youk-les-Bains to the coast (west to east), incuding Kerkennah Island, in front of Sfax.

roughly like this

[_1SMV_Gitano]

Originally Posted by Lagarto

roughly like this

Got it!

[Mabroc]

I posted this about a year ago in a MODing site, but didnt get many replies so...

Hello gentlemen, I have a humble request for the DM of the in-line engines of Russian fighters and P-39/P-63 (what a coincidence! the soviets used those too!). As all we know, in the bf-109, Spitfire, P-51, etc when you get hit on the engine and it starts to leak oil and/or glycol the engine will overheat by lack of cooling sooner or later (sooner at more high RPM´s), you have to disengage and run if possible, but you will be gliding soon enough (5-10m). I suppose the latest patches changed this somehow, need to test it so don´t beat me to death if it already fixed.

The Il-2 have the same real issue if you hit it on the big oil cooler on the belly. But the damn P-39/63 can fly all day long leaking, they don´t lost power during the fight, I have been fighting them online sometimes more than 10m after I get some hits on them, and they continue to fight without problems, climbing, running, turning hard, etc. That was applied to the LaGG´s, and Yak´s too, but I don´t usually met them online so I not so sure. I suppose the latest patches changed this somehow, need to test it so don´t beat me to death if it already fixed.

By the way, the La-5 are pretty though with the delta wood construction (maybe too much?) but the Yak´s are only a little weaker, not by much. If Im not mistaken (correct me if Im wrong please) the soviets wanted to make a very light combat fighter interceptor the Yak-1/3 (very light) and a more standard Yak 7/9 (more normal weight, endurance and range). They were more or less constructed like a zero, with the minimum possible weight so they had great performance. So a 20mm hit that a Spitfire or La-5 could withstand would make more damage and weaken the structural integrity much more on the Yak. I don´t see that on the game, which leads to my next request....

The game seems to lack structural limitation after damage (like when we now pull too much G) at almost any case. Tempest and Typhoons for example loose the tail easily with only a couple hits of 20mm, I suspect that its intended because the tail was problematic on that plane at structural level, they needed to reinforce it to withstand combat maneuvers (they usually came off on the first typhoons in dives) so when you weaken that tail section the tail just break, its not the power of your gun, its the plane weak spot so the high structural pressure there brake it when the strength is lower. So I suppose they put very little HIT POINTS there to mimic a weak structural point. But the real limitation on amount of G you can pull without breaking that wing full of holes, loose your perforated tail or elevator is not there really.

I remember fondly the ¨Red Baron II/3D¨ game, when you got some damage into the plane it would squeal and scream more easily (wood creaking, canvas tensing) and you could not make the same maneuvers than before without loosing a wing. And when you came to land, the people on the ground seeing your damaged plane coming back would send the fire truck to the ¨runway¨ in your general direction, the ambulance too when you got wounded if Im not mistaked, because IT WAS 13 YEARS AGO!!!!

Could be it possible to add combat structural failure?? I mean, we have the damage system there, and now the G stress system too, we only need to link those two. You have a very big hole on your wing, you try a hard pull or roll and it will came off, more easily to happen in a Fw-190 for example than in a Spit (rolling hard) because of the high roll speed. Im tired of seeing Russian and Allied planes full of big holes doing perfectly controlled tight maneuvers, like their planes were almost intact. I can barely fly straight in a damaged Fw-190 or Bf-109 (I mean with big holes on the wings, not the little MG holes)

Any input or discussion is welcome!!!