4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by TexasJG

I'd like to see more flyable German and Japanese multiple engine heavy's, bombers and transports. The more engines, the more weight, the better!!

They'd be interesting to have, but neither the Germans or the Japanese had that many heavy bombers or transport types.

The main German heavy bomber, the He-177 Grief, will be available as a non-flyable plane in the 4.13 patch.

For the Germans, I'd be more interested in seeing more of the vast number of Ju-88 and He-111 medium bomber variants, since they were most important in terms of numbers and tactical usefulness.

For the Japanese, the G3M Nell would be a useful early WW II/Sino-Japanese war IJN type, while the Yokosuka P1Y Ginga/Frances would be a nice late war IJN type. The Ki-49 Donru/Helen would be a good choice for a IJA mid- to late-WW2 type. Having any flyable IJA bomber type would also be welcome.

As for transports, a flyable Ju-52 would be welcome choice for the Axis, since they were used in a variety of combat roles throughout WW2 and were used in limited numbers by Germany's allies, as well as the Luftwaffe. For the Japanese and the Allies, a flyable DC-3/C-47 would be the best choice.

The Japanese never had a really successful Japanese-designed purpose-built transport. Instead, they used bombers or converted bombers (like the G3M, G4M or Ki-21). But, in terms of numbers, the most successful Japanese transport was the Showa/Nakajima L2D "Tabby" which was just a license-built DC-3.

[Janosch]

There's one weather effect that I'd like to see: a rainbow, with colours such as orange, indigo and violet

[sniperton]

Could also be used to calibrate the colours of the display...

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Janosch

There's one weather effect that I'd like to see: a rainbow, with colours such as orange, indigo and violet

That would be very nice bit of eye candy, but getting the physics right would be a bit tricky.

The weather effect I'd like to see is more cloud options.

1) Ability for mission builders to set percentage of cloud cover (e.g., 1 to 10 10ths).

2) Ability for mission builders to set multiple layers of clouds.

3) Ability for mission builders to place clouds in a particular sector of the map and/or in a particular location.

4) Dynamic clouds - which move, appear or disappear as set by the mission builder.

5) Different colors of clouds to represent layers of smog/coal smoke (a yellowish brown haze), fire (black or grayish smoke) and thunderheads (grayish).

6) Ability for mission builders to set transparency of clouds to represent mist or fog and control exact visibility range (in visibility out to X km/miles).

7) Larger and smaller clouds.

Different shapes of clouds to represent different cloud types.

9) Ability to set altitude at which contrails form.

10) Option to have contrails persist for shorter or longer amount of time.


Comparatively, a rainbow effect would be easy!