4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[TexasJG]

Personal thinking 4.13 won't be released until a little after IL-2 BOS 1.0 is released for the public, which is not too much of a bad thing, more time for bug squashing and polishing....

[doctoru]

Will HSFX work with this patch when it will come up?

[Oscarito]

Probably not, as usual, due to amount of new content.
But HSFX team will certainly release a new compatible version within days after the new patch is made available.

[Bearcat]

New features
• Total overhaul of most bombsights
• Added new 'realistic bombing' difficulty option to toggle between realistic/simplified
bombsight inputs
• Bomb release mode keys added
• New bombardier & co-pilot position that can be manned in online coops
• Added momentum from asymmetric bomb loadouts
• Rocket release mode key added
• Course autopilot added to Luftwaffe planes
• Added working PDI lights (red, green white) to many Russian bomber pits
• Ordinance camera added
• Added target height to minimap ground targets
• Added gunner's multifunction key. Used for opening hatches, canopies, raising &
lowering guns.
• Added gunner reloading if gun has magazines
• FMB showing proper skin of ground objects depending on the World.camouflage
• Added FMB scrolling between different units in object windows for chiefs
• Added bombardier cockpits for all Pe-2 variants
• Added QMB option for player to chose his position in the flight
• New IJA, IJN, Dutch, USN & USMC regiments
• Added Icon settings to GUI Misc
• Added option that Icon range can be shown in meters or feets
• Added differential brakes
• Added over 100 new loadouts for Russian planes including RRAB cluster bombs and
flares
• Bomb loadouts added to Doras
• New loadouts added to Ju-88 A-4
• New rear gun station added to Ju-88 A-4
• New 3D meshes for some British bombs
• Added new conf.ini option Use3RendersUI=1 that will render UI with 1/3 width.
• Added new misc option for rendering info HUD at the bottom of the screen.

New maps
• New Britain & New Guinea (September 1943)
• New Britain & New Guinea (June 1944)
• Svalbard
• Tobruk

EXCELLENT!!!

Originally Posted by Oscarito

Probably not, as usual, due to amount of new content.
But HSFX team will certainly release a new compatible version within days after the new patch is made available.

Or weeks at the most. They are usually pretty godd with it. That is one reason why I prefer HSFX as far as mods go. I have a seperate insdtall for SAS though because I like some of their stuff too.

[Treetop64]

Dang, BC. Thought you jumped ship.

Nice to see ya.

[Pursuivant]

Certainly it's not for 4.13, but it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to create the various radio navigation/blind bombing aids that were used during the "Battle of the Beams" over England and Germany during 1940-41, and afterwards.

Nothing would be needed in terms of graphics, but new "beam lines" would need to be added to the appropriate maps, and some programming and research would be needed. Possibly it would be necessary to set up new features in the FMB to allow mission builders to center blind bombing aids like Knickbein, X-Gerat or Gee over a particular map location.

While it might be too much work to figure out all the Gee charts for a particular map, it seems like it wouldn't be too much trouble to model Lorenz, Knickbein, X-Gerat, Y-Gerat, and so forth, since they were automated systems that just produced dots, dashes or steady tones depending on the plane's location.

Jamming systems against these blind bombing aids would take more work in terms of programming.

Ground controlled blind bombing or radio navigation systems would also take more work, since there would be some AI and voice-programming work required.

Adding these blind bombing aids would make it more fun to fly night bombing missions, because you could actually find your target.

Long range radio navigation systems could also be used to make large and otherwise featureless maps, like a hypothetical map of the North Atlantic or Western Approaches, interesting.

[KG26_Alpha]

As far as night bombing along a beam would be just a technical exercise to say "I did it".

The same thing can be emulated without all the extra work by using a map icon with a bomb drop on it.

I don't think it will be used that much probably as much as carrier navigation is used, the learning process usually out weighs the impatience of the user to shoot something down and go land back on deck.

http://www.fisthistory.org/Ships.htm

I just would like to think improvement and bug fixes are being implemented rather than a feature that's being done for the sake of it and not ever used (tipping V1's) as an example.















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