Friday 2009-11-13 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[mazex]

Originally Posted by luthier

Hello everyone,

Oleg is taking a much-needed vacation until next week. I'll do a short update for him this time. We'll focus on some of the lesser known planes that we model for Battle of Britain. All screenshots are from development tools. We're not going to do in-engine shots until Oleg is back.

Note: some features in the tools are approximations. There are no waves, wakes, simplified terrain, etc. This update is just to showcase our beautiful aircraft.

First off, here's the Fiat G.50 Freccia, which, as most of you should know by now, took part in the later part of the battle. It will be flyable:

http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/Fiat_G-50_06.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/Fiat_G-50_08.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/Fiat_G-50_09.jpg

And here's the Heinkel He 115B-2 floatplane. This plane is very rarely modeled in simulations, and never as accurately as ours. We used original manufacturing blueprints to build this model, so it's incredibly precise. This plane will be AI-only in the initial release.


http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/He-115B-2_05.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/He-115B-2_06.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/He-115B-2_07.jpg

Hope you guys enjoy you weekend! I will certainly enjoy mine.

I know the italian fans will flame me but... Why make the G-50 flyable if the Defiant is not? Why make the BR-20 flyable when the Do-17 is not?

In my world the Do-17 in particular was an important plane during the Battle, and the Defiant is sure a plane that is often discussed even though it was a failure... The italians where really of minor significance (but interesting for sure!).

The best would be to have them all but if we can't have them all... As the Italian cockpits are already done I'm crying for nothing I guess - but the Do-17 is really one of my personal "bad guy" favorites...

/Mazex