Friday 2010-02-25 Development update:Interview by Grégory Lemasson/Discussion Thread

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by brando

How ghoulish!

It is rather isn't it? But then, so is war

[brando]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

It is rather isn't it? But then, so is war

I don't disagree with your statement. I just don't think it's necessary or desirable to depict such a gross image in a flight simulation. Pilots got burnt on any area of skin that was bare - we mostly know that. In Britain many seriously burnt pilots received pioneering skin-grafts and facial rebuilds from Dr Archibald MacIndoe - we mostly know that too. I just think that requiring to see the human torch effect of the oxygen mask is morbid and macabre. We're not asking for a snuff movie, we just want a flight sim.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by brando

I don't disagree with your statement. I just don't think it's necessary or desirable to depict such a gross image in a flight simulation. Pilots got burnt on any area of skin that was bare - we mostly know that. In Britain many seriously burnt pilots received pioneering skin-grafts and facial rebuilds from Dr Archibald MacIndoe - we mostly know that too. I just think that requiring to see the human torch effect of the oxygen mask is morbid and macabre. We're not asking for a snuff movie, we just want a flight sim.

Firstly, sorry for the smiley in my last post as it makes me seem really morbid.

I am with you here on this, as I would not like to see the pilot being burnt in such a way. However, the effect I think should be modelled. War is hell, and I am for full realism. I don't neccesarily want to be in a bomber and see this happen to one of the crew close-up, but I think it should be modelled as an effect in front of your face when in cockpit view. A flick of a button, and the flames stop coming out; just like turning the gas off of a bunsen burner.

[fireflyerz]

Good Greif philip what were you thinkin....now get out of MY forum.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by fireflyerz

Good Greif philip what were you thinkin....now get out of MY forum.

hero, is this you?

[SlipBall]

Oleg I just visited the site showing your photo's, very high quality, so crystal clear, so centered. What sea creature is #34, is #28 a Angler fish?...oh and by the way #8 is a favorite of mine

edit: not #8 with the bird, #8 of the lady underwater

[EJGr.Ost_Chamel]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

What sea creature is #34, ...

A sea turtle eating a jellyfish.

[fireflyerz]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

hero, is this you?

Yes young padawaaaaaa....its all in the avataaaaar

[Blackdog_kt]

Best update so far and i think it will stay this way for some time, at least until we see videos of some of these new features at work some time later.

Big thanks to the entire developer team for working on such a big and detailed project. An equal amount of thanks to Gregory, who was not only kind enough to go to Moscow and get the inteview, but also asked us for questions that we wanted answered.

It looks like this is going to be the best simulator series of the decade, well worth the wait.
At least as far as i'm concerned, everything i liked in IL2 is being improved, the few things i didn't like are being improved and finally, a lot of new features that i always dreamt about in a combat flight simulator are being included. It seems perfect to me and i haven't seen any meaningfull amount of in-game action yet, although i imagine we will all find something to complain about sooner or later

The only negative thing so far, i'm glad they took their time to make this so detailed but never the less the wait is killing me

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by fireflyerz

Yes young padawaaaaaa....its all in the avataaaaar