Friday Update, February 10, 2012

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Originally Posted by Chivas

Its been hinted a few times by the developer that the new game engine was intentionally designed to allow for combined forces sim at some point. You will probably see some features necessary for a combined forces sim be enabled slowly thru the aircombat series. When most of the theaters of the air war are completed then you will probably see a combined forces sim come out in say ten years or so. Alot of the work like the maps will already be complete.

That is a good point..

Alot of people confuse what goes into the 3D mapping info (wire frames, elevation data points, etc) with the 3D graphics engines..

What with the detal going into these maps these days I would not be suprised that they are still around in 10 years. Oh sure the graphics engine will more than likly change greatly over the next 10 years, but the basic map info does not necessarly have to change at all. We use alot of gps data in our 3D too (RAGE) here at WSMR.. But we can scale how much of it we want to use on the fly.

As for a combined forces sim.. Emmmm if past experance means anything than I hope they dont! Because thus far every sim that tries to be all things to all people tends to do no 'one thing' very well.. I personally hope 1C sticks with the main focus on flight sims.