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[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Bloblast

That train looks like a nice target to me.

I wonder if Oleg can beat that.

I think so.

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...280BR56_00.jpg

I dont think Oleg made that train it was a third party loco.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I dont think Oleg made that train it was a third party loco.

That picture is taken from the official news-update from May 13th, 2006.

Of course it was not made by Oleg. I doubt he models anything at all.


I didn't check this particular one, but I guess it shows one of the first project from Foobar, who officially does the modeling for the railroad-stuff in BoB. If this particular one is going to be included is unknown, but maybe this link will give you a hint of the standards for BoB:

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...3/m/2181080123

* All WIP, of course and subject to changes and decisions wether or not it's going to be included, but certainly not a pure fan-project.

[Bobb4]

Having played Theatre of War I have to wonder why the formally KOTS people who are now Rise of Flight did not stick with the IL2 engine?
Not one of the graphic's jumps out and grabs me. The planes are so-so as good as you will see on IL2 now. The water is the same and the ground towns and trees all look very IL2-ish or worse CFS3-ish.
A WW1 sim is fought down low and slow and the terrain just looks flat. Yes there are trees and hills but not much else.
Look at the convoy of ambulances or the mounted AA gun. It looks so IL2-ish and very flat terrain not a bump in sight. The road looks like it has been painted on. As for the massive scar of trenches across the whole of europe, well they just look like dark brown terrain meshes with cut-off trees sticking up. The tank does not look like any ww1 tank i have ever seen either (but I will take their word that it must be authentic. ) I stand corrected that is what a German tank looked like.
The cities look good but again not much better than we see in the current IL2.
Don't get me wrong I am buying the game without doubt and I will have many fun hours flying but a next generation flight sim it is not.

droll on pics

[Feuerfalke]

Having played Theatre of War I have to wonder why the formally KOTS people who are now Rise of Flight did not stick with the IL2 engine?

Simple, because the limitations were not only to the graphics engine, but mostly because of the technical limitations. Remember, this engine is 10 years old!

On the other hand, I have yet to see pictures of the final SoW-Engine to make the judgements you just did, as so far we only saw BoB-Objects in a modified IL2-engine. Same is for flight- and damage-model. Maybe you can share the pictures you are refering to?

hi res. videos (HD) here: http://wwiaircombat.com/index.php

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

hi res. videos (HD) here: http://wwiaircombat.com/index.php

I think one of the coolest parts is at 2 Minutes in the gameplay video, when you can see the tail-structure of the enemy plane breaking in the turn and it's only held together by the covering, slapping around while the plane tumbles down.

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

hi res. videos (HD) here: http://wwiaircombat.com/index.php

Have not looked at the h-res video but I doubt that will make the terrain come to life.
At the size of game (125000 sqkm) they are punting realistically to expect much more would be asking too much I think.
It is just something I would have hoped a modern sim would have done better.
Again this is not a blast at the game.
As I have stated I will buy the game, I love the era.