Ju-88 ETA, release date

[150GCT_Veltro]

Yes, we can wait the copyrighted "two weeks" for the beast.

[Feathered_IV]

The not-so schnell bomber. Take your time though. I'm sure it will be worth it.

[Asgar]

i'm just glad they decided to add the WB 81 and the Stuvi (what else could explain the delay     )

[Dutchvdm]

No i think the black nightpaint was a hint to the C-6 heavy fighter we are going to get   

 

Wishful thinking. I know...

 

Grt Martijn 

[ShamrockOneFive]

i'm just glad they decided to add the WB 81 and the Stuvi (what else could explain the delay     )

 

Don't get people riled up if those things haven't been confirmed...

[Feathered_IV]

I just hope the AI crewman who sits beside you is well modelled and animated, and not an irritation.

[Veteran66]

I just hope the AI crewman who sits beside you is well modelled and animated, and not an irritation.

not like in CloD 

hope for better BoS He111 crewman too, not only lying on MG 

[Bestmann]

Meanwhile let's get some practice by flying the CloD A1 model. It's a lovely bird!

[SR-F_Winger]

Meanwhile let's get some practice by flying the CloD A1 model. It's a lovely bird!

Whats that? Any pictures/Video?

Thanks!

[xvii-Dietrich]

Whats that? Any pictures/Video?

Thanks!

 

Ju 88 A-1, as implemented in IL-2: Cliffs of Dover.

 

Example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWI4OOZq3Rw

 

[SR-F_Winger]

ah thanks. Was hoping to hear something about FW 190 for Clod:)

Edited March 11, 2016 by StG2_Winger

[Asgar]

what do you think, next week sound good to you guys?

[LLv24_Zami]

Sounds good to me Asgar!

 

If it has gone to the beta this week, it's very much possible.

[Asgar]

has it though? any official word on that? the last thing i read about the beta was in the last devblog and it was only "soon"

Edited March 16, 2016 by I./JG3_Asgar

[LLv24_Zami]

No official word that I am aware of.

[Asgar]

guess we just have to keep hoping for a quick release

[LLv24_Zami]

Yeah fingers crossed. But I think it will come in next two weeks. I'm sure it will be worth the little wait

[-TBC-AeroAce]

All I can say is "tick followed tock followed tick followed tock"

 

If u don't get it mehh

Edited March 17, 2016 by AeroACE

[[DBS]Prody]

there is no Romanian skin on this one , maybe some one will create it

 

Edited March 17, 2016 by [DBS]Prody

[Asgar]

 

Ju 88 A-4 bomber is ready for beta testing. Crew models and animations are integrated into the plane, its flight model and AI are tuned, the errors that were found at this point are fixed.

 

Everybody get ready for action 

[Finkeren]

Don't hold your breath for next week, though. Such a complex model could use more than a handful of days in beta.

[Asgar]

but it doesn't have to. the devs are already quite comfortable in creating multi engine planes i feel. and they said they fixed a bunch of bugs already. it's possible that it has less errors remaining than you think

[Finkeren]

I don't think it's as much the multi-engine part that's difficult about the 88 as it is the 4-guys-crammed-into-a-cockpit-the-size-of-the-cabin-on-a-Fiat-500 part.

[Matt]

The last completely new multi engine plane took about three weeks to beta best btw.

[Asgar]

shut up! i don't want to hear anything like that *lalala* 

[DD_Arthur]

If past releases by 777 and 1CG are anything to go by they'll try to get something out in time for Easter and then enjoy a well-earned break over the Russian holidays.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

I'm with Fink on this one guys. I wouldn't expect it sooner than two weeks...........................................but I've been wrong before.

[ShamrockOneFive]

I don't think it's as much the multi-engine part that's difficult about the 88 as it is the 4-guys-crammed-into-a-cockpit-the-size-of-the-cabin-on-a-Fiat-500 part.

 

I suspect that as well. I talked to the guy who did the work on the Ju88A-4 for the original IL-2 series and he said the biggest challenge was that shared crew space. A lot of work to do to get it working properly.

 

I'm guessing it'll be a little bit before we see it. Definitely the most challenging type for them to bring to us.

[Asgar]

anyone else surprised by the amount of videos we already saw about the 88? maybe the release will be sooner than we thought

[Lusekofte]

Oh how I miss that kind of anticipation. I personally lost the capability of it I feel. Bought a new used car last year and expected a great deal of anticipation. But " poff " nothing

I am sure I will try out this plane and then go back to the ones I like

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

When the right aircraft comes that fire comes back

 

One thing that got my curious: considering the cramped arrangement, can we assume that pair of HE rounds into the cockpit kill the whole crew? How protected was the enclosing?

[ShamrockOneFive]

anyone else surprised by the amount of videos we already saw about the 88? maybe the release will be sooner than we thought

 

Not really. And I don't think the release will be any sooner than expected... The videos they have shown us have been carefully choreographed. That's not to cast a negative light on it. They showed us the stuff that's working pretty well right now and they haven't shown us video of the stuff that is probably still buggy.

 

I'm fully confident that they will have it out sooner than later. I'm just appreciating that a multi crew bomber like this is a bit of an undertaking and I'm glad they are giving us the Ju88. We had to wait many years in IL-2 Forgotten Battles days before we got the Ju88 flyable.

[Yogiflight]

And we had to wait until Team Daidalos` patch 4.13, that the second rear machinegun got finally working. Unfortunately, like it will be in BOS, there is aiways only one of the two firing. I don`t know, if it is a problem for the game engine or if [Edited].

Edited March 22, 2016 by Bearcat
Accusations of developer bias will not be tolerated.

[7.GShAP/Silas]

[Edited]

 

 

Oh please.

Edited March 22, 2016 by Bearcat

[Yogiflight]

Yes I know, sorry, but I don`t understand, why we don`t get those two machineguns shooting at the same time. As I asked in the Developers Question, why not the button "change sides in a turret" between forward and right rear machinegun. Don`t understand me wrong, the Ju88 looks absolutely great, and I am waiting to be able to fly it finally, but there are things to make it better.

[Dakpilot]

 

Seriously? it may be just a silly little comment but this constant sniping at "Russian Dev" mentality is plain ridiculous and insulting...be happy they made the JU-88 and not the Il-4. For whatever reasons, I am sure it was not consciously decided to 'pull the teeth' from a German aircrafts defensive capability

 

Perhaps you should just wait for a completely Western European or American developed CFS 

 

Maybe you think i am overreacting, but these constant little jibes all add up to an unhealthy and unjustified atmosphere, sure, complain and criticise about systems that are not working to sufficient historical accuracy, until they get attention, but these silly schoolboy digs are just getting tiresome

 

And I would defend dev's in the same manner if they were American, Japanese, Finnish, German, Malagasy or god forbid British   I think they have sufficiently  proved themselves as flightsim fans foremost

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Brano]

I don't think it was ergonomically manageable to have two gunners mounting both upper rear guns at same time. Second one was usually lying in lower gondola firing rearwards and down. This way they could cover upper and lower firing arcs of the plane.

[Yogiflight]

It was not the gunner from the gondola who shot the right machinegun, but the navigator, because the use of the forward machinegun is not to big, it is written in the instruction sheet. I am not sure that there was any medium bomber on allied side that even had a forward gunner, I think they all had just fixed forward guns. And there is enough room to shoot both guns, much more likely than the radio operator leaning to his left to fire the right gun as you can see it in the video. When you ever shot with a machinegune, especially one with a high firingrate like the MG81 had, you know this is not realistic, because you don`t have enough control over the weapon.

[Matt]

The bombardier was able to fire the right gun and there's enough room for two people back there.

 

Not sure if the decision is even final, that the radio operator has to operate both rear guns. I guess animating the bombardier to switch between front and back might also be a challenge.

[Asgar]

Seriously? it may be just a silly little comment but this constant sniping at "Russian Dev" mentality is plain ridiculous and insulting...be happy they made the JU-88 and not the Il-4. For whatever reasons, I am sure it was not consciously decided to 'pull the teeth' from a German aircrafts defensive capability

 

Why would the Luftwaffe fly IL-4s?