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Wow so much attention to detail on the Spitfire. The fact that you are verifying it's designs awesome news and a testament to the quality of work you guy put out. It's a real shame all those pilots left a couple of years ago. They sure missed out and I am sure they are kicking themselves now.

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On a side note, did you managed to close the cockpit with Han in it or did you flew i16 style ? He is bigger than he looks on his avatar :biggrin:

 

Ha  ;)

Posted

This sim is on the right path for sure.
S!

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 They sure missed out and I am sure they are kicking themselves now.

 

Why have they missed out? Are they excluded from buying the game?

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Blooddawn1942
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I guess somehow a part of them excluded them self out of pure ignorance and false pride.

Btw. Can't wait to fly a Spitfire in this sim. I guess they even beat the AccuSim Spitfire, though of course not in terms of system fidelity.

BMA_FlyingShark
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They sure missed out and I am sure they are kicking themselves now.

Nobody is stopping them from coming back.

 

:salute:

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Posted

Ah - a Lufthansa Tante Ju...now if we only had a Moscow airport to land on! Maybe someday we'll have a more complete city to take tourist flights over in this corrugated bird? :clapping:

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Posted

Why have they missed out? Are they excluded from buying the game?

 

No, they just stomped their feet and acted like children deriding the current state of the game despite it being advertised exactly as it would be.

Posted

Very welcome, exciting and excellent news again, especially about you guys reworking the whole Spitfire design.

 

And indeed very logical to do so, also because of the changed [added] heavier armament.

 

As always, keep up the good work and I look forward to next week already!

II/JG11_ATLAN_VR
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Many many great steps forward good Works devs

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Weeks like this in my gaming experience are few and far between. The big update yesterday and DD today proves to me that I and many, many others made the right choice when we signed on for the early access of BoS sight unseen. I'm glad I had the chance to watch this sim grow and mature. I think it's only just started a very long journey.

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Posted

No, they just stomped their feet and acted like children deriding the current state of the game despite it being advertised exactly as it would be.

 

This crap has to stop... even Jason has said with all the changes coming up he hopes it will draw people back into the game.

All the stupid fanboi rhetoric will just continue to to annoy people, instead of trying to mend fences...

They are not excluded, we should be doing everything to help Jason and the dev's bring these people back and increase sales, not make statements sure to annoy and drive people away... 

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I have the impression that many of these who left because they didn´t like it revisit the game since BoK was presented to us.

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I have the impression that many of these who left because they didn´t like it revisit the game since BoK was presented to us.

 

Yep

I didn't "leave" so to speak, but I was inactive, not flying, not paying much attention to the forums.

I hadn't purchased Moscow because I wasn't going to even go that far until I saw a plan beyond the Eastern Front.

Once Jason made the announcement I got all caught up. 

Posted

Outstanding that DX11 support is so close!

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Good news! The only potential downside is the use of OpenVR for Oculus....it seems native Oculus SDK provides both less latency and ATW than OpenVR/Vive...these aspect being quite important for an optimal VR experience (like in War Thunder, I feel the Oculus CV1 experience more perfect than in Vive).... Time will tell!

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This is far far beyond anything done by previous flight sim developers methinks, and I am talking as far back as Falcon on an Atari 512.

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This crap has to stop... even Jason has said with all the changes coming up he hopes it will draw people back into the game.

All the stupid fanboi rhetoric will just continue to to annoy people, instead of trying to mend fences...

They are not excluded, we should be doing everything to help Jason and the dev's bring these people back and increase sales, not make statements sure to annoy and drive people away... 

 

Has nothing to do with "fanboi rhetoric" and there are no fences to be mended. There were no attacks from a new WW2 startup game/sim, there was nothing that drew the ire of some - it was a new shot of life into a new WW2 game/sim that would take years to become just as developed as 1946 as that took over a decade to come to fruition. I'll leave it at that.

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Posted

Wow!

 

Giant steps!!! Again!!!

 

1CGS team is pushing the enveloppe, and it's so awesome :salute:

 

Thanks, you rule the sim world...

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This update and the future plans of the developers are good news for all  those interested WWll flight sims.

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Great news!

Allow me to point out something that needs further consideration.

Is it valid, when trying to make an accurate comparison, to superpose a blueprint of a machine directly on the machine's real-life photo, particularly when it is a large object?

The object in the photo is subject to perspective, but the blueprint of it is not, so these two things are bound to look inconsistent in certain ways. In this case (the first image below), the photographer of the Spitfire photo is near the nose of the aircraft, as is evident if one pays attention to the front wheels, so the rudder will be narrowed in the photograph, just like the passenger cars of the train photo (see below), where the farther the car is, the shorter it looks, despite that fact that the cars are actually identical in length. 

For a careful verification, a complete 3D model of the aircraft viewed from precisely the same camera position as that in the real-life photo is needed.

 

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That is one scary looking Thomas...

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Jason_Williams
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Great news!

There is something however that needs further consideration.

Is it valid, when trying to make an accurate comparison, to superpose a blueprint of a machine directly on the machine's real-life photo, particularly when it is a large object?

The object in the photo is subject to perspective, but the blueprint of it is not, so the these two things are bound to look inconsistent in certain ways. In this case (the first image below), the photographer of the Spitfire photo is near the nose of the aircraft, as is evident if one pays attention to the front wheels, so the rudder will be narrowed in the photograph, just like the passenger cars of the train photo (see below), where the farther the car is, the shorter it looks, despite that fact that the cars are actually identical in length. 

For a careful verification, a complete 3D model of the aircraft viewed from precisely the same camera position as that in the real-life photo is needed.

 

 

Han is just explaining why we make the decisions we do and demonstrating that different models produce slightly different results in 3D and we have our own engine and standards. You're reading too much into that image it's much more than that. We catch flak by some users who get mad when we use CLOD based models to save time, so we chose not to save any time and make virtually from scratch due to some variances we spotted. Some get mad when we don't use them. It's a no win situation. Anyways, life goes on.

 

Jason

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Han is just explaining why we make the decisions we do and demonstrating that different models produce slightly different results in 3D and we have our own engine and standards. You're reading too much into that image it's much more than that. We catch flak by some users who get mad when we use CLOD based models to save time, so we chose not to save any time and make virtually from scratch due to some variances we spotted. Some get mad when we don't use them. It's a no win situation. Anyways, life goes on.

 

Jason

Some are happy you're working on it.

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If this is a dream... Kill me so that I never wake up!!!

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Most are happy with what you do. The quality is very very good. I mean, if the polycount, shape and topology is good enough as a base, go for it! In the end no one would probably notice if you used Clod models to work from:-)

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Ah - a Lufthansa Tante Ju...now if we only had a Moscow airport to land on! Maybe someday we'll have a more complete city to take tourist flights over in this corrugated bird? :clapping:

According to Wiki then - international aeroport in Moscow, Khodynka was just NW from Moscow... on flyable area or just outside the map :)

 

Edit- It's just outside flyable area. I've made a landing appproach and was just touching the runway when ATC forced me to abort landing and turn back west.

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Makes me wonder what to upgrade to next. A VR set of a big ass monitor and 4K. Checked out a 4K

 

This question eat me up ..... Real pain in the ass VR or not is the question 

 

Nice to see the devotion from dev team, thx for the update

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VBF-12_Stick-95
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Jason, as they say, there’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.

 

You're doing it right the first time.

Posted

Am I the only one that wants to bomb Thomas the Train from a Stuka with a 1000 lb bomb? I want to see that model in game! :D

 

Another great update.

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Posted

That red and white Tante Ju is beautiful... Thanks for a huge update and dev. diary!

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Han is just explaining why we make the decisions we do and demonstrating that different models produce slightly different results in 3D and we have our own engine and standards. You're reading too much into that image it's much more than that. We catch flak by some users who get mad when we use CLOD based models to save time, so we chose not to save any time and make virtually from scratch due to some variances we spotted. Some get mad when we don't use them. It's a no win situation. Anyways, life goes on.

 

Jason

 

Ah, as long as that kind of comparison is not involved in judging what is correct and what is wrong, it is perfectly acceptable.

So I misinterpreted its use. Thank you for explaining it.

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Call me lazy but I think it would be wiser to leave the spit as it is and put the free ressources into a new plane model of completely new plane.

Since the FM is also "only" 95% I think the 3D model could be 95% as well and that's good enough.

Nobody will notice the difference, no CLoD player ever noticed anyways.

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Thank you very much guys for all your efforts so far, really appreciated. :salute:

 

 

Han is just explaining why we make the decisions we do and demonstrating that different models produce slightly different results in 3D and we have our own engine and standards. You're reading too much into that image it's much more than that. We catch flak by some users who get mad when we use CLOD based models to save time, so we chose not to save any time and make virtually from scratch due to some variances we spotted. Some get mad when we don't use them. It's a no win situation. Anyways, life goes on.

 

Jason

 

I think all appreciate the efforts that are to be made by the team Jason in regard to the 3D  but I have not yet seen a post that is actually critical of the quality of the models used in CLoD be they aircraft or otherwise, that said there might be I just did not see them. 

 

As far as I am concerned the team should use whatever resources they have available to them considering your staff is small and under very tight budget constraints, there are many CLoD aircraft that could be utilised in the current Eastern front scenarios even if only as AI to give a broader range of types to increase the immersion and playability of the titles we already have, that way efforts could be put into actually creating what is not available rather than duplicating work already done.  ;)

 

Just for the record I would buy CLoD again at the normal full price if it was available to us from 1C/777 in the same way the current titles are without the need to use Steam, oh and with the current enhancements provided by Team Fusion of course.

 

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete. :biggrin:

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[CPT]Pike*HarryM
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Spit is a collectors plane, so there would no doubt be some howls of protest if they charge special price for a "recycled" plane. 

AztekMercilessFatBoy
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what we need a map per year of the war on each front for proper representation of the fronts, and the ability to create proper campaigns, this ones with so little aircraft on the air and units on the ground are boring, also the ability to jump from aircraft to aircraft and  between Germans and Russia destroy any chance of immersion you could get. it feel like playing quick mission builder lol.

also bring back the time skip, some of us actually have jobs, and having us wasting time till the aircraft get to the action is just plain..... you know what.


and also you need to relaunch battle of britain as part of this system, i never bought it, but i will if you integrate it into this sim., i know many would too

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what we need a map per year of the war on each front for proper representation of the fronts, and the ability to create proper campaigns, this ones with so little aircraft on the air and units on the ground are boring, also the ability to jump from aircraft to aircraft and  between Germans and Russia destroy any chance of immersion you could get. it feel like playing quick mission builder lol.

also bring back the time skip, some of us actually have jobs, and having us wasting time till the aircraft get to the action is just plain..... you know what.

and also you need to relaunch battle of britain as part of this system, i never bought it, but i will if you integrate it into this sim., i know many would too

 

Hmm, most of what you are suggesting is personal taste, but I must admit I agree with you on the 'limited' plane set,

 

which could be a bit larger [but not like the original Maddox IL-2 sim].

 

I was thinking along the lines of RoF, where additional planes can be bought. No super-planes, just a way to introduce the IAR-80

 

into the game after all [after the poll], as well as the Henschel 123, i-153, Avia B-534 and CR.42.

 

IL-2 BOS/BOM is great as it is, and the above is just my personal taste, but I think that I am not the only one who would love

 

to see a few more [less regular] planes introduced in an already great sim

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ShamrockOneFive
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what we need a map per year of the war on each front for proper representation of the fronts, and the ability to create proper campaigns, this ones with so little aircraft on the air and units on the ground are boring, also the ability to jump from aircraft to aircraft and  between Germans and Russia destroy any chance of immersion you could get. it feel like playing quick mission builder lol.

also bring back the time skip, some of us actually have jobs, and having us wasting time till the aircraft get to the action is just plain..... you know what.

and also you need to relaunch battle of britain as part of this system, i never bought it, but i will if you integrate it into this sim., i know many would too

 

They are working towards that. Kuban in 2017, Midway in 2018-19, etc. It does take time for a small dev to work through the content necessary to cover a very expansive scenario.

 

The small number of aircraft is a problem but as you can see in this (and previous dev updates), they are working on making efforts towards improving the AI's CPU hit so that more aircraft and vehicles can be displayed at one time. Which is great.

 

Time skip is back. It now goes to 4X. Though not all CPUs can handle that right now.

 

Battle of Britain isn't on their list but it would be nice. As would Normandy 1944, Okinawa, North Africa, Italy, etc. We've got a long list! :D

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