Developer Diary, Part 191 - Discussion

[angus26]

Looking great! Thanks for the update!

 

Love that po-2 

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

I really like the Luftstreitkrafte pilot concept.

 

Flying Circus is the future content I'm most excited about - hopefully the team plans on creating a career mode to go alongside it. 

 

I've also been playing a bit of Steel Fury so Tank Crew is sounding more exciting - hopefully it'll be a sort of "spiritual successor" to the series in terms of modeling and gameplay.

[smink1701]

Love Friday updates!!!!

Now show us a mask on a WWII pilt 

[FTC_Knipser]

Sounds all great! Thanks a lot for keeping us up to date! I know, the majority of your IL2-customers is playing the game in Single-Player-Mode only, so it's understandable that you put more effort into developing and fixing single player content. But there is also such a vivid multiplayer-community out there and i really hope you get those multiplayer/server problems fixed soon. Keep up the good work!!!

[Bando]

Don't know what to add anymore.

 

Thank you team!!!!!!

[616Sqn_Tyggz]

Fantastic!

Can't wait to get my hands on the new Spit, hopefully with a gyro-sight option.

And the po-2 looks like lots of fun, hopefully it should be nicer to land in the rough than the other planes we already have in game.

 

Please, please pleaseeee can we be able to have custom skins for our tanks. I've always wanted to do my own T-34 skin.

 

Also, the Flying Circus pilot concept art is looking good. Maybe we could also have more diverse pilot models as well?

 

[FlyNavy_BeeKayVR]

Thanks for this new update and the exciting things to come. Looking very much forward to play the Flying Circus WWI airplanes in VR. Am SP only for the time being.

Thanks again and good continuation with your work.

[StG77_Kondor]

1 hour ago, DerSheriff said:

Amazin! The game is goin the right way. I personally would like to see some improvements in the "quality of life" department. Especially the dserver. Connection queues, network performance enhancement etc.
Any word on that? Cheers

 

The Po-2 looks fantastic! Hopefully you guys are enjoying your well deserved rest.
 

But as Sheriff mentioned, currently there are plenty of small bugs and annoyances that 3.001 has introduced into multiplayer. Not to mention the lack of detailed flight logs that many servers and campaigns rely on to operate. I hope that these are ironed out in upcoming patches/releases and not just left to be ignored.

[kestrel79]

Wow a great start! Spit looks great, love seeing those clipped wings. Looks like the G-14 has a newer canopy as well compared to the other 109s which should give it a little better rear viability. Really excited for some tanking too in IL2 level of detail and quality.

 

The ww1 pilot model has a little Battlefield 1 over the top vibe to it, but I don't mind looks pretty cool and hey if it gets more people into the game I'm all for it. Can't wait to see that scarf blowin in the wind!

[Nil]

Holly Crap! the Po2 is going forward! I am so glad to see it, I can not wait to fly it!

[unlikely_spider]

Is it just me or is that Spit going to be harder to identify 

That means that upon seeing clipped wings I can no longer simply assume "109".

Edit - although this is a later Spit, right? So the designs kind of did the reverse? Earlier 109s had clipped wings, then by the F series they were rounded I guess.

Edited April 6, 2018 by engrish_major

[HenFre]

The Tiger model looks awesome  Can't wait to play Tank Crew and fire that 88 mm canon 

 

Great to see the you have decided that the PO-2 model is up to your standard. Is it still being modeled by your long-time professional development partners? And will they be making more models for you?

[Yankee_One]

Great news as always!

 

Nice stuff. Love that Tiger, i am ready to buy Tank crew

Spit and G-14 looking awesome! Cant wait for Bodenplatte too.

May be in the future a G-10.

 

Have a nice weekend

[616Sqn_Johnny-Red]

What a teaser! WWI German pilot, Tiger Tank, Po-2 and Late War 109 and Spitfire. There's nothing here that doesn't inspire great expectations. Good job

 

For myself I'm especially pleased to see the Spitfire LFIXe with clipped and standard wings as I understand the conversion from one to the other was relatively straightforward in in real life.

 

As for the Po-2 - that's another long term wish of my own come true. The mission building scope for that little beauty is going to be awesome.

Edited August 12, 2018 by Johnny-Red
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[C130castrum8]

Awesome news gentlemen, you'll have my preorder for tanks and WWI the moment it's available!

[[CPT]milopugdog]

It all looks awesome! I'm glad the WW1 pilots won't look like vampires like in RoF.

[Luger1969]

Lets be short and sweet awesome ... marvellous. 

 

The clipped wing is such an unexpected bonus. The Tiger looks great. The galland canopy. The updates items... 40 plus of them.

 

I am saving up money for my purchases...but i will be there for sure. Keep on doing big things.

 

Edited April 6, 2018 by Luger1969

[Warpig]

27 minutes ago, engrish_major said:

Is it just me or is that Spit going to be harder to identify 

That means that upon seeing clipped wings I can no longer simply assume "109".

Edit - although this is a later Spit, right? So the designs kind of did the reverse? Earlier 109s had clipped wings, then by the F series they were rounded I guess.

The 109 E-7 and the Spit MkIX are too far apart in dates to see them in the same theater, so no problem there.

[sevenless]

1 hour ago, KG_S_MrFies said:

please   Bf 109  G14 ASM Engine  (:

 

wouldn´t it make more sense to integrate the G-10 instead ? That way we could get G14, G10 and K4 and perhaps a G5/AS or G6/AS ?

Edited April 6, 2018 by sevenless

[Talon_]

Hey guys is it possible to report to the devs that such a late Spitfire (aero vee filter) shouldn't have the IFF antennas from the horizontal stab? There was a. Vertical IFF antenna under the stbd wing. 

[No105_Swoose]

Terrific Update! Thanks Jason, Han, and the Dev Team for your hard work and efforts to improve the IL-2: Great Battles series!

 

Suggestion: I don't know if the U-2 will be initially AI only and, perhaps, later on, flyable?  If it will be flyable at some point, it would be great if Black_Six could create a short, scripted campaign for it along the lines of Sea Dragons that he did with the IL-2 mod 1943 for Battle of Kuban?  Even better would be if the campaign could revolve around the exploits of the famous "Night Witches" of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later redesignated the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Regiment.

[Diggun]

Clipped wing Spit has already justified my BoBp pre-order.

 

And I am nowhere near finished being thrilled with Kuban yet.

 

But, lordy, surely this thing is the epitome of how to do armed recce with style.....

 

 

[Danziger]

That WW1 pilot looks badass. Actually, everything in that DD looks badass but that pilot looks particularly menacing. Day 1 purchase from me.

[IckyATLAS]

All the dev team and Jason too I hope you got a well deserved holiday, before plunging into BOBp. If I read between the lines it seems Pacific Theater is not too far, but I may be wrong.

In any case if you start on that it will be a tremendous work to do to keep up with the same quality and detail level as we have now. There are so many ships and planes to model, as well as torpedo attacks etc. Anyway, there is nobody else to take up this challenge, so you have no competition on that.

40 fixes is already a nice list.

 

A small request:  could you please add a small detail: water splash or dirt cloud when a bomb skips on water or ground.

 

A small question: When a pilot would bail out over the black sea. Was he just with the mae-west or he did have a small inflatable dinghy. Fighter pilots probably had no inflatable dinghy, but what about the bombers like A-20 or He-111 etc.

 

 

 

 

[Blitzen]

Oh boy the Po-2...finally something for my wife to fly when she can’t sleep at night. All kidding aside I’m sure I’m not the only one to find this a good addition & hope it will be flyable in the entire BoX series esp.in Campaigns . I do remember trying to shoot these down in the original Il-2 Sturmovik series & it was damn tough as they wobbled around at 90 knots at night. I’m not sure I’ll fly in much ( I have never flown the Tiger Moth all that much in CloD which is roughly equivalent, )but it will add something to the game...Hell it could also be used in the upcoming Armor variation to make the lives of those Tiger Crews miserable as they try to get their beauty sleeps.

[ST_ami7b5]

Veeeeeery nice!

[Beazil]

Looks fantastic.  I plan to clip a few spitfire wings with that G14.  Should save some development time. 

[Panezz]

Plz fix 10 km bubble and contact visibility

[LukeFF]

55 minutes ago, Talon_ said:

Hey guys is it possible to report to the devs that such a late Spitfire (aero vee filter) shouldn't have the IFF antennas from the horizontal stab? There was a. Vertical IFF antenna under the stbd wing. 

 

Best to send @Han a PM with such info.

[Voidhunger]

I´m little worried about tanks damage model if the tank crew will be part of the IL2 open world. 

 

[Sneaksie]

1 minute ago, LukeFF said:

 

Best to send @Han a PM with such info.

 

Thanks, we already read this and will correct the model.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Excellent work as always and the expected "unexpected" additions to future content as well.

 

Not sure why there are so many "Po-2 is still in the works?" posts here and in other threads. Of course it's moving forward. They hand selected the external team to produce it. If they didn't have faith it would meet standards they wouldn't have handed the project off in the first place.

 

You never fail to surprise. Looking forward to it all.

[SCG_Tzigy]

awesome.

[Dakpilot]

Great to see progress on all fronts! 

 

Cheers Dakpilot 

[Talon_]

1 hour ago, Sneaksie said:

 

Thanks, we already read this and will correct the model.

 

Thanks very much!

 

I play another unnamed WW2 flight sim and getting the developers to acknowledge inaccuracies like this is... "somewhat" more difficult. How very refreshing to come here and be taken seriously straight away! :D

[Guynemer]

Great news, especially the part about WWI Flying circus. Looking forward to more ! 

[Bajzon20]

Great news!, i cant wait to pay for Tank Crew, i hope we get soon some screens of M4A2. 
 

[Talisman]

1 hour ago, Sneaksie said:

 

Thanks, we already read this and will correct the model.

This is what I really love about the development team for this flight simulation.  Great communication and customer interface skills.  Thank you Sneaksie and everyone on the team for delivering such a totally enjoyable combat flight sim  .  Congratulations on being a top team.

 

Happy landings,

 

56RAF_Talisman

[Benti]

^ this!!
I'm glad to be part of this ride. One of the best digital products that I own, plus the communication is top notch.
Eventhough I don't find much time playing these days.

cheers

[Missionbug]

Looks amazing guys, thank you very much for the update, seems forever away though right now before we get to have a look at all that interesting

stuff on our PC.

 

I can barely kill trucks, will have no chance at all disabling that Tiger, wow.

 

Happy to see the Po-2 is still in work can you please say if there is any news yet as to when/if the Li-2/C-47 is ever likely to make it into the game.

 

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

Edited April 6, 2018 by Missionbug