New custom difficulty option

[EugXavierEugeni]

Hi all !

 

I'm really bad indentyfing friends/enemy planes. So could be possible to add an option to show friends/enemy only in the mini-map?? 

That will suppose an excellent way to increase anyone learning curve.

 

Sorry if this has been mentioned before.

 

Ty

[DD_Perfesser]

Best thing would be to just have all planes same color or no planes.  Anything that makes it easier means you don't try so hard.

[RedKestrel]

I believe it has been mentioned as a suggestion. Its not a bad idea, though with a 2d mini-map it would be easy in a swirling dogfight to confuse friend and foe. Icons might be better.

The best thing to try would be to learn plane ID. There's a number of manuals and quick guides on the manuals and tutorials forum. I used to be terrible at it, but after reading a bunch of tips and practicing for a little while, I can ID most planes pretty reliably. There's always a couple of rules of thumb for each plane that gives you an ability to ID planes 'at a glance'. 109s have a long skinny fuselage and long, narrow sorta squared off wingtips. 190s have a stubby fuselage and wings with aggressively squared off wingtips. Most soviet planes have triangular-looking wings (MiG-3 is most pronounced in this respect). And their wings are usually much wider at the base, and thus they seem to have shorter tails.  Etc. etc.

Also in general I find Luftwaffe planes are squarish and sharp looking while soviet planes are more rounded. Not true for the bombers so much, but luckily the twin stabilizer in the Pe-2 makes it easy to pick out against other bombers, and the A-20 has kind of a long nose, it looks a lot different than the german bombers. If you can narrow it down to German vs. Russian then there's less worry.

If all else fails, if you're unsure just get really close before you shoot. Sometimes I wait to shoot until I can see the roundels on the wings, if I'm not sure.

[RedeyeStorm]

Hey Xavier,

 

I agree with you. In general I would like more options with markers. Personally I would like a black dot marker to aid with spotting.

[EugXavierEugeni]

thx for the tips!

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Since they made the icons more transparent are actually quite hard to spot at mid to far range unless they are behind the cockpit. 

 

 

I have been asking for more ways to to tailor the markers/difficulty setting for year but to no avail. Every time I make a thread about on this topic I get a crowd of people dictating to me that I must play the game on full real mode....

Edited June 16, 2018 by AeroAce

[dburne]

52 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

Since they made the icons more transparent are actually quite hard to spot at mid to far range unless they are behind the cockpit. 

 

 

I have been asking for more ways to to tailor the markers/difficulty setting for year but to no avail. Every time I make a thread about on this topic I get a crowd of people dictating to me that I must play the game on full real mode....

 

Pretty sure there are plenty of us that do not play on "full real"...

Edited June 16, 2018 by dburne

[=621=Samikatz]

If there's one new difficulty option I'd like, it's keeping compass waypoints while getting rid of the speedo/altimeter. I like having to use the cockpit to gauge speed and stuff but hitting the sometimes very small mission waypoints that are usually necessary for the mission to progress is really annoying sometimes when you have to pop in and out of the map constantly

[CountZero]

Just enable Icons, they could be inproved to have option to use them only on frendly or enemy, or having option to select at what distances icons should show up, and more options like we have in 1946 and clod when using them, but still they do the job good.

I use them all the time offline when i play campaigns, carrer or single missions, only few times i practice in quick mission for MP i dont use them, but even then i just end up turning them on when i get bored looking for contacts i dont see  , online i just play on servers that dont have them its mutch easer to get kills suprising enemys then trying same on servers with icons, but offline they are eye saver and dont see why not use them, game is more build for use with icons then without them.

29 minutes ago, =621=Samikatz said:

If there's one new difficulty option I'd like, it's keeping compass waypoints while getting rid of the speedo/altimeter. I like having to use the cockpit to gauge speed and stuff but hitting the sometimes very small mission waypoints that are usually necessary for the mission to progress is really annoying sometimes when you have to pop in and out of the map constantly

 

I would like that also, i see on WoL server you only have compas and no speed and alt, dont know if thats only option for online i was not able to get it like that in offline missions

[MicEzo]

Because of this topic i realised there are icons available in IL2. It's not for me. I hated how War Thunder sim was shallowing tactics and degrading immersion and realism because of this icons. Anyway whatever you like, it's just an option.

BTW. With icons I have situational awareness better than F-35 pilot.

Edited June 17, 2018 by MicEzo

[kendo]

I think every sim has option of using icons. No?

[CountZero]

1 hour ago, MicEzo said:

Because of this topic i realised there are icons available in IL2. It's not for me. I hated how War Thunder sim was shallowing tactics and degrading immersion and realism because of this icons. Anyway whatever you like, it's just an option.

BTW. With icons I have situational awareness better than F-35 pilot.

 

i dont know how having option for others to have icons effects your gameplay if you dont wont to use them. You dont like it then just dont use them when playing in single player, also if you dont like them and online just go on servers that dont have them ( thats most of servers), simple as that.

 

and good luck finding flying game that dont have icons available for players ?

[MicEzo]

1 hour ago, MicEzo said:

Anyway whatever you like, it's just an option.

I have written it is not bothering me because it's an option so whatever sb like.

If someone want to play with icons it's his choice, it's not my business.

[seafireliv]

I would wax lyrical on the joys of learning to identify aircraft and how you`re walking in the footsteps of the greats, but I have a coat to take and leave.