Developer Diary 208 - Discussion

[TP_Sparky]

34 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Yeah...a great model no doubt.

Thanks for posting.

 

Where did you read her story?

 

A number of places including  

[Gambit21]

Great...thanks!

Have you read "A Dance with Death" (Soviet Airwomen of World War II) ?

[TP_Sparky]

No, but I've seen it advertised.  Did you enjoy it?

 

[Gambit21]

I did, it was very good and I was largely ignorant about most of the subject matter frankly...so very informative.

I'll ship it off to you, say the word.

[TP_Sparky]

When I return to the US around Christmas.  We can exchange books.  I'll send you Lidiya's book.

[Wolfram-Harms]

Great pics! I guess Jason is the guy on the right? The cockpit and pilot pics are wonderful - carry on, gents, we're on fire!

 

Yesterday I tested the new damage model for "FLYING CIRCUS", and I was very positively surprised.
I guess the new "Kamikaze Kids" will find it less easy to top von Richthofen's or Fonck's victories, cause the aircraft under fire
do not so easily disintegrate anymore.

Like in RL the airframes can take a lot of hits, as long as you don't hit anything vital.The calibres were small compared to WW2,
and they just made little holes into the canvas surfaces or wooden bars. They had to hit something vital like the engine, the tank
or the pilot. Boelcke's and von Richthofen's quotes make sense now: "Get as close as possible and fire; then he must fall."

 

In my case, I hit the pilot at last, and only then the aircraft went down. Here is a 3-minute tube about it:

 

 

[Wolfram-Harms]

PS: a great addition to the DM would be the sequence of a typical "flamer", as the British called it.

• Tank or fuel pipe gets pierced, and fuel leaks on the hot engine parts
• a white trail of vaporised fuel fumes is pulling behind the damaged craft
• within seconds, this might catch fire
• the craft would fall like a burning torch, pulling a dark smoke trail

Von Richthofen had such damage one, but immediately switched the engine of and went into a steep dive, to cool the hot parts faster.
He made it that day, but it was a close shave.

 

Edited October 22, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms

[sevenless]

On 10/20/2018 at 5:07 PM, TP_Sparky said:

What about Russian pilots?  Night Witches?  Lydia Litvyak? 

 

Lilya

 

Looks like a child. How old was she?

[Bremspropeller]

Early twenties when she was killed.

[TP_Sparky]

2 hours ago, sevenless said:

 

Looks like a child. How old was she?

 

She lived August 18, 1921, in Moscow – August 1, 1943, and died at age 21.  She joined a flying club at 14 and soloed at 15.  Most of her twelve victories were over Bf-109s.  She kept her hair blond, made colorful scarves from scraps of silk and carried bouquets of flowers in the cockpit of her fighter. 

 

IIRC, at first the men in the squadron the first women were sent to scoffed and wanted to make them prove [again] they could hack it as pilots so they sent Lilya and another woman aloft against two of the best men pilots for mock combat but German fighters appeared and all were in for a fight for their lives.  The women did so well there was no further talk of proving themselves.  Lilya ended up as a flight leader.

Edited October 22, 2018 by TP_Sparky

[Gambit21]

11 hours ago, TP_Sparky said:

When I return to the US around Christmas.  We can exchange books.  I'll send you Lidiya's book.

 

 

You got it.

[Lusekofte]

I am pretty sure I will have some flying time with the PO 2, such a iconic plane

[TP_Sparky]

9 minutes ago, LuseKofte said:

I am pretty sure I will have some flying time with the PO 2, such a iconic plane

 

The perfect plane to fly under bridges and through hangers, something I do with fighters.

[GarandM1]

6 hours ago, Wolfram-Harms said:

Great pics! I guess Jason is the guy on the right? The cockpit and pilot pics are wonderful - carry on, gents, we're on fire!

 

Yesterday I tested the new damage model for "FLYING CIRCUS", and I was very positively surprised.
I guess the new "Kamikaze Kids" will find it less easy to top von Richthofen's or Fonck's victories, cause the aircraft under fire
do not so easily disintegrate anymore.

Like in RL the airframes can take a lot of hits, as long as you don't hit anything vital.The calibres were small compared to WW2,
and they just made little holes into the canvas surfaces or wooden bars. They had to hit something vital like the engine, the tank
or the pilot. Boelcke's and von Richthofen's quotes make sense now: "Get as close as possible and fire; then he must fall."

 

In my case, I hit the pilot at last, and only then the aircraft went down. Here is a 3-minute tube about it:

 

It is concerning to me that it seems like that plane doesn't try to make any evasive maneuvers.  He looked pretty content to let you stay glued to his 6 and pummel him with so much ammo. I hope that gets sorted out. 

[nrosko]

Maybe it was set to low skill Ai just to test the damage? 

[US63_SpadLivesMatter]

No, it doesn't seem to make a difference.  The AI seem as if they are barely able to fly these aircraft, especially the DR1, at any skill level.

[Wolfram-Harms]

4 hours ago, GarandM1 said:

He looked pretty content to let you stay glued to his 6 ...

 

32 minutes ago, nrosko said:

Maybe it was set to low skill Ai just to test the damage? 

 

The Dr.I AI was set to "Veteran". And yes: any average pilot would already perform immediate evasive manoeuvres.
I also hope that this will get much refined. A Fokker should go into extreme turning; a SPAD would rather continue a dive
and climb back to height, when at safe distance.

 

But for my point - showing the new damage model - this suited me perfectly.
Cause I still have to train the new kites - they feel heavier to me (which is also good!).

[planesyplanesy]

On 10/19/2018 at 4:08 PM, Han said:

 

Full news - here is a full text and visual materials

Wow the 'Dora' and the P-47 look awesome. Cant wait to add them to my collection!