Flying Circus Vol.2 Period ?

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Linguistically, I’d say we are out of pre-order and into EA at this point. There are toys to play with not just pictures in a catalog.

[Zooropa_Fly]

I think we've gone from Early Order to Pre-Access myself. 

[Cynic_Al]

3 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

He didn't, so quit making up arguments where there were none to begin with. 

 

To any reasonable person, yes clearly he did.   The rest of what I'd like to say to you cannot be said here.

 

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

2 hours ago, Zooropa_Fly said:

I think we've gone from Early Order to Pre-Access myself. 

Perhaps you have but I have toys to play with. Plus, mom wants me home because she said you smell like marmalade.

[Cybermat47]

On 12/28/2018 at 12:30 AM, Trooper117 said:

Call it a hunch, but there is no way on earth they are going to make that thing...

 

I’m 100% certain that they’ll make it, right after they give us the Haunebu IV 

Edited December 29, 2018 by Pb_Cybermat47

[SP1969]

Hmm, 

 

The Dev blog wasn't encouraging, was it?

 

'Our partner Ugra Media makes the new WWI aircraft for Flying Circus - Fokker D.VII, Fokker D.VIIF and Sopwith Dolphin. They'll start the work on the Arras area map (1918) soon.'

 

Oh dear.

[BMA_West]

1 hour ago, SP1969 said:

The Dev blog wasn't encouraging, was it?

 

'Our partner Ugra Media makes the new WWI aircraft for Flying Circus - Fokker D.VII, Fokker D.VIIF and Sopwith Dolphin. They'll start the work on the Arras area map (1918) soon.'

 

 

We were informed of that from starters and honestly what we received already did meet or even passed the general expectation so no worries here.

[DD_Arthur]

Dolphin up next?  I was hoping it might have been the SE5a.

 

Other than that it all seems to be going as per......

[Cybermat47]

On 12/30/2018 at 12:33 AM, SP1969 said:

Hmm, 

 

The Dev blog wasn't encouraging, was it?

 

'Our partner Ugra Media makes the new WWI aircraft for Flying Circus - Fokker D.VII, Fokker D.VIIF and Sopwith Dolphin. They'll start the work on the Arras area map (1918) soon.'

 

Oh dear.

 

What part of that warrants an “oh dear”?

[JG1_Butzzell]

S! 

 

Bodenplatte map should be a lot of fun with these planes.

[Zooropa_Fly]

5 hours ago, Pb_Cybermat47 said:

 

What part of that warrants an “oh dear”?

 

I believe it's the fact that it doesn't sound like the map is very far down the road yet..

S!

[SP1969]

10 hours ago, Pb_Cybermat47 said:

 

What part of that warrants an “oh dear”?

Exactly as ZF suggests. 

 

FC needs context and one would have thought that a map would have been well on the way to being developed at this stage.

 

I was disappointed to read that it has not yet even started development.

[4driano]

Aren't the Arras sector and the Bodenplate region similar?

My guess is that when they finished Bodenplate it will be pretty fast to build the Arras map.

[SP1969]

A very good point, 4driano and not one I had thought about.

 

Geographically, yes, you're quite correct.

 

In terms of trench systems, vehicles, war damage, and other detail, perhaps not quite so much, in my opinion.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining about this - it is just my inner 8 year old not wanting to wait until after breakfast to open the Christmas presents.

[ShamrockOneFive]

I'm curious if they are able to share some building assets or if it will still need a unique look. Whatever they decide I'm sure Arras will look amazing and I'm pretty excited to see what they can do about no-man's-land. I feel like they can make it look much more interesting here.

[JGr2/J5_Hotlead]

15 hours ago, SP1969 said:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining about this - it is just my inner 8 year old not wanting to wait until after breakfast to open the Christmas presents.

That makes 2 of us, haha!

 

2 hours ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

I'm curious if they are able to share some building assets or if it will still need a unique look. Whatever they decide I'm sure Arras will look amazing and I'm pretty excited to see what they can do about no-man's-land. I feel like they can make it look much more interesting here.

 

Indeed! In ROF, one can land in no man’s land basically like in any small field. It would be so cool to make the landings in the mud much more bumpy. For instance, as soon as your wheels touch down, the mud should grab them and plop your crate nose first into the mire in a glorious spectacle of busted wings and broken struts. 

 

Oh...and 3D trenches would be the icing on the cake. Put a few WW1 aa and artillery batteries inset in the trenches, take a Camel up to strafe them, and watch the gun crews run for cover down the trenches like they do when vehicles are attacked in the WW2 game. Same could go for small gasoline-powered engines that transported small loads of troops to the front trenches. Take a plane just behind the lines to strafe those and have the soldiers bail out to save their skins. That all would be super, super immersive! 

Edited January 8, 2019 by JG1_Hotlead_J10

[SP1969]

There is a rather fantastic video available that shows the footage taken by a French dirigible flying over the Western Front in the immediate post war period.

 

This is a little excerpt, and although the description states the film is not commercially available, it must be somewhere, because I have seen it.

 

 

[Zooropa_Fly]

..and to think we did all again to each other 20 years later.

[Trooper117]

I've watched the whole video on TV last year, good footage as well...

[SP1969]

The BBC programme in its entirety. This still isn't the complete footage, but much more of it. Whilst I appreciate the efforts of the programme makers to bring the subject to the notice of the public, I do wish that television programmes would just show the footage without the bloody music and the talking, 're enactments' and 'infographics', sometimes. We don't all have the attention span of a two year old with an espresso.

[sevenless]

On ‎12‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 3:36 PM, West said:

 

We were informed of that from starters and honestly what we received already did meet or even passed the general expectation so no worries here.

 

Ugra Media is dealing with the new DCS Map (Syria) also, so I guess we can expect to see some quality stuff here. They have a track record both for 777/1C and DCS.

 

https://stormbirds.blog/2019/01/10/we-now-have-info-on-the-dcs-syria-map/

Edited January 13, 2019 by sevenless

[JG1_Butzzell]

S! All

 

The map for Vol 1 is 100 X 100 km.   They are doing a high res small map for Bodenplatte.

 

What if they kept the small size or relatively small , maybe 200 x 200 km,   form Dunkirk to Epinal.  A distance of over 600 km as you follow the front. So with overlap 5 maps?

 

Each map comes with six planes we have seen in RoF  or you buy the deluxe edition with two new collector planes not seen in RoF?  This could take a few years

 

The Tarnopal map could have Austrian Albs as collector planes?

 

An Italian Front with  Caproni bombers and Ansaldo  scouts?

 

This would take several years. It would  provide new content and a continuing income stream.

 

Just thinking out loud.

[SP1969]

8 minutes ago, JG1_Butzzell said:

This would take several years. It would  provide new content and a continuing income stream.

 

 

You do realise I was born in 1959, Buttzell.

 

I'll probably have my own personal wings, complete with field mod harp and halo, by the time they release Vol 2........ 

[JG1_Butzzell]

Aww commonnn  60 is the new 30, Plenty of time time to get to Vol 3 at least, maybe 4, do I hear a 5, anyone go for 5? Going once, going twice......