Developer Diary 244 - Discussion

[Missionbug]

The C-47 looks a real beauty, cannot wait to see her in sim.

 

Having a cockpit to sit in it would also be most welcome.

 

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[Avimimus]

I know it is out of the question at the moment - but I couldn't help wondering "How successful a crowd funding campaign would need to be to get an Li-2"  Anyway, it'll be nice to see the C-47 as an AI asset... definitely lovely.

[Blitzen]

2 hours ago, =gRiJ=Roman- said:

With this LOCKDOWN, we really use an update 

 

[Pollux]

I'm dreaming of in C 47 (LI-2) controllable 

[Habu]

Dev, can you tell us if the C47 Ai will perform the same features as the JU52 : drop paratrooper, drop canister, cargo unload.

 

And when she will be flyiable by player ? ?

Edited March 13, 2020 by Habu

[I./JG1_Baron]

24 minutes ago, Habu said:

Dev, can you tell us if the C47 Ai will perform the same features as the JU52 : drop paratrooper, drop canister, cargo unload.

 

And when she will be flyiable by player ? ?

 

Im bloody sure that answer is Yes. 

[schurem]

So did tante Ju start as AI only or was that flyable right off the bat? I would gladly pay for a flyable dak and wait patiently a good long time for her too.

[FlyingNutcase]

Looking beautiful. For our mental health & general well-being, yes this really needs to be flyable one day. ?

[Freycinet]

Beautiful AI plane, can't say I really pine to see it flyable.

 

Keep safe everybody!

[senseispcc]

Like so many times great, good and nice news. Thanks.  

[Chief_Mouser]

Love it. Flyable please when possible. Cheers. 

[Habu]

45 minutes ago, schurem said:

So did tante Ju start as AI only or was that flyable right off the bat? I would gladly pay for a flyable dak and wait patiently a good long time for her too.

she was AI only at the begining, and after she'll become flyable.

[Night0wl]

Cant wait to hunt some daks with the ju88c6 ?

[Rjel]

Nearly 85 years after its first flight, the DC-3 is still an elegant looking airplane.  The model as pictured, looks great.

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

DC-3 looks great!

 

[ilmavoimat]

Please, pleases, please make the Gooney flyable, bugger the cost!!

 

[AH_Col_Hogan]

I will pay twice the collector plane price for a flyable Dakota...

 

~S

[thorsfury]

Great news for those of us who work better with cargo in the back than guns in front

[Livai]

6 hours ago, JG51_Beazil said:

Unarmed transports!  I'm sure I will enjoy shooting them down.

 

Unarmed?

 

 

[LLv24_SukkaVR]

58 minutes ago, Livai said:

 

Unarmed?

 

 

 

I thought we were going to Normandy, not Vietnam.

[76IAP-Black]

? Who cares, armed is armed 

 

I can imagine they will open a preorder, step by step, plane by plane

B-25

B-26 Im most looking for ward to it

C-47

 

The planes will be succesfull as collector planes, 

I never was a Fan at the beginning of payable stuff after putchasing the game, but it finance my passion and hobby for the next years, so, why not and im happy to have a new il2 

[Juri_JS]

Have the Soviets sometimes equipped their lend-lease C-47s with turrets or was this only done with the Li-2?

[namhee2]

14 minutes ago, Juri_JS said:

Have the Soviets sometimes equipped their lend-lease C-47s with turrets or was this only done with the Li-2?

two exemple

[Habu]

On the second screen, the top turret seems a bit strange.

[AEthelraedUnraed]

Just wondering, are there any significant differences between the C-47 and Li-2 (besides the obvious turret)?

[R7-S276]

News are greats, but one wish (always the same) please, is it possible to make the B-25 and the C-47 flyable. The Ju-52 is partially with only the pilot and gunner seats available, I dream to see the Ju-52, the B-25, the C-47 and all the actual and futur big planes with all the crew position playable as it is for Tank Crew, I know the most part of players want to be a pilot or a gunner to have fun in shooting planes but some like to recreate a crew with all the position as pilot, co-pilot, radio, navigator, bomber playable, specially on multiplayer mode. I imagine it will be a lot of work, but Tank Crew and the previous version of Il-2 showed it’s not impossible...

[Bremspropeller]

2 hours ago, Livai said:

 

Unarmed?

 

 

 

Dude, do you even BRRRT?

[BladeMeister]

Nice work Gents. Stay healthy everyone. I predict the online numbers will be setting new records for a while.

 

S!Blade<><

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

The Waco CG-4 will not be modeled to represent D-day? It is an easy model to model in 3D

 

The Waco CG-4 will not be modeled to represent D-day? It is an easy model to model in 3D

It would be a very interesting plane to develop a scripted campaign. I would buy it. Of course it would be an IA plane. It would also serve to decorate certain air bases.

 

Edited March 14, 2020 by 1/JSpan_Guerrero

[Soto_Cinematics]

1 hour ago, 1/JSpan_Guerrero said:

The Waco CG-4 will not be modeled to represent D-day? It is an easy model to model in 3D

 

The Waco CG-4 will not be modeled to represent D-day? It is an easy model to model in 3D

It would be a very interesting plane to develop a scripted campaign. I would buy it. Of course it would be an IA plane. It would also serve to decorate certain air bases.

 

 

If this were to happen the Horsa would be a must. And possibly the German ZFS 230. But this is just wishful thinking. ?

[TP_Sparky]

Is the size and shape of the Normandy map the same as the revised area shown before?   I hope so as it includes my village on the southern edge.

[jollyjack]

On 3/13/2020 at 2:43 PM, Han said:

 

Full news - here is a full text and visual materials

 

C47 Ai only ????????????

Edited March 14, 2020 by jollyjack

[Jade_Monkey]

Just now, jollyjack said:

 

C74 Ai only ????????????

 

Yes, per the BoN announcement, same with the B-26 and V1.

 

 

 

[keeno]

Thanks for the update, great model of a classic warbird!

[LukeFF]

5 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said:

Just wondering, are there any significant differences between the C-47 and Li-2 (besides the obvious turret)?

 

The cockpit and engine cowlings were different.

Edited March 14, 2020 by LukeFF

[-=PHX=-SuperEtendard]

ngl I would like them to make the Li-2 to make use of the guns it had (turret, nose and side door ShKAS) and bombs too.

[Jason_Williams]

11 hours ago, Livai said:

 

Unarmed?

 

 

 

AKA Puff the Magic Dragon. Nice!

 

Jason

[pilotpierre]

My first flight was in one of these flying from Adelaide to the Woomera rocket range in 1958 I was 12 at the time and flying alone to stay with my cousin who lived in Woomera. 
 

 Flying over the desert was a rough ride, dropping 200’ then immediately rising backup again a couple of hundred feet higher than its original altitude. I can distinctly remember being enthralled and was the only passenger on the plane who wasn’t air sick. 

I am sure it was this flight that switched on the key to get a pilots licence  just to fly aerobatics later on in life. 
 

Now at 73 and with dozens of overseas flights under my belt I have only ever experience the same magnitude of air disturbance once. Whilst I enjoyed it my wife and many others were somewhat terrified.

 

[CCG_Pips]

1 hour ago, pilotpierre said:

My first flight was in one of these flying from Adelaide to the Woomera rocket range in 1958 I was 12 at the time and flying alone to stay with my cousin who lived in Woomera. 
 

 Flying over the desert was a rough ride, dropping 200’ then immediately rising backup again a couple of hundred feet higher than its original altitude. I can distinctly remember being enthralled and was the only passenger on the plane who wasn’t air sick. 

I am sure it was this flight that switched on the key to get a pilots licence  just to fly aerobatics later on in life. 
 

Now at 73 and with dozens of overseas flights under my belt I have only ever experience the same magnitude of air disturbance once. Whilst I enjoyed it my wife and many others were somewhat terrified.

 

?.........My first flight on a C-47.....1961 from Colomb Béchard (South Algerian west Sahara) to Algier (Algeria) and the top was for pure fun, co-pilot took me by the hand and he sat me down in the cockpit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After about 60 years, I still remember and for sure this adventure gave me the Air flight virus!!!?

At this NICE time, rules in planes where not so strict !!!

 

You can understand why I am so crying to do not see this beauty flyable !!

[AndyJWest]

3 minutes ago, CCG_Pips said:

?.........My first flight on a C-47.....1961 from Colomb Béchard (South Algerian west Sahara) to Algier (Algeria) and the top was for pure fun, co-pilot took me by the hand and he sat me down in the cockpit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hopefully the conversation didn't go like this: ?