A bit of news shared by Buzzsaw on the Steam forums

[Mysticpuma]

Although it is a couple of weeks old now. 

[Thundercracker]

Fingers crossed something comes of it. Wasn't the team also working on tessellation and 4k skins, I'm sure I remember buzzsaw saying something along those lines in another thread.

 

[blockheadgreen_]

I'll be very excited to see; itching for a Spit IX and the Typhoon personally, which I imagine are on the roster. 

[Mysticpuma]

2 hours ago, Lythronax said:

I'll be very excited to see; itching for a Spit IX and the Typhoon personally, which I imagine are on the roster. 

 

[blockheadgreen_]

1 hour ago, Mysticpuma said:

 

You're just teasing now ?

 

If so, I hope whoever is making such a thing gets the Sabre sound-set right (not pointing fingers, every sim ever...)

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Edited September 12, 2022 by Varrattu

[343KKT_Kintaro]

3 minutes ago, Varrattu said:

so much promised

 

 

Not tha much, Varrattu, not that much... but lovely nod to our BoB simulator anyway... ?

 

 

[Avimimus]

On 3/31/2021 at 4:24 AM, Lythronax said:

I'll be very excited to see; itching for a Spit IX and the Typhoon personally, which I imagine are on the roster. 

 

I'm personally pretty content to get these in BoX... and have the team focus more on Malta, Italy, Battle of France ...and maybe someday add radars to the night fighters?

 

The Great Battles/BoX series can have the flashy fighters over Normandy... I'm most interested in the ability of the Cliffs/Desert-Wings engine to be used to capture things the Great Battles series won't.

 

But that is my personal opinion obviously, and I don't expect others to agree  

[Enceladus828]

If Team Fusion can release aircraft carriers in their next installment (or in a TF 6.5... but TrueSky and VR should come first) such as the Illustrious class, and include Carrier Ops, Sea Gladiator, Sea Hurricane, Seafire, Swordfish, then that would be fantastic ? If Team Fusion includes aircraft carriers before 1C does then this would be the first high fidelity WW2 air combat sim to include aircraft carriers in over 15 years, and the first to include them in MTO as part of official content  

 

 

Edited April 2, 2021 by Enceladus
what Kintaro posted below

[343KKT_Kintaro]

25 minutes ago, Enceladus said:

If Team Fusion includes aircraft carriers before 1C does then they this would be the first high fidelity air combat sim to include aircraft carriers in over 15 years

 

 

I guess you meant "they would be the first high fidelity piston-engines air combat sim to include aircraft carriers in over 15 years". Indeed, DCS already presents high fidelity simulations of takeoffs and landings of F-18s and F-14s on board modern Nimitz class aircraft carriers (Nimitz class, right? or is the DCS carrier module using another class?).

 

 

25 minutes ago, Enceladus said:

and the first to include them in MTO

 

 

Mmmmmmm... didn't the modded IL-2 1946 already include this?

 

 

[Cybermat47]

I wonder who’ll be the first to guess the biggest thing we’re working on?

 

 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

1 hour ago, [Pb]Cybermat47 said:

I wonder who’ll be the first to guess the biggest thing we’re working on?

 

 

A player flyable Avro Lancaster... is this big enough?

 

 

[Cybermat47]

7 hours ago, 343KKT_Kintaro said:

 

 

A player flyable Avro Lancaster... is this big enough?

 

 

Good guess, but I’m afraid not.

 

You’ll have to wait until the official announcement to find out, which will hopefully be soon

[56RAF_Stickz]

does it count as insider dealing if I answer "does it have a 24 init?"

[343KKT_Kintaro]

A 24 init? What's that?

[Thundercracker]

1 hour ago, 343KKT_Kintaro said:

A 24 init? What's that?

If I had to take a wild stab in the dark I'd assume he's hinting at a mark number. 

 

But I guess we'll have to wait and see... 

 

Edited because I'm a tit and suggested a post war aircraft

Edited April 2, 2021 by Thundercracker
Brain fart

[Redwo1f]

Well, they have been talking about drivable vehicles and what not (which doesn't interest me whatsoever, tbh) - I just hope it isn't a module dedicated to that (though I understand others may like that). Hoping it is sticking to aircraft, personally.

[jollyjack]

[Thundercracker]

I'm changing my previous moronic guess and going with operation torch as the next theater.

[blockheadgreen_]

Operation Torch would be class. There are so many options for aircraft (Seafires, later USAAF stuff, Avengers, Swordfish, more Martlets, 190s, 109G, etc). Having 4-engined heavies would bring so much life to the sim. 

 

This is a bit wishlisty, but I'd very much hope that when the Channel front is developed through 42-43 that the Spitfire F XII isn't forgotten, as it served from the end of 1942 and throughout the entirety of 1943 (as well as 9 months of 1944), not to mention it's never been done in a sim before.

 

In addition Buzzsaw said that the early Mk IX (i.e the IXA, though the correct terminology is F IX) with Merlin 61/63 is happening 100%; I'd also implore TF to include the IXB (LF IX) with the Merlin 66 as it appeared early on in 43 and quickly became the most common Mk IX in service. Although it's famous for having the later Aero-Vee air filter, the ones serving in 1943 lacked it and were externally (aside from the wing root fuel cooler) identical to the F IX. The only change in the cockpit is the later style of throttle quadrant without mixture controls.

Edited April 2, 2021 by Lythronax

[Enceladus828]

15 hours ago, [Pb]Cybermat47 said:

I wonder who’ll be the first to guess the biggest thing we’re working on?

A map stretching from Tunisia to Taranto, Italy, with Malta and Sicily included.

 

'Thing' can be anything: ship, plane, map, etc.

Edited April 2, 2021 by Enceladus

[56RAF_Stickz]

jollyjack guessed it, seems 2/3 of my answer got wiped out somewhere, 42 answer to everything reverse that Being 24 is the answer to cybermat question

[blockheadgreen_]

16 minutes ago, Enceladus said:

A map stretching from Tunisia to Taranto, Italy, with Malta and Sicily included.

 

Yes please ?

[palker4]

2 hours ago, Enceladus said:

A map stretching from Tunisia to Taranto, Italy, with Malta and Sicily included.

 

'Thing' can be anything: ship, plane, map, etc.

Too big, if you take a look at the existing maps, you can have one of these. I checked and Sicily would fit in it its entirety along with Malta on one map but not much else. Or you could have another bit of North Africa for op. Torch but not both at the same time.

[Lusekofte]

On 3/31/2021 at 10:24 AM, Lythronax said:

I'll be very excited to see; itching for a Spit IX and the Typhoon personally, which I imagine are on the roster. 

Is the typhoon under costruction?

I have had a blast with the Honeycombe yoke so I sold it to a needy person. When my new Fulcrum yoke come I will fly again. I hate flying bombers with a joystick.