Fake planes for a Pacific War scenario in "Cliffs of Dover - Blitz"

[343KKT_Kintaro]

The screenshots section of the forum is for publishing screenshots, thus I create a new topic here.

 

  

34 minutes ago, Mysticpuma said:

Fortunately, the entire community doesn't revolve around you mate. 

 

This is simply a bit of fun for those of us who realise we are likely not to see a Pacific Theatre and want a bit of imaginary fun. 

 

You are correct, there is no G.50 in Clod that looks like a Japanese aircraft. So what! It appears by using my imagination I can use it in a Pacific War scenario.... I just did! 

 

With so few players in the community, I don't understand why you have to be the gatekeeper for any 'fun' that can be head from using imagination. 

 

It's bit like I am creating a documentary for the BBC! 

 

Maybe TFS will throw in a Zero as a bonus aircraft in v6.0 to fly amongst the repopulated palm tree islands....we know Jason won't be making an expansion that way anytime soon. 

 

When it comes down to it, you don't need to like it, if others do that's upto them. 

 

Chill out mate! 

 

 

You got me wrong, Puma. I'm not a gatekeeper. Furthermore, let me tell you that I'm happy if others are, whatever they do with their simulators. It's only that, personnally, I prefer to reinstall "IL-2 1946" and fly Ki-27s, A5Ms and Ki-43s (which were originally modelled as such) rather than a G.50 that simply doesn't match with their so pretended Japanese counterpart (not even visually). I think I could fly a C.202 clothed with a Ki-61 skin... but even would be to me a bit... touchy. Or weird.

 

"IL-2 1946" is graphically obsolete, I know. But going back to 1946 this would be making a concession that is much more rewarding (tons of aircraft and maps that do represent what they are inteded to represent) than the concession you need to make to games like Great Battles of Cliffs of Dover. Those latter will provide a few aircraft "resembling" only to a few Japanese aircraft and one unique map that is not even an existing area on earth.

 

That's what I think.

 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

21 hours ago, Enceladus said:

If TFS was to ever throw in a Zero and a small Pacific map like Pearl Harbor or Truk and a few Japanese ships (assuming that 1C approves it) it wouldn't be in TF 6.0 but probably in like TF 8.0 or later... when they're making a 1944-45 installment.

 

 

 

At this point we know nothing about 8.0, nor 7.0. We know 6.0 won't be set in the Pacific. Anyway, in my humble opinion only three simulators for PC are top-notch simulators: DCS, IL2CoD and IL2GB. None of them is developing a Pacific War scenario, and all of them are in the 10-year-old range. This makes me think one thing: if we ever have a serious simulation (for PC, following modern standards) that is set in the Pacific... it would be a completely new generation of PC simulator, a new core, different than DCS, IL2CoD or IL2GB. I may be wrong as all of this is 100% theoretical... but even if developers of DCS, IL2Cod or ILGB do surprise us by creating a Pacific module... if this ever happens... it won't happen before 5 years, more likely 10. At any rate, the hypothesis of a new core different that all what we know now, is the most probable for a future Pacific scenario in a PC-supported simulator.

 

 

21 hours ago, Enceladus said:

 However, I like it when people make skins for Japanese planes such as the MC. 202 for the Ki-61, Sunderland for H8K, etc.

 

MP, if you like then G.50 repaint as a Japanese fighter -- Ki-43 -- then that's fine. ?

 

 

No problem, really. You like it... I don't... and there's no problem with that.

 

 

2 hours ago, kashiide said:

my dream would be a Ki 44 in CLOD engine.

real zoom and boom fighter

 

4 minutes ago, Mysticpuma said:

Hmmmmm....I know a man who could make it   ?

 

Again, this won't happen before five or ten years minimum (if it ever happens, and I really doubt it ever happens... in the IL2CoD environment of development).

 

Now, Mysticpuma, Enceladus, kashiide... I'd like to add something: I'm very proud of you guys because you, with your eager will of a Pacific War combat flight simulation... contribute to urge the developers to seriously take into account the urgent need, in the PC simulation market, of a modern-standard Pacific War combat flight simulation. "IL-2 1946" was great... but at present it is graphically obsolete. We now urgently need to enter in a new phase of development (and financial investment!), the phase that will provide us with the equivalent in the 2020s of what "Pacific Fighters" represented in the 2000s.

 

 

[Mysticpuma]

I think the Sunderland and Macchi 202 are viable replacements. Having played around more with the G.50 it's not up to what I was hoping for. Worth a try but I'm just not getting the 'vibe' I was hoping for. That said, it was an experiment that was done for the fun of it but it just isn't good enough.

 

Am I saying you were right, yep, but I was happy to try and fail than not try at all ?

 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

13 minutes ago, Mysticpuma said:

but I was happy to try and fail than not try at all

 

 

Yes, it's understandable...

 

I really hope that someone, someday, will bring us a Pacific War combat flight simulator for PC. The wait for a serious modern-standards simulation in the Pacific has become a real pain in the neck.