What ever happened to the bicyclists on the perimeter of airfields?

[Blitzen]

I've been with this sim forever & I remeber one of the best surprises in the early years of game play was the occasional bicyclists out on some of the R.A.F.'s airfields. He ( or she?) wasn't always there , only every once in a while, but it was a nice little human touch, much like the zombie walkers seen all the time in Great Battles gameplay. I've never heard an explanation of why they have apparently disappeared.Is it because like the original "Easter Eggs" they were eliminated to increase FPS or something like that?

[Billsponge1972]

What?

Humans on the ground are definitely lacking but maybe that's for good reason I don't know.

But humans on bicycles!?

I imagine strafing a line of weremacht soldiers riding unaware! Ha!

 

[Blitzen]

It was always just one guy on a bike out on the taxi way...fun to see from the cockpit of my Hurricane!

[jollyjack]

Coming with the Battle of the Tour de France to Il2:

 

Edited June 1, 2022 by jollyjack

[Avimimus]

So, is this actually a thing?

 

I recalled encountering a giant rabbit being chased by a giant dog along the canals of Pathologic... but then I couldn't find any evidence of texture maps for those models in the game's files/archives. Of course, if one is having a waking vision or a strange dream due to a game, it'd probably be that game... but to this day I cannot quite tell whether it was real or not.

[Blitzen]

Yes it was , but some time ago...in my so-called youth.