Developer blog #353: Flying Circus map and aircraft updates, Waco glider news

[LukeFF]

Ah okay, yes, I found it. He said he planned on adding Italian and Romanian pilots and voices back in 2021: 

 

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, Blitzen said:

 

Oh Boy the I-153! 

( with skis perhaps?)

This was my funniest campaign in old IL 2 startes out with I 153 and eventually IL 2. 
153 missions until my IL 2 wingtip touched a static plane in the wingtip vs wingtip and exploded. I took a month break just to get over it

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

The Channel map and seaplanes are not planned for inclusion into FC.

I look at it as a temporary mistake. They will eventually do it

[Avimimus]

On 11/27/2023 at 7:53 AM, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

Are there plans to create single player missions for the Waco glider like operation Tonga or include em into the career mode?

How about German gliders? I read about that DSF 230 or Gotha 242 was used in eastern front supply missions so it should be possible implement em in a historical context into the game. I really think a German glider is necessary also to create similar tasks for online servers.

On the images a Gotha 242 in 1942 in Cholm, Russia.

 

Also powered versions for use as transports e.g. the Go-244... 

 

That said, I'd personally prefer an SG-38 - it'd be easy to do (no cockpit to speak of), and it was important for training pilots in the interwar years (so relevant to recreating the flight experiences of WWII fighter pilots). Antonov also built a bunch of mass-produced training gliders. Of course, all of these would be much less capable than the high-performance gliders of the 1930s (which was the era when efficient soaring flight was achieved)... but at least the view from an SG-38 is breath-taking and it'd be easy to model (so certain to make the investment back in sales). It might need the addition of a winch launch or hill launch though (the latter should be easy)? For the Soviets with have the U-2VS which could act as a towing aircraft, but I don't think the axis has a similar design.

[Enceladus828]

9 hours ago, LukeFF said:

The Channel map and seaplanes are not planned for inclusion into FC.

Any particular reason why? Not being able to fly the Felixstowe and only being able to fly on the Western Front map would be quite disappointing imo.

I guess with that, RoF would become a bit popular again with those who want to fly over the Channel Map heading back to RoF.

Edited November 30, 2023 by Enceladus828

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Enceladus828 said:

Any particular reason why? Not being able to fly the Felixstowe and only being able to fly on the Western Front map would be quite disappointing imo.

I guess with that, RoF would become a bit popular again with those who want to fly over the Channel Map heading back to RoF.

 

No reason given - it just is what it is. ?

[jollyjack]

Sjait, the Felixtowe is a whole flying circus on it's own ... RoF forever ! ... you can also 'fly' a Magical Bus in it ...

 

[JG4_Moltke1871]

23 minutes ago, jollyjack said:

Sjait, the Felixtowe is a whole flying circus on it's own ... RoF forever ! ... you can also 'fly' a Magical Bus in it ...

 

First I though it’s a zeppelin cockpit ? 

A Riesenflugzeug R-Type also would welcome ?

[ST_Catchov]

13 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

No reason given - it just is what it is. ?

 

Enough verbal trickery! No-one's falling for it.

 

This is what we want! And the customer is always right. 

 

 

[Soilworker]

Regarding seaplanes, I remember not so long ago the devs were having problems with small craft behaving correctly on the ocean surface, something to do with the new, more complex ocean physics or similar. 

 

So in all honesty if we look at all the small and not so small things that need fixing in GB I really can't see it ever being dealt with in order to give us seaplanes. ?