Dev Blog #372: Flying Circus Development Updates

[LukeFF]

Hey everyone! Dev Blog #372 is now live, which discusses a big update to Flying Circus. You can read all about it here: https://il2sturmovik.com/news/890/dev-blog-372/

 

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

That is good news.  Any word on the FM revisit/revise that was mentioned many months ago?

[Artfactial]

Oh, that is fantastic!<3
Bring on the beasties!

[Trooper117]

Well, it certainly looks great...

[III./SG77S_Falke]

When can we fly one?

[Trooper117]

1 minute ago, III./SG77S_Falke said:

When can we fly one?

 

It's AI only...

[JG4_Moltke1871]

You can’t hide em for ever 😅

 

 

Thanks for that update 

 

Hopefully see them soon with all these improvements on the western front maps 👍🏻

[=69.GIAP=VLADI]

Wonderfull!!!

 

Cannot wait!

[tattywelshie]

Stone the crows, seriously impressive guys, love it! I can only imagine seeing one of those floating through the skies, and then attempting to bring one down. Can’t wait!

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Nice!

[Enceladus828]

Will the Cloud Car be included?

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, RNAS10_Mitchell said:

That is good news.  Any word on the FM revisit/revise that was mentioned many months ago?

 

Not at this time. 

[Viktor33_33]

Awesome.

[SYN_Vander]

Great news! This will look awesome in VR! 😁

[JG4_Moltke1871]

By the way, would it be possible join the gunner stations on the zeppelins?

[Aapje]

Looks close to done. When is it being released? Soon?

 

[Luftschiff]

I NEVER thought I'd see the day.

As my profile pic and username will readily attest, nothing could be surer to bring me back into the game. Well played, I say. Well played.

[JMax]

Very cool.😎

[BlitzPig_EL]

Can't wait to engage one with a Mustang.

 

[BMA_FlyingShark]

Those Zeppelins and those hangars look impressive.

 

 

Have a nice day.

 

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Ok, that will be fun. We will be able to recreate that scene in Indiana Jones 3  

 

Well an older version of it anyway...

Edited Friday at 10:41 PM by I./JG52_Woutwocampe

[FeuerFliegen]

Looking forward to seeing if I can use this as an aircraft carrier.

[BlitzPig_EL]

8 minutes ago, FeuerFliegen said:

Looking forward to seeing if I can use this as an aircraft carrier.

Great Idea!!

[ST_Catchov]

It's a big update alright. The biggliest. Takes me back to Crimson Skies. 🙂 Great work!

 

Looking forward to seeing the damage model ....

 

You are probably aware that by 1917, they were only used in raids on England and for maritime patrols

 

Hint: And the Channel and SE England maps. 🙂

 

[LukeFF]

"but our pilot career also includes 1916" 

[Enceladus828]

53 minutes ago, I./JG52_Woutwocampe said:

Ok, that will be fun. We will be able to recreate that scene in Indiana Jones 3  

 

Well an older version of it anyway...

If we remember to bring our boarding passes that is 😉

 

26 minutes ago, ST_Catchov said:

You are probably aware that by 1917, they were only used in raids on England and for maritime patrols

 

Hint: And the Channel and SE England maps. 🙂

Unless a team has now decided to do it then the RoF Channel Map being brought over is flogging a dead horse. We can still depict those raids on the BoN map. I might be jumping the gun here, but something that the devs themselves could have done after BoN before going onto Korea would be doing a FC installment with the Channel Map, slower Entente two seaters, and the Italian Front (something new that is not completely obscure, has picturesque scenery and has assets that players would be familiar with like the SPADs, Nieuports and Camel). That aside, I do wonder if we’ll still get the seaplanes like the Felixstowe? Obviously they won’t be in the Pilot Career but for SP missions and campaigns on the BoN map.

Edited Friday at 11:34 PM by Enceladus828

[Tonester]

Impressive!…no great surprise though given what they have already created for us. i know less than bugger all about these

machines and cant help but wonder how they werent relatively easy to shoot down being such a big target? Would it just be a

matter of one bullet on target and lights out?…or were they a bit tougher than that?

[LukeFF]

29 minutes ago, Enceladus828 said:

If we remember to bring our boarding passes that is 😉

 

Unless a team has now decided to do it then the RoF Channel Map being brought over is flogging a dead horse. We can still depict those raids on the BoN map. I might be jumping the gun here, but something that the devs themselves could have done after BoN before going onto Korea would be doing a FC installment with the Channel Map, slower Entente two seaters, and the Italian Front (something new that is not completely obscure, has picturesque scenery and has assets that players would be familiar with like the SPADs, Nieuports and Camel). That aside, I do wonder if we’ll still get the seaplanes like the Felixstowe? Obviously they won’t be in the Pilot Career but for SP missions and campaigns on the BoN map.

 

No. Beyond what was talked about today, nothing else is planned for WWI. 

[Crockett]

Love it! I don't fly every day -- but very time something new like this is announced, I keep checking the IL-2 website for the download to be released! Time to start checking -- can't wait!

[FeuerFliegen]

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even by the end of the war, mass-produced bombers had a range of less than 500 km.

 

 

I think the Gotha might be overly efficient then... I've tested it to go over 700km, full throttle, at 2km altitude.

[LukeFF]

19 minutes ago, FeuerFliegen said:

I think the Gotha might be overly efficient then... I've tested it to go over 700km, full throttle, at 2km altitude.

 

It's a typo - it should say radius, not range. 

[Blitzen]

Very good news!

[Enceladus828]

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That aside, I do wonder if we’ll still get the seaplanes like the Felixstowe? Obviously they won’t be in the Pilot Career but for SP missions and campaigns on the BoN map.

 

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

 

No. Beyond what was talked about today, nothing else is planned for WWI. 

With all due respect to the developers and Ugra Media if the Zeppelin is the last FC aircraft (at least for a long time) then I got to wonder why this was picked when some long requested planes like the BE2c, Caudron G.IV, Albatross C.I, Rumpler C.V and even fan favourites like the Felixstowe were omitted? Is making one of those take longer than the Zeppelin? Sure, the Zeppelin is a cool aircraft and I'll have fun flying my Sopwith Pup and SPAD VII against it, it's just that one of those 5 would have been the better option for the final FC aircraft.

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Enceladus828 said:

With all due respect to the developers and Ugra Media if the Zeppelin is the last FC aircraft (at least for a long time) then I got to wonder why this was picked when some long requested planes like the BE2c, Caudron G.IV, Albatross C.I, Rumpler C.V and even fan favourites like the Felixstowe were omitted? Is making one of those take longer than the Zeppelin? Sure, the Zeppelin is a cool aircraft and I'll have fun flying my Sopwith Pup and SPAD VII against it, it's just that one of those 5 would have been the better option for the final FC aircraft.

We're not doing this, going around and around, because you don't like the decisions that were made. This is what has been chosen, and that's final. 

[[FLOP]Sesadre]

wait- we can't even fly it? so it's just an asset that moves around the map on its own. Damn, that's really quite unfortunate. Would a flyable version be possible in the future? please

[jollyjack]

Can't wait making a Goodyear skin for it  ...

[ACG_Bussard]

13 hours ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

By the way, would it be possible join the gunner stations on the zeppelins?

 

Yeah, that would be awesome. An what about Hales Bombs and Ranken Darts for the Entente?

 

P.S. Thanks for yesterday´s update, it´s good to see progress.

[SYN_Vander]

13 hours ago, BMA_FlyingShark said:

Those Zeppelins and those hangars look impressive.

 

 

Have a nice day.

 

Those hangars are already in the game btw.

[WW_666Wolf666]

Oh come on!! we need nocturnal raids over England!!! We need a Channel map with those beasts!!!

[Sandmarken]

Someone good with the surface editor coud probably make a ww1 project for the normandy map.