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Monksilver
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This gets more impressive with each blog.

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Love to see the effect of the tracer on the ground at night. I almost want to get shot at during the night now, to see how it will light up the cockpit 😛

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Is it possible for news about each series to appear in the section:

Announcements

https://forum.il2-series.com/forum/18-announcements/

Even without comments, but so you can follow what's happening instead of jumping between sections on the forum. Take DCS as an example. There's a main section – the newsletter – where I know I always have news around 5:00 PM local time on Friday. Here on the forum, we never know where to check to stay up to date. Information about the IL-2 gets lost in the maze of social media news.

Please think about it.

@LukeFF?

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There is a huge improvement over Great Battles. The different sound are top notch from the cockpit to the exterior view. It's awesome!

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Well now , That is some Impressive Gun Blast Visuals and Sounds , I can tell I will be using a lot of Ammo , good thing we wont have to pay for Rearming ..

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Mysticpuma
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Looking forward to seeing the smoke, fire and explosion effects. As this is moving on from BoX, I really hope we get some authentic effects that look anything but the current cartoon quality we currently have.

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Looks great!👍
Beside of the shooting effects I have noticed that some tracers were flying with perfect accuracy toward the target, no dispersion visible.
In Great Battles this is similar.
When you watch historical gun cam movies you will see very frequently a visible dispersion / spread of the tracer rounds.
Due to this and because I wanted to reduce the probability of misterious head shots even during acrobatic manoevers  I use since 1 year a small mod in which I have increased the dispersion for cold weapons to ca. 6...7 Mils.
The effect is that shooting at unrealistic long distances is uneffective, the visible tracer flies with a visible dispersion towards the target and it is still possible ta hit even with a single 20mm gun at ranges up to ca. 300m.
I know it's not perfect but for me it works well...

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/92101-question-accuracy-of-typical-ww2-plane-armament-machine-guns-automatic-cannons/

Video starts directly at the beginning of the strafing run, watch with speed 0.25...0.5

Note: in my BoB mod I have modified the MG151/20 to a MG-FF/M for simulation of a BF109-F1 and the dispersion was a bit more increased to ca. 8mils + lower rate of fire  to ca. 9 rounds/second, but it is still possible to hit ground and air targets at realistic ranges.

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Seems no AN/M3?F9F-2 seems to be far away,and maybe Corsair,will they make Corsair with with Browning M2?

Ok there seems to be AN/M3

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Jade_Monkey
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Looking good, but there are some obvious issues with the flashes and tracers on some frames, which can be noticed. Is this final? image.png.7dba346e1cf3b5cc5845164791d91afa.png

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Mustang_Mike
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Looks like another Marginal upgrade, hardly something that couldn't have been added to GB? Tracers in Jade Monkey's screenshot above look identical to the ones in GB. And yet we're left in the dust with a "feature complete" game that they still try to sell us modules for...
 

Are the 50s all still synced to fire together? Got tired of watching 109s fly through the gaps in my tracers in GB

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I thought the effects looked good, but I'm more curious to see if .50s pack a proper punch this time. I feel like I'm shooting marshmallow guns with the .50s in Great Battles 😅

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I hope to see the improved shooting effects (amongst other improvements) getting added to Great Battles at some stage!

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4 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

Looking good, but there are some obvious issues with the flashes and tracers on some frames, which can be noticed. Is this final? 

That looks like a video encoding issue. 

3 minutes ago, 007 said:

I hope to see the improved shooting effects (amongst other improvements) getting added to Great Battles at some stage!

That's not going to happen. Bugfixing and new content only for GB.

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59 minutes ago, Aapje said:

That's not going to happen. Bugfixing and new content only for GB.

Please avoid making definitive statements about the plans of the developers.

Yes, there has been no indication so far that engine upgrades for the new series will be introduced into Great Battles. But that doesn't mean we can say for certainty that none of them will. In this case it is probably quite unlikely, as I would guess that the tracers interact with the new lighting system and renderer.

However, all we can say is what we guess is likely. Please be aware of rule 21:

Guidelines - IL-2 Series Forum

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AEthelraedUnraed
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58 minutes ago, Avimimus said:

Please avoid making definitive statements about the plans of the developers.

Yes, there has been no indication so far that engine upgrades for the new series will be introduced into Great Battles. But that doesn't mean we can say for certainty that none of them will. In this case it is probably quite unlikely, as I would guess that the tracers interact with the new lighting system and renderer.

However, all we can say is what we guess is likely. Please be aware of rule 21:

Guidelines - IL-2 Series Forum

LukeFF has made a rather direct statement that there won't be new content for IL2:GB except for the new maps and any planes still in development:

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at this point, GB is essentially feature-complete, save for the new maps and planes being made. 

I think this points pretty clearly towards the conclusion that, at least until further notice, none of the engine upgrades are in fact planned to be introduced to GB.

 

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The MiG is carrying some serious hardware.😁

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CatteMoto
Posted
7 hours ago, Mustang_Mike said:

Looks like another Marginal upgrade, hardly something that couldn't have been added to GB? Tracers in Jade Monkey's screenshot above look identical to the ones in GB. And yet we're left in the dust with a "feature complete" game that they still try to sell us modules for...
 

Are the 50s all still synced to fire together? Got tired of watching 109s fly through the gaps in my tracers in GB

Such a dour assessment. 

 

Make enough "marginal" improvements and the sum is a vastly improved experience. Judging on the fact that this announcement is the 63rd report on the state and features of IL-2:K it seems that not even the devs believe this is a headline improvement. Just another in a string of advancements

 

For my own part I think this is a neat tweak and I'm looking forward to experiencing it

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Dash,Polder
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Nobody noticed the terrain upgrade, Holy moly that looks spectacular, definitely has an Asian vibe going there.  The river valley with the dozens of splits, forks, and branches meandering among the rocky eroded highs in the drainage basin looks absolutely amazing.  

That's definitely some major improvement over anything terrain wise shown before.  Freeze it right on the 23 second mark and check out that valley.

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Avimimus
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9 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said:

LukeFF has made a rather direct statement that there won't be new content for IL2:GB except for the new maps and any planes still in development:

I think this points pretty clearly towards the conclusion that, at least until further notice, none of the engine upgrades are in fact planned to be introduced to GB.

 

It is appropriate to link to statements made by the developers or the community manager as evidence for things like this. Speculation is also allowed (if it is clearly speculative). It is only an issue if people start making definitive statements without evidence.

I don't want someone to see definitive statements without evidence being posted in spite of rule 21 and then be surprised if their attempt to do the same ends up being moderated or removed. I'm just trying to be as consistent as possible (maybe a bit too consistent).

 

  

18 hours ago, Bell said:

Seems no AN/M3?F9F-2 seems to be far away,and maybe Corsair,will they make Corsair with with Browning M2?

Ok there seems to be AN/M3

The Corsair variant has been announced to have 20mm cannons.

Posted
16 hours ago, Avimimus said:

Please avoid making definitive statements about the plans of the developers.

Why can't I state what the developers have repeatedly claimed?

16 hours ago, Avimimus said:

However, all we can say is what we guess is likely.

I'm not guessing. The developers have stated it.

16 hours ago, Avimimus said:

Please be aware of rule 21:

Guidelines - IL-2 Series Forum

It is not at all clear that I broke that rule. After all, the rule only forbids false claims, unless you provide "hyperlinks or other facts."

Firstly, my claim is not false, so that already means that I don't violate the rule. Secondly, I did provide other facts: "Bugfixing and new content only."

If the intent of the rule is to require one to always prove that one's claim about the developer's plan is true, then that is not actually what the rule says, and it should be changed to reflect what is intended. But even then I wouldn't have broken that revised rule.

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21 hours ago, Dash,Polder said:

Nobody noticed the terrain upgrade, Holy moly that looks spectacular, definitely has an Asian vibe going there.  The river valley with the dozens of splits, forks, and branches meandering among the rocky eroded highs in the drainage basin looks absolutely amazing.  

That's definitely some major improvement over anything terrain wise shown before.  Freeze it right on the 23 second mark and check out that valley.

Yes, it's going to provide for some epic dogfights. 🙂 

Luger1969
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This game looks unbelievably good.

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