Looks nice! Thanks for the heads up, I had given up checking their site.

Seems now all we need are little brown, blue, and fledgrau soldiers to man all those guns. The ghost machineguns look especially weird.

Gotta love that Gotha though.

Just noticed that the development screenshots section has been updated as well.

Looks like a Handley Page 0/400, a Camel, and a really drab-looking German (?) truck were addded.

I was wondering where you saw the Gotha and the ground stuff but now I cleared my cache fully and see all the other pictures available. What a treat!

The picture of the D7 skimming the aerodrome is awesome.

Bullet trail integrated in the game thank goodness. How about some shots of the Buckingham in action eh developers? I saw in the mission list that there were rockets and "standard" ammo selected. Interesting that picture with the dr1 firing off some bullets. It looks like there is some sort or riccochet where the frame is reacting to the bullets. Very nice.

The interactive maps look detailed.

I hope that the flak is white/black as per side as well. It would be interesting if it was adopted for alerting aircraft or pinpointing enemy. Could be used very dynamically.

Anyone else find the level of detail in the machine gun nest interesting? Makews me wonder what happens if one lands an aircraft. A little run to the friendlies maybe?

S!

Work in progress looking good indeed !

I have to say it is exciting to see a screenshot from the user interface. That's the sort of thing that gets me excited, as it really gives me sense the sim is now something tangible. I agree the textures are not as impressive as I had hoped, but perhaps they are not final yet.

Ok, I'm relaxed now

Re: guncrews&infantry

Poly issues and/or German legislation&rating system could mean they will be left out

Or then they will be zombies bleeding green blood :rolleyes:

Strike Fighters handled it pretty well I think. You get a single AAA crewman (and a nice looking one at that) per gun, but he disappears when the gun blows up (i.e. no blood).

Of course I'd prefer the full treatment with complete gun and machinegun crews, HORSES, and waves of INFANTRY, but the Strike Fighters solution works as a compromise and at least makes it look less like War Of the Machines.

But if Aspect Sim won't put humans in (and to be fair we have absolutely no idea yet), maybe they can at least make it easy for modders to do so? Given the current state of graphics and hardware this will be a BIG immersion issue for the next generation of sims, IMHO. The time has come.

Nupe 28!!!

I saw my Nupe 28!!! The best of the paint jobs for it, too!

I wonder how the DM and FM are going to be handled, vis a vis Eddie Rickenbacker's book. I've a few ideas how the plane could fly with the fabric ripped off it's top wing due to stress and a manufacturing error... But there's no denying that the pilot himself gave numerous examples of the event!

I'm pumped about the rest of the aircraft, too, including particularly the heavies.

But the Nupe 28!!! Ahhhhh....

with extra cheese....

You want fries with that?

No, just extra cheese!

I LIKE cheese!

I really like the self-shadowing .

I'll have to get my "The Blue Max" DVD out and start getting myself into proper character in order to play this game.

Ah, so I'll be getting my Junkers D.I then?

If it takes a year to build one plane, don't expect people to be eager to mod these aircraft.

You mean PRE-production........

Actual production of the Snipe didn't occur until after the war. I have plenty of referances on this one.

post them.

screen shot #19

preflight(?)

spads have individual #

loadout includes grenades




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kail

The Snipe did fairly well kill-wise for an aircraft whose production "didn't occur until after the war".

"Additional contracts brought total Snipe orders to four thousand five hundred and fifteen, but there were heavy cancellations after the Armistice and little more than one third of these were actually completed before Snipe production ceased in March 1919."
Munson again.

I have no problem in excising the Snipe from the game (note: it becomes a game by vH criteria) if we institute a cutoff date for new aircraft of say Aug/Sep 1918.

My main gripe was the "experimental" appellation,
which is unjustified. It went into service in september and it's development was certainly no more protracted than, as an example, the SS DIV.

Screen #19: Patroling woods and forests looking for enemy balloons sounds like fun to me!

The best looking trees I have seen lately are in Call Of Duty. You can see every branch, leaf, and twig on the trees in that game. It is amazing to me how much detail is begining to appear on these computer games.