Edit - we can comment on the sticky now! Check out http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2681153.html

Sure you can comment franksvalli. The Articles Feedback forum is just what that's for.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2681131/SimHQ_Exclusive_Preview_Rise_o.html#Post2681131

I'll open-up the sticky for anyone who also wants to post there.

Oops my bad

Thanks for the article, very nice indeed!

Can we have a screenshot of the cockpit view used for aiming with the gunsight?
As the large view seems not so practical for a precise aiming and shows of course geometrical distorsions (I do hope that the standard view will be around 43mmm, the focale of the human vision).

The cockpit view looks like it's going to be adjustable These are the first videos we've seen with this wide of an angle (and thus the distortion) from the cockpit.

Nice preview.

Would you post dogfight video in *right* FOV if possible?
That wide FOV looks really ugly and can give bad impression to fellow simmers.

I'm only on the first page of the preview, but noticed an oddity: the machine gun convergence slider. Well, no WWI fighters had wing-mounted machine guns, so I think it looks really odd to have a top-down view of converging lines in this screen. It would be much more logical to have a side view, and then an extending arch, to indicate that the convergence really is about bullet drop due to gravity. Well, it is not a biggie...

The movies are really gorgeous: one moment stood out for me in the dogfight movie, namely just an instant where the front struts cast long shadows along the underside of the wing. That was so beautiful! I was surprised to see that the Fokker was so twitchy and could be thrown so rapidly around the sky. Thought there would be a bit more inertia evident...

And so good to see that the reviewer concludes that the sim has a heart. Looking much forward to this.

Can't wait to see FR and Ming wake up and go bonkers over this review + the movies..

Nice review! This is going to be soooooo goood!

Btw, the landscape colors are still a little bit "too much" when the sun is high (I noticed, on the explosions vid preview, that the colors of the landscape looked much more natural, because the vid looked to have been made either near the morning or near the evening). I hope this will be corrected (also I do hope a gamma setting in the game setup, for choosing oneself the colors rendition).

First impressions: jaw dropping. Especially the description of the damage model. I'm really looking forward to this, and holding off upgrading for another 6 months.

Red Baron, look out!

Same here, my old comp will just have to soldier on!

So that's what the guy looked like!

Only if this is an Aussie ;o)

Imagine flying the red Dr.I in RoF and then being hit by that fellow... - OMG, what a moment that would be in simming!

Finally got Doug's article printed out in full color!


Freycinet, the deck-mounted guns could be adjusted for convergence, in fact they had to be. MGs were often fitted in the field, removed and remounted, and readjusted at the firing range for accuracy (often to the pilot's preference). See below for an example of the rear MG mounts on the Albatros D.Va (that were positioned before tightening down):



I like this passage from Doug's preview:

Another first for RoF — least I haven't seen before in a WWI flight sim — the flights don't ride around like they're on symmetrical rails. Planes stutter forward, up, down and back. Really tight flight formations in these birds are a wishful dream. I mustered-up enough nerve to try some maneuvers that would not be more than a yawn in a typical WWII or jet flight simulation, and they always proved to be an adventure in themselves. Yet the flying was not "twitchy" once I became used to flying these motorized kites with machine guns. At least as long as the wind and turbulence was turned-down in the settings!

"Turned-down"!

Gentlemen, we will learn to fly these planes - all the time (unless you want turn down the settings)!

I will go back again to something Tvrdi wrote here on the forum some days ago:


That's what dreaming is all about, and after all the hard work, sometimes a dream comes true.

FR, with guns a foot apart and so near the centerline, do you think they bothered with horizontal convergence? - Wouldn't they just adjust both guns in the left/right plane to fire straight (i.e. "pointing", not "convergence"), and then adjust the guns up/down for the bullets to converge on a spot at the desired distance?

Printed out the article? - Why?

Thanks for that image, didn't know that was where they adjusted the guns horizontally.