See?
Good intel.

I haven't been able to try a carrier landing since I got my TrackIR. They were about impossible before (CFS2 stock). You see all this and thing that it is nothing short of awful. Maybe someday we'll learn.

But in the meanwhile, GO OBD! For my brother4-in-law's sake, though, I hope the WWII development includes the European theater. I doubt that would be commercially viable though.

Meanwhile, I'll take anything WWI that these guys produce.

Racing sim? Nothing would disinterest me more. No, wait: TWO racing sims would disinterest me more.

As far as drinking games, I already dominated all of them before retiring in 2001.

But, wait, don't look now, is that a Lanc on the back wall?

If its going to be racing, then it would have to be a 60's era game with the likes of Jim Clark, Hill, Surtees, Brabham etc to make me want to buy it.
I already have AC and PCars that fulfills all the other stuff!

Racing? Racing?! Why not a Facebook game with microtransactions? I've heard they're quite popular.

Duke, if they made a Wooden Ships and Iron men game I'd be all over that. A US civil war ironclads game would be even better.

This is usually the view of those seeking information, but not the view of those with the information.

Banjoman, I played that board game for ages! Talk about trips down memory lane.

Yes gentlemen that would be pretty cool.
Especially if you could have a career/trading/exploration as part of it. Crew management, etc. Basically WOFF on the high seas.
Recreating rhe life of a frigate captain in the late 1700's/early 1800's would be awesome.

Bringing back memories...

A simulation of naval warfare in the 1700/1800's would be excellent.
Not sure how much market there might be out there for it.
And the RPG/Campaign aspect of it would be difficult.

I believe there have been a couple attempts in the past, none too successful.

Still have it.




There was also this...
Hmm, looks like these books have an pretty good resale on eBay.

Mike Carr.
Maker of the excellent "Fight in the Skies" published later as "Dawn Patrol."
That and Avalon Hills "Ricrbofens War" kept me tided over till the computer age.
Still have both and WS & IM.

We can has WWII strategic bombing in B-17's???

Trooper, have you tried Grand Prix Legends? The original game was done in 1998 by Sierra / Dynamix, but a mature and dedicated community have modded it to a very high standard even by today's terms. The original game was the 1967 F1 season. Today there are mods for hundreds of Hi-Res tracks and skins, and mods with the complete 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969 seasons, plus the 1967 sports cars and 1970 Can-Am cars.

The AI is damned difficult, and winning a race will take many, many hours of dedicated practice. But if you've ever wanted to skid a Brabham around the old Spa or Ring circuits or throw a Lola through the entire Targa Florio, this is your time machine.

Just remember, you're dealing with an 800 hp, ultra-light machine, no downforce, and hard bias-plied tyres. It's like driving on ice.

Played GPL years ago
Not sure what the modding process is like, and not sure if I want to do loads of messing around to get an old game running with the latest mods.
But I will do a bit of research to see what is involved

Because of GPL is the reason I mentioned I'd be interested in a more modern version.
If someone was to do a version up to the graphics quality of PCars for instance, I'd buy it in a heartbeat...

A WW1 tactical air warfare game. Where you are Squadron Commander. Use the current WOFF engine for 3D wego combat. Use the old Achtung Spitfire mechanic to control planes. Add an even deeper Squadron experience with RPG mechanics. Choose waypoints\planes\pilots for missions passed down from HQ.

Doing this could mean alot of Assets use din WOFF could be used again.

This would be a totally different experience to WOFF though. As I said where you have to manage your Squadrons and pilots whilst trying to complete the tasks passed down to you from HQ.

Arty Spotting could be improved from WOFF where the plane actually gets in contact with the battery and directs fire onto a target.

Also ground combat could be vastly improved as the engine is WEGO and not realtime so I expect that will take aload of system requirements.

Wodin, that's a great idea. I loved Achtung Spitfire and game like that in WWI would be really fun.

Hehe!
This thread feels like an opium den.
Dreams, dreams, dreams.

Though on a more serious note OBD must have a subject, and probably has begun minor work, on this "non-WW1" game I would think. Why the secrecy?

If their worried about being pestered with questions or ideas or wishes the standard "no answer" has always worked in the past.
Hopefully they are just much too busy putting the polish to WOFF so that no one can possibly have any more requests or needs. I'll be a happy pilot if so.

Two words: Ninja Simulator would be boss...

Now that's the one that would really tempt me into getting into a new game ...
Stache mentioned the difficulty of an RPG element, but that would be something if it could ever be achieved.

Just out of curiosity (not making any presumptions about the OBD Devs intentions), is that kind of action and RPG game being done well at all at the moment - I have extremely limited knowledge about any other PC games/sims!
The popular ones seem to boil down to mainly fightin' and shootin' from the bits I've seen.

In the wooden ship genre?
Not that I am aware of or I would be playing it now.
These was kind of a WS&IM game being readied for release (age sail combat/No RPG) but I am unsure of its status.
I am also quite leery of development teams from certain areas of the world.