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Offline AKIron

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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #690 on: February 20, 2024, 09:44:08 AM »
I've never seen any new planes in AH. They are all old.  ;)
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #691 on: February 20, 2024, 10:47:04 AM »
I've never seen any new planes in AH. They are all old.  ;)

RV-8?   ;)
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #692 on: February 20, 2024, 10:52:37 AM »
Never saw that in the game. May have to run it and see.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #693 on: February 20, 2024, 11:03:51 AM »
Never saw that in the game. May have to run it and see.

Used to have one in the ME.  Haven't looked in a long while, but what I doubt much has changed since then.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #694 on: February 20, 2024, 12:54:47 PM »
Never saw that in the game. May have to run it and see.

https://flic.kr/p/RwiodJ


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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #695 on: February 20, 2024, 01:39:33 PM »
IL2 released a new update today. One thing that is big apparently was updating the P40/47 engine and FM. Not sure I would even know the difference lol.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #696 on: February 20, 2024, 01:42:33 PM »
IL2 released a new update today. One thing that is big apparently was updating the P40/47 engine and FM. Not sure I would even know the difference lol.

I'm told the P-40 in IL-2 is a Trainwreck.  Maybe it's better now... although, having flown it a couple times I didn't think it was terrible awful beyond being rather uncompetitive on a server of Late War stuff.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #697 on: February 20, 2024, 07:18:56 PM »
Just found this today.

https://youtu.be/Rv_o8idBGWY

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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #698 on: February 20, 2024, 07:45:18 PM »
Being put together by the same guys that put together the Karelia map for AH when we ran Stalin's 4th the first time.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #699 on: February 21, 2024, 02:14:12 AM »
Just found this today.

https://youtu.be/Rv_o8idBGWY

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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #700 on: February 21, 2024, 12:13:57 PM »
Whatever happened to Oleg Maddox? He isn't brewing something up somewhere? I figured he had to be at least working on his own or in collaboration with some sim group.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #701 on: February 21, 2024, 01:05:06 PM »
Whatever happened to Oleg Maddox? He isn't brewing something up somewhere? I figured he had to be at least working on his own or in collaboration with some sim group.

He was mixed up with that failed DCS add-on:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944

After that (and the CloD debacle) I heard he quit game development.

From a 2011 translated post from him:
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By the way, I'm leaving game development. Now it's unperspective. Difficult slavery style work. I'm tired of, how you say, being a god. It's easier to create "buy-sell" and let fools develop. Those buy-sell buy from you for nothing and think themselves as a boss. Although, soon there will be nothing to sell with that business model. Game development is suffering a crisis, same as before consoles.

Now, that was before the DCS dead project so maybe he decided to give it one last try.  That didn't age well.  :confused:

So as far as I know he is out of game dev.


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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #702 on: February 21, 2024, 01:24:20 PM »
He was mixed up with that failed DCS add-on:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944

After that (and the CloD debacle) I heard he quit game development.

From a 2011 translated post from him:
Now, that was before the DCS dead project so maybe he decided to give it one last try.  That didn't age well.  :confused:

So as far as I know he is out of game dev.

Well, that's a shame. He obviously did some great work early on. That first IL-2 back in 2001 I believe was gold to behold.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #703 on: February 23, 2024, 09:25:44 AM »
For those interested, DCS is making a major change for new players.  As of Sunday February 25th the "First time purchase 50% off" deal will disappear.  This deal allows first time purchasers to get 50% off their ENTIRE purchase.  Whether you buy one aircraft/map or ALL of them, you get 50% off.

If you have considered trying out DCS, you might want to do it before Sunday.  There will still be sales several times a year and they say there will be a new type of deal offered soon, but this is a great deal.
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Re: Simulated Aerial Combat Roundtable
« Reply #704 on: February 23, 2024, 10:27:55 AM »
For those interested, DCS is making a major change for new players.  As of Sunday February 25th the "First time purchase 50% off" deal will disappear.  This deal allows first time purchasers to get 50% off their ENTIRE purchase.  Whether you buy one aircraft/map or ALL of them, you get 50% off.

If you have considered trying out DCS, you might want to do it before Sunday.  There will still be sales several times a year and they say there will be a new type of deal offered soon, but this is a great deal.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll pick up the 109K-4 or the Super Sabre in the next couple of days so I can try it out at some point.
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