Strange- the Horten 229 for BF:1942 looks more like the 2 seat Ho229 V6 or the HII with the modified extended nose... but still looks different from even those.
Forgotten Battles-
My system specs:
AMD Athlon 2000+ XP
GeForce 4 Ti4200 (300core/545mem) 41.09 drivers
EPoX 8KTA3+Pro
768MB PC133 SDRAM
SB Live!
Win98
I run the game at max details except for the "perfect" landscape (which uses pixel shaders, and no card runs those very fast right now) at 1024x768x32bit color with the stencil buffer enabled (gives clouds shadows, and trees/atmosphere clouds reflections in the water) with good framerates. I don't run 1600x1200, I kind of doubt you would be able to tho. The game runs best, and is designed for, 1024x768.
Concerning "lag" issues- those are related to the transfering of the new 1024x1024 aircraft skins. If you disable skin download (I do it anyway) the game is very playable.
The damage model and gunnery- seem fine to me. Downing aircraft in FB is more reliant on good aim and hitting critical parts rather than hosing the entire aircraft. This means that you need to find out the weakpoints of each aircraft, and it appears to stick to historical evidence: MiG's are very vulnerable and will catch fire with a quick burst to fuel tank areas. Hit the wing roots, fuselage immediately behind the pilot, or the engine- and it'll catch fire. Eventually it will blow up from the fire, or the pilot will burn to death and crash. I16s- easy to down, just hit them in the engine (shooting them from behind does very little damage to the front of the plane or the pilot because there is a single armor plate that doesn't cover just the pilot seat, but the whole mid section of the plane), 109s will lose their oil/coolant in almost any head on pass if you aim for their engines, sometimes they will fly right by you and you will see the prop stopped because the engine siezed, etc. The damage model is extremely detailed which requires getting in close to aim for specific areas of an aircraft to down it. Get to know the weak points of an airplane and you will find it's very easy to bag 6 or 7 aircraft even with a 109.
I won't comment on the FM in too much detail, it's very good and significantly improved in many areas over Il2. However, in the first patch (due out in the next couple of weeks) there will be FM revisions and tweaks. So things that may not be "right" right now, may be right after that patch. There's also going to be new aircraft included in the next patch. All patches will include a few aircraft, atleast that's how it was with Il2 and I believe thats what Oleg intends to do with FB.
The best thing are onilne coops hosted by people who make good missions, there's a certain few people I have come to recognize because they host good missions with good settings.
-SW
