Work on 1.06 has been ongoing and we're coming to the end of this development cycle. We still have a lot to finish up but we should be able to hunker down and get it done and out the door before long.
There are new screenshots at
www.simhq.com that shows some of the new stuff that we've been working on. There's a lot of new planes in 1.06. We've shown six so far- the Tempest V, La-7, Yak-9T, Ar 234B, Fw 190F-8, and the Ta 152H. We have another two under construction so it looks like we'll have a total of eight.
There's also a new terrain for the main arena. There is a central sea and a carrier task force for each country but it is a more land oriented terrain. We'll be swapping out this terrain with the current one every tour.
Some of the other new things we've been working on include:
A new system that lets you quickly and easily send "check six" calls to one of your allies using a single button operation. This sends a text message and plays a sound file at the same time.
The arena setup menu has been greatly expanded to make it much easier and intuitive. This primarily helps CMs but much of it can be used offline and in H2H.
We did some work on compressibility effects in the flight model. The effects of wave drag and buffeting have been added.
Added a vibration effect when firing guns.
Added beaches/coastlines.
Added a sun effect.
An additional cloud system for doing large cloud layers. The current clouds are not designed for this type of use so it requires an additional system to do that. This is currently in development and may or may not make it into this next version. Some screenshots of how this is shaping up will follow this post in a separate thread.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
