Out of all the projects, this is the one that I am most excited for. Having a clean slate to build a solid foundation for a combat flight sim that has scale and dynamic scenarios is really compelling. While we have some time before this project is done, we can for the first time watch the project development from the very beginning. To follow this project more closely, check out: Website: combatpilot.com/ Discord: discord.gg/wnzW8RZ5QJ

@Shogun0099

8 ай бұрын

That's good, one of the biggest issues I feel that modern big sims have (IL-2 and DCS specifically) is having to deal with 30 or even 40 years of legacy code that makes thing difficult to work with.

@SVgamer72

8 ай бұрын

Walked into a Babbages and walked out with 1942:Pacific Air War back in the mid-90s. Good times.

@BarbedwireGamedevStudios

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words on Call to Arms - Gates of Hell! We really enjoyed the interview, the questions are very well chosen.

@jasonirby3382

8 ай бұрын

@Enigma89 Loved the interview. I was amazed to hear you mention Aces High. Did you ever play that game? Did you ever have a subscription? I would love to someday see you do a retrospective "How we got here" video reviewing the foundational multiplayer combat flightsims like Air Warrior, Fighter Ace, Warbirds and Aces High. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Aces High game design, pros and cons and whether a straight subscription model is still viable nowadays. Anyway, keep up the good work. I am always excited to see a new Enigma vid!

@SVgamer72

8 ай бұрын

@@jasonirby3382 Warbirds….something like 3$ an hour, and you needed a dedicated telnet connection and incurred phone line charges. Nothing like explaining a $300+ monthly bill to a wife back in the mid-late ‘90s. Good times.

@Enigma89 Thank you for taking the time to speak to Jason and discuss Combat Pilot. We appreciate the exposure on your channel and the thoughtful questions you posed. It's this kind of community based journalism that helps keep combat flight-simming alive and interesting!

@mro9466

8 ай бұрын

Feel free to make an early cold war expansion when you're done with the pacific era, so you can reuse most US navy assets or the whole map 😇 #Players_Asking_Silly_Stuff

@ChuckOwl

8 ай бұрын

IMHO, Jason has always been a monumental positive influence to the flight sim world. Since as far as I can remember, he often was the guy to make the "right call" when it came to what simmers want. I am thrilled to see that his vision can still be brought to life. I'll keep a watchful eye for Combat Pilot ;)

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

@@ChuckOwl Very nice of you to say Chuck. Thank you.

@Antares2

4 ай бұрын

While very promising, let me just say that I hope "Combat Pilot" is a working title. It's an awfully generic, un-google-able name as it will simply give you tons of unrelated hits. Give the game a real name instead of a basic descriptor, please. And also consider that the abbreviation will be CP... I won't explain why that is bad, but it's bad. And flight simmers ALWAYS abbreviate game titles: MSFS, DCS and so on. Do you really want them to say "I play CP"?

@Nurse_Xochitl

2 ай бұрын

If there are expensive individual modules like DCS, I probably won't buy it. If there is predatory grinding (unlocks/progression systems based around gear and upgrades inherently give newbies/infrequent players a huge disadvantage especially with monetizing progression - Pay To Progress IS still P2W ) /P2W mechanics (including premiums) like Worse Torture (War Thunder), I 100% definitely won't be buying it. If there is a subscription, I 100% definitely won't be buying it. Lastly, if the game doesn't run on older/weaker hardware... like a GTX 1050 and a quad core CPU... I probably won't buy it either. Also no offline single player = no purchase. I like single player, especially since most modern games have driven me to absolutely hate multiplayer with predatory grinding/P2W mechanics... on top of the infestation of cheaters (and anti-cheats that don't work and break Linux compatibility - BTW no Linux compatibility also means no purchase). I happen to have bad internet also, I live in the country... so having even more of a disadvantage with that sucks. I know War Thunder is full of issues, but I bet my shitty monopolized DSL connection is at least partly to blame on top of Gayjin's negligence (predatory grinding, P2W mechanics, crap matchmaking, Russian and German bias, bad maps, etc.).

The pacific feels like an untouched flightsim environment.

@Wicaeed1

8 ай бұрын

lol ever heard of Aces of the Pacific? Old school af Flight sim

@mzaite

8 ай бұрын

Aces of the Pacific, MS Combat Flight Sim 2, Pacific Strike, 1942 The Pacific Air War. The lazy Current Euro Devs are the ones who have ignored it.

@Cam_Wight

8 ай бұрын

@@mzaite Russian devs*

@mzaite

8 ай бұрын

They Sure like to pretend they aren't. Especially el-DCSo

@DrydockDreamsGames

8 ай бұрын

​​​@@mzaiteare you kidding? The "lazy eurodevs" are the only reason there's actually stuff available to begin with. BSP was from a Hungarian studio, Silent Hunter a Romanian team, Pacific Storm & WoWs by Russians, same with WT. I look around me, we're 3 French & 1 Indonesian guy making TFA, core team making Sea Power is 1 Swede, 1 Pole & 1 German, and even War on the Sea and Cold Waters were coded by an Australian. Even CMO and MNW are lead by Greeks. And 1946/PF obviously was made with a Russian team. If you wanna talk "laziness" when it comes to representing the PTO and/or USN, no need to cross the pond, my friend 😅 It is what it is.

The fact that Barbedwire Studios is behind this bodes extremely well for me. One of my favorite RTSs and they keep on releasing updates and expansions to it.

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

I am very curious and excited to see how they take their RTS brains and apply it to a dynamic campaign, ala how BMS campaign was approached as a RTS. To be a bit dramatic but flight simmers need to be protected from themselves and other genres can be good places for inspiration for enhancing gameplay.

Reminds me of Microsoft Combat Flight Sim WW2 Pacific Theatre. Loved that game.

Hour long combat pilot interview?? Let's go! So excited for this game. We need it

“angry customers are not loyal customers” - once again, Jason mistakes anger for passion. Here’s hoping he can differentiate between the two in his next project - wishing him and his team all the best! 😊

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

The anger may be fueled by passion, but either way the result is the same. Happy customers are much more likely to buy your product. And you don't know the context for which I said that in the interview. I was getting at something deeper based on my experience.

@Creep.-

8 ай бұрын

@@combatpilotsim and how do you create happy customers? by doing things right and listening to evidence-based constructive criticism instead of telling them to “go play DCS”

@cladcladcladpoe

8 ай бұрын

@@Creep.- he's probably referring to the few that froth at the mouth and send threats, not the measured and calm criticisms.

Thanks to bring up this update and Jason to explain about Combat Pilot project. As WWII enthusiast, I am really waiting for the Pacific theater in countdown.

The main thing I look for in a dog fight sim is the damage model. I personally think that the more realistic the damage is, the more it feels to being closer to real life. That is why I love 1946. The damage model for that time is amazing. I hate that in some Sim, you have a health bar. If you are flying a mission andtakinge rounds and some lucky bullet hits the right part of the engine or wing and somehow disables your plane, that is probably what would happen in real life. This also means that even if you play the same mission over, it won't be the same game play.

Amazing news! Pacific theater was a niche to occupy that many of us wanted to see!

Quite simply the best news in flight sims for, literally, a decade.

18:35 "I hope that the vibe will be sun, sand, surf, and burning flat-tops." Finally! I'm tired of fighting over some gloomy battlefield in western Europe or bleak Russian steppe.

I don't have any emotional connection to the Pacific, but one thing that can make it more appealing is if they capture the beauty of the region and the beauty of flying there. Find a good artist who knows their colors and send them to Hawaii for research. No tech is a replacement for good taste.

Grew up with aces over the pacific, it still gives me that feeling when I think about it. I hope they go full realism dcs style planes coop and pvp scenarios

@TheWestIsTheBEST17

10 күн бұрын

Aces over the pacific was a staple of my childhood

We at the DCS black sheep squadron will be watching this with great anticipation. All sounds good and exciting. If the fidelity is on par close with DCS, and we can create our own servers and missions. This will be a great success.

@catfunt5583

8 ай бұрын

It’s a ww2 plane, I don’t think it needs fidelity. Unless you are interacting with mfds, medium fidelity, like in lots of community mods is perfect. Leave the study simming to the (yawn) hornet players

@Virtual-VMF-214-Black-Sheep

8 ай бұрын

@@catfunt5583 fidelity for us is in engine management ,navigation as well as the challenging flight model and situations that combine all of these. If you can fly one of these aircraft wide open till it runs out of gas at no consequence that’s a failure to do these era aircraft justice. Has nothing to do with mdfs.

@djbiscuit1818

8 ай бұрын

​@@Virtual-VMF-214-Black-SheepHear hear! Still waiting for an intertwined thermal/engine/damage model to even approach CloD's in a more modern package

@HobelDcs

8 ай бұрын

@@Virtual-VMF-214-Black-Sheep "fidelity for us is in engine management" yes, that's also important for WW2, but IL 2 isn't that "FF" either, but you can still have full control of a P-47 engine just like in DCS, only you have to assign keys in IL2

@Virtual-VMF-214-Black-Sheep

8 ай бұрын

@@HobelDcs yea. That’s fc3. I’ll bind axis’s to controls but if it’s clickable in cockpit it’s far better in these birds. But there needs to be a happy mix or option. Dcs has game mode… but I don’t know a single server that uses it or allows it. I’m completely fine with some aspects not being modeled so we have more aircraft to fly but key functions must be modeled. But this is just me. Some folks like arcade flying.

The fact that Jason is looking 15 years out sounds extremely promising!

WOW! This is incredible. I'm finally back to flight/combat sims just recently drinking from the fire hose with DCS and IL-2. Found Enigma and many other YT channels that have been super helpful and entertaining. Thanks for this!

I bought IL-2 and LOMAC at a store. Pretty sure I got WW2OL in a box too. Ahh, the old days!!!

I play a lot of single player. Some people play it because they want the experience of the pilot career. I prefer the quick missions. I do dogfights too. I also like barnstorming and just flying around and mucking about. The reason I mostly play single player is I like to fly to chill out at the end of the night before I go to bed. It's nice to jump on play for half an hour and be done. Pvp gets me too jacked up and competitive, so I only do that on the weekend.

really excited for this project, as a history enthusiast I've always wanted to do the pacific theater in a realistic sim with VR

Just came across this tonight, somehow completely missed it till now. How exciting! Thank you so much Enigma and Jason for sharing this with the world. I'll hope for the best for Combat Pilot and will happily back it as soon as you'll let us.

Well asked questions Enigma. And great answers from Jason. Appreciate his willingness to share their ambitions without making promises. Can't wait to see what this turns into

Ive been wanting a Pacific flight sim. +1 customer

Great interview! Thanks Enigma!

Combat flight simulator 2 was amazing and I spent many hours playing that. A pacific theater is a real good choice.

Awesome interview ! Everything that was discussed was right on point and makes for a very exciting future ! This new pacific sim is exactly what the genre needs ! Well done 👏 🙏

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Really good interview from both sides, Q&A on spot...exceeded my expetations! Like listening new Jason when no 1C on his back.

From a businessman point of view, he seems to have done his homework very well. I am actually quite excited for this now.

Thanks for making this happen, I can’t wait

Thank you for setting up this interview, this was very informative

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really looking forward to this, such a massive opportunity. It probably wont come out for a few years though :/ Edit: This guy seems very professional and sounds like a good leader. He sounds very qualified and motivated.

Enigma you are a gem in this space our interest align perfectly. Thanks for this interview I thouroughly enjoyed it

Great stuff enigma! Ty

Oh yes Have been waiting for this for years, count me in :)

Last combat flight sim in the theater I played was Aces of the Pacific. I only recently returned to flight sims with DCS. This would be a blast if it happened.

@hockeywarrior

8 ай бұрын

My first flight sim ever, and it did a great job making you feel grounded in the war despite low fidelity graphics!

@johndial3018

6 ай бұрын

Also, my first flight sim ever and the campaign was so satisfying for the early 90s

Awesome interview. Can't wait to try it.

Thanks for the interview Enigma! Can’t wait to see this come to fruition (knock on wood)

Amazing interview with great questions and amazing answers! Combat Pilot seems like it will be a big one...

Excited to have discovered this project.

To hear the business model discussion, I’m happy to hear the positivity.

I know I'm late but wow, what a great interview! Eagerly awaiting this game.

I will be more than happy to fly again Wildcat and Zeke as I did in Microprose 1942 The Pacific Air War 30 years ago! Still long way ahead for release day. Till that day DCS and IL2 Sturmovik is a way to go for me.

Neat, nice to hear from a new sim.

Beyond excited

Since IL-2 has still not gone into the PAC theater I think this is great news.

Thanks for taking time making this interview and of course Jason for giving as much info as he could. Just a note on graphical things. I really hope the graphics are not tied to any propertiary technology making some users being "left out" because their hardware does not support them or perform worse. Namely it goes down to nVidia and it's technologies. Or should devs go straight Vulkan API? Anyway, waiting a lot for this new sim.

@Nurse_Xochitl

2 ай бұрын

Modern gaming in general has a problem with optimization. I won't be surprised if it requires the latest/most powerful hardware to run. I hope they put serious effort into optimizing the game, as not everyone has new powerful hardware. If anything, better optimization may allow for normal "non-gaming" laptops and portable handheld gaming PCs (like the Steam Deck) to run the game.

great interview...what missing today sims is the vibe and the feeling that 90s sims had....know days everything is study sims and nothing more...dcs lacks soul...everything is great but sterlite...i dont know...we need music , pictures of briefing rooms, how to live in a carrier...a mess hall things that youl feel that you living in a flatop

@Enigma89

5 ай бұрын

Agreed! CFS 2 did really well with that

The question of vibe at 17:00 was a really important one, and IMO didn't get a very thorough answer. I'd hesitate to say it was "dodged," but the basic structure of what combat pilot is trying to *do* should still be answerable relatively early. Given Jason's experience and portfolio, I'd expect something similar to Il-2, but that's a pretty wide range of possible products. I'd be very interested to hear more concrete details on what to expect. EDIT: The follow-up at ~35 mins was reassuring, the balance between fidelity and scale can be quite delicate to strike properly and I'm hopeful entropy aero will nail it :)

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

I didn't try to dodge anything, but saying today, what we will for sure have months and years from now is a fool's errand. If we fail to bring something, will just be called a liar and thief. Been there done that before even when promised things from long time employees who had never failed me before only to face the wrath of upset customers when something didn't pan out. I'm just being realistic and a little careful.

@snakeoo7ca

8 ай бұрын

I got that impression too he was dodgy about a question that was essentially asking about a roadmap lol

Awesome, thank you! Also barbed wire has me hooked on Ostfront. So this is a great combination of people

Clean slate, plus core competency, plus cta goh devs is a very exciting combination.

I want a combat flightsim were u can be a pilot, walk and go through briefing room and then walk to your airplane and do all your rutine check before flight.

Just looking at the screenshots I’d say you’re on the right track. I’m licking my chops. Here’s some suggestions. There’s a lot of history in the Pacific Theater. Make several campaigns get the history right! Keep adding them after you’ve put them on the market. Listening to you talk while I’m writing this I can tell you understand the nature of this part of the war. Stay true to the history in the campaign mod and you can’t go wrong.

I’ve been waiting for this MS Combat flight sim 2 has been the only flight sim that has been dedicated to the pacific MSCFS2 is over 20yrs old. IL 2 Sturmovic was very good but it was not dedicated to the history. Have levels of difficulty to satisfy the realists, but don’t forget others may just want to fly First then as they improve move on to higher levels of difficulty/realism. Hearing you speak as I write this I have faith you’ll get the visuals and flight physics right. So Dedicate yourselves to the history and brutality of air war. I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS. I’m so glad someone is doing this. Thank you.

This sounds so cool. A shame we'll have to wait a while, but it sounds like it'll be worth it.

I remember playing Microsoft combat flight simulator 2 ww2 Pacific theater and holy shit was that fun. I'm really hoping this comes to fruition.

Heartwarming news :D

Very excited for this...interesting re scale vs fidelity etc...

Great interview. Can't wait to even just try flying and doing TOLs on carriers. Please don't forget the USAAF in SW Pacific. (B25 strafers, P38s, etc,....)

Aces High mentioned, satiation. The island hopping with carrier groups in that game is probably my fondest MP gaming memory. This comment is for engagement purposes only Sent from my iPhone 3

Since getting into cold war on Enigma's server i've been hooked. I've never tried this era's focus but to start on a brand new game would be good for me i think, super interested. One to watch for sure. Good interview Enigma.

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

Prop planes are really fun, for me even more fun than jet combat. Additionally the Wildcat and Zero is a very classic match up and bombing ships is really fun

@shinobi61

8 ай бұрын

@@Enigma89 The ship attacks would be hella fun, also there are some cool aircraft. Maybe i should check out this type of thing but i've no idea where to start, thats why a new game is so interesting for someone new to that, like me.

@haackhaack4217

8 ай бұрын

I don’t know, WW2 feels over saturated and yet for Cold War, early jets, it’s just DCS and that is it. Would love early jets like the F-15A, etc . DCS has shown how popular it is

@SpitFir3Tornado

8 ай бұрын

@@haackhaack4217 "early jets" >F-15

From war thunder to il2. Il2 to DCS recently. I'm committed to trying combat pilot. 💪✌️

There’s a guy called CH who shows his models on the Grim Reapers channel. His models are next level and he has really researched and knows his stuff. I bet he would be a great researcher but also great at modelling

Great interview. I assume we are looking at at least five years before we get a truly viable, fully baked single player & multiplayer sim. That combined with Falcon 5 probably taking a similar amount of time saddens me that we are probably stuck with simming status quo for the next half decade.. but it is what it is.

I am in Jason you go!!

Because it is Brother! MSCFS2 touched on it. Flight sims since that delved isn’t the pacific didn’t really get into the history and campaigns. That’s what’s been missing.

My fear is the looooong flights. Pacific stuff always seemed to have long flights to get to something. Flying 100 mi for a 5 min attack on a carrier.

@paulplichon1421

8 ай бұрын

Carrier takeoffs and landings would be cool though

@hqquax5786

8 ай бұрын

I see the same problem. That can be easily solved in single player, but in multiplayer it will lead to unhistoric missions. However both can be fun anyhow.

@AMylander

6 ай бұрын

Definitely need some "warp" or time acceleration features.

Honestly I missed this. I was aware he left 1C but that this new sim was announced went somewhat past me. Sounds like an interesting project with huge potential. Then again it also is according to this interview 4 to 5 years away. Anyway bookmarked the website and wish you guys the best of skill/luck with this project.

Ok first I'm super exited for this sim. I sounds like the dev and i think alike when it comes to the perfect sim. I'm poor but if this can give IL2-1946 carrier battles with a true Falcon 4.0 dynamic campaign with IL2-GB fidelity, damage model and graphics; then I'll happily throw as much money at this sim as I can.

Cool!

Thanks you very much Jason and Enigma. I have high hopes for this, but I have to say, I'm not getting my hopes up too high. Lots of times sims/games I have been waiting for took forever to get to market. Some examples are Duke Nukem Forever, Return to Krondor, and currently Star Citizen. That said, I do have high hopes and I think that the WW2 Pacific theater is the best possible theater for a flight sim. I'm going to make a video about this soon.

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the video.

Look, what I am looking for in a flight sim to feel like I was transported to a parallel world where I’m a fighter pilot and it really FEELS like I’m flying and fighting a warbird or a jet. That means it should feel alive I.E. there is activity on the ground, ATC is talking to me, there are other flights, ships sailing around. Etc etc. full fidelity inside the cockpit is nice, but not end all be all

YOOO GET HYPE!!!! NEW COMBAT FLIGHT SIM!!!!! NOT A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!! WW2!!!!!!!! PACIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks enigma

I can't see the gamble not paying off. The market is hungry for something new. Build it and the people will come.

nice interview

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

The first Il2 demo blew my mind. Just flying the P39 and FW190 blew my mind. Oleg Maddox revolutionized WW2 flight swimming. Looking forward to Combat Pilot. The 1C has lost their way with the consumer and have no clue what their market wants. VR and motion platform support should be there from the start.

This could finally mean we get a flyable a6m zero, literally my biggest want.

Oh, hell yes. I can't wait! Take my money!

We need fresh sim., pacific, good optimalization with newer engines, and most importantly MP fun. I am very excited about news and how high fidelity and also scale they are planning to do. just thought of taking of from carrier with friends to cover bombers going to attack island or carrier group is so exciting.

you had me at pacific

@Enigma89

8 ай бұрын

The big P word

They should be the ones to make the main engine for all new combat flight sims. I would love to them team up with Drydock to make it possible to enter aircraft in Task Force Admiral.

Focus on the most accurate unbiased development of flight modeling and associated physics modelling of all that pertains to combat fight simming. The advanced graphics are a given.

If you build it they will come. If you add a first person shooter element or ground vehicle element. You would open up too a wider audience. Might not be a gamble as much. Also what people want is options. When I get tired of one thing I can do something different.

Gates of Hell Liberation is going to be a day one purchase for sure.

Well we now know it will be within 5 years that we get this sim. Cool

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

The goal is to have parts of it well before then, but massive fully realized product takes time. Other sims have been worked on continuously for well over a decade.

I can't wait for CP to come out so that the community can find reasons to nitpick it, it's gonna be hype

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

Yes will be a blast.

Been waiting 9 years for il-2 GB Pacific theater. There's NO indication that'll ever happen. Ditto for DCS.

@mzaite

8 ай бұрын

Hell I was just waiting for the damn Burma theater. European Devs gonna Europe I guess.

kunos did a really good job creating a racing sim with unreal, really looking forward to seeing what a high fidelity flight sim can look like in unreal

@ApeRiderr

6 ай бұрын

It doesn’t perform that great tho

I would pay $60 for 1946 with full vr support.

Using Unreal engine 5.3+ is a no-brainer, hopefully the physics will keep up with the much improved graphics (not only aircraft physics, but most objects in the world should be physicalized as well to greatly increase both immersion and replayability factor).

@Nurse_Xochitl

2 ай бұрын

And zero optimization for anyone who is stuck with older/weaker systems... less accessibility will hurt the simming community. One of the reasons why Worse Torture (War Thunder) is so popular, is because it actually has a somewhat decent level of optimization while still offering good enough graphics. It's just a shame Gayjin does nothing good with it, instead choosing to milk players for maximum "profit".

I just watched your MiG 23 video and I hope it comes out soon I think Cold War can youse a few more aircraft i think there was someone making a English electric lightning module but the last update was 2 years ago I would find it cool if someone made like an f102 delta dagger , f106 delta dart or a weaponized boulton Paul p.111

@djbiscuit1818

8 ай бұрын

F-8J Crusader, F-104(A?), A-7(E?) Corsair II, Su-17, MiG-17F, and A-6(E?) are ALL also confirmed to be in development. It's gonna be a long time before all (or even most) of those are in DCS, but lots more cold war content is in the pipelines of various developers

I hope it’ll be possible to pilot the strike aircraft as well as the fighters, I would love to pilot a Dauntless dive bomber.

Truth about the Pacific. I still remember when Pacific Fighters dropped, and then the merge patch a year later. Absolutely unstoppable as a game, and I played it until just this last year, having started IL2 all the way back to Ace Expansion Pack. I turned my back in IL2 Great Battles the instant they said they weren't doing it due to lack of documentation for Japanese aircraft. Their original mission statement was to be as 1946 was: Global. They won't get another cent out of me until they do. I am very excited about Combat Flight Sim, the Pacific was the end of the battleship mindset and seated carrier warfare.

Just discovered this project and joined the discord, really looking forward to it I hope they will also plan to expand it - I'd love seeing north africa theater with 109 tropical variants, spitfires and macchi 202/205!

What I want from a game: First person, survival mode like DayZ, giant world procedually and satellite image generated like microsoft flightsim, ground combat with infantry and vehicles, naval combat with ships, subs and air combat with helos and planes, a giant combined arms sandbox that can feel like dcs(sim), dayz(survival), battefield/arma(seamless combined arms), eve online(economics), warthunder(tanks) and truck driver simulator(logistics) all mixed in one masterclass game/sim with *zero* artificial balancing.

I bought Falcon 4.0 in EB. Better times.

Yo Jason!

Hey DONT FORGET THE WEATHER ITS NOT JUST THE LAND ITS THE WEATHER.

It really should have New Guinea, Guadalcanal and Solomon Islands, Wake, Midway maps to start....and maybe have GPS map to find your way back to carrier unless radio beacons are used

@combatpilotsim

8 ай бұрын

In time if we are successful.

@ACG_Jaydog

8 ай бұрын

You will be successful! I have faith ;)@@combatpilotsim

Surely looks like it could be cool if it ever materializes, and extends into the jet age, and includes P-51, Spitfire and 190s and 109s 🙂 I mean, yet another WWII sim, but without the iconic aircraft of WWII sound a bit niche (nothing wrong with the Zero or F4F, but they are no P-51 or Bf-109). It's a bit like opening a restaurant with only second rate beer and wine. The food has to be extremely good. Just saying. Just hope they get the basics right at least. Today this includes an API that you don't need to be a dev to use and understand to make gadgets (physical buttons, physical instruments, screens, dials, even entire cockpits). And of course a good mapping software, one that don't rely on third party software to get your particular setup to your likings in a simple fashion. Both are low hanging fruit as far as development goes, but usually dismissed (unless you are MSFS or X-Plane). This is what's killing IL-2 right now IMO. Newer HOTAS systems will not work straight out of the box, and setting them up is a PITA. And there is no easy way to extend it with gadgets (no way at all in fact without some serious hacking). New people are put down by this, and the older move on where there are more possibilities. For DCS, some clever people in the community has fixed the API situation, and the mapping system has always been good enough for most of it (but time consuming). It's not that most people will build their own cockpits, very few will do that. They will however chose a sim with the possibility of doing it over one without it, 10 out of 10 times. I just hope they don't artificially (or foolishly, or by laziness) limits the potential. Potential is what keeps DCS, MSFS and X-Plane alive. It's not about what you would use the sim for right now, it's all about what the sim can do for you tomorrow, if you set your mind to it.

Exciting news! Realistic FM first and foremost, but content is key. Don’t be a study sim … I do wish it was Cold War jets but… ok pacific will be popular