4.10 Official Release

Dear IL-2 fans,

On behalf of 1C:Maddox Games and Daidalos Team, we are pleased to present you the patch 4.10m.

Few words before you hit that download button...The development of 4.10 patch took longer than we have anticipated in the beginning as we continued adding more content than originally planned. In order to give you the most stable version of the patch without any further delay we have decided to make the unpopular decision and did not include all the content that was previously announced in our development updates. The patch content became simply too big and complicated to test all together at once. But that does not mean we have abandoned the features we have informed you about before. To be specific, the following features are NOT included in 4.10 patch, but will come in our next releases:

1) AI seeing through clouds and other more complex AI improvements - priority candidate for 4.11
2) Triggers - priority candidate for 4.11
3) More complex MDS features - as a first step we wanted introduce the core feature of MDS in 4.10 = moving AI units and carriers on dogfight server
4) Ship damage effects - some ship DM improvements have been included in 4.10. More to come in the future.
5) Radar - was not planned for 4.10 yet. We do need to complete the full scenario before we release it.

We are also going to switch to smaller but more frequent patch releases from now on. 4.10 will be the foundation for our future work. As with the previous patch we would like to ask IL-2 community members to report any relevant issues or errors that did slip through our beta testing net. We have just opened the 4.10 bug report thread for this. Of course you can also use our DT email for the bug reports: daidalos.team@gmail.com We are committed to continue improving our work in the future patches.

Thank you for your support! Enjoy the patch, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!

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FlightGear 2.0 Released

Second stable release of most famous open-source flight sim is ready. It is available for download at the official website.

Ace Wannabe TV

Test phase...

Wings of Prey website launched

Wings of Prey« is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in – The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun' representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

»Wings of Prey" also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals enriching the game play. «Wings of Prey» features hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allow players to see breathtaking ground support actions.

Game Features:

• Authentic World War atmosphere: Cutting edge technologies with highly detailed visuals bring the epic battles to life;
• Engage in more than 50 missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe;
• Historically accurate aircrafts: Experience over 40 planes including fighters, battle planes and bombers. Learn to master Spitfire, Mustang, Messerschmitt and many more;
• Flexible difficulty level system: from arcade to realistic simulation;
• Downloadable content support: more planes and missions are coming next year;
• Support of 6-DOF TrackIR, TripleHead2Go, Saitek and Thrustmaster joysticks, mouse and voice headsets;
• Thrilling multiplayer: 4 game modes to choose; VoIP, lobby game system, leaderboards, friends lists, join-in-progress and host migration features provide great experience;
• Realistic sound effects and original music from Jeremy Soule

Minimal System Requirements:

• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200MHz
• RAM: 1024 Mb
• Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 Mb or ATI Radeon X1650 256 Mb
• HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
• OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.
• Soundcard, DirectX compatible
• Internet connection: 56 kb/s
• Keyboard, mouse
  

Recommended System Requirements:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz
• RAM: 2048 Mb
• Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512 Mb or ATI Radeon 4850 512 Mb.
• HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
• OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 with DirectX 9.0c / Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 / Microsoft Windows 7
• Sound card: DirectX compatible with support 5.1
• Internet connection: 512 Kb/s
• Keyboard, mouse, joystick

More at http://www.airwargame.com.

Wings of Prey - New WWII flight sim for PC

More information will be given in 4 days at the official website.

Battle of Britain - More pics

New BoB related images have been announced by Oleg. A lot of things will be fine tuned in the future work, but it looks very good at this moment. I can just imagine how it will appear with some cool WWII post-processing effects, bloom filter, vignettes and more AA.

Further information might be seen here and here. And also discussed here.

Logitech G940 Flight System Introduction

"Every piece of Logitech® Flight System G940 is carefully crafted with realism in mind. We looked to military and commercial planes and helicopters for inspiration. You get an experience that’s more realistic and more fun, with important controls that look, feel, and work just like the real thing."

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