1.028 update

[BH von Güber]

Good news for you seaplane fans

riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32634

[BH von Güber]

also read this:

riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=32598

[BH Lt. von Schmidlak]

Not to mention good news for all you Walfisch fans!!!



YES!!! ;D

[BH von Güber]

The bad news is that I can find no evidence of our approved skins being included in this update.

[BH Vfw. Lotharludwig]

I went through multiple servers looking at each and every plane. There are no BH skins period. The only changes I found were for the Pfalz D.IIIa There is now a Jasta 7 default and a Jasta 7 Lt. Dogelow have been added. There is also a Jasta 16b which is butt-ugly. Kinda dirty white with a big red heart on it. At least the J7 looks nice, all black with a white rudder.

I bought the Brandenburg so long ago I forgot about it... It's a 2 seater that takes off/lands on water. Ok... yee-ha. There is no wake behind you when you land, to/lnd are simple keep the nose up.. no worries. I wonder if there will be whitecaps on the water when the winds are up. No spray from the prop or floats... but I have low graphic settings. It is eligible for the standard weapons package... 20mm and dual Parabellums. That 20mm will be devastating against shipping. As it is... it takes out the barges in 3 rounds. If they give you a fleet to attack you would do a lot of damage... except that I imagine the AA/AAA will be intense, something they still had not figured out in 1941... but I have faith in the 777 devs.

I am running the skins pack 1.028 now, maybe something will be in there. The update said 1,660 new skins or skin alterations.

[BH Vfw. Lotharludwig]

I am guessing that the 1,660 skins they reference are all those already in the game... because the amount that was added... I just didn't see it. I am guessing that they are on the Entente side. I was hoping that maybe there was going to be an update to the fictional skins... but that is still listed as Vol. 12 which has been around for some time.

[BH Lt. von Schmidlak]

I don't see any BH skins either... maybe the Channel update?

I can confirm, however, that there is spray from prop and floats on mid to higher level graphics settings, as well as a wake following you when you land or take-off.

I actually really like this plane, surprisingly. It has an impressive roll-rate considering it has two giant pontoons underneath it, and the TWO forward firing guns have a really nice rate of fire. I can see now how this plane could take down a Felixstowe, or enemy patrol boats.

Just don't get in a turn fight with a Pup, she bleeds speed in a turn like a stuck pig.

-vS

[BH Vfw. Lotharludwig]

I saw spray back behind it... in otherwords dust made to appear as water heh heh... but it didn't disturb the water (i.e. a wake) I'm not complaining... don't get that idea... just have to keep a benchmark of where we are graphically in these things because they keep advancing so much. I like to note as these things start happening in the sims because it gives something of a record or timeline to sims as they develop. Empty brass coming out... things such as that were not done for years and when they appeared, another corner was turned. No going backwards that's for sure.

Float planes do amazingly well, I read accounts of the "Rufe" the float version of the A6M2 Mits, and it was remarkable how nimble that plane was. I remember when I was a kid seeing the new Cessna 310 and they were talking about the lift from the tiptanks "flew their own weight" well.. that's great... but what about the drag?

Oh well... I see this thing and I think about "Action In The North Atlantic" with Humphrey Bogardt. I will have to go back and see what airplanes were used (models) that movie.. but they were something similar to this.

[BH Oblt. Firecage]

As far as the BH skins go they are so back logged its going to be the Channel Patch for most of us. Pilots who did skins months before we did just now got in.

S!