SIMHQ Interview with OFF

Pol-
Great interview- both informative and exciting. Putting the interview link on the OFF site should stimulate sales and boost our community. The aircraft models seem hugely improved over P2 (and I thought they were great already). It may be my imagination but the pictures in the interview and also the screensavers suggest that the pilots have been rescaled relative to the airplanes. For example, I always felt that the SE5 pilots were disproportionally large relative to the aircraft but the proportion seems to have been corrected in P3. Is this the case?
 
Thanks Duck, yes I will update the web later. We learn as we go so things tend to improve as we do lol. Even many of the older craft have been tweaked

P3 has new pilot models in all craft, so should be better suited size wise.
 
Excellent interview - should create quite a fervor among those that are just learning about OFF for the 1st time!

Must admit, I, too, had to visit the "privy" after reading! LOL! :mix-smi:

Tracers168
 
Very nice article, Pol.

Have you contacted The Wargamer about getting them to review BHAH? They've got a wide variety of games that they monitor: computerized versions of paper and dice turn-based Avalon Hill-style wargames, FPS, RTS, and simulators of tanks, ships and planes. They reviewed "First Eagles" so I think it's only fair they get to do this one, too. The folks on there seem to be exceptionally concerned with historical accuracy, so I would think BHAH would fit in nicely.

Here's the contact info:http://www.wargamer.com/aboutus/contact.asp
 
Awesome interview! That was a really good one and laid out a lot of what we really are all about. A lot of you probably don't realize the depth of some of our relationships, and the funny circle we've all been a part of.... especially mine, Shred's and Pol's with out previous RB3D efforts.

It's great to be on the team and finally see 3+ years of work panning out like this. We hope you all enjoy every aspect of being a part of this, especially those who have hung around a lot to see it all come about. :)

OvS
 
That's Jasta 40s Ace Paul Groll (or Herman Gilly, I might have it reversed here).

The Jasta 40s OAW Fokkers all have the same colors but different symbols.

For instance:
Degelow - the Stag
Rosenstein - the Heart
Hertel - the Bastard Sword (wavy sword)
Gilly - Polish block (red and white checkerboard)
Groll - the Swastika
Jeschonneck - the Raging Bull

And a few others.

It's WWI, not WWII. The swastika will appear on several German squadron skins, as well as on Jasta 12 Paul Billik and Jasta 7's Hermann Kunz, and even on American Ace Raul Lufberry Laf Esc SPAD VII.

If there is a question on the nature of the symbol, look it up under PRE-WWII meaning. It's actually pretty amazing. It's quite ancient, in several cultures and means Good Luck in combat.

Now if it were thick, tilted on it's side, in a white circle, and surrounded by red... then we'd have a serious problem. That's a whole nuther swaztika we're talking about.

If you really want to read something interesting, read-up on Willi Rosenstein's relationship with Hermann Göring. You can see Göring planting his pre-Nazism seeds even as far back as WWI. Sad really. But after requesting a trasfer out of Jasta 27, Rosenstein found a great home, and great friends flying with Degelow and the boys of Jasta 40s.

There are stories beyond stories about these men that we slowly uncovered as we went along.

All the best,

OvS
 
Thanks! But really this is like a mirrored swastika. It is a little different than the one used by Nazis...
 
Yes, it is, hence it's NOT a Nazi symbol. The swastika was actually used in either direction. It could be east-west, or west-east depending on the culture that used it.

I tried to mix it up a little, and also went along with the profiles we had.

OvS
 
Gousgounis OvS can you take this discussion to another thread please? That's a whole new subject.
 
Excellent interview. I have even more respect for what has been acheived by the OBD team. Since the release I have watched the movies again for the umpteenth time and somehow they just take on a whole new meaning or something. It most be the difference between something being a dream versus a reality. I watch them with new eyes, oh I can't explain it.
 
Think, I know, what you mean, RICKITYCRATE; they have, step by step, made a dream into a simulation, that appears realistic. Watching Preview Movie 10, I can imagine how Pol must have felt - like the fox, encountering the hounds.
They are chasing him like a bunch of bloodthirsty vampires - each of them wants the kill.
You devels must and can be very proud of this AI, that appears like a multiplayer session with all human pilots. I admit, I'm waiting for my first encounter with a certain tension. It may be the closest you can get to the feel of fear, you might not return, but loose your life this time...
We'll fly much more defensive, searching for the overview and some controll of the fight, rather than a fast kill.
 
3.7!

"an 8400 clocked to 3.7ghz"!

Holy Shift!... (on ya keyboard :)

Our meek & mild ole mate Polovski is actually a computer hotrod bad-a$$!
A "Dual Core Outlaw", to be more precise. :woot:

Just stepped off a bangin twin that I had to test ride for a mate after a couple of front end "tweaks" (read > new one)
It's been raining here in a tropical sort of a fashion.
So thats 1600+cc, (only a baby), of air cooled american firecracker sideways, spitting flame, barking, launching......
Thats the best air cooled engine fix I can find these days.
Motorcycling is just about as dangerous as a WW1 pilot methinks :karate:
CheerZ to P3! Great Interview. :applause:
 
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