Normandy Map 1944, Q and A Video

[Wags]

Hello everyone!

 

For the next video, I plan to do another World War II video (Bf 109 this time), but within the video, I'd like to do a second Q and A section. I'm not sure exactly when this video will be published though.

 

Please feel free ask your Normandy related questions here and I'll try to answer as many of them as I can. Off topic posts will be removed to keep this thread clean.

 

If you have not already done so, please view the first video to avoid questions that were already addressed.

 

 

Thanks,

Matt

Edited April 18, 2017 by Wags

[SuperSix2]

Will there be airfields like FOB's for the helicopters that we can place in the editor?

[NineLine]

Will there be airfields like FOB's for the helicopters that we can place in the editor?

 

This has been answered already, I even think the are partial already in the sim now, just not working, so yes, its a WIP.

[razo+r]

Will we get a Fi 103?

 

Does ED have plans to improve the mesh of the coast?

 

Does ED have plans to improve the transition from beach to water?

[alado]

Fuze and delay in bombs?

Skipbombing?

[NineLine]

Fuze and delay in bombs?

Skipbombing?

 

Fuze delayed bombs is already in for some modules (109 and 190 I believe), Skip-bombing is requested internally.

[Akatsuki]

What's the current HDD space required for the map?

[Raven68]

Is release still looking towards the end of May or is progress currently looking good enough to do an end of April release as originally planned?

 

Someone had to be bold enough to ask....

[shonist]

Is release still looking towards the end of May or is progress currently looking good enough to do an end of April release as originally planned?

 

Someone had to be bold enough to ask....

 

Im not much into it but i think ive heard from the last video they uploaded about the map they were saying late may.

 

but i could be confused.

[TaktLwG 73 Steinhoff]

Yeah at first I heard about late April, but then they said May so i guess nobody then these guys know when it will be available

[Sryan]

Q: Will aircraft that feature an advanced moving map system, like the Ka-50 and A-10C, have maps available in their systems for the Normandy terrain?

 

Q: Will advanced system functions tied to the AO, par example the DIVERT CDU functions on the A-10C, still function on Normandy?

[X93355]

Hi Wags,

 

Is there any plans to add airfields and detail to Guernsey and Jersey? My grand parents house was used by the Germans as a cook house during the war. It's right off the coast so could make a good staging area.

 

Thanks and have a great easter.

[NRG-Vampire]

will be any night enviroment lights added on the map ? (cars, trains, ships, lighthouses, streetlights, building-windows, runway/harbour lights and bale fires? etc.) or will be the cities/villages darkened ?

 

would be nice to use map/mission options for what kind of lights will be visible/invisible in mission

[DD_Fenrir]

Are the French ALGs a permanent feature of the map or could they be programmed to appear by date (set by mission builder) or by frontline movement? It would be good to be able to run pre-D-Day missions without these temporary airfields appearing on the landscape.

[boedha68]

Maybe there can there be a pilot of ground services. refeuling or rearming? or is it something for combined arms?

Edited April 13, 2017 by boedha68

[dooom]

There was a V2 rocket site just near brix, south of Cherbourg... is there any amount of begging to have it modelled in game as a target?

 

Also one at Couville...

 

Source: http://www.atlantikwall.org.uk/v2.htm

[Kaliphtan]

Is there any mountains or hills ?

[Lenux]

What about the release date of Normandy map?

End of May?

[mwd2]

Any idea for a time frame (before Normandy Map release date), to activate the keys for Map & AssetPack for the Kickstarter-Backer?

[PicksKing]

1. Is Le Havre about to be changed or is it already finished? It looks very different compared to modern maps and I would expect that the shores hadn't change since 1944. At least not that much.

 

2. Same question for the light model. There are two screenshots of the cathedral of Caen in the related forum section with very different light models and light effects.

Seen here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3075403&postcount=22

 

3. Can you provide us a few impressions and close ups of South England during your flight?

[The Black Swan]

Is there any plan to implement the new bomber formation AI to the WWII fighters so that we can have close group formations in the radio menu? (Like the option for FC3)

[OnlyforDCS]

Just two questions:

 

1) Will there be full mission editor support on the (pre)release of Normandy? (Like there was with Nevada) I.E. Will we be able to create/download/integrate missions right from the get go?

 

2) Is there any chance of seeing a flown sample WWII scenario mission in a future Video or Stream before the (pre)release, to help show off some of the new AI WWII units in action and interacting with the player? (Sort of like you did with the Su25)

 

This might help those of us who are still kind of on the fence to decide whether to preorder now or wait for the release or the merge.

 

Thank you.

Edited April 13, 2017 by OnlyforDCS

[splash]

Will we be able to land and take off with modern aircraft like Viggen or M2000C?

[razo+r]

Will we be able to land and take off with modern aircraft like Viggen or M2000C?

 

already asked and answered with pictures and text (yes)

[StandingCow]

Any plans to add static objects that emit sound, something like air raid sirens?