Hello everybody,

 

while the German bomber of the Battle of Kuban plane set is already available to customers who pre-purchased the new theater of war, today we'll show you the first screenshots of the Soviet one. This is the US-made bomber A-20B, these aircraft were sent to USSR since December 1942 via the lend-lease program. A-20B had 2000 kg bomb load (up to 16 bombs in the internal bay and 4 outside) and had two machine guns for defense - 12.7 mm Browning M2 .50 and 7.62 mm Browning M2 .30. In addition, it was armed with two forward firing 12.7 Browning M2 .50 machine guns for some offensive capability. Just like P-39L-1, this aircraft had freely rotating forward landing gear.

 

 

 

 

 

On these screenshots, you can see Tushino airfield on the Moscow map which differs from the airfield you have in the sim now significantly. That's right - it was made using the new technique which we use for Battle of Kuban, all the airfields on the Moscow map will be remade using it in the next update 2.011. The main goal was to optimize a number of different layers and graphical objects on the airfield to reduce the graphics performance hit which currently can cause stutters on certain combinations of PC configs and graphics settings. New airfield composition gives almost no slowdown on high-end video cards while on middle-end cards like 960 or 1060 the performance hit is similar to what you get near other airfields in the sim, for example, Stalingrad ones. While we started this optimization to improve performance near airfields, the new technique gives a better visual image of them as well. It will be more comfortable to land and taxi on such airfields because the feel of an approaching ground becomes more apparent and natural.

 

We made good progress in Battle of Kuban development across all departments. We'll be giving you regular reports on the work progress during the Summer, and today we can show you WIP screenshot of the Soviet submarine 'Type Sch':