SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - JEEEESE , MAN, and i thoot we had History lessons when we went to school

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Originally Posted by Balu0

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Originally Posted by mrbeast

The reason for the inaccurate aircraft in SH4 is that Ubisoft has been advised by several US aircraft manufacturers that if it wishes to include models of aircraft which the company produced historically (also inclusive of designs by companies that the modern company now owns) then Ubisoft had to pay them royalties to do so. Therefore Ubisoft decided to remove all offending planes and replace them with more acceptable generic models from companies that didn't mind them being used or were defunct. Hence you get Avro Lancasters and Brewster buffalos and I think the torp/dive is modelled on the Vindicator, may wrong about that though.

The Devs knew full well what aircraft they should use, it you notice in the intro movie there is a PBY Catalina.

Where did you heared this? It sounds like bull.. sorry , but I don't belive this could be true. Those aircrafts are not manufactured any more.

What you wrote could be true in a moder racing game wich use existing sport car modells, but not with WWII games and military aircrafts.

Or do you honestly think that the 1.000.000 + 1 WWII games nowdays all pay to all manufacturers ??

It is very true. Nothrop/Grumman threatened lawsuits against UBI if they continued to put aircraft like the F6F in their game. That is why the Avenger was never made playable in Pacific Fighters. It has been rumored that there is a full blown cockpit for the Avenger made but it will never bee seen because of this.