C2:
- 7 gliders and 4 towplanes are in the launch version
- one new plane (to buy) "every month till August" [from January till August? ]
("The pricing structure is being changed. Planes will be sold individually so
you dont have to buy 5x planes to get the one you want. Planes which have
multiple configurations, for example JS1 in 18 and 21 m will be sold together
for a bit more than a single configuration price.")
- C1 sceneries need to be ported to C2
("V1 sceneries won't work in V2 without being converted and that has to be done
be their original authors.")
- different gliders than C1 (so probably worth to have both versions of C.!)
- price will be announced at release (for sure less than 100€)
- no demo (but there will be videos after launch)
- sceneries mesh 30 m
- higher textures resolution [officially supported]
- smaller sceneries? [rather not if old can be converted] update -> There is no extra limitation on Condor 2 landscape sizes
- "clouds are 100% code and imagery redesign"
- "everything is new, except for physics model" [is weather model part of the physics?]
- longer tow rope - length possible to set (?)
- probably the same weather settings (?) (nothing surprised about weather on few known screenshots)
- AAT support in Condor's PDA (?)
- 64 pilots in multiplayer
- Change name from Condor: The Competition Soaring Simulator to Condor: The Complete Soaring Simulator
- DXT3 instead of DXT1
- new weather engine in version 2, with:
- (A) significantly differentiated on the different areas of a scenery
(B) sometimes very evolutive within the same day (cold front, storms etc.)
(C) significantly different according to the flight altitude
(D) sometimes bad (overcast conditions ie. 6/8 to 8/8, rain, showers) [?]
- two remote pilots to share one glider cockpit - network support for two-seaters [?]
- version 2 will be a major step forward in weather area
- support for motor gliders [?]
- hardware req.: dedicated GPU with 1gb and a i5 or i7; http://www.videocardbenchmark.net : 1000 min. 4000 very good, 8000 perfect
- gliders we most probably will see in the C2 (not all in the initial release):
- Jonker JS-1 Revelation (two versions: 18 and open class)
L-13 Blanik
Duo Discuss (XL?)
DG-1001 (?)
Diana (2?)
Antares 18s (+ self-launching versions?)
Grunau Baby 2b
Std. Cirrus
DG-500
ASK-21
Genesis (2?)
If you know something else...
- official or less official
- maybe from fb [not all use and it is hard to read fb comments but I found news not mentioned on this forum - cited above]
- or maybe you have some other possible guessing...
Please share!
Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/CondorSim/
http://www.condorworld.eu/
https://is.gd/N6oNqm
http://www.condorsim.fr/uros_en.htm
https://is.gd/Q0Y3EC