desastersoft

[U505]

Good news mates
the next campaigns of desastersoft are scheduled to appear on 15 december. Look amazing !!

http://www.desastersoft.com/

[U505]

NEWS

A little translation into english for those who don't speak german like me.


10.09.2012 - "aces Adolf Galland - The Expert", Jagdgeschwader 26 in the Battle of Britain - 1940

Content:

4 new campaigns, you expect more!

Aces! Adolf Galland - The expert
You assume the role of fighter pilot since most dazzling Manfred von Richthofen: Adolf Galland! Experience this spectacular hunting operations in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with the acquisition of the III. Group / Jagdgeschwader "Schlageter" 26 you take command. The rod swarm now follow the daredevil hunters this unit. 1940 Adolf Galland shot as association leader and Commodore from 45 opponents for the squadron. Are you ready?

7./JG26 - In action on the canal - 1940
You play the commander of the 7th Season / Jagdgeschwader "Schlageter" 26! In a stunning campaign leading your squad through the "Battle of Britain", and later take over the entire hunt group. "Lead" in this campaign! Almost everything depends on you. They fly ahead of the unit, call reinforcements and later, as a group commander, you can even specifically bombers, fighter-bombers and dive bombers begin to goals. You are a worthy successor to Adolf Galland!

No. 303 Squadron - Polish fighter pilots in the service of England - 1940
Perform the famous No. 303 Squadron in the Battle of Britain! Despite their appearance until late in this struggle, was the no. 303 Squadron's most successful fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force in the "Battle of Britain". Between 31 August and 11th November 1940 the unit was attributed to about 140 kills. From Northolt airfield, take the "Krauts" under fire!

Fighter Squadron 53 - The Heinkel 111 in action over the Channel and southern England
You take a group of famous Fighter Squadron 53! Do their men by Flakriegel to London. Bring your bombs against British airfields to the finish. You make use of the famous "Knickebein" method and based on the beacon! All bets are historically reconstructed exactly!



Features

King accident
A random number generator with an additional selection system determines which units you are facing in various positions in the use! If the opponents come up? He comes deep? There are 3, 6, 12 or even 30? Which type of aircraft to be on the other side? Rising alarm groups on when you approach the coast? You get a chance in a counter-attack enemy bombers group? Your place is attacked on his return? They are attacked on the way back? Can you clear up a goal so that you can start bomber targeted to the target? The accuracy of an attack may depend solely on you! If the opponent's embattled forces send reinforcements? Everything is open! Your only task is given to you! The same application will never be the same! Of course everything in the context of historical events.

Flight reporting service of the German forces in France
Also new is the flight of the Air Force Intelligence Service. The report points to the observation fighter controller in a specific radius to the admission of enemy forces! Then turn up the alarm off and have to find the enemy based on the previously given information! Combat Alert This is the call of you rouses!

Radio Direction Finding (RDF, later RADAR)
As a pilot of the Royal Air Force, you can rely on this advanced wireless alarm system. You will be constantly informed of Fighter Command, where the enemy is, and above all, pursue the course you have to ask him! A huge advantage!

"Knickebein" Leitstrahlsystem
Especially for bomber pilots are the first "Knickebein" Leitstrahlsystem in a simulation. Using this system you will be guided to your destination.

Career System
A unique career system, which evaluates your performance based on the difficulty settings promises unprecedented long-term gaming fun and motivates you to increase the demand on himself, and the flight beginners to advance to expert. Everything is in your hands!



Expected release date: 15/12/2012


Soft disaster

[U505]

already 41 views and no reactions ? :(

[JG52Uther]

I reacted, I changed a typo in the title ;)

I'm sure there will be some responses soon, a lot of people seem to like the add ons.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Gonna get it.

[Bloblast]

I'll get this one as well. The Desastersoft campaigns are the only missions I fly currently in CLOD.
I hope that the AI will be improved in coming patch. The AI is a bit of a show stopper, lack of agression and at times does not react at all when being attacked.

Lately I got 6 kills in 1 mission simply because of this simplefied AI. But it seems that AI has no priority at the moment for developers.

[senseispcc]

I'll get this one as well. The Desastersoft campaigns are the only missions I fly currently in CLOD.
I hope that the AI will be improved in coming patch. The AI is a bit of a show stopper, lack of agression and at times does not react at all when being attacked.

Lately I got 6 kills in 1 mission simply because of this simplefied AI. But it seems that AI has no priority at the moment for developers.

6 kills in one mission how do you do it ? Your engine nanagement is set to easy and the icons are on the map? Unlimited ammo? Even bombers are more difficult to get down by the simple fact that the Spitfire or Hurricaine do have 15 seconds of ammo!

[SlipBall]

Good news mates
the next campaigns of desastersoft are scheduled to appear on 15 december. Look amazing !!

http://www.desastersoft.com/



An early Christmas present thats good!

[Topo]

Gonna get it, for sure!

[Bloblast]

6 kills in one mission how do you do it ? Your engine nanagement is set to easy and the icons are on the map? Unlimited ammo? Even bombers are more difficult to get down by the simple fact that the Spitfire or Hurricaine do have 15 seconds of ammo!

Everything full real.
Flying 109 on a bomber escort mission. Above Manston I saw Hurri's starting I caught 2 and flew on. Above London there were lot of bandits. Hurri's flying in large formation, I picked out 3, not being attacked by the other ones. Later on I attacked 2 Spits, 1 down. I was seriously damaged by flak, went home together with the He111s all survived. But mid air collision of the bombers brought 2 down, this happens almost every mission. I belly landed in France. During all this I was attacked only once by a Hurri. Outnumbered but the AI did not took advantage of the situation mainly doing evasion moves and continued in formation. Frustrating it could have been a hell of a dog fight. Also ordered my flight to attack my targets, but not response. Quite frustrating this AI!

[Stiboo]

Damn it....

Galland and 303 were 2 campaigns on my list to build when game is patched a bit more!

But great news for COD..these are the sort of campaigns COD should have come with on release...

Guess it's back to Douglas Bader, Ginger Lacey and a Stuka campaign for me..

When I win the lottery jackpot I will buy out maddox games, desastersoft and hire all the super talents we get on the forums ( skinners, aero-engineering experts, historical experts etc...) and form a super flight sim company! - I bet we all dream the same !!

Together we stand ( or fly ) divided we fall ( crash)

anyway - good news for COD..

[He111]

Sounds great!

Wonder if Galland's defiant kills are there?

Of course the picture is wrong, no one in their right mind would attack a deffy @ 6 oclock high, apparently Galland used the attack @ 6 oclock low method.

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx23/ArchaicWarrior/me109defiant.jpg

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[JG52Uther]

Well they did attack like that at first, and got a nasty surprise. They thought they were Hurricanes...

[jamesdietz]

Put me on the list!

[He111]

Well they did attack like that at first, and got a nasty surprise. They thought they were Hurricanes...

But not uncle Galland ?? BTW, didn't he get his defiant kills against 141 Sqn ? not 264 ? not sure

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[adonys]

yeah.. but.. are they in english from the beginning?

otherwise, you'll have to wait a few months/half and year to play them.. the channel battle was still not released in english :(

[retrojet]

Where's the like button in here? :confused:
:grin: And living in torquay is a dream of mine... or Cornwall, somewhere... :grin::grin::grin:



:grin:Damn it....

Galland and 303 were 2 campaigns on my list to build when game is patched a bit more!

But great news for COD..these are the sort of campaigns COD should have come with on release...

Guess it's back to Douglas Bader, Ginger Lacey and a Stuka campaign for me..

When I win the lottery jackpot I will buy out maddox games, desastersoft and hire all the super talents we get on the forums ( skinners, aero-engineering experts, historical experts etc...) and form a super flight sim company! - I bet we all dream the same !!

Together we stand ( or fly ) divided we fall ( crash)

anyway - good news for COD..

[CWMV]

Dang! I lo e the work they do. I just wish the game was ready for it.

[LcSummers]

I own both of them, so i will get the 3rd one. Thats for sure!

[tintifaxl]

Everything full real.
Flying 109 on a bomber escort mission. Above Manston I saw Hurri's starting I caught 2 and flew on. Above London there were lot of bandits. Hurri's flying in large formation, I picked out 3, not being attacked by the other ones. Later on I attacked 2 Spits, 1 down. I was seriously damaged by flak, went home together with the He111s all survived. But mid air collision of the bombers brought 2 down, this happens almost every mission. I belly landed in France. During all this I was attacked only once by a Hurri. Outnumbered but the AI did not took advantage of the situation mainly doing evasion moves and continued in formation. Frustrating it could have been a hell of a dog fight. Also ordered my flight to attack my targets, but not response. Quite frustrating this AI!

And that's the reason I will not buy any new campaign addon for CLoD. Too bad for Desastersoft that the engine is so lacking in the offline department.

[ParaB]

The Desastersoft campaigns show a glimpse of what CloD could have been. These guys do some fantastic work within the constraints of this unfinished sim, and I'll most probably buy this new addon, too.

[NedLynch]

For pilots overseas ( like me :)) there is of course the question will this be available for download and if possible in english?

Furthermore.....a career system? Does this look like it will be something close to a dynamic campaign generator?

In any case, keep it up Desastersoft, you're doing good.

[ATAG_Snapper]

I purchased, downloaded, and installed the "Dundas vs Wick" campaign. It all went without a hitch and plays great on my PC -- the airfields are well populated and feel "alive", yet frame rates are fine (> 30 fps). After flying a couple of missions I decided to hold off any further play until the AI and Comms are fixed by the MG devs for better immersion. The Desastersoft product is excellent IMHO.

I plan to purchase the Channel campaign if/when an English version is released.

[stndbfrgrn]

After today's announcement, I'm not so sure whether I should purchase the "Helmut Wick vs. J. C. Dundas" add-on or not, so what do you guys suggest? Yes? No?

[adonys]

it depends on whether you are satisfied with the current broken AI and its behavior, or not.

the campaigns in itself are decent, and they've included some new systems, like the career one, so all in all, it would be a good thing to go for, if there wouldn't have been the current disastrous state of the game.

[stndbfrgrn]

I'm not really satisfied with it, but I thought it'd still be alright, assuming that it's going to be fixed in the future. Problem is that there doesn't seem to be any accurate answer to that... so is the add-on still worthy, given the game's current state?

[lonewulf]

As I understand it, (according to another Forum thread) you can modify the game files to improve the responsiveness of the AI. I attempted to do this but I must have cocked it up somehow because nothing happened, but some people claim it can be done and I suspect they're right. Now, if that is the case, can the AI in the Desastersoft campaigns also be modified in this way? Does anyone know?

[Psychopoak]

Hi everyone,
I bought this bunch of campaign, and was wondering something.
Is there a way to let an autopilot handle the plane during long nav and other boring stuff like that?
I know it was possible in the good old Il-2, even to skip time until an event appears like passing a waypoint or closing in to the objectives or any enemy fighter, but it seems not to be possible in Cliff of Dover.
I can see the command "AI control" or something like that, but it does not seem to work. any clue on this subject?

[SlipBall]

Hi everyone,
I bought this bunch of campaign, and was wondering something.
Is there a way to let an autopilot handle the plane during long nav and other boring stuff like that?
I know it was possible in the good old Il-2, even to skip time until an event appears like passing a waypoint or closing in to the objectives or any enemy fighter, but it seems not to be possible in Cliff of Dover.
I can see the command "AI control" or something like that, but it does not seem to work. any clue on this subject?


Just change your difficulty setting option for that:)

[Psychopoak]

Just change your difficulty setting option for that:)

is it really THAT simple? any idea of the option to (un-)check? I can't really see wich one is THE one?

btw thanks for the help

[oho]

Hello,
the desastersoft-missions have different waypoints set for the Autopilot depending on the mission.

[Psychopoak]

ok, I will have a look once back at my place and check the options to find this "autopilot" setting, and test afterward on the desastersoft campaigns

[finchOU]

Just downloaded this. Does anyone know if this Add On is compatible with the Team Fusion Patch/MOD? I had, had the TF patch first....then downloaded Adolf Galland Add on....it didnt let me select the campaign. So re-installed the game and only added Adolg Galland and standard patches. Works fine....would like to maybe add the TF patch/MOD after to see if it works.

EDIT: Nevermind.... they are discussing a fix over at ATAG and DesasterSoft.

[jamesdietz]

Just downloaded this. Does anyone know if this Add On is compatible with the Team Fusion Patch/MOD? I had, had the TF patch first....then downloaded Adolf Galland Add on....it didnt let me select the campaign. So re-installed the game and only added Adolg Galland and standard patches. Works fine....would like to maybe add the TF patch/MOD after to see if it works.

EDIT: Nevermind.... they are discussing a fix over at ATAG and DesasterSoft.

I'm still having problems after the big ATAG patch getting my stats updated after a mission .Yes I've tried upgrading both the Desastersoft add-ons I have purchased.