Friday Official Update, July 20, 2012
 

Hello gentlemen!

We’re virtually done with the move and are back to work. The new iteration of the patch is due next week! Sorry, couldn’t push it out today.
We fixed the problem with the trees and are now dealing with the last major issue, hit decals on aircraft. However we were still unable to pinpoint the launcher crashes. People are crashing less, or maybe sending us fewer crash logs, but we haven’t gotten any magic logs that happen to have crashed at the exact precise moment we needed to diagnose the problem. Say tuned!

We did have a small flood at the new office today, here’s a picture as a small bonus. We figured it was the many tears of the users that finally got to our office. Also, some latest pictures from the Eastern Front.

Have a great weekend!

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Good news! Thanks B6

Looking good!

Thanks for the update.

Septic.

Thank you for this Update. :)

Good! I can't wait.

I Hope none of the pcs have damages, good work on the trees, are plans to realease a hotfix soon? this bug its very VERY anoying

Question B6: Could you also solve the Hurricane-Startup problem? This is a issue not to underestimate because it makes many missions unplayable as AI-Hurricane doesn´t start.

Desastersoft-Addons for example are unplayable...

+1 and the trees please

We fixed this problem.

Well!! at least a little bit of life there!

Good news B6! can´t wait to see this new patch.

Great to hear, thank you a lot! That means I will be playing as soon as a hotfix is out:)

Blacksix - the Launcher exe crash for me is right after I exit the single player game with the Esc key. Can you tell me if this is the bug you are looking for?

you fix the He111 AI problem too?

Thanks for the update!

My favorite photo.....all that water and a couple small paper towels!!

Hmm that basement you guys moved into sure looks modern...never knew your parents were that rich. ;):-P

hey b6 i have a little question, are the guys going to make some changes in the Sounds? (engines,weps ,etc) ?

Hooray! The sky has stopped falling down. Thanks B6

I can see the impeller in the supercharger scoop of that F4 :)

I like the eastern front ground textures
but you will fix the horizont water problem in the next sequel?

Thanks B6

YAY:grin: Great work guys..many thanks B6

Thats for the hurri start up fix :)

super stuff, cheers for the update!

It really IS Friday after all.

You should have went with it was the sweat off your programmers working on a patch instead of tears :)

Anyways, thanks for the update, cant wait for the next patch!

That's exactly what happens to me. Hope its an easy fix.
Good news about the trees and the non starting Hurricanes.

Thanks B6 for the update. Good to hear from you. Were you able to fix the vibrating shadows?

Thanks for the update.

Can you discuss more on the "fixed problem with the trees" for the next patch? Are they not such a fps drain now?

Oh wow that Frederick looks amazing, it retract my previous statement!

Can you release the template and give it to Cpt.Farrel ;)

I'd rather they hire Cpt Farrel for all german plane textures. ;)

Agreed :D... in fact all skins ;)

Why did he have to go and have a kid, the little monster best not keep him from his beauty sleep :mrgreen:

erm B6, are they sure about the colour (yellow) of the trees in the screenshots you've posted up?

Well its clearly going to be an autumn map ;)

http://www.getintravel.com/wp-conten...-1600x1066.jpg

and then the winter one as well...

Thanks B6 for the update. Good to hear from you. Were you able to fix the vibrating shadows?

Working on the last problem and the patch next week... hmm sounds rather familiar. ;)

Lets hope it is true this time.

Good to see some humour in your update.. much needed.

A quick google search for "images Russia autumn" will allay your fears.

Personally, I think it looks better than CoD already. The terrain styling seems to lend itself to recreating Russian Steppe better than the green fields of England.

Next week would be more than fine! Keep up the good work! And keep your head above water! ;)

this is Staligrad

http://goo.gl/maps/9Tv2

You can see a river arm near distant plane

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/attachmen...4&d=1342791675

+1

Cpt.Farrel for default 109s. Hire him please! The mottling on this Friedrich is not the best I would say.

http://www.cptfarrels.com/COD/Bf109E...Sept_1940s.jpg

i like Bf109F

Thanks B6 :)

S!

Thanks for update. Regarding crashlogs..even I get sometimes Launcher.exe crashes it does not generate a crashlog at all :( I sent some I managed to get, but most of times ccpcrash folder is empty.

.Shall the problem of the double markings in the trak record be corrected? And the idle throttle problem of the Spitfire MKI?

Many thanks for the update & the screenshots!
Would like to check out the FM of those Il-2...they appear to be pretty nimble!
Also lots of good atmospheric smoke-I only hope by the time BoM comes out the dismal FPS I get flying through smoke or dust ( esp on takeoff...) is fixed.Actually getting better FPS in CloD is still one of my fondest ( perhaps the wrong choice of words...)issues.

Black Six Thanks for the update on what is happening !

Hum... wait and see...

Great to hear from you B6. So glad things are still moving along. Looking forward to the next patch.

I would like to hear whether the distant water bug will be addressed in the sequel - the one where a stream seems to expand to the size of a small lake when viewed at a distance.

Cheers

PS. Please keep posting the sequel shots - many of us appreciate them

so probably not a good idea to release my latest campaign after the weekend then:-P

the only question i'll ask, is this a beta patch? or 'official' release?

Funniest thing I've read here for days!

Thanks for the Update.

Is that river transparency I see? :)

Thanks for the update Blacksix, great to hear the trees and the problems with the hurricane startup online are being fixed. Could you confirm if problems with FMs are still being examined and worked on?

Thanks

Location obscuration
 

I see the blinds are carefully shut in the office picture.
Is this a way of hiding the location from the moaners on this forum, so they can't storm the building?
56RAF_phoenix

I thought the same thing - especially after remembering some of the wild assertions that were kiddingly made in one of the "What to Expect in the Friday Update" topics posted yesterday. Someone mentioend a flood. LOL



Thanks B6! Nice images. Thanks to the crew for their efforts.

What about the significant fps drop on some systems? Has that been fixed or even acknowledged?

Next friday we will get a patch that will fix two issues that were introduced with the latest beta patch? That's 1 month of dev time.. a bit slow.. But then I guess any kind of progress is good, right?

Ffantastic news that the patch is almost finished

OK Ilya/B6, glad you checked in and my gloomy suspicions are unfounded.

The screenshots are beautiful.

Will it be the offical patch next week through steam??

Hello B6 and dev's Teams,

Sry to bother you with that but it seems that the IL2 pilots on the screenshot did not read his pilot's notes. You might want to correct this before the VVS get infected by the Texan's way of flying an airplane :rolleyes:

Wasn't the IL2 limited to 60deg bank angle ?

~S

Thank you for the update B6. Also, that image of the water with the paper towels is very symbolic, the water being a broken game and the paper towels being the patches that tries to fix the game, very funny indeed.

P.S Landscape looks good.

Still we see no AA :( (Il2 is very jaggy)

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...6&d=1342791585

Well on the plus side we can see they arent withholding anything from us, the patch we have is what they are using internally, in the same thought though... I have seen worse... the skins look pretty good...

Great news BlackSix!! Thanks for the update!!
Keep it up with the hard work!!
Regards

Thanks for the up-to-date information, nice pictures!

Hello B6,

Is it possible to have the screen of the BF-109F cockpit near future.

+1

Could be cool to have some Screens from the cockpit of the Friederich Plus the patch if everything goes well

Why should it be limited to a certain bank angle as long as relative positive g is applied?

Yes, it was....
Thx B6 for this news, will follow next patch.

+1

+100

i gess before that this is BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 1942. but , where are the IAR80?

and will be nice to see some good skins in that Friedrich
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/231/pics/2_107_b1.jpg
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/231/pics/2_9.jpg
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/231/pics/2_58.jpg
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/231/pics/2_14.jpg
:cool:

Good to see you still have your sense of humor!!! :D

Thanks (as always) for the update!

:D :D :D

Not sure about that, had it been the case, it would have had tsunami strength... ;)
:D :D :D

Thanks for the update, looking forward to the Bf109-F


Nice week end!

~S~

Wow, I feel I was actually happier BEFORE that "official update" came out! :D

One thing i care about......performance!!!!!!!!

Well, we've had these updates before and people have been disappointed so lets see the proof in the pudding,screenshots are ok to look at BUT gameplay/performance will be the real marker.

Oooh, that 109F looks so sexy.

Not sure I could stay faithful if there was a Yak-1b in the game, though.

Thanks for the update.keeping my fingers crossed for the best outcome.

Quoted for truth.

Wowee!Those are some sexy skins!

Nice Screens....Thnx

Yah Launcher error everytime I exit......... but does not affect the game....just annoying...I mean no kidding if I exit........ laucher is not worrking...I don't need to know that.

Wow, that F model 109 is sexy to the max! Can't wait to get my mits on her! ;) LoL, as it is I just made the jump from IL2'46 to CloD today! So with any luck I will be ready to fly and rust free when moscow is the new objective!

Love Hit decal, and love the joke at the end....Good Job B6

Nice screenies.
Thanks for the update.

It's really vodka isn't it? Such a waste! ;) I hope you're going to wring out those rags!

About SLI and Quad SLI Support @ Ilya or Alexander
 

Good Morning B6!

Just an easy Question: Is in the upcomming Patch SLI and Quad SLI still working as "Performance Break"?

For Explanation: I am Using 3 Systems. The Big one is i7 - 6 Core @ 6x4GHZ, 12 GB Tripple Channel DDR3 RAM, and 2x GF 590 GTX with together 6 GB Video DDR 5 RAM.

The second Main System is i7 - 4x3,5 GB, 16 GB DDR3 RAM Quad Channel with a GF 580 AMP Version GTX with 3GB DDR 5 RAM.

The effect is, the System Nr. 1 is with 90 AC in Combat at 25-35 FPS on High End Settings.

The much smaller System, Nr. 2 is with exact same Settings and same Mission at 50-120 FPS!

Oleg wrote me at beginning of CloD, before he was gone, that this belongs to the not implemented SLI and Quad SLI support.

Is this crazy feature still in? Or did you solve the Problem?

Cheers
Thomas/Chief of Desastersoft

Thanks B6 for the update

I like the autum environment, great pix. Now lets have those nasty bugs ironed out!!!

Great weekend

First of all, thanks for the update.

Second, i have a question.

Is the team aware of the issues with bombsights? I had started a thread some time ago to collect all data with bugs and suggestions for bomber aircraft. The reason is that being able to fly bombers and hit targets, we can have missions to fly (both offline and online) that are much closer to battle of Britain.

This will make everybody happy, the bomber pilots who can finally hit targets and the fighter pilots who will have bombers to protect and intercept. With the advances being made in mission design (for example Wolf's channel command mission on the ATAG server and the campaign on the ACG server that both use C# scripts) as well as the new C# methods you gave us for setting area targets in the missions, i think it is the time to say that we really need the bombers fixed.

There were a lot of issues with higher priority and there are still many others, but at this time a few small fixes in the twin engined aircraft will help a lot with playability while you guys work on the rest.

bugged bombers that cannot aim their bombs = players don't fly bombers = no battle of Britain :grin:

There are various bugs and suggestions about bombers, but the most important one right now is to fix the bombsights. If we can hit targets we can wait to get the rest of them corrected.

The Blenheim sight is fine, but the Lofte sight on the Ju88 and He111 either needs debugging or someone to explain to us how to use it, because whatever we try either the bombs miss, or the sight doesn't track correctly when automation is engaged. I don't know about the Br.20 because i haven't tested it a lot.

Here is the link to that thread with all the bomber bugs and suggestions:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32592

Blacksix, if you could please show it to Luthier and tell us what he thinks about it, we would really appreciate it. Fixing the Lofte is probably just a few arithmetic changes in the code (maybe just like the Hurricane 100 oct start-up fix that you did) and since we have an extra week, maybe we'll get lucky and get it debugged before the next patch. Then we will be flying some group sorties on ATAG and make some nice videos to show you all how to carpet bomb ;)

But please, show the twin-engined birds some love just like you did with the Blenheim a few patches ago (it was almost unflyable, now it works well for the most part). I know fighters are more popular, but if there are no bombers the fighters don't have too much to shoot. Thanks :grin:

Pretty much the same as an E4 I would think

Only when there are no 109s.

Do not worry about flooding. When the humidity lift the laminate flooring ... you will have a new place to hide.

awesome B6, any news on windows 8 launcher fixes?

Why don't you hide into the cave you've come from?

still ...its a good joke...i think! Personally i am so tierd of all the promises...however looking forward for the new patch and hope there will be no other buggs with it!!!

Dear Toni74;
Do not interpret my words any intention of insulting B6. I simply followed the line of humor (maybe bittersweet when you consider the current situation).
Your words indicate an attempt to see enemies where none exist. If there were enemies in this forum with the intention of insulting, believe me, they left long ago. Users who read this forum today (hurt, angry, hopeful, etc ...) are not enemies.

I agree...at least we can have a laugh!

6 pages before this important question is asked.

The RAF flight models that were supposed to be patched are very inaccurate, especially for the Hurricane and should be fixed.

Bombsights
 

+1

A correction for Blackdog, ACG (Air Combat Group) runs historical missions with AI bombers and is not objective based (you can fly bombers though). The campaign server is the JG27 one, "Storm of War Campaigns".

That's the hammer on the nail's head right there! :roll: