Friday Official Update, July 20, 2012

[CID_]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

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.

[B]Have a great weekend!

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

[jojimbo]

awesome B6, any news on windows 8 launcher fixes?

[Toni74]

Originally Posted by CID_

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

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

[Aer9o]

Originally Posted by Toni74

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!!!

[CID_]

Originally Posted by Toni74

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

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.

[Aer9o]

Originally Posted by CID_

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!

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Bounder!

Could you confirm if problems with FMs are still being examined and worked on?

Thanks

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.

[aus3620]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

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

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

+1

[Osprey]

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".

[McFeckit]

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

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