Friday, September 28 - Patch...First Impressions

[ATAG_Keller]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

There are 80 pilots on ATAG right now...heres hoping the net code was worked on, and has helped

I was on the server earlier with 77 players, and as usual I had a ping of ~32ms.

Planes were warping all over the place, one second their behind you, then beside you, then behind you again. I think > 40 players on a server is still too much for the netcode.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Keller

I was on the server earlier with 77 players, and as usual I had a ping of ~32ms.

Planes were warping all over the place, one second their behind you, then beside you, then behind you again. I think > 40 players on a server is still too much for the netcode.

yeah had the same thing... had a friend slice my wing off and he didn't even see me or take any damage. We joked his wing would fall off in a few minutes when the netcode caught up.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

yeah had the same thing... had a friend slice my wing off and he didn't even see me or take any damage. We joked his wing would fall off in a few minutes when the netcode caught up.

Well, I was the "douchebag" that killed your gunner.....was that Epoch? (The friendly gunner in your Blennie that was waving to me just as I pressed the FIRE button?). I just came off one dogfight up higher and heard Ekko and Dutch say "they were with a twin engine over the ships". I thought I made a BEAUTIFUL stern attack on you with Dutch and Ekko strangely flying benignly to either side of you......

You should have heard them chortle when they read your chat message! Geez, this was just after I used the patch YOU so kindly mirrored for us.

In penance I'm eating an entire all-dressed pizza tonight and won't stop 'til I drop -- I feel that badly.

Seriously - sorry mate!

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Well, I was the "douchebag" that killed your gunner.....was that Epoch? (The friendly gunner in your Blennie that was waving to me just as I pressed the FIRE button?). I just came off one dogfight up higher and heard Ekko and Dutch say "they were with a twin engine over the ships". I thought I made a BEAUTIFUL stern attack on you with Dutch and Ekko strangely flying benignly to either side of you......

You should have heard them chortle when they read your chat message! Geez, this was just after I used the patch YOU so kindly mirrored for us.

In penance I'm eating an entire all-dressed pizza tonight and won't stop 'til I drop -- I feel that badly.

Seriously - sorry mate!

lol No worries.. i was flying escort in Spit with another mate (cp) when you came between us and let rip on epoch's blenheim... we were a little surprised!

[arthursmedley]

First quick impressions; some slight loss of fps overall but not a problem as the game seems smoother than ever before. Low flying, I mean really low flying over land is now a joy. On my Dual-Core/Geforce 460 system performance low down and performance high up now seem pretty equal. Clouds still giving some performance hit though.

Had a quick spin around the ATAG server in my beloved E4, didn't see any opposition but came up upon two a.i. bombers by spotting dots in the far distance. These dots DID NOT disappear or swim in and out of resolution but got larger and soon they revealed the identifiable shapes of Dorniers!!!! Is it just wishful thinking or have they got the LoDs sorted?

If they can give us another quick fix for the starting probs of the Hurri and Spit then this could be another two steps forward without the stumble backwards. For me, this is now two pleasing patches in a row.

Oh yeah; SU26? Hmmm...a little disappointing. Could do with some polishing to get it to the standard of the Spits, Hurris and 109's in this game. Laser weapons? Really!? ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[Jugdriver]

The Good

Visually sharper
This is the first build where I can turn on the grass and not have massive stutters.
Like a lot of people my FPS are down, BUT now there are no large FPS swings that were causing stutters before.
Clouds have shadows
The Spit 1a Oct and IIa are now quite competitive
No more ghosts (hopefully)

The Bad

Many RAF fighters are very difficult to start
Exhaust effects are too bright now (looks like night time effects in the day reflecting off the fuselage)
You can see the Cloud shadows on your aircraft when you fly above the clouds
You can see ground object dots thru the clouds again.

All in all I am giving this patch a thumbs up, smooth out the starting, RPM bugs and small visual issues and make it official.

JD
AKA_MattE

[epoch]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

lol No worries.. i was flying escort in Spit with another mate (cp) when you came between us and let rip on epoch's blenheim... we were a little surprised!

A little surprised is an understatement, since my AI gunners didn't say a thing!

Perhaps the Devs can add a "Skipper - friendly douchebag ay 6 o'clock" AI radio call

Only joking - all in good fun.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by epoch

A little surprised is an understatement, since my AI gunners didn't say a thing!

Perhaps the Devs can add a "Skipper - friendly douchebag ay 6 o'clock" AI radio call

Only joking - all in good fun.

Well, you looked "unfriendly" to me -- downright menacing, in fact!

Not to worry, my mates were still giving me a hard time about it late into the night......LOL

[banned]

Still a bit disappointed that the AI still commit suicide when you land. Multiplayer is cool though. They need to release the update through Steam now.

[klem]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Well, I was the "douchebag" that killed your gunner.....was that Epoch? (The friendly gunner in your Blennie that was waving to me just as I pressed the FIRE button?). I just came off one dogfight up higher and heard Ekko and Dutch say "they were with a twin engine over the ships". I thought I made a BEAUTIFUL stern attack on you with Dutch and Ekko strangely flying benignly to either side of you......

You should have heard them chortle when they read your chat message! Geez, this was just after I used the patch YOU so kindly mirrored for us.

In penance I'm eating an entire all-dressed pizza tonight and won't stop 'til I drop -- I feel that badly.

Seriously - sorry mate!

Thank goodness for that, I thought it might have been me! I attacked a trailing Ju88 behind that formation of about 7 of them. What was a Blennie doing imitating a fighter anyway? It has enough problems imitating a bomber!