Friday Update, February 3, 2012

[Sutts]

I'm thinking the "unexpected feature" might be something the devs themselves didn't expect - some nice effect the new graphics engine delivers that wasn't anticipated?

Originally Posted by adonys

so, I'm 150% sure they have all of the above, it's just they don't want to let us know the dates and the deadlines.. and they would have done that, if it would have been in their favor.. as it is, it's clear they want to hide something..
well, thanks for the update anyway!

I also think they already know everything we wish we would know...
But they can't be shure if what they already know will be true next week...or in a month....They also surely know that we know they know, but in the end, we can't be sure they know what we think they should know by now...That is why, most of our questions are without answers...
And that is why we will finally know almost at the same time they'll know for sure...

Salute !

[Megahurt]

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by BigC208

The news about groundcrews got me curious on how that will be implemented. Static crews or fuelers and ammo guys moving about the aircraft. No more ghost aerodromes, nice.

where did you see that ?

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by pupo162

nothing really new.

still waiting for a patch release till then its all small talk.

also, average is never been the issue i had in cliffs of dover. i can easely average 60 fps ( wich is more than what i average in il2 1946!!) thre problem is the stutters.

just blink in sync with them...problem solved

S!

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by il_corleone

wow, really nice damage model, but, i will be realistic, the more important thing from the update its the FPS increase, and wow, guys you do it!, i need to see it ingame but, sunds promisings, but, you need to bring back the old colors from the first patches, i dont know if i am the only one that likes it, but, the down and all was more "realistic" and more eye candy, but, first of all things, the performance guys, a house is started from the floor rigth? so, first please,Optimizate the Graphic Engine, to a very decent stable, and later, Start to make addons/Expansions to the game, Manu, Thanks for the info

+1

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Megahurt

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

Rubbish. Megahurt, come over to the other thread at http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29453.

1. The HE-111 course autopilot is extremely stable. Select the second mode which adjusts all three controls and you'll be right if you are already trimmed.

2. The problem with the HE-111 is that you can be perfectly trimmed, on autopilot, perfectly on target in the sight and it releases early. Hopefully this will be addressed in the patch but there are workarounds even now that will get you on target at 5,000 m.

3. The Blenheim didn't have an attitude indicator in the bombardier's seat.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Continu0

I guess all we can say is that the new graphic-Engine is nearly finished. But if they want to pack other things into the patch as well, this things might not be finished yet.

I wouldn´t take this update as a promise that the patch will be out very soon...

That's my take on it too. I expect they will try to correct the major and long-outstanding issues before moving on to the sequel: performance and whatever known bugs we have like reversed controls/instruments and so on in certain aircraft.

Originally Posted by smink1701

1+++. This is the root of much of the frustration. We've been looking forward to this sim for years...after countless delays get an unfinished product...and the next beta is a complete mystery in terms of content and timing. But we get images from the sequel and it’s a plane that most outside Russia would never want to fly. I bought the game and will keep watching and hoping for real progress but all the missteps have left me quite skeptical.

They do have a lot of customers in Russia and there are also a lot of Luftie drivers who need stuff to shoot down. The flight sim world doesn't revolve around 2-3 allied plane types after all, it would be mighty boring if it did

Originally Posted by Megahurt

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

Like Jimbop pointed out, there is a thread running right now on the main CoD page of the forums that explains everything you need to know about the 111. I'm not going to lie and pretend we had adequate coverage of these things in the manual, but a group of people in the community are so active in testing things out that we now know how to bomb effectively in the Blenheim and 111, some people on the Russian servers are also using the Br.20 and the Ju88 is the same as the 111, we are just hoping its gyrocompass will be fixed in the next patch to allow us to use the autopilot.

In that thread you will also find links to videos on youtube, known issues/bugs and their workarounds, plus a link to my initial tutorial on bombsights and autopilots and links to the ATAG server forums were most of the testing takes place.

There IS a level stabilizer and its built into the plane's autopilot. Just read the community-provided documentation and you'll be good to go after a few practice runs


P.S.

Thanks everybody for keeping it civil and interfacing with our community liaison in a proper, polite manner. Negative opinions and expressing disappointment is not grounds for bans, rudeness is.

I think you can all see that when we stick to the purpose of the thread everything goes fine: read the update, ask your questions and if BlackSix knows the answer he'll come back and post it.

Keep it like this please. My exam season is over, i have a 3 week break and i'll be watching the update threads like an obsessive maniac
They will remain on-topic and informative no matter the cost, even if i have to spend 2-3 hours a day to delete off-topic or insulting posts and hand out forum infractions instead of flying the sim.

I really hope i won't have to but will if i have to, because the purpose of the thread is to be able to ask questions and easily browse through any answers given. Let's keep it running like it is and everything will be fine for all of us

[Megahurt]

Ive only got just under 400 hours playing this game. Maybe thats not enough to drop a bomb on target successfully.

The course autopilot is a joke. try setting it after you line up the target. Impossible.
Try setting it before, and the target isnt lined up properly and the adjustments dont take effect.

A simple attitude indicator in the bombadier station would solve everything.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Megahurt

Ive only got just under 400 hours playing this game. Maybe thats not enough to drop a bomb on target successfully.

The course autopilot is a joke. try setting it after you line up the target. Impossible.
Try setting it before, and the target isnt lined up properly and the adjustments dont take effect.

Which aircraft? The course autopilot (mode 22) is perfect in CoD but you need to adjust it to directional gyro + 9 degrees = straight ahead. The first mode is useful too but does not control ailerons. Blenheim does not have a course autopilot - you need to trim manually.

Originally Posted by Megahurt

A simple attitude indicator in the bombadier station would solve everything.

Yes, it would be helpful but you should have taken it up with the design engineers 65 years ago. This is meant to be a sim, improvements are not allowed!