4.12.2 de-bugging

[gaunt1]

Maybe Im wrong, but I think AI become even more stupid than it was in 4.11. Individually, they are OK, but in a formation, they are incredibly dumb.
Usually when my flight meets an enemy formation, and I command my wingmen to attack, they just fly straight and not doing anything, despite that they are quite good at spotting the enemy. After 1 or 2 minutes, 2-3 of my planes begin attacking, but the rest are just flying pointlessly, or flying in huge circles.
For example, in the most recent mission in the soviet fighter campaign, I commanded 8 La-5FNs, and met a german flight of 6 FW190s. Even though we managed to down all enemy planes (4 myself), we lost 4 La-5s in the process, all of them just flew pointlessly instead of attacking.
Similar happened in japanese campaigns too.

[Tolwyn]

How about going public with the link to the campaign?

Originally Posted by ElAurens

OK, I guess I'll go public with my issue.

I have been talking to IceFire about it over PMs, but I think a larger player sample is needed.

I've been trying to fly the Finnish Hawk 75 Campaign that was built by IceFire. I have been unable to complete the missions reliably because
of the game locking up over time. Part way through the missions I will start getting stutters, that increase in frequency over time till the game totally locks up and I end up on the desktop.

It reminds me very much of the way Cliffs of Dover was on release, that is, play for a period of time, the stutters, then total game lock up.

IL2/46 has NEVER behaved this way for me on my hardware, ever before intoduction of V 4.12.

It's a pity too, as the campaign appears to be very lovingly constructed and I really want to complete it.

[baball]

Originally Posted by FC99

We are working on it, it will be fixed for 4.12.1

Thank you so much TD!

[JtD]

Originally Posted by Tolwyn

How about going public with the link to the campaign?

It's part of 4.12.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

OK, I guess I'll go public with my issue.

I have been talking to IceFire about it over PMs, but I think a larger player sample is needed.

I've been trying to fly the Finnish Hawk 75 Campaign that was built by IceFire. I have been unable to complete the missions reliably because
of the game locking up over time. Part way through the missions I will start getting stutters, that increase in frequency over time till the game totally locks up and I end up on the desktop.

It reminds me very much of the way Cliffs of Dover was on release, that is, play for a period of time, the stutters, then total game lock up.

IL2/46 has NEVER behaved this way for me on my hardware, ever before intoduction of V 4.12.

It's a pity too, as the campaign appears to be very lovingly constructed and I really want to complete it.

Sounds like a possible memory leak

Originally Posted by JtD

It's part of 4.12.

Interesting.

[ElAurens]

Yes, it comes with 4.12.

[Baddington_VA]

In FMB targets once having been assigned to red will soon change themselves into targets assigned to blue
and targets assigned blue will change to red.
how ever many times I change them back, they keep reverting to the wrong side.

Mission building activities have come to a grinding halt..




Thanks for help.
Problem solved.
Seems that one side has to have Destroy, the other Defend.
This has been the source of much confusion for online maps.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Yes, it comes with 4.12.

Indeed! I worked fairly hard to try and make sure that it was ready for 4.12 release. Then the translators went to town as well. All efforts hugely appreciated!

But everyone does have the campaign available to them "out of the box" so to speak

[Aviar]

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

In FMB targets once having been assigned to red will soon change themselves into targets assigned to blue
and targets assigned blue will change to red.
how ever many times I change them back, they keep reverting to the wrong side.

Mission building activities have come to a grinding halt..

If you already have a Target(s) installed, be very careful if you are still working on the mission. It's very easy for a Target to 'change sides' because of something you did.

For instance, if you are testing the mission in the FMB and decide to assign a plane to the 'Player', depending on what Army that plane belongs to, that could make the Target 'change sides'. I've had that happen to me many times. It's not a bug.

You may be test-flying the mission yourself as RED and then decide to fly it as BLUE. When you change the Player's plane to BLUE, the Target may 'change sides'. That's normal. You will need to change the Target back to the original designation after you remove the Player-controlled option from the BLUE plane.

Another thing, if you are new to mission-building, you may actually be designating Targets incorrectly to begin with. In that case, the game will automatically re-assign the Targets correctly. This is very common, as Targets can be a little confusing at first.

If you are still stuck, feel free to post a problem mission here and I will look at it for you.

Aviar

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

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Originally Posted by ElAurens

I've been trying to fly the Finnish Hawk 75 Campaign that was built by IceFire. I have been unable to complete the missions reliably because
of the game locking up over time. Part way through the missions I will start getting stutters, that increase in frequency over time till the game totally locks up and I end up on the desktop.

Anyone else experiencing this?
@ElAuren: did you try a different similar long mission ( single mis. maybe)?