Please Implement Steam VAC as soon as practicable...

I cant imagine it will ever be implemented, and right now it as to be at the bottom of the list of priorities, I would rather there be 100 cheaters flying in a lobby of 1000 pilots than just one or two in a lobby of 40. The sooner the game gets fixed the more we will find flying on line and hopefully that will eventually breathe back some life into what is currently a dead sim for all but a handful of people.

[jimbop]

Yes, we need better numbers but since Dec 29 there have been 1100 different users playing on ATAG #1 with 5200 on-air kills (as good a broad stat as I could think of!) Not too bad in a week.

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by jimbop

On a similar topic, what's the white rubbish that streams from some 109s when you get on their six? I'd say it was fire extinguisher but I didn't think they had one. I was told yesterday that it was a 'graphics bug' - is that right?

Hi Jimbob, I never managed to find the fire extinguisher on the Bf109, much less make it work. Since then, I was particularly amused reading the chat red pilots calling blue cheaters because of the white foam fps killer comming out of the B109 and ME110 wings...

I can only assume, it is the radiator water or other kind of fluid leakage (maybe pneumatics for the landing system operation?) which at a certain distance makes this cloud.


Coming back to the real post:
Please gentlemen, let's not make this a "witch hunt"
I do not believe there if evidence available of someone cheating the flight model in order to prove superior in battle.
Possibilities to do so, are available and I am sure people have experimented with it and I have no problem with that.
I am also very careful with things people claim to "have seen with their own eyes" There is a lot of margin for missinterpretation when playing on line and it is part of human nature that "we see what we want to see" and I had the experience: I was called a "cheater" (in a way) because apparently I had found and used online the ME110s autopilot system in order to climb away from a Hurricane. And I dared to write in chat about it.
Fact is that in a ME110 I did climb away from a Hurricane (shock and awe....)
Fact is that I did not use any magic nor cheat nor feature to do it, it was simply a pure case of energy management and aerodynamics.
Fact is that this event became a discussion point (read better: "accussation") in the forums (see quotes at the end of my post).
Luckily, the Hurricane pilot in question intervened and stated the facts and energy situation as it happend from his side and what could have become a very ugly discussion ended there.

What I mean with this example, which I had the privilidge to experience personaly, is that if you are not there inside both planes you can quickly draw the wrong conclusions.

By the way ElAurens, it is not the first time that you make bold statements based on things you have heard from second or third hand:
Last post on that page: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...=28174&page=36

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

He, he, he, sorry ElAurens, please do not fall into the trap and take the stupidity he wrote for real (I had an excellent discussion with him in the other forum).

This ME110 autopilot achievement is complete rubbish that somebody with absolutely no knowledge of Blue planes (his own words) wrote.
I know, because I was the pilot flying the ME110 on course-autopilot. Point.

So let us be careful and avoid building towers in the sand when there is no factual information behind...

I regret I was not fast enough stopping the culprit in his tracks thus you became victim of his missinformation.

Having shared my opinion with you regarding evidence of cheating,
I do believe that it is an excellent idea to implement VAC control now.
Some things are better being implemented pro-actively instead of retro-actively (after the damage was done).

~S~

[bongodriver]

a dead sim for all but a handful of people

are you sure? I think the statistic is a little the other way, a handfull consider it dead and are here 'unable to move on from their loss', for the majority it's still twitching so we are waiting for the CPR to take effect.....and yes there is also a small number who just don't believe anything is wrong.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

I do believe that it is an excellent idea to implement VAC control now.

Is there any evidence it is not implemented already? Luthier in the above quote said it had been. He may be mistaken of cause but I am curious of the facts.

[335th_GRAthos]

If you can enter a server even if you do not have the current patch installed, it is not activated yet

[IvanK]

The "White Foam" : can come from any aeroplane on a random basis, its a straight out graphical glitch

For those that haven't seen it here it is on Youtube at 3:09 and a still from the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZfV...ayer_embedded#

In this case a Spitfire after a slow snapshot. However it is not always associated with action it is a random event ... I have witnessed aeroplanes "foaming" as they go into the flare.

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by IvanK

The "White Foam" : can come from any aeroplane on a random basis, its a straight out graphical glitch

For those that haven't seen it here it is on Youtube at 3:09 and a still from the vid:

In this case a Spitfire after a slow snapshot. However it is not always associated with action it is a random event ... I have witnessed aeroplanes "foaming" as they go into the flare.

I have seen it several times both on Sipts and Hurries, more usual on Hurries though... Well, at least on my system.

Regards.

[jimbop]

I'm glad to hear that the white foam is truly a graphics bug rather than gaming. This makes me highly suspicious of the teamspeak chatter about hacking since many are convinced that the white foam is a deliberate cheat (and are wrong).

Bring on VAC, certainly, but in the meantime if I am shot down by another player I will continue to think it is due to my own deficiency and try to improve.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by jimbop

I'm glad to hear that the white foam is truly a graphics bug rather than gaming. This makes me highly suspicious of the teamspeak chatter about hacking since many are convinced that the white foam is a deliberate cheat (and are wrong).

Wellingtons did it at low alt since 1.01.14588 came out in May https://picasaweb.google.com/1002171...ObY0-un64O1rAE