Hi fellas,

I've been away for a few weeks with traveling on business and had a death in the family. I figured we would have had a patch by now so I could throw some other missions in, but I guess that's not happening for another few weeks (I hope!) So in the time being, I'm going to modify some of these missions to be able to run them in the current format of the game (launcher crash time constraints). I understand the same thing gets old all the time.

There will be some also be some maps with the IIa/E4 (both limited) and some early morning/late in the day stuff just to change it up a bit. Hoping the 1st one can get done sometime this weekend, and that we can incorporate it into a red wins = map A, blue wins = map B etc., type thing. No promises, but that's what's being worked on atm. Making a mission work right in this state of the game isn't very easy lol. So hold on to your shorts :)

It also looks like the steam stats thingy took a crap.

Welcome back Bliss:)

New mission up on Server 2. Yes it's the same battle area and shares many of the same airfields etc. Not much I can do on that front until the CTD's are solved. But it has a slightly different planeset and different objectives.

It starts at the butt crack of dawn (the forward fields have runway lights). And the new objectives include ships. Sadly ships aren't grouped together like airplanes in this sim yet, so I had to code 17 objectives just for the ships alone :(.

Anyhow it's 90% done (it still shares the same AI flights as server 1 currently) but I would appreciate any feedback. The objectives aren't going to be easy :)

Bliss, does the setting in FMB for the battle area have an effect on CDTs? Are they worse the larger the Battle Area?

Hi Bliss, was flying on your server last night and wanted my squad mates to have the same skin, not custom skins but skins within the game, because we wanted to be able to identify each other. However no matter what we tried we could only see one skin (109E3) a bright shiney skin with no weathering which looked terrible. I understand removing custom skins because of stutter but could you allow stock skins within the game and weathering.

Thank you.

Unfortunately Tree, only the default skin is applied and available when Custom skins are disabled. This is a game limitation and I'm sure Bliss highlighted this problem to the Devs. May be the next update performance improvements will allow custom skins (if the option to use Stock Game skins but still exclude custom skins for MP isn't included).

I don't think so. What I was referring to was just the area for the mission. I think it's pointless to run a mission using the channel map unless it's main concentration/area is where England and France are closest together. Using anything north or south of that area for other scenarios just won't work right now with the CTD issues. I've got quite a few missions that are done, but can't use them / add them because of it.

I wish I could. I've kinda cheated per say, to disable custom skins. I added a command from the confs.ini of old IL246 that just so happened to start working after the latest official patch that disabled skins. If there's another command that's proper to IL2COD that will disable skins and allow all the default one's to work, I don't know it. But living without custom skins is much better than the result of them being on right now.

Hopefully some of this stuff will actually be addressed or added to the confs.ini along with a 100 other things it needs to be up to IL246's standards.

Yep, I sure have. Hopefully some of this graphic work fixes this issue. When B6 was talking about a last minute skin issue holding them back on the patch, makes me at least want to believe something is being done about it ;)

S!

Have been enjoying many flights on the ATAG Axis&Allies server and it has been much fun. A couple of questions:

Where is the server located? Here in Finnieland we get pings well above 150, which causes some jumpy movements when formation flying.

Anyone else get timeouts? I get about 1 per night. So, not on every sortie, but every now and then.

Their server is in Chigago USA. Im from england and dont get time outs. ALthough are you sure thats just not the server restarting?

S!
Around the radar stations and south(?) of the Hq, where are the guys has the launcher freezing I have "only" 1fps bug, but for minutes.
Do you use any extra 3d objects or the "local weather(–cumuls field)" in FMB around this areas?
I can reproduce the problem offline with the weather objects only.