4.101 Official Release

[Sven]

It is definitely worth your while! The new standard skins are awesome after 4.09 skins.

[GT182]

Not to jump the gun on 4.11 but.... please retrun the pilots head movements when they are in the air. Remember when we could watch them follow other aircraft before while in the external view. That should come back in a patch.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Originally Posted by GT182

Not to jump the gun on 4.11 but.... please retrun the pilots head movements when they are in the air. Remember when we could watch them follow other aircraft before while in the external view. That should come back in a patch.

If you mean AI... then there is no change. They are still doing, what you suggest.
If you mean players, it never have been, what you suggest.

[MikeC1980]

Nice work chaps! Thanks for all your hard work!

[Deadstick]

+1 on that. Thank you very much guys!

I am still laughing at this from the 4.10 complaints and 4.101 fixes :

"Night is sometimes too dark and instruments cannot be seen very well".

Night is dark? Well holy %^#@! I never knew.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Sven

It is definitely worth your while! The new standard skins are awesome after 4.09 skins.

+1! A lot of beautiful skins in there by some of the very best skinners.

[Propwash_]

Originally Posted by Sven

It is definitely worth your while! The new standard skins are awesome after 4.09 skins.

If you have the new skins, do others without them see them as well? Or do they have to have the new skins too?

[-)-MAILMAN-]

After installing the patch 4.10.1 When selecting the Corsair MkI, and turning on markings for USN or USMC or USAAF on all of the new Solomons maps except Jan 44 the US marking applied to the aircraft is the early US national marking of the white star, blue background (circle) and red dot in the center. This insignia was last used at Coral Sea in early May 1942 and was not present for the Battle of Midway. Is there a fix in the near future for this? This also occured when I tested the same maps with the Corsair MkII and Corsair MkIV. Best I can tell no other aircraft are affected this way except those I mentioned here.

[AndyJWest]

The Corsair Is, IIs and IVs are the British versions (with slightly-clipped wings to suit lower-ceilinged carrier hangers), so presumably wouldn't normally have had USN/USAAF markings. Do the F4U versions have the same problem?

[-)-MAILMAN-]

I am very aware of every version of the F4U Corsair built from the F4U-1 thru the AU-7 and when and where they entered service. The F4U-1 through F4U-4 were in combat in the Pacific in WWII.

We unfortunately in the stock game have to use the Corsair Mk I as a substitute for the F4U-1 which is listed as a GB plane. The Corsair MkI was identical to the F4U-1 in every detail but the camouflage paint and national markings. The Corsair Mk I just like the F4U-1 did not have clipped wings and therefore it never was put aboard the Royal Navy Carriers. In any case we should be able to select the correct US markings for this aircraft.

The Corsair Mk I never entered combat not even as ground based. Most stayed here in the states and were used for training at places like Brunswick NAS here in Maine. The F4U-1 however was active during the the Solomons campaign starting in February 1943 and then flying right along side of the F4U-1A all the way through Bougainvillea. Converted F4U-1 were made into night fighters with 5 machine guns and a radar dome and designated F4U-2. They were part of the VF(N) squadrons during the Truk raids.

The Corsair Mk II, (F4U-1A by Vought, F3A-1A by Brewster and FG-1A by Goodyear) & Corsair III (F3A-1D by Brewster) & Corsair IV (FG-1D by Goodyear) were the Corsair variants that had clipped wings and were placed aboard the Royal Navy carriers. Corsair Mk II participated in the attacks on the Tirpitz in April 44 and simultaneously in the Indian Ocean also in April 1944 and later Sumatra and later with the Corsair Mk III and IV at Okinawa and Sakashima and Japan in the Pacific.

So until a decision is made to put the F4U-1 into the game along with the Corsair Mk I or as a replacement for the Corsair Mk I we will have to select it. Earlier versions of the game, when selecting USN/USMC/USAAF as markings for the Corsair Mk I, incorrectly put over sized white stars on blue discs which were similar to what the VVS did on lend lease US aircraft where they painted the white stars red which extended beyond the edge of the blue disc.