ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[Tacoma74]

Just had an awesome time on ATAG. Thought I would try out the Blenheim online now that I've gotten a pretty good takeoff success rate in it. I started at Littlestone with with a loadout of 40% fuel and 4x250Kg bombs. So I tookoff and headed towards France, slowly gaining altitude up to about 4k feet looking for targets. Ended up finding a nice convoy just west of French Point. So I decided to give divebombing a go. Lined up with a nice big cargo ship straight on in a shallow descent. Right before I was over it I let loose all 4 bombs. Direct hit and down she went! Ended up shattering some of my windows but other than that I was in one piece. So I headed back for home. Had a perfect landing on top of all that.... Oh what a good feeling!

The ol' Blenny is surely a treat! There's nothing more fulfilling than flying a successful mission in that old thing. It's quite a handful, but once you've got a good idea of how to fly it, it can be very rewarding!

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Tacoma74

Ended up shattering some of my windows but other than that I was in one piece.

Try changing your pistol delay to 11 seconds - you should be fine and they will sink just the same.

[Tacoma74]

Originally Posted by jimbop

Try changing your pistol delay to 11 seconds - you should be fine and they will sink just the same.

Yea I was half way across the channel before I realised I forgot to change my bomb delays. Was originally planning on skip bombing, but with a 0 second delay thats pretty much suicide. I thought I would probably have better luck divebombing. But oh well... Hopefully I remember next time! lol

[Ataros]

Bliss and the team, in line with this discussion http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28904 I wonder if you have VAC ON in confs.ini for your server?

Did you experience any cheats or mods abuse?

[WatchMan011]

To Ataros and anyone else regarding the question of VAC being enabled on our servers the answer is "yes". And as to whether or not we have seen any hard evidence of cheating, the answer is "no", because quite simply it's all speculation.

If everyone steps back and tries to look at it objectively you know we can't start banning people based on speculation. Witch hunts are always fun until the cross hairs are on your rear end.

What we have seen and have documented are assertions of hacks, exploits or cheats that have later been proven "false", such as fire extinguishers being used to cause lag and aircraft shooting skyward into the stratosphere.

To the question of if VAC is working or not, we would have to say we have no idea and it's a question that can only be answered by the developers and folks at steam. To the best of my knowledge VAC collects data over a period of time and then bans accounts based on that data.

Finally and I know this is a bit off topic but please everyone take into consideration that we are still dealing with a game that is broke in many areas, I mean we have ships floating 100 meters off the ground for goodness sake! Until the developers fix this game and give us the product we actually were promised and paid for that's just the way that things are, sad but true.

Sincerely, ATAG_WatchMan.

[Ataros]

Thank you very much for the info!

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by WatchMan011

To Ataros and anyone else regarding the question of VAC being enabled on our servers the answer is "yes". And as to whether or not we have seen any hard evidence of cheating, the answer is "no", because quite simply it's all speculation.

If everyone steps back and tries to look at it objectively you know we can't start banning people based on speculation. Witch hunts are always fun until the cross hairs are on your rear end.

What we have seen and have documented are assertions of hacks, exploits or cheats that have later been proven "false", such as fire extinguishers being used to cause lag and aircraft shooting skyward into the stratosphere.

To the question of if VAC is working or not, we would have to say we have no idea and it's a question that can only be answered by the developers and folks at steam. To the best of my knowledge VAC collects data over a period of time and then bans accounts based on that data.

Thanks for the feedback.

Originally Posted by WatchMan011

Finally and I know this is a bit off topic but please everyone take into consideration that we are still dealing with a game that is broke in many areas, I mean we have ships floating 100 meters off the ground for goodness sake! Until the developers fix this game and give us the product we actually were promised and paid for that's just the way that things are, sad but true.

Sincerely, ATAG_WatchMan.

Sad, but true...

[klem]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Does this include the highly touted screenshot/recording tracks lag-cheats? I've always doubted those that claimed to have proven this.

Just so you know, we tested PrtScrn on the ATAG server. It does cause lag/warp. Whether its used on purpose is difficult to say but we have seen some a/c warp repeatedly when in a tight spot and not when they're not, so its suspicious at times.

[corchard]

S! ATAG folk,

Your server is the most fun I have with CloD, and I enjoy checking out the stats at http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/content.php just to see if I'm improving, as a personal challenge.

Since there are so many columns in the stats, would it be possible for you to freeze the top two header rows of the embedded stats table at http://216.52.148.29:2012/ATAGStats/ATAGStatsV1.html so we can see what the numbers mean?

Once you scroll down past the top several names it becomes difficult to remember which stat matches with its column header.

If you can't freeze those top two header rows, perhaps you can add a static table of just those header rows above the stats table so we can see those headers above the stats as we scroll down.

Just a friendly request, if it is easy to do.

Charlo

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by klem

Just so you know, we tested PrtScrn on the ATAG server. It does cause lag/warp. Whether its used on purpose is difficult to say but we have seen some a/c warp repeatedly when in a tight spot and not when they're not, so its suspicious at times.

Have you tested fraps recording?

I was planning on making a video.