BETA PATCH v1.06.17582 - May 05, 2012

[David198502]

had 6 gamecrashes during 30minutes.
the game even crashes when playing offline(which it hardly did before) and 2 out of 3times when i try to connect to a server....

the textures are a joke now

the flight models....mäh
109 feels sluggish and isnt responsive to inputs anymore(dont know if that is more realistic now) but its almost impossible to stall this crate now, and i just outturned 5(two of them were spitIIa)spitfires on atag in one sortie....not vertical but horizontal...they seemed to stall before me..thats a joke.im a 109 guy exclusively and i want the fms historical correct and not historically incorrect even if its in my favor.its no challenge at all now.

their is such a long way to go, and given the "improvements" with the former patches and now this one, i really fear, that this engine will get completely before they can control that unleashed beast...

[Volksieg]

Well.. I can already see the responses from some quarters....

"This isn't even a beta patch! This is an alpha for testing! You know this.... blah blah blah"

Sorry but... on examination, apart from a few added sounds and a snazzy little extra effect on explosions......

This isn't a patch at all! We were told to expect optimisations not omissions! All they have done is remove the things that were causing problems (Which they claim they have been working on and, in some cases, actually fixed!)...... of course there would be performance increases from that! lol...... but, ultimately, it has just made it more unstable. (Like taking half the engine out of a car and saying "Well.. it's lighter!" )

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Mad Mike67

Quick question... I was under the impresion that being a title through Steam that the updates would be auto applied when the game was initiated via steam. I'm not a wiz kid but I figured it was going to be that simple, am I missing something?


Thanks
Mike

That happens with the final, official patches. The testing patches (alpha and beta versions) like this one do not get applied through Steam but manually.

The reason is that this allows us to test for bugs on a voluntary basis and be able to revert back to the last stable version through Steam if something goes wrong (eg, you can see some people are very happy with the new patch and some are not).

If the beta patches were applied through Steam, then there would be no way to revert back, they would be applied to everyone in a mandatory fashion and everyone would be stuck with a testing version.

This way, only those that want to deal with bug hunting and providing feedback are installing the test patches and the rest wait for the official release through Steam.

[Lurker_71]

I reinstalled the game and reinstalled the patch to give it another shot (after reading Bliss' reports that the new patch rock). Nope. Worse FPS than before, stutters, and overall not smooth. Before the patch, my only two gripes were AI and launcher.exe crashes. AI seems a bit better, but not sure. Since performance is very poor I didn't care to even try online, so I do not know whether the launcher exe crash is still there.

The fact is, I had better performance with full clouds and higher settings. Now, it is worse. I'll go back to previous version. Very disappointed, after so many months of waiting.

You folks have fun with the placebo. I'll skip.


Regards

My system: Win64, 8 GB ram, i7 870, gtx 460, game on SSD.