4.12.2 de-bugging

[TitusFlavius]

Moin comrades,

since 4.12 patch the onboard map is cut at the top.
The letters invisible. The numbers at right looks like correct.
Any idea what happened and what can I do that the letters appears?

Thanks in advance.

[robday]

Hi guys, a couple of things I have noticed in4.12;
1, On takeoff AI 'planes exhibit a "nodding" motion (i.e. nose pitches up and then down) until the flaps are retracted, after this the "nodding" stops.
2, Where the default formation for a particular type of 'plane is "right echelon" and multiple flights are chained together, the 1st. aircraft in the 2nd. flight collides with the 4th. of the1st. flight.( In one mission that I built sometime ago in FMB out of 8 'planes in the group only 2 survived the journey to the target).
Changing the formation to "left echelon" cured the problem, but it seems to me that the default spacing between flight leaders is too small.

[Fenrir]

Originally Posted by robday

2, Where the default formation for a particular type of 'plane is "right echelon" and multiple flights are chained together, the 1st. aircraft in the 2nd. flight collides with the 4th. of the1st. flight.( In one mission that I built sometime ago in FMB out of 8 'planes in the group only 2 survived the journey to the target).
Changing the formation to "left echelon" cured the problem, but it seems to me that the default spacing between flight leaders is too small.

Confirmed. Occurs for Mosquito, Mustang and Spitfire aircraft types when ground attack missions are flown and Yellow flight (2nd group of four) is tied to the lead (Red) flight and default formation (echelon right) is chosen.

Yellow lead habitually bulldozes straight into Red 4's a$$. Not an issue with finger-four or echelon left

[robday]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

Occurs for Mosquito, Mustang and Spitfire aircraft types when ground attack missions are flown and Yellow flight (2nd group of four) is tied to the lead (Red) flight and default formation (echelon right) is chosen.

Yellow lead habitually bulldozes straight into Red 4's a$$. Not an issue with finger-four or echelon left

It was SBD's and TBF's in the mission I made. It was the TBF's that totally screwed the pooch!

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by TitusFlavius

Moin comrades,

since 4.12 patch the onboard map is cut at the top.
The letters invisible. The numbers at right looks like correct.
Any idea what happened and what can I do that the letters appears?

Thanks in advance.

Thats usually due to non standard resolution.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Originally Posted by TitusFlavius

Moin comrades,

since 4.12 patch the onboard map is cut at the top.
The letters invisible. The numbers at right looks like correct.
Any idea what happened and what can I do that the letters appears?

Thanks in advance.

Its shoved upward. Just click and hold left + right mouse buttons on the maps frame and pull it whereever you want to.

[Spudkopf]

I noticed some strange random AI landings in QMB since 4.12 within my flight of 4, I’ve heard the German AI yelling out shit on several missions now while I’ve been taxiing to the dispersal area, but here are two of events that I witnessed from start to finish-

Map: Normandy1
Target: Airfield

1. Ju88-a4, No. 2 landed fine, yet then did not attempt to throttle back or apply breaks, then continued on cross country until he ran into the river.
2. Ta152H, I’m not sure but I think it was No.2 also, AI landed and all seemed fine, AI proceeded to taxi to the large paved dispersal area and then seemed to accelerate straight towards a hanger and crashed into it’s side, now it may have clipped one of the static Ju-88s parked there however I'm not certain of this.

Now I’ve had AI planes from my flight collide with me (and each) in mid air and on the ground or even fly into terrain before, putting this down to some sort of AI collision avoidance issue, but I’ve not seen them do things like the above before, and even though it does seem to be a quite random event, the fact that the events described above happened in consecutive missions, and the previously noted occasional swearing from the my flight of 4 during landing (signifying a crash) has now drawn my attention enough to make me want to keep an eye on it.

I’m not too concerned with the issue but I thought I’d a least raise it here in case it helps ID issues that form part of a larger problem. I’ll records some flights to see if I can capture one of these events.