BETA PATCH v.1.07.18301 - June 29, 2012

[Wolf_Rider]

Cessna's are a stable aircraft though, while WWII warbirds weren't, they're unstable.
The difference, if I understand correctly, is a stable aircraft will pretty much find its own level flight (for instance, after a wind gust, speed change etc), ie it will return to trimmed flight of its own accord, whereas an unstable aircraft will continue porpoise about getting more away from level flight (trimmed flight) with each porpoise

[FS~Phat]

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed its slightly easier to spot planes now in this patch. At all distances, and over water or land but particularly over land. Is it my imagination or am I just getting used to it???

[Attila]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed its slightly easier to spot planes now in this patch. At all distances, and over water or land but particularly over land. Is it my imagination or am I just getting used to it???

Yep, i can confirm your perseption! With this patch it's the best sight, since they have released the game!

[David198502]

Originally Posted by Attila

Yep, i can confirm your perseption! With this patch it's the best sight, since they have released the game!

not true, because they introduced this lod bug, where planes disappear in mid distance with a former patch...so its not the best sight since release....regarding the overal visibility of planes with this patch,...i didnt notice any difference

[Attila]

Originally Posted by David198502

not true, because they introduced this lod bug, where planes disappear in mid distance with a former patch...so its not the best sight since release....regarding the overal visibility of planes with this patch,...i didnt notice any difference

OK, David now it's 3:1!

[furbs]

3-2 i thought the first beta patch was better.

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed its slightly easier to spot planes now in this patch. At all distances, and over water or land but particularly over land. Is it my imagination or am I just getting used to it???

I noticed that as well, but wasnt sure if it was just me or what, glad to see this confirmed... unfortunately it hasnt helped my ability to kill said plane after I see it

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed its slightly easier to spot planes now in this patch. At all distances, and over water or land but particularly over land. Is it my imagination or am I just getting used to it???

I find the same...from my observation, it appears to me that the glass reflects light now. Based on the shape of the lighted area of the aircraft, seen at a distance.

[B_Bogus]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Cessna's are a stable aircraft though, while WWII warbirds weren't, they're unstable.
The difference, if I understand correctly, is a stable aircraft will pretty much find its own level flight (for instance, after a wind gust, speed change etc), ie it will return to trimmed flight of its own accord, whereas an unstable aircraft will continue porpoise about getting more away from level flight (trimmed flight) with each porpoise

Divergent oscillation would be deemed an unacceptable trait in any aircraft - having 'flown the phugoid' myself it needs all sorts of negative conditions (flap/undercarriage etc.) to provoke and is part of assessing an aircraft type's fitness to fly.

The old BE2s were so inherently stable as to be dangerous for exactly the opposite reason - called the 'clutching hand' by the poor sods that had to fly them.

My experience with the latest patch is the aircraft feels resonably 'real' - I had to apply some rudder trim to the Hurri which I'd never had to do before, but once set it was 'hands-off' stable.

[GraveyardJimmy]

CoD is working a bit better for me now. Whilst the framerate was sometimes great and sometimes awful I noticed this started to happen with other games. I have a friend who also had a 560 (I have 460) had similar problem. If you are using Nvidia, keep drivers up to date (fixed it for him).

What fixed it for me though was flashing the BIOS on my graphics card, gigabyte had a new one out. This meant that sometimes the card was running in 2D mode to save power and not flicking back to 3D mode. I have seen other forum posts about this and may be a problem with other newer NVIDIA cards, especially Gigabyte ones. It is a noticeable problem- you will sometimes get 60fps in a game then after leaving your PC and another game you might only get a jerky 30 fps. A reboot means the game will run at 60fps again. I think it is fixed now, haven't had the problem recently.
WARNING: Flashing a BIOS can brick your card and make it completely unusable. Only try if you know what you are doing.