BETA PATCH v.1.08.18956 - August 3, 2012

[Bounder!]

Can't say the patch improved my frame rates as CoD has been perfectly smooth for me for some time but a lot of people were reporting better performance on ATAG last night which is great. My initial findings playing online last night:

- Grass still modeled in hangers.
- Trees seem to be fixed, no popping in and out but I still get a slight shimmer on trees and buildings possibly from anti aliasing.
- Dust cloud on the ground on take off seem smaller than before.
- Sounds seem a bit better overall although on startup the Spitfires engine is still silent until the engine has warmed up a bit.
- Small caliber hits on my Spit are back which is great (forgot how nice those bullet holes look )
- Spitfire seems to handle a bit different at low speed, feels heavier when coming into land and requires more throttle than before to keep it in the air on approach to landing.
- Spitfire 1a and 2a now have variable mixture and now work like the Rotol. From the cockpit the orange exhaust flame seems harder to see than it used to be many patches ago. Spits require mixture management now or they overheat pretty quickly at mid-high altitude.