Thanks Skouras,

the whole instrumantation is red or brown. Any suggestion why?

Loving the patch here. Sounds are wonderful. Performance seems to be good on my end. Played last night. was great.

-Sounds are now superb.

-New lighting looks great however the white screen with the sun glare blinding out the whole screen is weird. Maybe the mental effect is more realistic though? Also, i love the haze effect (but may agree that if possible to make it effected by range so close up objects are clear and haze increases with range). Only if possible.

-Minor bugs im sure but nothing major to report here although think i saw some grass growing towards me on a landing last night... was wierd but it went away when i touched down.

-Had one CTD that was weird that I haven't had before.

-Still very difficult to spot planes online with new lighting (as we as old). Maybe a glare effect form shinny objects on distant planes would help? Even planes that are close are hard to see. Not sure how to fix this. When playing with a buddy last night I was in a fight with two enemys just above the west end of the mountain top german airfield on "islands of doom" map and was calling for help from my buddy. He was circling the same area at the same altitude and couldnt find all 3 of us for the life of him. Sometimes it is at a point where we feel that it might be a lag error but cant tell because it's dificult to spot planes as it is. Basically, when calling out altitude and exact location between wingmen we have found that we usually cant find each other / are extremely lucky when we do.

Anyone been having this issue? Is it that hard to spot planes or is there a lag issue on servers where planes appear and disapear / dont always show up due to lag? No joke, how can you mistake the command "over west tip of german high runway" and have your wingman circling saying "im here I don't see anyone" for 3 minutes straight when we were right there?

I've had same problem finding him too.

Either way, Patch is great and makes the game mega awsome. Can't think of anything I dislike about the patch more than pre patch except the new sun glare effect (but maybe it's more realistic this way and im all for reailsm). Step in a good direction in my opinion.:-P

Brilliant! Can't wait to get online in this then

Zoom
 

Have they implemented better camera zoom option? It is quite awkward to use it now...

Don't understand why they have not put Zoom in/Zoom out options for camera:)

Thanks for the patch and some observations:

The good:
- New colors and lighting look very nice and more real
- Sound has much, much improved and hope to hear more ;-)

The bad:
- Voice sound level is too low
- gun sounds are too low I think
- still too many sound echo's from other planes when they use the radio.
- Performance wise this beta patch is however not very good. Despite having a high end system, it has dramatically dropped my avg fps. Stuttering on landscape loading has increased and disk IO (constant small spikes on my SSD) has also increased during flight. This most definately must be looked into. Stuttering is not caused by cpu starvation because my cpu usage remains remarkably low on all cores; too low in my opinion.
- AI warping and very rapid movement changes of AI still there. Either caused by the game engine

New command structure is being worked on and that's nice to see. I really hope to see a fully working AI command menu in the final patch and please look into the - for me much - worsened fps (~ 26 avg fps with only a couple of planes in the game). It cannot be related to any CoD settings afaik. I still use the same settings as before I installed the beta patch.

Regards,
FP

Help with install.
 

Ok i must be retarded....

I downloaded the patch - twice - one direct, one torrent.

Using Vista, in each case, after unzipping with 7-zip, i'm left with only:

"Paintschemes" folder
"parts" folder
"09062011 Beta Readme"
"Launcher.exe(.config)" - config file - does nothing but open up XML document in wordpad)

Am i missing something here?

Nope, you just need to copy the lot into the steam/steamapps/common/il2 cliffs of dover folder telling it to overwrite all files.

Ahhhhhh, i thought it was looking for an installer for the patch. Cool, thanks!

Im getting the little crosshairs when i try to start the game after Beta patch, but no game start after that. I tried re-installing the beat files with steam shut down and again the game still wont start. Any ideas? Which executeable am I supposed to be starting with after the beta patch? Is there a way to run the beat without steam running?

S! All,

Well I could not wait for it and you guys had wet my appetite ;)so I stuck the new beta patch on and welllllll, Things not to bad IMO,

Things I had noticed have been said already like dust coming up through the cockpit, in campaign mode when starting the Mk1 hurricane and you get the thing set up with mixture and throttle hit the start key, the throttle lever and mixture control lever have a mini freak out.

I joined a MP sever and I think it was a co-op style were you had to pick your plane. All the freighters were taken and only bombers left. I jumped into a Blenheim as the pilot and the plane was facing the big friggen mountain and it looked like it had been through hell and back. Beat up to the max.

So I tired to jump into a gunner of a Junkers and could not get the control of the gun with TrackIR working, and even when I hit F9 to lock IR the mouse control of the gun was all over the place and I could not get the gun to fire properly or reload, may I need to set up the control there a little better, But does TrackIR cause any issues there for you lot out there when in gunners seat in a bomber?

MG fire yes it has been said ummm yes stutters down low but not as bad as past patches (reminds me of early days of rise of flight) all in all a very good patch and a big leap forward (One small step for WW2 fighter aircraft simes one giant leap for Cliffs of Dover)

O_Smiladon