Quick Friday Update - Next Patch Info
 

[Edit] The patch is here. Sorry, no coherent patch notes today. As usual, apply to the latest steam version.

The most important component of this beta patch is the changes to multiplayer. We're hoping you'll find the new code more exciting, and statistics more fulfilling. This is, of course, just one footstep in our continuous journey towards a well-rounded multiplayer experience.

Stuff in this patch:

1. Major changes to online code, statistics, stability, etc.

2. More performance increases, including streamlined block loading that lets you switch between planes over England and France instantaneously (then watch the landscape underneath load in).

3. Force feedback.

4. True full screen, VSync.

5. Various changes in aircraft animations, FM, etc - a huge list.

6. Lots of changes to ground object AI and DM - another huge list.

7. New IL-2 style QMB missions.

We've also been working on SLI and Crossfire support. Crossfire is probably a couple of weeks out, while SLI is most likely going to wait for the next driver release from NVidia. By the way, SLI/Crossfire hardware should no longer cause slow-downs as of the last patch, so this shouldn't be as huge a let-down as it could have been.


Known issues:
* Temporary Army icons, not yet appearing everywhere
* No localization for new content other than EN and RU
* New briefings for campaign do not re-display the mission texts


Eng:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKKA0B31
Rus:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CD049M4M

Torrent:
Eng:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...14.zip.torrent
Rus:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...ru.zip.torrent

WoW, niiiice. :)


Like the nr 7.

Thank you. :-P

Force-feed at last! Force-feed at last!! Thank God Almighty, force-feed at last!!!

Thanks Luthier. Having regular updates from you is very appreciated.

Great news! Looking forward to it, sounds very promising.

Keep up the good work. Thanks.

Can't wait! Great work but don't forget to take a bit time off for your families.

sound good but did i miss something or won´t the radio work after the patch either??

Old style QMB, right on! That's a lot faster than I expected. Great.

Keep it up boys.. you're winning the battle!

HEAD DOWN, ASS UP!

That made me smile. :grin:

I douse your hair if you make 3-4 Hours, gee that would be great. Good Luck. Any news of an update regarding Radio Comms?

great stuff Luthier, keep em coming and good luck with rolling out this patch today.

Full screen and vsync...does that mean FSAA should work as it should?

The new QMB is very good news indeed, hoping that loadouts and skin saving are fixed with this.

cheers.

3. Force feedback. YES!

Looks good. Thanks for info.

I really appriciate all this,thank you!

Luthier FTW!

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sounds great, happy Easter.

thx for the info Luthier! Great stuff!
Hope You can start thinking about new engine and gun sounds at some point in the near future.

Looking good! Thanks for keeping us informend Luthier.

Oh dear, I think some wives and girlfriends might not be so happy this long weekend. Thank you, Luthier, it is looking better and better.

I would rather wait until Monday or Tuesday rather than have something rushed just to keep the impatient happy. ;)

I'm surprised at the pace these patches are happening. I suppose its neccessary to give the game a good US launch.

Thankyou for the update Luthier, its much appreciated.

Thanks Luthier, I am happy to hear that they are still working in the entire development.

Great news and thank you. So many patches. Cant wait to read the long list with fixed bugs.

This sim reminds me of a flight sim put out by M$. The sim was disappointing to some and not to others. It recived not so good reviews but it is now a very good sim.

Thank you for the updates. I very much enjoy this sim.

After the last download from stream what is the revision number at the right bottom of the screen? I still see 1.00.14072.

Thanks,

flyer01

NADA, its wrong mate

the last digits should be 14101 ;)

fingers crossed

waoh!i didnt expect another patch so soon again.especially after a week of silence.now we know the reason for it.
i really appreciate the high frequency of patches.every weekend we get something new.

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Thank you and happy Easter to yourself and the team!

Ross

Thank you sir! And happy easter to you!!!

hehe :D I'm officially smiling :)

Have a great easter Luthier and team!

jajajajajaja:mrgreen:

Have anyone told you guys that you are awesome? Well you are. Happy Easter, may your easter eggs be brimming with candy.

F##K YEAH !!!!!! :grin::grin::grin:

Much appreciated, especially FFB amd Crossfire.
But don't overstretch yourself's. Take a nice easter holiday with family and friends.

All the best and happy easter to all of you :)

MP and Full Screen at last, stay hidden luthier

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These are fantastic news and as always devs are giving their best to fix things and that's why they are trully remarkable in this business!

Thank you so much Ilya and Happy Easter!!!

Even though 1C are concerned 'bout us I suspect that the imminent reviews are a major reason for the current patchrate.
But who cares. I'm happy! :-D

Great!

Keep up the good work.
The sim has really evolved already in the 2 weeks its been out...

Bloody hell, are you lot ever going to take a break? :D

Sounds like another round of greatness to me, much appreciated :)

Ya, when I play on line 14101 is what it says. Off line its still 1.00.14072.
Whats the why to get the offline to update?

Thanks,
flyer01

This update made me make a quiet, very feminine "Yay", good info, thanks :)

True full screen. Great news.

Can you tell us the reason behind the pseudo full screen, was this part of a feature not fully implemented or a "feature"?

Great news the force feedback patch !!!
good job !
thanks to the dev who work hard for it !

( and the true full screen too )

As my customers say to me when I say that: "That's exactly where we want you." And now, I am a customer! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAH!

Thanks, great to see FFB back in the loop.

Almost forgot, HAPPY EASTER IL-2: CoD team!


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waoh!i didnt expect another patch so soon again.especially after a week of silence.now we know the reason for it.
i really appreciate the high frequency of patches.every weekend we get something new.


after the friday updates ,before the release,we can say we have the week ends updates.:-P

thanks for the update :)

Nice one! Thanks.

seriously, you rock! and try to get a small vacation soon, go south and spend some time on a beach.

Yeah!!!!

For the next patch radio comms fix please!!! :grin:

Good luck.

Hope you get it out soon but I'll be happy to see it when it arrives. :)

Thanks for the update.

Thanks very much Luthier and team,I really appreciate the support you are giving us,it's tremendous.

Happy Easter to all :grin::grin::grin:

Thank u!!!!!!

Great News, Could we look at Multiplayer for the next one?

The very first note for the patch is major changes to the online code. ;)

Excellent news as usual, thanks for being committed to making this a success.

Team Luthier - Thank you.

And for all grateful board members, COD would make a great Easter gift for family and friends. Maybe that special neighbor across the street.

My sincere thanks for all the hard work and wonderful sim that with your efforts is getting better by the week.:)

Actually it's a good thing... We play with the beta patch they get the feedback needed over the weekend and they make enhancements as needed.

Let's face it we are Beta testers.

You make it sound like it's a BAD thing, i enjoy doing this!

FFB and Vsynch, YAY!!!! Luthier, could the true fullscreen possibly fix the driver forcing of AA and AF not working?

Any update or ETA on the SDK?

+1

:)

Force feedback, full screen and QMB update!

Sounds like a good present for my Birthday, even if it does end up arriving late. :grin:

I sure hope so, alot is lynchpinned on this fix. Its why vsync will now work, and although he didn't specifically mention it AA should now work too. If not the in-game AA (I'm not sure what method they use), forcing it with the drivers should work.

I also hope it fixes ATI cards not scaling up their 3D clock speeds for Cliffs of Dover once and for all. I'm getting tired of having to put an overclock on my card to force the right clockspeeds for the game.

still no downloadable dedicated server piece ...

How do you mean? I havent looked at my clock speeds while in game but you say they dont rise or fall or something like that?

Happy birthday then! :-D

The old style QMB should make a lot of people happy!

Happy Easter, Luthier & Co!

I found out what the cause was. I for some reason thought CoD was to be put in the Program files in W-7 64 bit instead of the Programs files x86.:oops:

flyer01

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:cool:

Exciting news as usual! Very much looking forward to this quick progress.

More recent ATI cards scale clock speeds with the type of application being run, to reduce energy consumption, noise, heat, that sort of thing. However, if an application is not coded in a way the card recognises, it will operate at desktop clocks, which are seriously reduced impairing performance quite considerably. As COD did not have a proper full screen mode, these ati cards were running at desktop clock speeds, and not the speeds intended for applications such as gaming. A workaround is to force an over clock through the drivers or other software; doing so forces the clocks to operate continuously at the overlcocked speed.

+1

There are a few threads in the technical support forum on this. It doesn't affect all models but it does exist.

At last.Thank you,thank you thank you.God bless you Luthier

You da man! Thank you Luthier and team :)

Will you let us know if it's not going to happen before Monday?

+1

Yes please! My F5 button is wearing out :D

Rgr i have the same card as you so how do i know if it is happening?

+1

S!

Now that came out of nowhere :) Was tinkering with IL-2 to see if any setting would cause FPS boost or degradation. So far none except one, HDR. Set that to 0 and Launcher.exe crashes. Possible to have HDR thing as option? It eats FPS as well.

Luthier, do these error messages tell you anything if posted? Got a few of them from the logs...

Fantastic news

This sounds just brilliant! Looks as if we're getting closer and closer still to the game we all wanted. Cheers Luthier and team, have a good easter weekend.

~S~

+1 I would rather be playing CoD than abusing my F5 button.

F5 keeps your browser fresh ;) Don't leave that button alone for too long, or you'll have mold all over your browser :P

No news - good news??????

Thanks for your hard work! :-)

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Almost there folks.

Thank you
But, i would really like to see the load-outs fixed
regards
Doc

Can you give as a time?

Sounds awesome - Luthier and CoD Team.

Thanks so much for the update.....

S!

Gunny

so I might not get the grass cut this weekend is what you are saying?

A very welcome surprise, well there goes easter, will be spending it trying to shoot down Splatfires over England :p

:grin: (F5 abuse....)

Great, hopeful to see the result !

I bought Spitfires books now and almost starting to dive into the legent of it !

Regards

Thanks for keeping us updated. JMHO, but I would like to see more optimization of the graphics over land, and in particular, the buildings.
I did some benchmark tests and whenever it refocuses on buildings, the fps drops in the toilet.
Also, even when my fps is high (e.g. much >30) I still see stutters and pauses.
I was using the tiger moth land flight track that came with last patch.
Anyway, something else is going on.
It's not ram either because I did these tests with everything as low as possible and monitored my ram use.
Maybe the sound files or something.
But, I was running sound as low as possible.
It was weird because my fps was actually higher with minimal sound turned on( sounduse=1) verses sound off (sounduse=0), which doesn't make any sense to me.
You would think with sound off avg fps would be higher, but it was lower by noticeable difference.
I should mention, I don't have sound card so everything off cpu/gpu in my test. I would really look at the sound in general though.
It drops out a lot in some of the bench tracks. Also, the radio chatter and that red text, just cut that out of the game. No one cares about it and all it does is lower performance and is annoying.
Also, take a week off for Easter.
Don't burn yourselves out.
We need you to live long time.:)

Luthier, thanks for all the hard work and communication.