Alpha PATCH v1.06.17582 with Desastersoft Helmut Wick vs. J. C. Dundas campaign
 

Just thought I'd jump out of the cockpit for a minute to let you guys know Im loving this campaign from Desastersoft and that everything is working just fine.

I bought and downloaded this campaign last night and tonight I havent been able to tear myself away from it!!!

Not a single CTD or error in 4hrs of continuous campaign flying with all settings turned up to maximum at 1920x1080.

The first few missions are tutorials, which even for an IL2 veteran like me, have taught me a few things about navigation that I'd never learnt before!

The Desastersoft Campaign is looking and playing great with this patch!
If the 3rd party content creators can keep up and improve on this type of campaign as CLOD matures and when the SDK comes out this game will become even more amazing!

That is all..... ;)

If I can remember to in the heat of battle and all... I'll post some screen shots and try to get some in game videos to post up! ;)

Thanks for the heads-up. I was sitting in the fence, but I think I will buy it.
BTW, No problems with the language?

Thanks

I got the english translated version which is available as a 400MB download.
There are a few grammar errors and occasional words that havent been translated but it's 99% ok! ;)

Ok Phat, thank you for the fast answer, going for it. :)

There is a good article on SimHQ that has definitely made me consider a purchase, I think I might get it after this weekend is done.

Hi,
Im thinking too about this campaigne. Few days ago read this review on simhq. Looks nice. Good to know it works well. Thx.

if you have questions for Desastersoft products, go here :)

http://forum.desastersoft.com/viewfo...3f779705768ebd

I would consider it if it wasnt for the terrible AI with constant rolling and a rollrate of 1000 degrees per second...
This added to the fact that the AI spends all the ammo in deflection shots without correcting if they missing makes any offline campaign a no go for me..:(

Have you played the LW campaign or the RAF one? I've had a constant CTD approaching Le Havre to land in LW mission 1. Mr. Voss thinks it's related to the alpha patch, and not in his software, or the beta Nvidia drivers I'm using.

@Anders - have you played it? So far, I haven't gotten any AI rolling, I think they've tweaked the AI settings to eliminate that (haven't run into any obvious Ace level enemies yet, so not 100% sure how it will play out).

No I havent tried it and if it as you say (that they tweaked the AI) then it certainly makes it alot more promising!! :grin:

Hey this looks pretty good and would be right up my alley as I mainly fly offline.
I may have to give this a try - still kind of in a holding pattern for the patch to become final, would be a great way to break in CLOD when I do get going with it though.

i tried to buy the download version but i could via viza

I'll try to give another report when I've completed more missions and advise how the E/A behavior is.

I've had the Wick v Dundas add on for about a week now and it has really re-newed my previously flagging interest in CloD.

There's a huge amount of content and I'm finding tha AI a lot better than in vanilla CloD. I've also not noticed so much of the crazy AI barrel rolling etc whilst playing these missions.

Well worth it IMO and the English version is now available as a download with a conversion for the 'Channel Battles' also in the pipeline. :-)

Looks like I am in, will buy it later tonight. :)

Definately check out Heinkills review on Simhq website per link quoted in an earlier post, its sounds pretty promising and as a SP flyer I'm thinking about taking the plunge with this too. :)
(I'm not using the recent Apha/Beta patch and am sticking with 1.05 for now)

I'll buy it just as soon as I can get FPS out of the 8-20 cellar its in.The new Beta nade absolutely no difference while disabling several campaigns & features .New patch for patch due out soon...hope it makes a difference.

I got the Wick vs Dundas addon a few days ago and have enjoyed it so far. Only thing bums me out is if you get killed you have to start from scratch again. Makes you really want to try to get home in one piece. Had a few ctd's at first but things seem to have stabilized an no more ctd's. Getting between 70 and 85 fps. Dug up and old 22 inch Mitsubishi crt and it runs very smooth. No more mini stutters.

You can Choose, with wich Mission you beginn a Campaign. So you can go on from the last Mission, but without your efforts...

Cheers
Thomas

These campaigns are incredibly well made with whole career system. I wish they would have been a part of Clod from the beginning. I'm sure that anyone who prefers to fly ofline would have appreciated this, instead of the campains that exist in this release. Perhaps an idea for the upcoming BOM, along with the missions BlackSix doing. I think this could increase the popularity and sales many times.

What about the channel battles? any english version planned for it?

Yes in the next couple months it will be translated!

There are demos available for those who want to check it out before buying:

Channel Battles: http://www.desastersoft.com/download..._CB_bob_de.zip

Wick vs. Dundas: http://www.desastersoft.com/download..._Dundas_de.zip

I think both are in German but at least you can experience the missions.

About the AI...since the new alpha patch I didn't see any of the crazy barrel rolls anymore. I have CTDs with the demo like some other people but they also appear in the stock CloD missions...so I'm pretty certain it is the patch causing it.

Alexander

Edit: You might have to switch the language of CloD to German for the Demos to work...but I'm not sure of that.

Hi have recently installed the Alpha patch and installed Wick vs Dundas campaigns.

When I start a campaign (Spit or Hurricane) with 100% realism the engine is running and immediately stops when the campaign begins. The result of this is the oil temperature is 100 degrees and I blow my engine when I throttle up for takeoff.

I have noticed that in the stock missions or campaign they load with the engine off and all the temperature gauges are how they should be 0 degrees.

Any Idea what I am doing wrong or has anyone else experienced this?

Help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Wick vs Dundas Demo is in English too. Channel Battles will take a while, because of Translation. Thanx for the warm words ;)---

http://www.desastersoft.com/en/downloads.html

Cheers and nice Weekend to everybody!
Dimitri, Christian, Olaf and Thomas

I found a way around this was to skip ahead and start the engine and open radiator. When it prompts you for the engine start just repeat the steps again. Its a good question but probably better to post in their new english support forum! http://forum.desastersoft.com/viewfo...5b3b4ccff07989

Hi FS~Phat,

Thanks for your help and advice. Will do!

I couldn't get anywhere with the Alpha patch until today - I kept getting system lockups. COD now works really well - first time in a year. Time to see what this sim can do! I've just bought this add-on - COD needs a proper career system like ROF's. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for the heads-up!

All these AI skills are adjustable with this tool http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=31573

This particular campaign should have it already adjusted IIRC.

These guys e-mailed me a long time ago asking how I did the menus for my campaign. Looks like they did a really good job with it.

Too same, did You resolve it? Perhaps its a problem of beta patch of CoD. It happens when I come back after mission.

Seems to be a beta issue. I started the Jg2 campaing before the patch came out and I dont get any CTDs at Le Havre. But as my campaing continues (Mission 7) and with the Beta patch I get now a CTD near Le Havre when I want to land there.

It is not up to the Beta Patch! There is no Problem here. Not with and not without Beta. We tested on 4 Machines. Not a Single Crash.

BUT: No Overclocking and no Beta Drivers. And do not forget to clean the Cache sometimes. If you have used Update Function on Wick vs Dundas, you should clear the Cache, because the Game is using from the Cache and this can cause Problem, you know? Old vs. New Version of DLL.

Cheers
Thomas

Thomas, this small fix of B6 solved the problem with this 1st mission (CTD) for JG2. :grin: Great Campaigne!
I tested 4 times - without small fix patch always I had a CTD. After new core.dll (fix) no any problems.

Maybe some thing to Graphic Adapter. Where can we get the Fix?
Link pls
Cheers
Thomas

I assume its the new patch bug fix Thomas.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32035

Thanx Mate ;)

Cheers
Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Unfortunately, I can confirm that prior to this core.dll fix today, it was something in the beta patch. I rolled back the patch to the release version, and no crash. Re-installed the patch, and regardless of how I approached Le Havre, it crashed. Even rolled back the video drivers, and same thing occurred, but only with the beta patch.

Since it happens every time I'm within a certain short radius (maybe 4 airfield lengths) of the airfield, and there's been a big change in AI/comms behavior, I'm assuming its something in the script/code related to one of these.

With the beta patch I had these crashes in CloD's quick missions, too. After a few minutes, always when flying at the coastline. This was fixed by the new core.dll. So I don't think the addon caused them.

I actually have a mission from Le Havre I made that I tested against. Didn't crash using the old beta, but at least, with the fix today, the WvD campaign doesn't crash either.

Mission 2 (JG2) is best SP mission I've played so far. Extremely challenging staying in formation with 109s moving 300kph.

@Thomas
Do you think it would be easy to implement something in the briefing to tell you which plane in the flight is yours (i.e, you'll be taking the #3 role or something like that)? Especially in the larger formations, I wasn't sure until everyone got up and I could examine the formation's lineup before I figured out where I should be.

hey guys anybody order this via viza just a question:!:

If I can remember to in the heat of battle and all... I'll post some screen shots and try to get some in game videos to post up! ;)[/QUOTE]

Good idea FS i can't wait to see them. Sure it will be a very nice movies :-P:-P

This looks just wonderful, but until such time that the AI wingmen will actually follow you after takeoff how do you play?

S!

I heard a workaround to this AI problem from Thomas. Let AI have control of your plane until cleared for take-off. After that switch back to manual control and AI sees you as wingman/leader.

I dont use any AI in alpha CoD 1.06 plus fix. Just when mission starts open coolant and oil radiator maximum immediatly. Works well with full management of engines.

Sat on strip for half an hour waiting for clearance. Never came. As soon as I took off tower recognized my wingman as aircraft out front.

And now AI will not control my aircraft at all. AI control does not work, so anyone have another work around?

On te plus side I guess the skins are nice. Back to DBW.

I just take off once I get the engine running, I also sat on the field for about 20 minutes waiting for the lead to start rolling which he never did. Once airborne, just circle and fall into formation, unlike older SP missions, your lead/wingman don't immediately give up and RTB if you aren't where they expect you.

Thanks for the thumbs up on this add-on .I had the Beta Desastersoft missions already downloaded & installed.I watched Desastersoft's site for a long time waiting for it to be available in English ( My year of college German is probably not up to the task...) and so your review sent me over the edge & I purchased & downloaded it Friday. I ran into an install poblem ( it would not play in game,even after I had updated the install. After many (5-6) emails back & forth with the German representative ( & probably designer,) during which we talked at crossed purposes for a while,he determined that I need to uninstll or remove the beta folder in steamapps/missions folder & reinstall the full campaign,which I did and viola it worked! It is quite an add-on & frankly should have been what the sim had in it in the first place a year ago.SimHQ had a nice review which sort of echos this view.Now I still have lower FPS than I'd desire & am a little uncomfortable downloading & installing the beta patch & fix because it tends to delete ( for some reason) some of my campaigns.So maybe I'll just stick with the official install until the official upgrade thru Steam takes palce.
Thanks!

Some pictures from the Campaigne JG2. Enjoy:

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/6...astersoft7.jpg

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/5576/desastersoft2.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7...stersoft12.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/765/desastersoft19.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/885...stersoft15.jpg

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/107...stersoft20.jpg

nice pics YoYo :)

quick question how can we add humans on vehicles and weapons:(

Is there something like 'spawn humans= in the conf.ini? Thats what it was in old il2.

Yes, it's there. You'll find some funny things in it though (like guys standing on top of free standing ladders).

thanks guys

i just saw this video
and this german voices doesn't exist in mission 18 that just i flew

look at 3;10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmATCajOcs

yes there must be a "Target destroyed" Radio call sound file in all ErprGr210 Missions, but you must destroy the target in Mission18 it is the Spitfire on the west side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04OV...hannel&list=UL
in this Video (Mission2) you see the Radio Call Text and hear the Sound file, before Target (to find the target) after Target (target destroyed) and go Home radio call, so in this video (in game too) you hear 3 Desastersoft sound files.

I finally got around to doing a couple videos. The only stutters in this are from the video encoding not the game! Runs smooth as silk!!!!
Sorry about the overlays Ive been monitoring system Core and GPU usage!

Here's 3 videos from 609 squadron Mission 39
17. Oktober 1940, 02.00 pm Cover above Biggin Hill from the "Helmut Wick vs JC Dundas" Campaign

1st Take off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNRm...ature=youtu.be

2nd Level Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvQNnihpNY

3rd Engaging The Enemy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3Y5...ature=youtu.be

the targets already destroyed but never get hear the voices
do i supposed to do something else
it let me to fly next mission and it says that i complete the previous one

I finished 10th mission. Great fun! This kind of campaigne was missed in default CoD. Cant wait for Battle of Channel and Galland addon. Chears!

S!

Ordered the Wick and Dundas + Channel Battles bundle :D Can't wait!

Hi "Wick vs Dundas" owners
we make today 15.5.12 a Update to fix the Desastersoft radio call, please push the update button :)

Hi skouras
we fix the radio call problem, please make the update and test it in the Erpr.Gr.210 Campaign.

awesome news
thank you very much buddy
i.m a very happy customer
by the way does the channel battles will be available as a download
thanks again..:grin::grin::grin:

yes, we work for the channel battles translate, than it will be available as download.

thanks:grin:

Hehe... watsh our Forum, Chefkoch made the Rank of Oberleutnant and earned the Swords to the Knights Cross yet.

32 Combat Mission with 63 Air Victories by 4 losses seems a very good result in FULL REAL so far :-P

Chefkoch on the Hunt

Cheers
Thomas

I've tried the first mission yesterday, and there were still (written) messages in german language.

i want cb now hehe
awesome..

I still have a lot to learn but once I feel comfortable with the performance and overall behavior of this sim, I will do my best to learn everything I can to fly with full realism settings,by then I will definitely buy this.Reading some reviews about this add-on made me smile like a little child.Are they working on more detailed campaigns already?

you have the english download version?
what for campaign you play?

we make two Add-ons with 10 big campaigns and we work for the next add-on like "galland" with many new campaigns

Thats great! Thanks a lot for your work.:grin:

Agree! Thx a lot! :grin:

Thats great news. Thanks for the update. Keep up the great work. It's great campaign in doing. Looking forward channel battles and Galland

it will sound stupid
but i begin today the 609sq campaign [select to install for high pc]
and i get a terrible drop in fps
all the german campaigns running fine so far
so i exit the game and restart it
and select again the 609sq campaign
for some reason i get a big fps boost this time and running fine:confused:
anyway if someone experience this with this patch just close the game and enter again

yes, I've bought the english online version.

I was playing the campaign_wick_en on the first mission. I had right now a quick look over the first mission's files, but I couldn't find anything to cause what I saw.

I assume there must be some untranslated messages coming directly from within your package's code.

I flew north, but as I just entered the mission to have a quick look, I wasn't paying attention to the briefing. I took off, I've headed North, I was expecting to meet the spitfires sometime before reaching the english coast (it was marked on the flightpath) but I haven't, then when I've reached english coast, I've headed East (instead following mission's route to West). Of course I haven't meet the spitfires, which were actually following the coast towards West. After some time I've figured it out (by having a quick view change on the spitfires), so I've turned East and started following them.

So, after a while, I've started receiving big german messages on the center of the screen, telling me that the mission time was exceeded or something, then I've got another one at the end when I've crashed on an english airfield.

Having a few issues with this.

1st time I loaded up the Hurricane campaign, training mission 1, everything was fine. But had a bad landing so i decided to do it again.

On retrying i could not get my plane to roll, stuck on the runway, full throttle, just stuck.

So i tried the 2nd training mission, same thing, Wellington never took off, and I couldn't either.

:confused:

I'll head over to their site for help... for the money paid it would be nice to have less typo mistakes and german messages in english version.

Sorry what 'update button'?

EDIT: Found it.. windows/programs menu.

Cheers

That sounds really interesting. I have both of your add ons and I can really reccommend to buy them. Great stuff.
Galland sounds very promising...:grin:

Your Feet is on the Break, man ;)... All fine here. Don´t know your Key Settings, but had such a thing in Beta, and our Tester had the Break Key layed double.

No. I only fly cold runway start missions, my break is on a HOTAS button, I just checked it is not stuck or misconfigured..

Why did the Wellington never take off either in mission2? Was his foot on the break also! :rolleyes:

This problem must lay at your mashine, because, we do not have it. And other players haven´t it. I contacted 2 of our known engl. Customers. Both say it´s okay.

Cheers
Thomas

Was that such a Message:

Sie haben in der Mission 0 Flugzeuge abgeschossen!

?

Cheers
Thomas

For support
 

Pls use Desastersoft forum for Support or write an E-Mail our Use Contact Form at www.desastersoft.com

Cheers
Thomas

Yes I guess thats the failed mission message and I get that one too in my English install. I guess you guys missed a few translations here and there because I get the occasional sentence or word in German.

We will correct it this weekend, i think. we take out those messagelines from the Game and put it into the Mission Review/End Mission Statistik Screen. So this was such an interems solution in that time, where we had no own interface. Sorry for that, but will be corrected at Weekend ;).

Cheers
Thomas

Well i fail to see what on my machine would stop the Wellington from taking off. Or my own plane for that matter, but if no one else has had this problem I'm lost for an explanation. Is there a script that stops you taking off before you fulfil certain criteria?

I have tried again and this time the Wellington took off and i was able to as well.

HeinKill

make a Video from a Erpr.Gr.210 Mission, you hear nice how the custom radio call work for the Bomber pilot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJGzpHNb0M

more here:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3575378

I really think this add-on is one of the best things to happen in CloD,but is it just me:I was flying a Hurricane in one of the first missions ( the third I think) all I had to do was shoot down a solitary Heinkel 111, I did find it ( no automatic pilot vectoring either- you have to obey the vectoring commands,which is ok...) and proceeded to pump it full of 303 rounds.The Verdamnt thing refused to go down & flew sedately back to France.Not only did I not get credit for the kill or a damaged,but the whole campaign got scuppered( deleted) & I am now starting over.In another example :I was flying one of Wick's 109's ,my job was to shoot down 2 Hurricanes & 1 Spitfire during the alloted time.Well, I shot down two Spitfires & one Hurricane-quite good I thought for the kind of FPS I have in combat,BUT the program didn't agree with me & now I must repeat the mission until I get thescores right.To me both scenarios are most unrealistic-after all lots of Heikels made it home after being peppered by RAF fighters,and surely the 109 pilot ( von Dietz) would have been honored for his work dispatching 3 RAF Fliegers? I don't mind Dead is Dead at all,it forces you not to take too many risks , but I wish I could simply turn off the missions goals,it would make these missions more real not less.

The Goal in the Helmut Wick Campaign is, Exactly get his Kills in the same Time in the Mission. That is the Win Condition. If you do not want it, you can take the JG2 Campaign. There you do not have such regulations. But Wick is Wick.

If you were not able to shout the Single Heinkel, Buddy, you need Training. That´s fact. This happened, by the way, very often. You need many Skill to down this Bombers with less Ammo. Me i am able to down 2-3 Heinkels in one Mission, when i have a good day. if i have not a good day, i fail a single downing.... like you ;)...

Cheers
Thomas

Ps: @Dietz:

You must not repeat a Mission. Just take the judge that you have lost the mission and go on with next. The only who beats you, is you :-)

awesome campaign:grin:

The website is a bit confusing , it has a dowload button ,so I click that and during payment it wants your address for shipping? Is this a download or is it a disk ? They need to clarify .

The english version is a download but it uses the same shopping cart system as the boxed european version. Just fill out the shipping details, the download link will be emailed to you once payment is confirmed.

Just had a funny incident.. flying the navigational training mission in the Hurricane, about 30 minutes in I tried to adjust my compass & gyro, i accidentally clicked the fire button on the stick letting off a couple of rounds, nowhere near the Wellington but the tail gun let rip, shredding my engine! The git! :-P

S!

My package of Channel Battles and Wick vs Dundas arrived today, oh joy! Installing now, updating etc. Still have to wait for my Warthog though :( Thanks Desastersoft Team!

Im working on small mod for Wick vs Dundas campaigne for all AI and player aircrafts JG2 with historical skins (German insignia).

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/3...stersoft21.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/681...stersoft24.jpg

Looking forward to the skins-will they be in an update or an easily added add-on?

where can i found the tail logo nazi something:confused:

I bought the campaign and it looks fantastic, but I'm not liking the alpha patch, and rolled it back. Hope the official patch is released soon. Really looking forward to checking out this campaign. :grin: