Got a chance with the new mission today:
My first impression is that it needs several small fixes with regard the fighters available. I'm assuming that there are no airstarts for Hurricanes because the patch should be here soon and that's a lot of work to put them in / take them out etc. so that's okay, but there are a few wonky things (like 64 Squadron having Hurricanes instead of Spitfires even though the airfield says the opposite). Just some small tweaks there.
Otherwise, I quite enjoyed the sortie we had. The map is covering a larger area of the battle, so I'm quite happy to see that. Plus the ability to launch mission in those areas makes it much more about finding the current mission that is running and taking part rather than finding the closest point between the bases and running into everyone. So that works nicely.
The orange text: I don't mind it. I would rather turn OFF the text chat and just have appropriate orange text messages at appropriate times than have the messages pop up in chat. It's the people chatting "LOL. where are u?" etc etc that kill immersion for me, not big orange letters saying "Bandits over Eastbourne angels one five. 10 plus. Heading Ashford." It's a shame those messages can't be made from the voice files. That would be perfect. But as it is now, I think it's fine.
Loading time was quite long so that might have accounted for the fewer people on. It's worth the wait though! Didn't play around with it long enough to test out the gameplay of the plane reduction, but it seemed to work. Took three spits out and when we brought them back it said one by one that the number available increased again. Pretty slick.
Also, I didn't think enough of the airfields on Red have the 100 octane versions available. Whether or not it's historical, I think that the option should be there. At least until the FMs have been updated a bit. It's clearly not going to make Red unbeatable, and it'll save people complaining. Really, restricing the versions is just going to make it a little more easy for one side to guess where the others are going to start from.
Now...any London raids in there? HMMM?
