Friday Update, February 3, 2012

[addman]

HEYOOOOO!!! Nearly 100% increase in fps on the upcoming patch, I swear to God luthier if you don't get that patch out of the door soon. As soon as that patch is released I'll re-install CloD again, promise. Thanks for the update B6!

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by addman

HEYOOOOO!!! Nearly 50% increase in fps on the upcoming patch, I swear to God luthier if you don't get that patch out of the door soon. Thanks for the update B6!

In fact it's nearly 100% increase.

[Borsch]

Great news on FPS increase, but no news about physics updates.

Alexander, please ask Ilya about changes to FM and when they will happen. Ilya promised that ground handling/landing/tako offs will be drastically improved "soon". This was back in September

[addman]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

In fact it's nearly 100% increase.

LOL! and , I swear the news was so great I didn't think clearly when I made the comment.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

In fact it's nearly 100% increase.

Don't forget, the obligatory Unforseen Disaster hasn't been detected yet. So real world performance may likely be a good deal less.

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

You do know that warbirds today are painted with gloss coats....nothing like the matt used in service.

Originally Posted by louisv

Showroom shine, like for cars is a lot shinier than in real use...the top pic looks like a plastic model...

Great news for fps, even if only a vague average spec.

Thanks

Ok, here you have some real WWII color pictures where the same effect ( yet not so strong like in shows but more than in COD ) can be seen:

[Megahurt]

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Megahurt

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

Rubbish. Megahurt, come over to the other thread at http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29453.

1. The HE-111 course autopilot is extremely stable. Select the second mode which adjusts all three controls and you'll be right if you are already trimmed.

2. The problem with the HE-111 is that you can be perfectly trimmed, on autopilot, perfectly on target in the sight and it releases early. Hopefully this will be addressed in the patch but there are workarounds even now that will get you on target at 5,000 m.

3. The Blenheim didn't have an attitude indicator in the bombardier's seat.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Continu0

I guess all we can say is that the new graphic-Engine is nearly finished. But if they want to pack other things into the patch as well, this things might not be finished yet.

I wouldn´t take this update as a promise that the patch will be out very soon...

That's my take on it too. I expect they will try to correct the major and long-outstanding issues before moving on to the sequel: performance and whatever known bugs we have like reversed controls/instruments and so on in certain aircraft.

Originally Posted by smink1701

1+++. This is the root of much of the frustration. We've been looking forward to this sim for years...after countless delays get an unfinished product...and the next beta is a complete mystery in terms of content and timing. But we get images from the sequel and it’s a plane that most outside Russia would never want to fly. I bought the game and will keep watching and hoping for real progress but all the missteps have left me quite skeptical.

They do have a lot of customers in Russia and there are also a lot of Luftie drivers who need stuff to shoot down. The flight sim world doesn't revolve around 2-3 allied plane types after all, it would be mighty boring if it did

Originally Posted by Megahurt

I saw it mentioned in a question but not addressed...

No way to level the bombers to bomb??? Not even an attitude indicater in the guages for the bombadier to manually keep it level?

Have these devs not ever played the game?

Keeping the bomber level to bomb is so hard without a guage is so hard i am limited to dive bombing and its such a wast of great planes like the HE111 that i loved so much in IL2.
Sad.

Like Jimbop pointed out, there is a thread running right now on the main CoD page of the forums that explains everything you need to know about the 111. I'm not going to lie and pretend we had adequate coverage of these things in the manual, but a group of people in the community are so active in testing things out that we now know how to bomb effectively in the Blenheim and 111, some people on the Russian servers are also using the Br.20 and the Ju88 is the same as the 111, we are just hoping its gyrocompass will be fixed in the next patch to allow us to use the autopilot.

In that thread you will also find links to videos on youtube, known issues/bugs and their workarounds, plus a link to my initial tutorial on bombsights and autopilots and links to the ATAG server forums were most of the testing takes place.

There IS a level stabilizer and its built into the plane's autopilot. Just read the community-provided documentation and you'll be good to go after a few practice runs


P.S.

Thanks everybody for keeping it civil and interfacing with our community liaison in a proper, polite manner. Negative opinions and expressing disappointment is not grounds for bans, rudeness is.

I think you can all see that when we stick to the purpose of the thread everything goes fine: read the update, ask your questions and if BlackSix knows the answer he'll come back and post it.

Keep it like this please. My exam season is over, i have a 3 week break and i'll be watching the update threads like an obsessive maniac
They will remain on-topic and informative no matter the cost, even if i have to spend 2-3 hours a day to delete off-topic or insulting posts and hand out forum infractions instead of flying the sim.

I really hope i won't have to but will if i have to, because the purpose of the thread is to be able to ask questions and easily browse through any answers given. Let's keep it running like it is and everything will be fine for all of us

[Megahurt]

Ive only got just under 400 hours playing this game. Maybe thats not enough to drop a bomb on target successfully.

The course autopilot is a joke. try setting it after you line up the target. Impossible.
Try setting it before, and the target isnt lined up properly and the adjustments dont take effect.

A simple attitude indicator in the bombadier station would solve everything.