4.12 Patch - Comments

[Woke Up Dead]

What does the "smart axis" toggle switch in the Controls Hardware do? I'm pretty sure this is a new feature and I couldn't find a reference to it in the 4.12 read-me pdf.

[satanofsaturn]

So you can enable "smart axis" and you don't get the same option for allies? please work on this for 4.13!

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Originally Posted by satanofsaturn

So you can enable "smart axis" and you don't get the same option for allies? please work on this for 4.13!

'Smart allies' feature granted!

[JG27CaptStubing]

I hope the FW 190 FMs get revisited 4.13.

[Kittle]

So I finally built a clean install of IL2 in order to give 4.12 a good run through. My initial thoughts were, "WOW!" and their still running that order of excitement. There are so many improvement it's hard to nail down any one thing. First and foremost, flying the Ki-45 is a blast. It's been one of my favorite aircraft since my younger days, and flying it in IL2 is really living a dream. The new graphical effects are outstanding. A lot of the new ditching a gear bits I think will really shine in a campaign. Nursing my wounded bird home to find out one of the main gears will not lower and having to make a realistic belly landing will add to the immersion ten fold.

Overall, another outstanding patch by TD. Thank you!!!

[Woke Up Dead]

Originally Posted by Kittle

A lot of the new ditching a gear bits I think will really shine in a campaign. Nursing my wounded bird home to find out one of the main gears will not lower and having to make a realistic belly landing will add to the immersion ten fold.

Definitely, I experienced it with a Pe-8 mission recently. AA hit me and I saw one of my main landing gears dropped. I lowered the other gear then raised it again, but the damaged gear stayed down. Later, on approach, when I tried lowering the other gear again, it wouldn't drop; I'm guessing the hydraulic fluid leaked out? I had to make a landing on just one wheel, the slide mark on and off the runway behind my plane looked cool.

Does the Pe-8 have a hydraulic pressure gauge?

[stovak]

Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead

What does the "smart axis" toggle switch in the Controls Hardware do? I'm pretty sure this is a new feature and I couldn't find a reference to it in the 4.12 read-me pdf.

This was introduced in 4.11.

From the guide:

Smart Axis
Dual throttle has turned out to be little problematic if player has only two throttles and plane
has more than two engines. Normally if player has dual throttle, he has power 1 and power 2
mapped and old power (all) axis unmapped. If player wants to fly plane with more engines
that two, he needs to go to controls menu and map one of the throttle axis to the old power
axis which controls all engines.
When the smart axis feature is enabled and user has only power 1 & 2 mapped and plane has
four engines, the power 1 handles both left side engines and power 2 both right side engines.
With three engine planes, the center engine gets average value of both levers. Prop pitch
works similar way.
To enable this feature, add following in conf.ini under [rts] section.
[rts]
UseSmartAxis=1