ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[JG5_emil]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Hmmm, looks like you were able to get back in soon after you posted this.

Yes we were. Someone on TS told us we could join after the next server reset.

Thanks

[ATAG_Bliss]

That's why we restart the server after every mission. If not the list of people that can't join just grows and grows. Gotta love having to run the server as a client through steam.

[JG5_emil]

Yes it was strange, the other two guys were actually in the game but I was in the process of joining when it happened.

Thanks for the help.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Server 1 (Axis vs Allies) will be running the beta patch as soon as it's downloaded.

Who's ready for large formations of bombers without crashing?

[Blackdog_kt]

I think i'm sufficiently tempted to give it a shot, even though i'll probably be dying horribly most of the time.

Haven't flown much in quite a while due to real life commitments, but it will be good to see the corrected Blenheim CEM/FM, and maybe a working gyro on the Ju88 and fixed bombsight code for the bombers in general. The latter two are not mentioned in the patch notes, i'm just keeping my fingers crossed.

Count me in

[von Brühl]

Have you guys got a test of multiple bombers yet? How many can you go up to now before CTD?

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by von Brühl

Have you guys got a test of multiple bombers yet? How many can you go up to now before CTD?

Sure can

See here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=163

[von Brühl]

Were these Ju-88s, He-111s, or Blenheims? I always suspected the Blennies require more processing, and more bugs, so crashed faster. Can't wait to fly a Blennie formation!

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by von Brühl

Were these Ju-88s, He-111s, or Blenheims? I always suspected the Blennies require more processing, and more bugs, so crashed faster. Can't wait to fly a Blennie formation!

88's, 111's, Stukas, and 110's

Btw, blennys could do some formation flying before the patch. I've been told they fly quite nice now!

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On another note:

As of right now custom skins are turned on the server. That means not only the default skins, but all the wonderful community made skins can be used on the server.

With that said, loading of custom skins will cause long pauses and stuttering at times, but you have the choice as a client to turn on / off custom skins.

By going to your in game settings, then under the network tab, there's a box you can enable to allow/disallow custom skins. If you feel the stuttering/pausing is too much you can simply shut them off.

Personally I think we've gone on too long without having the ability to see some user made skins, so with the players having the ability to allow it or not, the extra stuttering/pausing to have some pretty skins is totally up to you guys.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by von Brühl

Have you guys got a test of multiple bombers yet? How many can you go up to now before CTD?

What Bliss said, plus another raid with 3 Ju88s and an escort of 2 109s and a 110, nobody crashed.

As for the Blen, its engines now handle in a much more believable fashion and it's a breeze to fly. I momentarily disconnected from ATAG to try a quick mission with it last night.

For some reason it still spawns with rudder trim dialed in, which i forgot to correct, but even so i could take off just fine. If you remember, it used to veer to the right quite heavily pre-patch. It would be impossible to hold it straight with right trim dialed in, but post-patch i could just hold it straight with the rudder and as soon as i realized about the trim, i centered it and all was fine.

Most importantly, that was all on the stock, formerly almost impossible, cross country quick mission. Warm up happens much faster and the engines can deliver power without sputtering from as low a temp as 150 degrees or so, plus we now have partial flap settings (the lever has up, down and neutral positions) and the pitch and mixture levers correctly correspond to 2-way switches (no axis effect, just fine/coarse pitch and automatic rich/lean mixture).

Try it and you'll see for yourself. You just start the engines (mixture rich and prop pitch fine), trim for takeoff, give it 4-5 notches of flap, open cowl flaps, set boost cut-out to on and gradually advance throttles to maximum.

I managed to take-off just fine in the cross country mission with 100% fuel and a full bomb load. Happy times ahead