Describe issues with BOB COD that need patch - for Oleg, Luthier

[niallpatty]

I have a poor/intermittent internet connection and regularly play with friends on IL2 1946 over a LAN sucessfully on my win7 pc's. When I try to do the same on COD I get the errors described in the thread below. I have not tried setting it up in lobby as suggested yet. If I have 2 pc's networked without an internet connection running the same update version of COD, can I play multiplayer as was possible in 1946?

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=24991

[Verhängnis]

In Beta Patch Track playback does not record all effects and settings, for example when I recorded my 109 start up procedure, when I replayed the track, it had not recorded the movement inside cockpit of the wheels and knobs for both Radiators and the Fuel Primer pump handle. There is also a video on youtube where the track did not record a spitfire shooting an enemy bomber properly, none of the shells and smoke effects from bullet hits showed up where the aircraft had been hit. Both occurred in the beta patches.

[Vonte]

Hello Nearmiss, Oleg and co.

As you may gather from my title, I'm an old pilot who is sometimes bold. Being born 6 months after the BoB, I've had experience of flying sailplanes for many years and flight Sims from the first MS Sims and many Il2 Sims. I waited with bated breath for the launch of CoD, but was dismayed by the poor reviews on launch. I therefore waited until August before I took the plunge and bought the DVD for £13.99, thinking that if didn't work on my low spec PC, I hadn't spent too much! I ignored all the moaners and concentrated on the positive reports. I took on board the excellent advice given by PC Pilot on how to get better FPS which in a nutshell was: Let your GPU do all the 3D rendering and turn off the
3D functions within the game. They also said that turning off Grass and lowering Forest, gave better FPS. I found that with the settings I use (see below), flying a Tiger Moth, I can land on the MALL and taxy up to BUCKINGHAM PALACE and not drop below 22fps.. Flying in CoD is a joy, taking off from Manston with the sun rising over The Channel was a "jaw dropping" experience. The attention to detail in the cockpits and on the ground has to be seen. Even without combat, the flight models allow "site seeing" trips. Having flown Wings of Prey for the last 12 months and being a squadron member of JS 109, I have made many friends and hope to do the same in CoD. With regards to Wings of Prey, I and my squad mates can no longer fly in it as we feel it is too "Arcadey". Now for the one thing that needs to be urgently addressed by the developers, this is: LAUNCHER exe failure, could they please, please. please sort this problem out on the next update. I know I'm not alone looking at the forum gripes, and before you ask, yes, I have tried every one posted, and I do mean EVERY solution posted. Thank you for reading thus far, as you can see I'm hooked on the game, I just want to crash land, not crash to desk top!!!

Kindest regards

Vonte JS109 aka Jester
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System spec:
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz (O/C to 2.7Ghz) 4Gb 667Mhz Ram MSI N460GTX Hawk
1Gb (O/C 850 core 1950 Memory) Artic Cooler Pro V2 Vista 32 OS

In game settings:
22" Monitor 1680x1050 - 1440x900 (ie one res down)
Everything set to Medium except: Forest-Low Texture-High SSAO-On
Grass-Off Shadows-On Roads-On
All other settings done on GPU 3D Settings

[bolox]

fuelcock #1 under axes control is reversed in spitfire and stuka

[NLS61]

Plz fix launcher .exe crash game will lock up after some minutes of play always

[chris455]

• Clouds cause considerable loss of FPS/ stutter when flying near them
• The sound of the machine guns on British aircraft is very weak, almost unable to be heard. (using beta patch 2)

I discovered how the game assigns device IDs to joysticks, it's the same method they used in IL2 1946 and it's both problematic and fixable. I've outlined that here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=27113

[Flak_Rambler]

When you spawn into any airfield, the Directional Gyro always point 0 degrees, when it should point to the magnetic heading of the airplane. Also, if you set your compass into the right heading, and you start to fly, it doesn't point correctly.

[Flak_Rambler]

I have already spawn into every English airfield and found that Lee-on-Solent has a gray strip all across the sky, guess is a simple problem that can be fix in the next patch.

[Flak_Rambler]

Have been doing some work and research and found the official RAF Battle of Britain page:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/stations.html

on it I found the following airfields included in CoD were not part of 11 Group which was responsible for most of the geographic area CoD map covers:
Brooklands
Canterbury
Fainborough
Feltham
Gatwick
Hamble
Heathrow
Heston
Littlestone
Maidstone
Oldham
Portsmouth
Ramsgate
Reading
Redhill
Rochester
Shoreham
White Waltman
Wilmington
Worthydown

And the following airfields that were part of 11 Group are not included in CoD:
Debden
Detling
Martlesham
Rochford (most probably is your Southend)
Stapleford
West Malling (most probably is your Maidstone)

Could this be taken as a suggestion for future versions, since some of them played an important role during the battle.