PWCG 7.1.0 Released - Fixes and Improvements - lots of them

No_85_Gramps · November 10, 2017

Glad you suggested it, certainly would be nice to know that detail up front during the campaign creation.

I was thinking the same, maybe along the lines of select a map, select a plane, then have a list of squadrons that match the map/plane selections. Even without this is still a great program!

katdog5 · November 10, 2017

phenomenal. couldnt get my kuban spit campaign going, but my 43 109 campaign worked brilliantly on one of the current maps. genius thx. look forward to more

gabuzomeu · November 10, 2017

Hi,

either explore PWCG Information, right clicking on airports , or

create a dummy campaign at the right date , with any unit you found on the first step on the correct map, then look for Intel: you have everything listed : eg

Intelligence Report on Enemy Air Units

Date: 01/03/1943

Fighter Squadrons:

7 IAP 28 IAD at Gelenjik-2. Aircraft on inventory are MiG-3 ser.24.

15 IAP 226 SAD at Slavyanskaya. Aircraft on inventory are LaGG-3 ser.29, La-5 ser.8.

120 IAP 108 SAD at Ivanovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are La-5 ser.8.

143 IAP 269 IAD at Krasnoarmeyskayas. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1 ser.69.

273 IAP 268 IAD at Holmskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1 ser.69.

293 IAP 287 IAD at Gelenjik-3. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1 ser.69.

562 IAP 108 SAD at Severskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1 ser.69.

16 GIAP 9 IAD at Slavyanskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1B ser.127.

45 IAP 216 IAD at Gelenjik-1. Aircraft on inventory are Yak-1B ser.127.

57 Guards IAP at Holmskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Spitfire Mk.VB.

Attack Squadrons:

62 ShAP 88 ShAD at Elizavetinskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942, Il-2 mod.1943.

190 ShAP 214 ShAD at Krasnodar. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942.

312 ShAP 223 ShAD at Staro-Nijne-Steblievskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942.

505 ShAP 226 ShAD at Ivanovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942, Il-2 mod.1943.

618 ShAP 228 ShAD at Andreevskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942, Il-2 mod.1943.

622 ShAP 214 ShAD at Ivanovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942, Il-2 mod.1943.

688 ShAP 228 ShAD at Krasnoarmeyskayas. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942, Il-2 mod.1943.

783 ShAP 228 ShAD at Novovelichkovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942.

108 Guards ShAP 299 ShAD at Severskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Il-2 mod.1942.

Bomb Squadrons:

31 Guards BAP 52 BAD at Pashkovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Pe-2 ser.87.

130 BAP 121 BAD at Popovicheskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Pe-2 ser.87.

208 BAP 217 BAD at Dneprovskaya. Aircraft on inventory are Pe-2 ser.87.

I was thinking the same, maybe along the lines of select a map, select a plane, then have a list of squadrons that match the map/plane selections. Even without this is still a great program!

pilotpierre · November 10, 2017

Thanks Pat, you continue to be ‘de man’.

gabuzomeu · November 10, 2017

And a question: how are the skins managed?

When trying to setup skins for my squadron, the lists are empty (whether loose, or squadron or non squadron) , the game skins are not shown...

Thanks

MarcoPegase44 · November 10, 2017

Hello,

For the skins by plane I found the following file writing these 2 examples:

On the other hand I did not find squadon files to have the skin of each squadron by default.

I tried and it works, do not make mistakes in synthax, commas and spaces.

I use Notepad +++

Skins.zip

Azdack · November 10, 2017

hello

Oups...I choosed max pilot injury 4 but with a spit pilots is killed even with a simple belly landing...? I had to change pilot injury on 3

is that a bug or has a pilot of a spit no chance to survive with a belly landing?

Thanks for answers

Willy__ · November 10, 2017

There still no targets on the airfields when I get an "airfield attack" type mission.

Also depending of the wind settings, the AI's will have trouble taking off with the Hs129 sometimes.

MacLeod · November 10, 2017

At the PWCG web site

PWCG 3.0 includes the Kuban and all new planes available to date. Enjoy a career in a HS 129, Spitfire, or any of your other favorites.

I will be out of town for a couple of weeks. Any issues, etc, please report them here and I will address them when I get back. PWCG development will continue.

PWCG campaigns are not backwards compatible at this time, so you will have to start a new campaign.

Pat, is it possible to add a filter on the campaign creation for each of the theaters? It would make it a lot easier to find what we are looking for!

I can help with anything you need for that!

Thanks again, it looks great!

Edited November 10, 2017 by MacLeod

TheSNAFU · November 11, 2017

hello

Oups...I choosed max pilot injury 4 but with a spit pilots is killed even with a simple belly landing...? I had to change pilot injury on 3

is that a bug or has a pilot of a spit no chance to survive with a belly landing?

Thanks for answers

I just completed a mission on 3 October 1941 Moscow Map. Flying with JG3 I had a great ground attack mission. We were jumped by I16's before we reached the target. I had one victory and my mates cleared away the rest. We went on to the target where I got 4 howitzers. Upon returning to base I landed and taxied off the runway and cut the engine and lifted the canopy. No signs of damage to my plane or to me. After ending the mission I returned to PWCG where I learned I was killed in action.

Unless I was run over and killed on the way to my shack there may be something amiss in version 3. Never happened in over 200 missions from the last version.

Just wanted to get this out there. PWCG is awesome and I like the new version. Thanks Pat, your work is outstanding and your program continues to be the only way I play this great sim.

Edited November 11, 2017 by TheSNAFU

TG-55Panthercules · November 11, 2017

hello

Oups...I choosed max pilot injury 4 but with a spit pilots is killed even with a simple belly landing...? I had to change pilot injury on 3

is that a bug or has a pilot of a spit no chance to survive with a belly landing?

Thanks for answers

I didn't realize it, but apparently this was a well-known problem with Spits IRL - I guess that must be why Tom Hardy's character decided to do a wheels-down landing of his Spitfire on the beach in the recent Dunkirk movie

TheSNAFU · November 11, 2017

I didn't realize it, but apparently this was a well-known problem with Spits IRL - I guess that must be why Tom Hardy's character decided to do a wheels-down landing of his Spitfire on the beach in the recent Dunkirk movie

I don't know, I think there may be something up. Today I flew a mission in which I returned to base without a scratch but when I ran the mission results in PWCG I had suffered a serious wound and didn't return to JG3 for 3 months (Oct-Jan). As with my suspicious death I referenced earlier I am seeing this behavior in PWCG 3 I have not seen before in a couple hundred of missions in prior versions. While I normally set injury to 4 so I play each mission for keeps I reset it to 3 for now so at least I wont be killed without apparent reason. I'm sure Pat will get a look or maybe I have inadvertently set something that is causing this.

Trotsky · November 11, 2017

Hi Pat. I found an error. I was injured twice and after the second time I was awarded a silver badge. To get silver it was required to be wounded three times.

Best regards

Roger

keeno · November 11, 2017

Just flown my 6th Spitfire mission,

got shot up by a Yak, (friendly fire!!!) but managed to get back ok to my airfield damaging the prop on landing...... the result was I was KIA!!!

Loving it Pat but a few people have experienced similar.

Cheers

TG-55Panthercules · November 11, 2017

I don't know, I think there may be something up. Today I flew a mission in which I returned to base without a scratch but when I ran the mission results in PWCG I had suffered a serious wound and didn't return to JG3 for 3 months (Oct-Jan). As with my suspicious death I referenced earlier I am seeing this behavior in PWCG 3 I have not seen before in a couple hundred of missions in prior versions. While I normally set injury to 4 so I play each mission for keeps I reset it to 3 for now so at least I wont be killed without apparent reason. I'm sure Pat will get a look or maybe I have inadvertently set something that is causing this.

I think you're right - my Bf-110 E2 pilot just got "killed in action" by a sloppy (tipped up onto nose) but very survivable landing back at my airfield after a successful mission with no indication of wounding. I also had max wounds set to "4". Looks like I'll have to drop back to "3" for now until Pat gets a chance to look at this.

Also - still getting the spurious error message upon mission creation about logs not being enabled, although they are enabled (and AAR/claims/debrief process seems to be working fine).

Also - still appears that the skin assignment process isn't working for the player's plane. It seems to work for the AI buddies, but for my plane if I don't go in and manually choose it in game I just get a default skin, despite having assigned myself a custom skin in PWCG.

Edited November 11, 2017 by TG-55Panthercules

katdog5 · November 12, 2017

got the spit campaign working....glorious. out there routinely shooting down He 111s without a scratch. although ran out of gas. luckily right above nearby airfield

totally awesome pat

TG-55Panthercules · November 12, 2017

got the spit campaign working....glorious. out there routinely shooting down He 111s without a scratch. although ran out of gas. luckily right above nearby airfield

totally awesome pat

Nice. How many Ju-87s did you manage to shoot down after you ran out of gas? Current record is 1 (Tom Hardy, Dunkirk, 2017)

an_Axolotl · November 12, 2017

Thank you for that wonderful work Pat. :-)

Everything works fine for me, so far. I only have problems with the music. I downloaded the file und installed the WAV - files in "Audio" , but it is still quiet. Do i have enable something too?

micha

TheSNAFU · November 13, 2017

Now that I have played a good number of missions in 3.0 the following are some issues I've noted:

I am regularly severely wounded or killed for no apparent reasons. This happens often after good landings, bail outs or successful crash landings where my plane is upright and largely undamaged. The injury setting is 3. When 4 is used I die often and again, for no evident reason.
I have the mission delete set to 3 but it doesn't seem to work, no missions are ever deleted.
In the post mission reports I sometimes see enemy planes shot down by a pilot who himself had been shot down earlier in the report.
During the after mission reports I don't seem to see the pilots replacing those KIA or wounded
To many squadron mates crash. They are not often injured or killed but they just crash too often instead of returning home. This may be AI and not PWCG related.

It appears that my squadron mates are getting more victories than before and 9 of 12 have at least one, one pilot has 8. That never happened before and I like the change.

Hope the info helps!

Edited November 13, 2017 by TheSNAFU

PatrickAWlson · November 14, 2017

Hi all. Been on vacation, returning tomorrow. I'll look at the issues then.

One common complaint and I noticed the same - pilot dies when crash does not seem anywhere near bad enough. PWCG mates a bot to a plane and then examines the damage level of the bot. If I'm lucky then I screwed up and I am somehow misinterpreting the results. If I'm unlucky then the bot is really dead in the mission logs and that will be very tricky. I'll take that one as a priority.

TheSNAFU · November 15, 2017

Hi all. Been on vacation, returning tomorrow. I'll look at the issues then.

One common complaint and I noticed the same - pilot dies when crash does not seem anywhere near bad enough. PWCG mates a bot to a plane and then examines the damage level of the bot. If I'm lucky then I screwed up and I am somehow misinterpreting the results. If I'm unlucky then the bot is really dead in the mission logs and that will be very tricky. I'll take that one as a priority.

Hi Pat, Hope you are having a great vacation. When you get back at it here I just wanted to make sure it was clear that the pilot injury issue goes beyond being killed. I have regularly been getting seriously wounded and missing a month or more when there does not seem to have been any event where I would have been wounded at all. Thanks, I think its fair to say all of us who use PWCG to play this great sim are glad you are improving it once again.

SCG_motoadve · November 15, 2017

I get an error message and cant start any missions

Invalid plane for loose skins for plane ju523mg4e

PWCG Error

Tue Nov 14 19:21:11 PST 2017

java.lang.NullPointerException

at pwcg.mission.flight.escort.EscortForPlayerFlight.createTargetAssociationsForFlight(EscortForPlayerFlight.java:108)

at pwcg.mission.flight.FlightFinalizer.createWaypointTargetAssociations(FlightFinalizer.java:363)

at pwcg.mission.flight.FlightFinalizer.finalizeFlight(FlightFinalizer.java:51)

at pwcg.mission.flight.Flight.finalizeFlight(Flight.java:533)

at pwcg.mission.flight.FlightFinalizer.finalizeFlight(FlightFinalizer.java:74)

at pwcg.mission.flight.Flight.finalizeFlight(Flight.java:533)

at pwcg.mission.MissionFlightFinalizer.finalizeMissionFlights(MissionFlightFinalizer.java:34)

at pwcg.mission.Mission.finalizeMission(Mission.java:213)

at pwcg.gui.rofmap.brief.BriefingMissionHandler.finalizeMission(BriefingMissionHandler.java:62)

at pwcg.gui.rofmap.brief.BriefingPilotPanelSet.acceptMission(BriefingPilotPanelSet.java:529)

at pwcg.gui.rofmap.brief.BriefingPilotPanelSet.actionPerformed(BriefingPilotPanelSet.java:453)

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PWCG Error

Tue Nov 14 19:21:58 PST 2017