Unofficial Desastersoft Campaign Missions conversion to 4.5 Blitz

[Buzzsaw]

Hello All

 

TF put together a fix for those who are wanting to fly Desastersoft Campaigns in IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover - Blitz.

 

You can download it here:

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=37591

 

We are not supporting this... it is an unofficial fix by TF to allow another company's program to work... no guarantees it works flawlessly.

 

EDIT:  We really don't have time to support a 3rd party program which should be supported by the company which made it, but in this case, one exception:

 

To Install:

 

1. Unzip the content of the ds_fix.zip file to a folder of your choice.

You will get a folder called "MAIN_INSTALL_FOLDER" that contains a subfolder called "parts" and an file called "Launcher64.exe.config".

2. Select all + copy the content of the "MAIN_INSTALL_FOLDER"

3. (Optional) In your il-2 Clod Blitz install folder make a backup of the following files

X:\XXX YOUR STEAM INSTALLATION FOLDERXXX\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Blitz\Launcher64.exe.config
X:\XXX YOUR STEAM INSTALLATION FOLDERXXX\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Blitz\parts\desastersoft\System.Data.SQLite.dll

4. Paste the copied files to the "X:\XXX YOUR STEAM INSTALLATION FOLDERXXX\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Blitz" folder.
5. Override when prompted

Edited December 19, 2017 by Buzzsaw

[9./JG54_Aulette]

God Save Buzzsaw, all my DS Campaings working fine again... Tons of fine made missions

[Veteran66]

wauuu very good, thx TF

[YoYo]

Hello All

 

TF put together a fix for those who are wanting to fly Desastersoft Campaigns in IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover - Blitz.

 

You can download it here:

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=37591

 

We are not supporting this... it is an unofficial fix by TF to allow another company's program to work... no guarantees it works flawlessly.

Thank You, any manual how to install this file?

[Buzzsaw]

Bumped to add install procedure.

[YoYo]

Bumped to add install procedure.

THX! 

[Moebelwagen]

Hi all,

 

I tried the installation procedure described above with no success. Obviously I must have done something wrong. What did I do? I copied my existing two desastersoft folders (...\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover\desastersoft and ...\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover\parts\desastersoft) from the original CloD into my "Cliffs of Dover BLITZ" folder. Then I installed the two files from the 4.5 fix like Buzzaw described it in his first post. But then, jumping into CloD BLITZ I could not find the Desastersoft menue where one can select the desastersoft campaigns.

 

Any hints are appreciated!

[Sokol1]

Moebelwagen,

 

Look what Continu0 explain there - in German section of ATAG forum:

 

https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27468&p=296140#post296140

[YoYo]

Hi all,

 

I tried the installation procedure described above with no success. Obviously I must have done something wrong. What did I do? I copied my existing two desastersoft folders (...\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover\desastersoft and ...\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover\parts\desastersoft) from the original CloD into my "Cliffs of Dover BLITZ" folder. Then I installed the two files from the 4.5 fix like Buzzaw described it in his first post. But then, jumping into CloD BLITZ I could not find the Desastersoft menue where one can select the desastersoft campaigns.

 

Any hints are appreciated!

Better to install it from EXE file to Blitz path and next move files. It works.

Edited December 21, 2017 by YoYo

[Moebelwagen]

Moebelwagen,

 

Look what Continu0 explain there - in German section of ATAG forum:

 

https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27468&p=296140#post296140

 

Thank you Sokol! That worked! Great!

[YoYo]

Thank You a LOT,   
I'm after the 10th mission (Channel Battles) and everything looks OK (like it was) except Superb AI gunners of bombers from 4.5: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32952-bomber-crew-45-snipers-ai/
This is cause that some "easy" missions are impossible to finish with succes or one pass and our plane recives holes on radiator. It spoils a bit of fun. Maybe gunners from 4.312 wasn't perfect but was mutch better with accuracy (50/50% I suppose) than now (100%).

 

So we lose a lot of fun to playing Single Player campaigns.... (example, loses, whole my "schwarm" was killed and my plane was shot down)



Maybe its a good idea to create mod like external program to set the skill of gunners from bombers?
Its very hard to be in one piece now, and 99% of gunner of bomber attacks ends a serious problem with our plane = no possibility to finish a mission. Pity...
Our wingmans arent perfect (like it was), they fly like a flies and shot near all ammo in one burst so why we recived now superb snipers AI of bombers with near 100% chances to hit us?

 

 

Example from Quick Mission (default) - "015 - Free Hunt" (Wellington as Defiant).

Edited December 26, 2017 by YoYo

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

I don't see that big of an issue... You came on from a dead-6 approach onto a Wellington which has a nice, clear field of fire for dead-6 attackers.

[Sokol1]

 

Maybe its a good idea to create mod like external program to set the skill of gunners from bombers?

 

Theoretically this could be done easily without MOD - just require someone with code ability to create a program able to save as text in .INI files - like GIX did in their "Loadout Tools"  for set ammo belts externally to game.

 

A similar tool will adjust gunners skill - CloD allow set skill individually per gunner, can have a 'ACE' in rear turret and a 'ROOKIE' in the waist turret - and save on mission files.

 

Obvious will be more practical if this was added to game interface - don't know if TF plan change this interface, and remember Luthier ('RiP') complain in 1C forum to be not able to make changes in CloD interface.

 

For now you can change gunners skill manually in missions  files.

 

Open one of this missions - need copy the for Single Mission folder first - in FMB and adjust the gunners skill, test, when satisfied, copy the relative lines from this mission for all other missions of that campaign.

 

Yes, nothing in CloD is made to be easy if could be done in "complicated" way. "It's CloD!"   

 

https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7029

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/33154-how-manner-flak-cliff-dover-blitz/?do=findComment&comment=551318

Edited December 26, 2017 by Sokol1

[Sokol1]

 

 

Example from Quick Mission (default) - "015 - Free Hunt" (Wellington as Defiant).

 

 

YoYo,

 

Replace in this QM .mis file (in Documents\1C Sfoft...dover\mission\quick the part for Wellington with this bellow and see if make any difference in gunners lethality.

 

[BoB_RAF_B_218Sqn.03]
  Flight0  L N R
  Flight1  B D F
  Class Aircraft.WellingtonMkIc
  Formation VIC
  CallSign 18
  Fuel 100
  Weapons 1
  Aging0 36
  Aging1 50
  Aging2 75
  Aging10 11
  Aging11 100
  Briefing 2
  Person0_0 0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person0_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person0_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person0_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person0_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person1_0 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person1_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person1_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person1_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person1_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person2_0 0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person2_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person2_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person2_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person2_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person10_0 0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person10_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person10_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person10_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person10_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person11_0 0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person11_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person11_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.11 0.32 0.32
  Person11_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person11_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person12_0 0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person12_1 1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
  Person12_2 2 0.32 0.32 0.32 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person12_3 3 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32
  Person12_4 0 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.053 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.32

[BM357_TinMan]

Has anyone had any trouble getting the "Wick vs. Dundas to update"?

I have both Channel Battles - Luftwaffe and Wick vs. Dundas.  The Channel battles updated just fine but the WvD won't update for some reason.

[Moebelwagen]

Has anyone had any trouble getting the "Wick vs. Dundas to update"?

 

I have both Channel Battles - Luftwaffe and Wick vs. Dundas.  The Channel battles updated just fine but the WvD won't update for some reason.

 

Have you installed the Update-Tool-Bugfix for all addons? You can download it from the Desastersoft website: http://www.desastersoft.com/en/downloads

[BOO]

Has anyone had any trouble getting the "Wick vs. Dundas to update"?

 

I have both Channel Battles - Luftwaffe and Wick vs. Dundas.  The Channel battles updated just fine but the WvD won't update for some reason.

 

working ok for me - Wick v Dundas

[BM357_TinMan]

Have you installed the Update-Tool-Bugfix for all addons? You can download it from the Desastersoft website: http://www.desastersoft.com/en/downloads

 

 

This worked.  Thank you for your help.

[sevenless]

On ‎27‎.‎12‎.‎2017 at 1:12 AM, BM357_TinMan said:

Has anyone had any trouble getting the "Wick vs. Dundas to update"?

I have both Channel Battles - Luftwaffe and Wick vs. Dundas.  The Channel battles updated just fine but the WvD won't update for some reason.

Hi,

all DS Campaigns working fine here with CloD:Blitz thanks to the hints found on this and the ATAG forum.

 

Did you rename the blitz folder before and after the installation of the Desastersoft campaigns? Did you update the DS installers?

 

Many thanks!

[jamese747]

Is it possible to keep the original version of Clod with the Desastersoft campaigns and the new BLitz update version both individually playable in steam.  

 

If so, how would this be accomplished?

 

 

[Sokol1]

Original "vanilla" version (12/2012) will complicate because the folder 

 

...Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

 

will be common to both versions ("vanilla" and Blitz") and conf.ini from one don' fit for another (DX10 x DX11 etc).

 

But if you enable Beta for IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover (not Blitz) in Steam will be installed TFS 4.312 version and this version don't share folders with Blitz.

 

 

[BOO]

or you could just temporarily rename the blitz version by adding _BLITZ , install the vanilla and rename the new folder with the suffix _VANIILLA then just delete the suffix of the folder for the version you want to use when you want it. 

 

Or

 

You vou could use JSGME or OvGME to swap the folders  in and out if you were so inclined. 

 

 

[sevenless]

Do the Desastersoft campaigns still work with Blitz-Tobruk in its newest incarnation (patch 5.013) ? Does anyone know?

[Sokol1]

If you have a backup of installed campaigns probable work, applying the fix in OP.

 

But if you plan make a fresh install of the campaigns are out luck, the needed updates are no longer available, their site is closed now.

[Eisenfaustus]

On 12/24/2020 at 4:31 AM, Sokol1 said:

But if you plan make a fresh install of the campaigns are out luck, the needed updates are no longer available, their site is closed now.

This is a real pitty...

 

I'm not used to data getting actually lost anymore - usually you can get even most of the oldest game and many will still run today - but I couldn't find any way to get the desastersoft campaigns anymore as well...

[slipper]

Hi all, does anyone know where i may be able to get the desastersoft campaigns from please?

 

Thanks

[Sokol1]

Even if you find the DVD in eBay or similar you are not able to install because the automatic update is no more possible, the producer no longer exist. It's history now.

[slipper]

I have managed to get hold of the campaigns, and they seem to have installed ok using the fix here. I tried the first mission of one of the campaigns and it seemed to run ok, I can not speak for all of them though.

 

One problem I have, is that the copies I got hold of are in the German Language, and unfortunately I only speak English. Would it be possible for someone to post up the English mission briefings or to suggest a solution?

 

kindest regards

 

slipper

[Nevsky76]

On 12/21/2017 at 9:29 PM, YoYo said:

Hi all, I managed to get the DS fix and install it but am stuck with the updater as Desastersoft website does not exist anymore. Does someone has the update file "desastersoft-fix.rar"`? Thanks in advance!

 

 

Edited December 18, 2022 by Nevsky76

[Buffo002]

On 12/18/2022 at 12:33 PM, Nevsky76 said:

 

Before installing the disastersoft campaign files

As for the file under c:\documents, nothing will be edited there, on the contrary, the important files and mainly skins will be added.
If anyone still has the old CoD installed:
Program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover
I recommend changing the name to, for example:
1. IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover
So that during the installation of the files, disastersoft does not install those files for you in this file. The reason is simple, you would be crazy looking for all the files needed to start and copying those files would be complicated and the search would take a long time.
Then install all the purchased addons from disastersoft that you have (the path destination is given) and thus the program will create a new folder automatically by itself:
Program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover
There you will see only disastersoft executable files. Then it's easy to copy all files ATTENTION to :
Program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Blitz
And now the important thing is to create a MOD (directly under the IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Blitz) using the JSGME program, and what is important is to copy the ds_fix into it (I am attaching it to the file) and rename it as the long name MAIN_INSTALL_FOLDER is there (I gave disastersoft ) and so copy it to the MOD file. Activate and you can play disastersoft.

ds_fix.zip

[Mysticpuma]

On 11/7/2024 at 7:04 PM, Buffo002 said:

 

ds_fix.zip 501.96 kB · 1 download

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Edited February 8 by Mysticpuma