Disappearing planes?

[rolikiraly]

Just run a couple quick missions to find out what graphic settings should i use (everything on max was fine earlier, but with this patch it's much worse even in an 1v1 QM, seems like far horizon is not for me).

Anyway, it was just me vs. 2 A-20s, tried both on winter and summer Stalingrad maps. Problem is, the A-20s keep disappearing completely for a few seconds just to re-appear again. Happened from  different distances, 100% sure it's not the usual 10 km disappearing thing. Also I have 4k textures enabled, horizon was set to 40, 70 and 150 kms but the above issue was there in every case. I have never seen anything like this in the previous version.

Did anyone else encounter this strange bug? I will need to try it with different planes, I'm not sure if it's related to the A-20 specifically or not. 

[Beazil]

I've seen this as well with a20s on a quick mission.

[nervenklau]

I wonder if I am the only one to notice that it 's impossible to spot enemy fighters in long distance after the new patch. just set a 1V2 in quick mission, face to face, starts from 10km distance and have 1.5km altitude advantage in Stalingrad summer map. I can spot the enemy planes with no issue in this case before the update, but now it is impossible anymore.

Edited March 15, 2018 by nervenklau

[Aap]

Indeed, A20 is disappearing in quick missions. Not talking about a small dot at 10k either, but clearly visible and identifiable plane in less than 2k distance can just disappear and then re-appear a few seconds later..

[FTC_DerSheriff]

For some reason A-20 like to do that. Looks like a LoD problem

[sniperton]

Add that AI A-20s are willing to play the energy game against fighters. Chandelles, Immelmanns, all those funny things you wouldn't expect from a heavy twin-engine aircraft. They don't evade, they attack, and they lose.

Edited March 16, 2018 by sniperton

[KoN_]

Not just A20 online planes are disappearing in front on cockpit . 190 and p39 disappear and reappear . online is very unstable at the moment . 

[nervenklau]

with current low visible issue, only close range dogfight is playable. seems most of the people are so excited on the eyes candy stuffs but ignore this key element for a WWII air combat sim.

[StickMan]

I don't know. Maybe the A20 is disappearing, for me though overall visibility is better than ever. I can spot fighters further out, or so it seems.

[SwallowFire]

I had the same experience with A20. I was sitting on the runway waiting to do a bomber escort mission in career mode. Then a flight of 5 A20 flew pass above me. When I zoomed in to check there were actually 7. But when I zoomed back out again the 2 disappeared.

[LeLv30_Redwing-]

Hallelujah. I though I had something wrong with my eyes when they (A-20) started to disappear....

[KoN_]

Also Tanks are disappearing . Our squad was testing last night . Another thing is a greyed out START button after choosing airframes on server  , Can not get into cockpit only cure so far is too quite the server and try again . After a long wait trying to get into multiplayer this can be quite frustrating . 

[=IL2AU=chappyj]

+2

2 of us on a server experienced aircraft popping in and out in the front view in vr 

Range was about 5km or less 

3 ship formation would suddenly become 2 ship  and then the third would reappear suddenly 

It wasn't a peripheral render issue which has always happened previously in earlier versions and is as expected 

[Berimbau]

Also in Career Mode. It seems to me, that Ai-Airplanes disappearing after a certain distance between Player-Airplane and Ai-Airplane. I guess it was thought to be an Improvment to Performence, but actually it makes playing offline very miserable and unrealistic. Sometimes i wonder if the developer play this game for themself (Offline). Hopefully they will read this post too, and change this in a future patch.

[marklar]

It's been like this since Rise of Flight. It's not a bug, it's a feature. Annoying and unrealistic but not the first, not the last in this game. Get over it.

[PatrickAWlson]

Planes will disappear if they are told to.  In PWCG I have planes disappearing if they get more than n kilometers (30 I think) from the player.  It is possible that the checkzone linked to removing the plane is not configured properly, causing the plane to be incorrectly removed from the map

[Braskikii]

Thanks for explanation PatrickAWlson, configuration problem it is.

[BadPilotSU27]

Would rolling back GPU drivers (I believe it is GTX1050 4GB on a ROG laptop) help me fix this problem on my friend's computer?

[Voidhunger]

I remember attacking in rof two seater which sudenly disappeared, so it seems to me that there is some kind of  timer and not a distance in game(not in pwcg)

Edited October 26, 2018 by Voidhunger

[Aero-Jaeger]

had the same thing happening to me

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Same with looking down on aircraft over clouds... they will disappear as if ‘in’ the cloud but actually they are even 500ft above it...

Example...

Should look like black dots at least

[-LUCKY-ThanksSkeletor]

In all of my various careers i have had aircraft disappear at various distances, friend and foe alike. I have had aircraft i was chasing to shoot down pop out of existence right before my very eyes. Kinda spooky since i don't know if they will re appear behind me.

Edited October 27, 2018 by -LUCKY-ThanksSkeletor

[ShamrockOneFive]

3 hours ago, spartan85 said:

Same with looking down on aircraft over clouds... they will disappear as if ‘in’ the cloud but actually they are even 500ft above it...

Example...

Should look like black dots at least

What graphics settings?

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

16 hours ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

What graphics settings?

1080p

preset high

shadows high

landscape blur 

full screen

sharpen on

4x aliasing

70km distance 

4k skins

Ssao off 

hdr off

 

Edited October 27, 2018 by spartan85

[ShamrockOneFive]

8 minutes ago, spartan85 said:

1080p

preset high

shadows high

landscape blur 

full screen

sharpen on

4x aliasing

70km distance 

4k skins

Ssao off 

hdr off

 

 

And what settings are your clouds at?

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

39 minutes ago, ShamrockOneFive said:

 

And what settings are your clouds at?

Clouds high too sorry

 

 

heres one better

Edited October 27, 2018 by spartan85

[ShamrockOneFive]

Hrmm... That disappearing act shouldn't happen on High. Low/Medium yes. That's interesting.

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Not to be cheeky...It shouldn’t happen in general... 

[ShamrockOneFive]

5 minutes ago, spartan85 said:

Not to be cheeky...It shouldn’t happen in general... 

 

Fair. What I don't understand is why some have planes seemingly disappearing while that never happens to me (and I'm now on my second GPU). I definitely see the blocky behavior and that does partially obscure visibility but not the disappearing act. I did see it on low detail clouds interestingly.

[StickMan]

I actually had this happen to me a few weeks ago in a multiplayer session. I out climbed a yak above the cloud layer and watched him stall beneath me. He was leaking fuel from some shots I put into his wings earlier. I had eyes on him the whole time as I pulled my nose back down and placed my gunsight on him. Now he was in a flat spin and was helpless as I was about to pull the trigger. Then poof he just vanished right in front of me about 400 meters of range. The vapor trail of leaking fuel was still visible to the point where it had disappeared. I continued my dive into the cloud layer and eased out of it while pointing my nose toward home plate. I cursed him for disconnecting. 

 

I checked the the server log to see who it was and was shocked to see that they in fact had not disconnected but had returned safely home. My apologies to whoever that was for thinking you were a coward ?

Edited October 28, 2018 by StickMan

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Ya, the screenshots above were in career mode..   and most of the days in career mode are cloudy..

it is a pain when you’re trying to escort a flight and this is happening..

 

i personally, wouldn’t mind taking a delay on release of further expansions just so they could dedicate time to resolving these clouds..

they look wonderful and realistic.. until you notice they have this constant rolling effect to them.. then you introduce planes.. and you get all the graphical fun that goes with it...

 

i don’t like making negative comments... 

i stand by this product and even bought copies for my buddy to convert him from dcs...  

please do some thing about these clouds...