Game version 3.002 discussion: Game Functionality Update

[Bando]

@Sneaksie

 

I just checked the squadrons on the map:

 

[=gRiJ=Roman-]

Thanks  lot! Thumbs up! 

[Juri_JS]

4 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

 

We had this functionality in ROF. We'll eventually have an SDK for it.

 

Is it something like the map used in RoF artillery spotting missions or the camera button in recon missions?

[TexasWarbird]

21 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

 

Thanks Robert and everyone else. All praise really does go to the team, not me. They do the really hard work. They really do work super hard on all aspects of this product and their results speak for themselves. After all these years of result after result I get tired of having to defend our work. It’s been a decade. We know what we’re doing and what’s possible or not.

 

Jason

Some people just need good ol'whoopins to look past what's bothering them and enjoy their game. (The cloud thing, never bothered me, frankly I feel they look better now than they did before) Also I don't understand if something is already reported once, what the use in asking about something like that a second time. I work in IT and I deal with that all the time. Drives me nuts - I know first hand how annoying it can be. Probably not to a Dev Lead extent though! Haha 

[Jason_Williams]

1 minute ago, Juri_JS said:

Is it something like the map used in RoF artillery spotting missions or the camera button in recon missions?

 

Basically yes.

 

Jason

[4thFG_Cap_D_Gentile]

And the Allison of the 40?

[Taxman]

Just finished d/ling and did a quick start up.  Looks great thank you Team.  Leaving on vacation early in the Morning, but I should get a couple hours before then, returning on the 28th looking forward being able to fly on regular bases again.   Again thank you to the whole Team for a great WWII experience 

[danielprates]

2 hours ago, Space_Ghost said:

 

More likely to be the Spitfire, Fw 190 A-8 or Bf 109 G-14.

 

Oh yeah...! Because they already are semi-done anyway. Still, welcome additions. 

[JimTM]

1 hour ago, KG200_Volker said:

Anyone knows what these mean?

 

  Multiplayer:
41. Coop: mission timer setting added;

User Interface:
51. Added a system of external GUI dialogs that can be connected to a mission and interacted in it;
56. MCU_Icon text displays on the mission map correctly even if there is no icon image selected;

 

 

Re. item 41, the DServer Configuration Dialog (see pg. 326 of the mission editor manual) was changed as follows:

 

New Options:
- Ban timeout
- Coop Quorum
- Game type (Cooperative, Dogfight)
- Lobby timer

 

Options that were moved from Advanced Settings Dialog (see pg. 331 of the mission editor manual) to the Configuration Dialog:
  - Allow MouseJoy
  - Coalition balancer
  - Friendly fire return
  - Finish mission if landed
  - Kill notification
  - Lock fuel loads
  - Lock payloads

  - Lock skins
  - Lock weapon mods

I assume that the options that were moved can now be used for all Presets (Expert, Normal, Custom), and not just Custom.

 

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by JimTM

[ATA_Vasilij]

Love you guys....

the amount of fixes and improvement tells, that almost anything can be done..

Thats great info. Thank you for your effort.

[216th_Jordan]

32 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

 

We had this functionality in ROF. We'll eventually have an SDK for it.

 

Jason

 

So like a clickable button ingame that can be connected to mission events and triggers? This would be excellent! 

 

 

Edit: Partly answered before, I just saw it now. Looks good!

Edited April 18, 2018 by 216th_Jordan

[Wolf8312]

2 hours ago, II/JG17_HerrMurf said:

Well done DEV's, that is an excellent update. Those screenies are really impressive and the wear and use on the road textures is really cool. The roads look like roads

 

I'm very excited about the upcoming AC BoBp release. For Daniel ^^, the three AC we know are in progress are the Spit, 109 and the Thunderbolt. I'm going with the Spit as a pure guess.

 

Not sure why the clouds "issue" is coming back into vogue with people who have been around for a while. There should be no mystery there as to the fact it is a third party developer and little can be done with/to them. 

 

 

Well the confusing thing for me is clouds are basically 'fixed' if using coconuts mod (not perfect but as good or better as before the update).

They were also 'fixed' before the update was released, again perfectly acceptable.

They are also fixed if you play with high graphics/cloud settings. 

 

So I'm kind of confused as to why there cannot be an official fix to make clouds up to at least the standards of the mod, before the update, or when using high graphic settings.

 

Many people are upset because with VR on, and playing on anything other than high or ultra graphics (major performance drop) the clouds honestly are atrocious in a way they never were before the update. You can only use the mod (no MP) or play on high graphics.

 

Btw way I don't give a damn about the planes looking funky/jaggy when they are in front of clouds, and accept the limitations and that they cannot be perfect. But if a mod is able to fix them, why not an official fix?

[blitze]

33 minutes ago, 77.CountZero said:

 

I dont like this cloud problem, devs say they cant fix it so dont post about it, so how do you know thouse 99.99% are all people who dont mined it or who dont like it but dont post about it as devs said they cant fix it.

 

Atleast to eliminate this in SP for people who dont like to expiriance this in SP there should be option in realisam to turn off clouds in missions, i dont wont to play it like Sturm when airplanes disapear infront of clouds because of this problem, so atleast for SP there can be solution, just easy switch clouds on or off. 

When do planes disapear in front of clouds and with what settings for clouds are you using???

 

I play clouds on High and I do not see planes disappearing in front of clouds.  Even at Medium you will see aliased jaggies more so but the planes are still there.  Low sucks but at this point in time it is a limitation that I am sure will be worked on down the track.

 

I see more that people bitch about things that are not immersion breakers or maybe they are trying to run a demanding piece of software on systems that are 5+ years old.  Get over it.  Simming requires decent computer capabilities and if you are not abvle to provide then deal with the results.  I mean this is not FS 1990 for heavens sake..

 

Flew my first update mission over Kuban and although frames were in the mid 60's, the view was smooth with Hud on and I have a upper mid range rig to fly on.  My squad mates should be shot for lack of decent performance though LOL.  I will now go and take them out back of the pilots mess and deal with them.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Lets argue clouds, cloud mods and rig specs (again) in a separate thread. It has already been addressed by Jason here and further discussion, while fine, is not appropriate in this thread.

[Sneaksie]

8 minutes ago, Wolf8312 said:

They were also 'fixed' before the update was released, again perfectly acceptable.

 

In that update, the cloud rendering distance has been increased several times.

[JG27*Kornezov]

Regarding the clouds. When I joined the il 2 BoX experience it was a Beta. OK for a beta it is normal that a lot of things are not polished. But still in 2018 the clouds are not addressed. They look awful. When I look them every time I am scared not to receive Epileptic seizure.
Regarding a flight sim immersion the clouds are as much important as the maps.
I think the dev team has strange priorities they make bug fixes and changes that nobody cares about, like this time the load screen, no use whatsoever. I prefer the way it was. Right now, when I change the settings and the menu  asks me if I want to restart when I press yes the game crashes.

Edited April 18, 2018 by JG27_Kornezov

[Lemon]

thank you 84 times !

 

[oho]

Thanks. What I noticed with the new patch, campaign, difficulty moderate, in a defend ferry crossing mission, was that with the new patch I have 6 planes chasing me, this has never happened in version 3.001 and also some versions before. Ganging up on the player was an issue until january iirc. Now it seems to reoccur again. Please check if there was an older piece of AI software activated again.  

[Jason_Williams]

14 minutes ago, Wolf8312 said:

 

Well the confusing thing for me is clouds are basically 'fixed' if using coconuts mod (not perfect but as good or better as before the update).

They were also 'fixed' before the update was released, again perfectly acceptable.

They are also fixed if you play with high graphics/cloud settings. 

 

So I'm kind of confused as to why there cannot be an official fix to make clouds up to at least the standards of the mod, before the update, or when using high graphic settings.

 

Many people are upset because with VR on, and playing on anything other than high or ultra graphics (major performance drop) the clouds honestly are atrocious in a way they never were before the update. You can only use the mod (no MP) or play on high graphics.

 

Btw way I don't give a damn about the planes looking funky/jaggy when they are in front of clouds, and accept the limitations and that they cannot be perfect. But if a mod is able to fix them, why not an official fix?

 

What Mod are you referring to?

 

Jason

[THERION]

2 minutes ago, Lemon said:

thank you 84 times !

 

Why not 86 times - seems more logical to me...

[Jason_Williams]

4 minutes ago, JG27_Kornezov said:

Regarding the clouds. When I joined the il 2 BoX experience it was a Beta. OK for a beta it is normal that a lot of things are not polished. But still in 2018 the clouds are not addressed. They look awful. Regarding a flight sim immersion the clouds are as much important as the maps.
I think the dev team has strange priorities they make bug fixes and changes that nobody cares about, like this time the load screen, no use whatsoever. I prefer the way it was. Right now when I change the settings and asks me to restart when I press yes the game crashes.

 

You have no clue what our priorities are. If you don't like what we are doing don't play the game. We have 10 years of addressing all sorts of "priorities" of the community. Start your own company and do it yourself if you know better. So God damn tired of posts like this.

 

Jason

[JG27*Kornezov]

"It's been posted repeatedly by the team that the issue isn't going away any time soon."

 

That means some simmers are not going to be happy anytime soon.

[coconut]

9 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

 

What Mod are you referring to?

 

Jason

 

 

(Unrelated) I just had a quick flight in VR on Kuban over a large city at low altitude. FPS was pegged at 90. A few stutters here and there, but still very impressive, and a big improvement over earlier versions. Nice job!

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by coconut

[Lemon]

3 minutes ago, EAF_T_Therion said:

Why not 86 times - seems more logical to me...

heu, why not ?!

 

 

[Wolf8312]

5 minutes ago, coconut said:

 

 

(Unrelated) I just had a quick flight in VR on Kuban over a large city at low altitude. FPS was pegged at 90. A few stutters here and there, but still very impressive, and a big improvement over earlier versions. Nice job!

 

 

Yeah this one! Honestly just try it in VR with balanced or low graphics settings and then compare it to how things are on balanced/low without the mod. I'm not meaning to bitch, and only want what is best for the game, but the fact theres an unoffical fix already out does seem to suggest it's possible. Trouble is now I have to use a mod that cannot be used in MP.

 

[catchthefoxes]

next month!!! i cant wait!!

[Simon1279]

You guys are making an amazing job with this game, after career and all of the other stuff has been added to the game i quit DCS for playing just IL2 Sturmovik series

[ChauveViking]

Please looking at the WMR world scale issue in VR
Why did not you listen to us? And why do not you answer the WMR problem?

[Voidhunger]

Still its not possible to display subtitles for radio chatter even with Hud on default. What Im doing wrong?

I only see mission objectives and time acceleration.

Help me someone pls

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Ojisan_Mjoelner said:

And the Allison of the 40?

 

If it's not in the list, then it wasn't changed. Not very hard to figure that out.

[Simon1279]

1 minute ago, ChauveViking said:

Please looking at the WMR world scale issue in VR
Why did not you listen to us? And why do not you answer the WMR problem?

The issues related to WMR are related to Steam VR at the moment, it isn't nothing related to the game itself, i see lot of these posts even on other game's forums, you WMR guys must keep in mind that WMR support in Steam VR it's still in beta

[coconut]

And thanks for putting back the loadout info into the logs, I really appreciate that.

EDIT: And another thanks for updating resaver.exe.

Edited April 18, 2018 by coconut

[yeikov]

4 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

What Im doing wrong?

 

In GUI options, you need to enable "multiplayer messages" in addition to the HUD.

[Aloha-Snackbar]

4 minutes ago, Simon1279 said:

The issues related to WMR are related to Steam VR at the moment, it isn't nothing related to the game itself, i see lot of these posts even on other game's forums, you WMR guys must keep in mind that WMR support in Steam VR it's still in beta

 

Why do you say its steamvr related? this is literally the only game which ive had issues with.

[Voidhunger]

1 minute ago, yeikov said:

 

In GUI options, you need to enable "multiplayer messages" in addition to the HUD.

in the career mode?

 

I can see it in QMB but not in the career

Edited April 18, 2018 by Voidhunger

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

My flight records are broken when I try to play it after the missions.

 

Anyone else ???

[C6_lefuneste]

Great ! The infamous black bars are gone with Pimax ! Just this feature justify this update

[yeikov]

3 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

in the career mode?

 

In Main Menu > Settings > Interface (I think that's the name) > Show multiplayer messages

It applies both to SP and MP.

Edited April 18, 2018 by yeikov

[DD_Arthur]

Just got in from work having had one of "those" kinda days.   What a pleasent surprise to see an update for my favourite game. 

 

Big S! for the Team

[Voidhunger]

1 minute ago, yeikov said:

 

In Main Menu > Settings > Interface (I think that's the name) > Show multiplayer messages

It applies both to SP and MP.

I know where it is Thanks