Game version 3.010 discussion: Important improvements

[-332FG-Gordon200]

8 minutes ago, Azdack said:

Please help launcher stuck at 149.18mb for the patch 3.010b. I have deleted update folder and check or uncheck "prefer web distirbution" in launcher but dowloading keeps on being stuck at 149.18mb...Any help thanks

It did the same for me after deleting update folders. It took four tries to get it past 65% download and a few notices that it was unable to update.

Be patient. I am sure the servers are working overtime this weekend.

[Azdack]

Resolved after four tries too. Thanks

[dburne]

Spent about 4 hours this morning flying VR in my Campaign.

Just incredible, thank you 1CGS for your continuing support and improvements to the VR experience! 

It is so nice to see a Developer actually doing , rather than just talking. You already had the best VR implementation in the Genre when you first released it, and it just keeps getting better and better.

 

Performance for me was outstanding, all flying was smooth, stutter free, and gorgeous!

Loving the changes to the GUI, so much easier to read the text and viewing the map.

And 0 performance loss for me in having the HUD and even the mini map on, or the large map. And no more stutters when switching the HUD or Map on or off.

Smooth as silk.

 

Your efforts in this I am sure are greatly appreciated by all!! Thank you!!

[Royal_Flight]

8 hours ago, Tuninfogliato said:

Good morning to all pilots.
Why in the update 3.010 are no longer shown targets shot down instantly? Is there a reason? I ask the developers
Thanks Antonio

 

Does this happen for everyone?

If so, that’s a great result. 

[69th_Ustio]

I would like to say thank you for changing the bullet impact sound and making it quieter. back then getting shot at used to scare the crap out of you like it was a horror game. 

 

also, I also like it if you get killed the camera change to a much farther pan shot. unlike that other sim if you die from a missile you are greeted with a massive bang 

Edited February 10, 2019 by Ustio

[BubiHUN]

With BoBP, will new ground(static) units arrive too?

[I./JG1_Baron]

Yes. 

[354thFG_Leifr]

Player counts are showing again for enemy airfields in multiplayer, this reappeared after the 3.010b update.

 

EDIT: Weird, the numbers disappeared after a couple of minutes and reverted to being hidden.

Edited February 10, 2019 by Leifr

[Voidhunger]

hmm today I have again the blinking trk bug now even in external view. Also sound was broken in this track.

 

[CountZero]

1 hour ago, Leifr said:

Player counts are showing again for enemy airfields in multiplayer, this reappeared after the 3.010b update.

 

EDIT: Weird, the numbers disappeared after a couple of minutes and reverted to being hidden.

 

You can se numbers of players on each base on all sides before you select what side you wont to play, when selected side i didnt notice you can see enemy side numbers.

Its realy anoying and hope it gets removed.

 

Also it seams they removed or changed icon telling you before you spawn that that base is vulched, before there was big ring easy visable informing you you should not spawn as youll probably get bullet in your head imidiatly, now both bases lok same, i just spawned on base look left and there is 109 diving on me 500m from me, before i would see ring and select other base as i would know enemy is with in 3km from spawn base vulching it.

[Blitzen]

Since the last update the Steam VR install/start has been literally clunking along at about half what it averaged before ( in the low 20's!!!) while if I start the sim without the Steam start ( say with just the il2 exe ) I still get decent FPS.I wonder in an uninstall & clean reinstall through Steam is in order? I'm concerned if I do a complete uninstall I'll lose Mods, missions,campaigns,settings etc..This has happened before.Should I just save /copy these folders to reinstall after the  the new version has downloaded.Is there a clean efficient way of doing this? Thanks!

[Field-Ops]

5 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Since the last update the Steam VR install/start has been literally clunking along at about half what it averaged before ( in the low 20's!!!) while if I start the sim without the Steam start ( say with just the il2 exe ) I still get decent FPS.I wonder in an uninstall & clean reinstall through Steam is in order? I'm concerned if I do a complete uninstall I'll lose Mods, missions,campaigns,settings etc..This has happened before.Should I just save /copy these folders to reinstall after the  the new version has downloaded.Is there a clean efficient way of doing this? Thanks!

 My SteamVR actually stopped working alltogether yesterday and I'm not sure why. Tried reinstalling SteamVR, tried Reinstalling Steam itself on a different drive and starting from scratch. Nothing. I'll just trackIR for the time being but I hope it magically starts working again, as this stuff usually does later on.

[kestrel79]

The map opening and closing much quicker is so nice! Thanks!

[FTC_the-nines]

Great work on these updates (and hot fixes) GUI looks a lot better, the performance has improved, and the DM; wow that’s more like it. Thank you for hearing us even if the discourse doesn’t always have take the best turns; it’s clear you see the same things we do. Keep it up.

[KoN_]

Its a good update i like the DM 90% a few weird moments but that could be net code .

Keep up the good work strong following here .

few bugs but thats in bug report .

[EAF19_Marsh]

Seem to be back to wing detachment days (in my non-scientific tests using QMB). Other than that it runs beautifully.

 

Small thing: at mid-range an A-20 minus its vertical stabiliser appeared to have a white light roughly in the position of the missing fin.

[Legioneod]

31 minutes ago, EAF19_Marsh said:

Seem to be back to wing detachment days (in my non-scientific tests using QMB). Other than that it runs beautifully.

 

Small thing: at mid-range an A-20 minus its vertical stabiliser appeared to have a white light roughly in the position of the missing fin.

While I don't think wing detachments are as common as they used to be, it does seem like it's happening alot at times. I'm gonna test it and play with it some more before making a final judgment on it but so far I think it's ok.

Edited February 11, 2019 by Legioneod

[EAF19_Marsh]

35 minutes ago, Legioneod said:

While I don't think wing detachments are as common as they used to be, it does seem like it's happening alot at times. I'm gonna test it and play with it some more before making a final judgment on it but so far I think it's ok.

 

This was a Spit vs 109s / 190s and 190s vs. A-20s. Not what you would call exhaustive testing, but wing detachment occurred in c. 40% of cases. Personally I would prefer that they were rarer, but it could be simply coincidence.

[356thFS_Melonfish]

I'm very new to the game, I got it just before 3.009 hit. I have to say the only time i've seen a wing come off was after the 3.010 update, flying mission 2 of blazing steppe you bounce the JU52's, Despite my appalling gunnery I managed to shoot a wing off both planes.

took me somewhat by surprise tbh.

i'll post if i see any more instances but that's my first experience of it, never seen it happen up to that point. (could be coincidental tbh)

 

[303_Kwiatek]

New DM with 3.010 definitly improved.  Tested against fighters mostly but it did a job very well.  WIth good burst now possible to show down fighter in first pass,  also i notice much frequently shot off  different parts of planes ( airleons, flaps, stabilizers) and engine fire  -     these from shoting mostly from 20 mm cannos.  Also more freqently critical damages after pull more G with damaged plane.

 

Now is DM is much better then old one.

Edited February 12, 2019 by 303_Kwiatek

[RedKestrel]

3 hours ago, Melonfish said:

I'm very new to the game, I got it just before 3.009 hit. I have to say the only time i've seen a wing come off was after the 3.010 update, flying mission 2 of blazing steppe you bounce the JU52's, Despite my appalling gunnery I managed to shoot a wing off both planes.

took me somewhat by surprise tbh.

i'll post if i see any more instances but that's my first experience of it, never seen it happen up to that point. (could be coincidental tbh)

 

If you came to the game after 3.008, that was right after the DM was tweaked and it became very difficult to de-wing planes (though not impossible). In the old DM I regularly dewinged 109s with MiG-3 with the dual 12.7mm option, which was a bit unlikely TBH. The DM post recent patch is somewhere in the middle between the old DM and the 3.008 DM, and strikes a good balance in my opinion. Although I found the 3.008 DM was not unreasonable either in most respects.

[=WoVi=cercataa]

The Axis AI now makes boom and zoom, or I dreamed it ?

[RedKestrel]

Just now, =SFF=_cercataa said:

The Axis AI now makes boom and zoom, or I dreamed it ?

They've done it on and off to me for a while. I think it happens in pretty narrow circumstances.

The AI does play a lot more in the vertical in the last few updates though. At least IMO.

[Bilbo_Baggins]

2 hours ago, 303_Kwiatek said:

New DM with 3.010 definitly improved.  Tested against fighters mostly but it did a job very well.  WIth good burst now possible to show down fighter in first pass,  also i notice much frequently shot off  different parts of planes ( airleons, flaps, stabilizers) and engine fire  -     these from shoting mostly from 20 mm cannos.  Also more freqently critical damages after pull more G with damaged plane.

 

Now is DM is much better then old one.

 

what about 30mm?

[Voidhunger]

8 minutes ago, Bilbo_Baggins said:

 

what about 30mm?

its deadlier than before previous patch.

DM is now good ( only VVS fighters can survive tremendous punishment (structurally) from my testing with Mg151)

[dburne]

5 hours ago, RedKestrel said:

They've done it on and off to me for a while. I think it happens in pretty narrow circumstances.

The AI does play a lot more in the vertical in the last few updates though. At least IMO.

 

Yes they have been doing it for a little while for me also, definitely flying to their advantages.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Prior to the new updates I was getting great fps with my new card.  Now I am lucky to get 1/3 of those rates.  Is there an ongoing thread about this issue?

[Blitzen]

8 minutes ago, VBF-12_Stick-95 said:

Prior to the new updates I was getting great fps with my new card.  Now I am lucky to get 1/3 of those rates.  Is there an ongoing thread about this issue?

I get about 1/2 the FPS if I use Steam start .If I use the il2 exe found in Bin/Game I am just about back to what i had before the update.No matter what i do I'm having a minor setback in clarity with VR.

Steam problems are disappointing.The sim was running at its best before the newest updates in game, Steam & oh yes Nvidia Graphics card update.....

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

No VR here, just a 1440 monitor.

[3./JG15_Kampf]

1 hour ago, VBF-12_Stick-95 said:

Prior to the new updates I was getting great fps with my new card.  Now I am lucky to get 1/3 of those rates.  Is there an ongoing thread about this issue?

Me too after the 3010b update

[Cygi]

 

Low fps are visible above the ground.

Edited February 13, 2019 by =LG=Cygi

[Bilbo_Baggins]

15 hours ago, Voidhunger said:

its deadlier than before previous patch.

DM is now good ( only VVS fighters can survive tremendous punishment (structurally) from my testing with Mg151)

 

Do you mean the 15mm variant? I'm not sure if it was always like this to be honest but I found the 15mm incredibly weak upon testing yesterday. 

Edited February 13, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins

[Voidhunger]

1 hour ago, Bilbo_Baggins said:

 

Do you mean the 15mm variant? I'm not sure if it was always like this to be honest but I found the 15mm incredibly weak upon testing yesterday. 

20mm. Its not that hard to kill engine of spit or thunderbolt, but im probably unlucky in vvs planes. Their engines keep running and running .even sometimes with black smoke and because its harder to shot off wings, they keep flying.

[EAF19_Marsh]

The 151s and Hispannos seem nice and powerful to me, as do the 131s and M2 but that is my subjective take.

 

Hitting a 109 the other day looked just like gun-camera footage: it shuddered, started to stream liquid / smoke, some parts detached and then it started to slide and slowly roll with its nose dropping. Nothing dramatic, just the gentle fall of a complex a/c mortally wounded and a pilot losing control. Great job by the team.

[Bilbo_Baggins]

1 hour ago, EAF19_Marsh said:

The 151s and Hispannos seem nice and powerful to me, as do the 131s and M2 but that is my subjective take.

 

Hitting a 109 the other day looked just like gun-camera footage: it shuddered, started to stream liquid / smoke, some parts detached and then it started to slide and slowly roll with its nose dropping. Nothing dramatic, just the gentle fall of a complex a/c mortally wounded and a pilot losing control. Great job by the team.

 

What about the MK108 though? 

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

mmmmm?

[dburne]

Odd - trying to play and getting message to please update my game new version available, but Launcher does not show me a new version to update to?

[Han]

50 minutes ago, Han said:

Update 3.010c

 

Dear pilots,

 

This week we made several important changes to the user interface (especially multiplayer part of it) and damage calculations of the player controlled tanks - they are included in the maintenance update we release today. We continue the work on improving IL-2 Sturmovik and hope that you find the changes useful.

 

User interface
1. Dogfight: when the server changes a mission, the airfield locations from the previous mission won't stay visible on the map;
2. Dogfight: map position and zoom level are saved between player respawns;
3. Dogfight: a mission target won't overlap an airfield and make it impossible to choose;
4. Dogfight: selecting an airfield without available planes won't make the screen darker;
5. Dogfight: home airfield is highlighted on the map;
6. Dogfight: the info tooltip appears if you hover the mouse pointer over an airfield;
7. Cooperative: you can't select a locked out aircraft in the lobby;
8. Objects kill messages appear in the chat again;
9. Chat window won't appear before the mission start on its own;
10. QMB: certain text elements were made bigger for Spanish text;
11. Map: 'no units' and 'maximum number of players reached' tooltips added;
12. Map: air and ground attack events on an airfield are indicated differently;
13. Map: airfield information has been reworked;
14. Map: frontline color 255,255,255 now changes according to the interface color setting;
15. Map: unit dots are bigger and can be grouped;
16. Aircraft info: text layout has been fixed;
17. Career: active duty timeframe of certain units is shown correctly now;
18. Career: Unit symbols in various lists were made bigger;
19. Singleplayer: Flight Log button appears after a mission instantly;
20. Server list: 'auto-switch to joystick' message that appears when connecting to servers that enforce playing with joystick has been reworked;

 

Tank Crew
21. The bug that caused the crew of a tank to die when a nearby tree was hit by a shell has been fixed;
22. The velocity spread of the various tank cannon projectiles decreased;
23. The angle spread of the various tank cannons increased;
24. Excessive projectile ricochet probabilities have been toned down;
25. Missing armor parts in the rear of Tiger and KV-1s turrets have been repaired (physical model);
26. Tiger gun mantlet rear part sides armouring have been corrected;
27. Armor values for the coaxial MG and gunner gunsight on a Tiger tank were swapped (this is corrected now);

 

Other changes
28. Wrong player status (captured) that could trigger when a server starts a new mission with players left in the air over enemy territory has been fixed;
29. A rare problem of armor being ignored when hit into the internal seam between two armor sheets (with the angle between them is less than 180 degrees) has been fixed;
30. A possible incorrect penetration calculation when a projectile after ricochet hit an armor plate of a target moving towards it has been fixed.

 

 

[dburne]

 

Thank you!

[w00dy]

Thanks for the update