IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs Of Dover and Desert Wings - Tobruk: Update 5.028

[FG28Artist]

Greetings pilots!

 

A new update is available on STEAM:

 

*** Option to hide/show icons's text - if the difficulty settings allow them to be shown in the first place (Options, Control, Chat) [Artist]
This will hide or show all the textual information on objects (if the difficulty settings allow them to be shown in the first place). Note: The current status will be remembered until you exit the game, but not beyond.
https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35308

*** Fixed: Padlock no longer lost when it should not be lost [Artist]
https://www.tfbt.nuvturais.de/issues/1396 and https://www.tfbt.nuvturais.de/issues/1412

*** Fixed: Target Dots for aircraft do not overlay the rendered 3D anymore [Artist]
Implementation was not working as expected and has been withdrawn with hotfix-2

*** Fixed: Target Dots for ships and ground objects now follow earth' curvature and are not shown when hidden behind the horizon [Artist] Implementation was not working as expected and has been withdrawn with hotfix-1

*** New: Loiter functionality [Oskar]
AI Air Group waypoints can be designated as Loiter Begin and Loiter End.  Loiter End waypoints have a time, in minutes, during which the group will follow a path beginning at the Loiter Begin waypoint and ending at the point before the Loiter End waypoint.  Mission builders should define a path with several waypoints between the beginning and end points to effectively use this mechanism.

*** Fixed: AI Air Groups now spawn with spacing 'Near' [Oskar]
Previously Air Groups were spawning in tight formations and frequently colliding.

*** Speeds over Full Throttle Height corrected for all Spit VA and VB models. [RAF74_Buzzsaw]

*** New guide: Manuals => skinning-tutorial [major_setback]

*** Updated Getting Started And Troubleshooting Guide.pdf (Toggle Information Windows)

*** New guide: Manuals => aircraft\Fixed Loop Radio Compass Operation.pdf

*** Desert Hawks campaign: corrected errors in the English briefings for missions 2 and 7, and made the escorting Bf-109s stay closer to the Bf-110s in mission 7. Thank you reddit user mikapyt for your bug report. [Cybermat48]

*** Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian localisation for the Campaign "Their Finest Hour" [Localisation Team]

 

Edited October 31, 2021 by FG28Artist
hotfix

[Padre*]

There are major problems with the new update.
Non existant contacts are travelling across the sky en-masse at breakneck speeds, as shown in the screenshots below. Real contacts, when found, are also completely disappearing when you start to head towards them, and then popping back into view when you are really close.

[Buzzsaw]

5 minutes ago, 334th_Padre* said:

There are major problems with the new update.
Non existant contacts are travelling across the sky en-masse at breakneck speeds, as shown in the screenshots below. Real contacts, when found, are also completely disappearing when you start to head towards them, and then popping back into view when you are really close.

Can you confirm you deleted your cache file in documents/1C Softclub/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover?

[Padre*]

23 minutes ago, Buzzsaw said:

Can you confirm you deleted your cache file in documents/1C Softclub/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover?

I can't confirm that, but all players online had this problem, so it's not just an isolated issue.

[MurrayCod]

Thanks for adding the option to hide the icon's text.  I had been hoping for that one for quite a while.  Thanks to this feature being added I have "discovered" a feature that has probably been there for years, namely toggling other Windows on screen.  Now I don't have to permanently see the virtual throttle, RPM, radiator etc positions all the time either.  Thanks heaps Team Fusion.

 

[OBT-Lionel]

Buzzsaw, I have the same problem that Padre, and I cleared my cache file.

Edited October 29, 2021 by OBT-Lionel

[FG28Artist]

10 hours ago, 334th_Padre* said:

 

There are major problems with the new update.
Non existant contacts are travelling across the sky en-masse at breakneck speeds, as shown in the screenshots below. Real contacts, when found, are also completely disappearing when you start to head towards them, and then popping back into view when you are really close.

 

I will have a look into this - I have a suspicion, too.

[FG28Artist]

Please make me (short!) tracks of these "Non existant contacts". Will help me to fix it.

[FG28Artist]

16 hours ago, 334th_Padre* said:

Non existant contacts are travelling across the sky en-masse

That were in fact target dots of ground objects and ships for which the earth's curvature was (for so far unknown reasons) calculated completly wrong.

We've just (Oct 29 14:30 GMT) published a hotfix.

[FG28Artist]

16 hours ago, MurrayCod said:

I have "discovered" a feature that has probably been there for years, namely toggling other Windows on screen

No, you have not missed it for years - it was introduced with patch27 four weeks ago.

 

 

17 hours ago, 334th_Padre* said:

Real contacts, when found, are also completely disappearing when you start to head towards them, and then popping back into view when you are really close.

Confirmed. Another unexpected (and not having appeared in testing) sideeffect of "Target Dots for aircraft do not overlay the rendered 3D anymore"

We are looking into this.

Edited October 29, 2021 by FG28Artist

[Padre*]

3 hours ago, FG28Artist said:

That were in fact target dots of ground objects and ships for which the earth's curvature was (for so far unknown reasons) calculated completly wrong.

We've just (Oct 29 14:30 GMT) published a hotfix.

Thanks for your efforts in quickly addressing these issues.

S!

[FG28Artist]

5 hours ago, FG28Artist said:

23 hours ago, 334th_Padre* said:

Real contacts, when found, are also completely disappearing when you start to head towards them, and then popping back into view when you are really close.

Confirmed. Another unexpected (and not having appeared in testing) sideeffect of "Target Dots for aircraft do not overlay the rendered 3D anymore"

We are looking into this.

A second hotfix fixing this has already been created. Will be published as soon as possible.

[FG28Artist]

22 hours ago, FG28Artist said:

A second hotfix fixing this has already been created. Will be published as soon as possible.

 

Hotfix has been released

[greybeard_52]

On 10/28/2021 at 3:47 PM, FG28Artist said:

*** Fixed: Padlock no longer lost when it should not be lost [Artist]

The defect has NOT been corrected at least for the G.50. I put up with all the nonsense about my bugtracker report hoping they'd at least fixed the bug, but not that either! They are incapable, as well as liars!

 

Edited October 31, 2021 by greybeard_52
Text color.

[Buffo002]

4 hours ago, greybeard_52 said:

The defect has NOT been corrected at least for the G.50. I put up with all the nonsense about my bugtracker report hoping they'd at least fixed the bug, but not that either! They are incapable, as well as liars!

 

Brake your friend, you exaggerate a lot to insult someone like this, they do what they can so be a little behaving decently, it was enough to write decently that it does not work with the G.50 aircraft type, but not by insulting someone .

[Peachy9]

 

 

4 hours ago, greybeard_52 said:

The defect has NOT been corrected at least for the G.50. I put up with all the nonsense about my bugtracker report hoping they'd at least fixed the bug, but not that either! They are incapable, as well as liars!

 

Steady on old chap. I am hoping google translate has been a bit literal in translating what you want to say. If you still have a problem just let them know and I’m sure they will fix it.

[BladeMeister]

Is it safe to install this most current patch or should I wait? I have CLOD/DWT running so good and I don't want to mess it up. Isn't here a way to play off line without patching???

 

S!Blade<><

[greybeard_52]

4 hours ago, Buffo002 said:

you exaggerate a lot to insult someone like this

It is I who was insulted as a paying customer when I was told in the bugtracker, and then repeated in the publication of patch 5.028, that the flaw I had reported had been corrected, when this is not true!
Anyone of you can check it in his installation: the gunsight glass area is treated as OPAQUE for padlocking purposes, so after a few seconds behind it the padlocking on the target is lost!
I demand an apology from TheArtist for his deception against me, which began with his comment on my report that he defined it as a "red herring", and the promise that the defect will be promptly corrected; if he is not capable, that he is replaced by a colleague who knows how to do it!
If this does not happen, they will only have shown their customers what they are made of!

[BOO]

Pro Tip - alwas end your demands with a request for unmarked notes in briefcase, the release of a few prisoners and a jet waiting at a nearby airport  This way people will take you more seriously...

[Trooper117]

2 hours ago, greybeard_52 said:

It is I who was insulted as a paying customer when I was told in the bugtracker, and then repeated in the publication of patch 5.028, that the flaw I had reported had been corrected, when this is not true!
Anyone of you can check it in his installation: the gunsight glass area is treated as OPAQUE for padlocking purposes, so after a few seconds behind it the padlocking on the target is lost!
I demand an apology from TheArtist for his deception against me, which began with his comment on my report that he defined it as a "red herring", and the promise that the defect will be promptly corrected; if he is not capable, that he is replaced by a colleague who knows how to do it!
If this does not happen, they will only have shown their customers what they are made of!

 

I actually thought I was reading part of a Monty Python script ''The Irate customer Sketch''...

Edited October 31, 2021 by Trooper117

[BladeMeister]

?

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by BladeMeister

[greybeard_52]

Well done! Make a fool of it: it always works when you have no valid arguments to argue!
What I want is very simple: the defect of the lost padlocking of the G.50 is there, anyone can verify it. I'm asking for it to be REALLY corrected! In the bugtracker (which I call "the graveyard of requests") there are currently 151 unsolved bugs, of which 10 have been reported by me and only this one about G.50 has been falsely fixed. The staggering amount of bugs in this game has even become a slogan ("It's CloD!"), but I'd like to see what would happen if all dissatisfied customers, instead of being laughed at, ask for a refund!

[Buffo002]

10 minutes ago, greybeard_52 said:

Well done! Make a fool of it: it always works when you have no valid arguments to argue!
What I want is very simple: the defect of the lost padlocking of the G.50 is there, anyone can verify it. I'm asking for it to be REALLY corrected! In the bugtracker (which I call "the graveyard of requests") there are currently 151 unsolved bugs, of which 10 have been reported by me and only this one about G.50 has been falsely fixed. The staggering amount of bugs in this game has even become a slogan ("It's CloD!"), but I'd like to see what would happen if all dissatisfied customers, instead of being laughed at, ask for a refund!

The game is still in fixes and changes, the whole graphics and a lot of other changes will change slowly, but the fact that there is a mistake somewhere will let me point out that it still doesn't work, but I won't insult or attack anyone, but I will point them out politely, that the mistake is still there, and they have a lot of other work, so it doesn't give you the right to swear at them, and let's be glad that they've already fixed a lot of mistakes and made other new adjustments, debated and pointed out yes, but decent, they have a lot of work.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S! 

 

TFS has done more to this sim than original developers ever did. The game has nicks and dents here and there, but far from not being playable or enjoyable. 

 

The poster with a lot of rage should check the cache, drivers and settings before shouting out. Squadmate has flown G.50 without issues. I have had the disappearing reflector sight glass at times, seems to happen near dense cities and other action going on. Just a guess though. 

 

Nevertheless the verbally abusive attack on TFS was totally unnecessary. Poster has made bug reports, fine. TFS fixes them over time. No need to get rude. 

Edited November 1, 2021 by LLv34_Flanker

[BladeMeister]

You have already made a fool of it quite sufficiently all by yourself. Your arrogance and rudeness are unsurpassed. Congratulations.

 

S!Blade<><

[Peachy9]

Just had a go on a quick mission single player with G-50 and padlock works fine and isn't lost for me when it goes behind the gunsight - maybe this is online only?

 

[BOO]

2 hours ago, Peachy9 said:

Just had a go on a quick mission single player with G-50 and padlock works fine and isn't lost for me when it goes behind the gunsight - maybe this is online only?

 

I DEMAND that you apologise to Greybeard for not having the problem. There are currently a countless number of bugz not in the grame tracker (what I call "The game tracker") that have already been sorted. None of which were ever reported by me. 

 

oh yeah

 

and can I have a large quantity of unmarked notes in briefcase, the release of a few prisoners (not nasty ones though, the misunderstood and socailly disadvantaged will suffice) and a jet (or electric scooter - gotta move with the times) waiting at a nearby airport please (unless its a scooter cos thats quite a long way from my house and I might not be able to get back). Aw Thanks

Edited November 1, 2021 by BOO

[Peachy9]

I am just recharging the Scooter - may take a while as there arent any coal-fired power stations left to power up the grid here in the UK and all our electricity is imported from France and they are going to turn off the power cos we have been fishing too close to their coast.

 

So it may take a week or two!!!

[BOO]

1 hour ago, Peachy9 said:

I am just recharging the Scooter - may take a while as there arent any coal-fired power stations left to power up the grid here in the UK and all our electricity is imported from France and they are going to turn off the power cos we have been fishing too close to their coast.

 

So it may take a week or two!!!

I thought we run soley off hot air now.........well that was the impression I got from Westminster...

[FurphyForum]

3 hours ago, BOO said:

I thought we run soley off hot air now.........well that was the impression I got from Westminster...

I know some un-used Diesel-Electric that could be converted......