IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs Of Dover and Desert Wings - Tobruk: Update 5.030

[FG28Artist]

Greetings pilots!

A new update is available on STEAM.

*** New snap/quick zoom options (Options, Controls, Quick Views), original zoom management has been reworked (Options, Controls, Camera/View) [OBT~Mikmak]
PLEASE CHECK YOU SETTINGS: "Options" => "Controls", Keys has major changes. Consult "Manuals" => "Getting Started and Troubleshooting Guide.pdf", Section "View system" (approx. page 21ff)

*** Bugfix: Supercharger cycle command now works. [MicroWave]

 

*** Bugfix: Tomahawk pit - gunsight marks now show correct distance and target size. [MicroWave]

 

*** New Campaign "Their Greatest Challenge" A new 10-mission Bf-109 campaign, free for all owners of the base game. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Bugfixes: G.50 pit - swapped trigger and brakes, carburetor heater and altimeter pinion animated, fixed front pressure gauges. [MicroWave]

 

*** Biplane Flag [ATAG_Oskar]
Flight Model now has a biplane flag, true for biplanes.

 

*** FMB  Wind Speed and Direction [ATAG_Oskar]
Wind speed is now in kph.  Wind direction is from 0 to 360 degrees with the value representing where the wind is coming from.

 

*** Faster "Lean to gunsight" motion [OBT~Mikmak]

 

*** New: BaseMissionPath added to Mission object [Oskar]
As a convenience for mission script writers.  This value is calculated when the mission is started so if you have moved your mission from the directory it was developed in the value will still be correct.

 

*** Feature: new hotkey option to start/stop track recording (Options, Control, Game) [OBT~Mikmak]
[url]https://www.tfbt.nuvturais.de/issues/1334?issue_count=204&issue_position=76&next_issue_id=1333&prev_issue_id=1335[/url]

 

*** Single Mission "A Busy Morning": revised Blenheim bomber and fighter flights speeds. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Aftershocks": changed No. 82 SQN's flight path and updated their briefings (all languages) with a more accurate speed. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Kanalkampf": moved II./JG 51 Bf-109s to their historical airbase of Marquise West, changed static Bf-109 E-4s to E-3s. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaign "Their Finest Hour" and single missions "A Busy Morning", "Attack of the Eagles", "Attack of the Kiwi", "August Attrition",

"Corpo Aereo Italiano", "Corpo Aereo Italiano II", and "Kanalkampf": removed or moved objects that were clipping through airfield structures at Marquise West. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaign "Their Finest Hour": revised enemy bomber formations to have better spacing and composition in missions 5 and 6. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaign "Their Finest Hour": added a new and improved poster by Bazwelle, added moving vehicles to player airfield in missions 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10, and expanded briefings for missions 4, 6, 7, and 8. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaign "Rising from the Ashes": added front markers to the Coastal Command missions and removed a superfluous element from mission 7. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaigns "Desert Hawks" and "Eagles Over Tobruk": added more stationary objects and revised the waypoints of several AI flights. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Aerial Crusade": changed No. 3 SQN RAAF's default aircraft to the Tomahawk Mk IIB/trop late and changed slide to match. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "As Above, So Below and Dawn Over the Desert": added more static objects, flak guns, airfields, etc. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Darkness Over Derna": added new Ju 88C-4/trop late and Wellington Mk IC/trop late singleplayer mission. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Royal Rodeo": changed date to the 19th of August 1941, expanded battle area, fixed issue where opposing flights didn't get close enough to see each other, changed slides to match changes, and added more static objects, flak guns, airfields, etc. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Defiant to the End": added new single mission in which the player can attack British Boulton Paul Defiant turret-fighters. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaigns and Single Missions: Corrected spelling and grammar errors in multiple campaign and single mission briefings. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaigns and Single Missions: Fixed a glitch where random objects were positioned at coordinates 0.00 0.00 0.00 on multiple .mis. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Campaigns and Single Missions: Removed ace-level pilots from Eprobungsgruppe 210 formations to reflect that the unit specialised in ground attack. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Aerial Crusade": revised slide for 3./JG 27. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "August Attrition": removed historically accurate 7./JG 51 markings and skin. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Missions "Corpo Aereo Italiano" and "Corpo Aereo Italiano II": changed skins for RAF aircraft to be more historically accurate for December 1940. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Skin "Hurricane Europe Late 1940-Mid 1941": added to 100 octane and non-tropical FB Hurricane Mk Is. [major_setback]

 

*** Skin "TFS Spit IIa EBZ Observer Corps a02": added to Spitfire Mk IIa. [major_setback]

 

*** Skin "Spitfire Europe Late 1940-Mid 1941": added to Spitfire Mk IIa, Mk Va, and 100 octane Spitfire Mk Is. [major_setback]

 

*** Skin "Cannon Spitfire Europe Late 1940-Mid 1941": added to Spitfire Mk IIb. [major_setback]

 

*** Campaigns and Single Missions: expanded and improved static objects and front markers for multiple single and campaign missions. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "The Kanalkampf": fixed error in 5./JG 51 briefing. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Southampton Blitz": changed Bf 109 base to Le Havre Octeville and changed briefings to match, fixed error in 3./JG 2 briefing. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Old and the New": removed anachronistic inaccurate No. 274 SQN skin and updated slide to match. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Dawn Over the Desert": fixed No. 3 SQN RAAF's waypoints so that they takeoff from and land at the same airfield. Removed Kittyhawk Mk II serial numbers and replaced them with Kittyhawk Mk I serial numbers. [Cybermat47]

 

*** Single Mission "Southampton Blitz": Stab I./JG 2 and 3./JG 2 will now land at Le Havre Octeville. Briefing updated to match. [Cybermat47]

[BladeMeister]

And I am off today.  ?

Hmmm, a new zoom view? A most welcome rework hopefully. We shall see.

Thanks to all of TFS for the update. It looks like Cybermat has been very busy keeping us SPs very happy. TY Sir! It also looks like major_setback has been busy keeping the skins in line. Thanks to all, and directly after a little bacon and French toast, I intend to update and take CLOD/DWT for a spin.

 

S!Blade<><

Edited February 22, 2022 by BladeMeister

[343KKT_Kintaro]

This is a lovable update, thank you so much.

 

Apologies for my ignorance, but I didn't get that one:

 

*** Biplane Flag [ATAG_Oskar]
Flight Model now has a biplane flag, true for biplanes.

 

A "biplane flag" for the flight model in a flight simulator? What is that?

 

 

[FG28Artist]

We found an error in the German localisation of the "Optionen", "Steuerung", "Kamerasteuerung":

The localisation skipped a row, so the Bezeichnung is wrong. We'll fix this as soon as possible

Real       Bezeichnung
Zoom out   Schnellansichten
Zoom in    Herauszoomen
Zoom 10°   Hereinzoomen
Zoom 30°   Zoom 10°
Zoom 50°   Zoom 30°
Zoom 70°   Zoom 50°
Zoom 90°   Zoom 70°
Zoom 110°  Zoom 90°
Zoom 125°  Zoom 110°

 

[YoYo]

Ohh, thx, I noticed that my zoom in/out doesnt work anymore from yesterday, it was this - the patch! LOL! Thx for info!

[OBT-Mikmak]

17 hours ago, FG28Artist said:

*** New snap/quick zoom options (Options, Controls, Quick Views), original zoom management has been reworked (Options, Controls, Camera/View) [OBT~Mikmak]

PLEASE CHECK YOU SETTINGS: "Options" => "Controls", Keys has major changes. Consult "Manuals" => "Getting Started and Troubleshooting Guide.pdf", Section "View system" (approx. page 21ff)

 

 

[FTC_Karaya]

Liking all the bugfixes and new features such as the recording hotkey.

However, what's the deal with this point?

Quote

Biplane Flag [ATAG_Oskar]
Flight Model now has a biplane flag, true for biplanes.

Does this mean changes to the overall handling of biplanes?

 

Would love to see the cockpit camera angles in the new Tobruk aircraft fixed to be the same as in the older ones.

They are currently more limited and do not allow to look straight 180° back.

Also is there a chance for the gunshake and G-induced headshake to be reduced?

They both seem a bit over the top. Firing the guns on the Kittyhawk for example feels like riding a washing machine in spin mode. But all aircraft are affected by this.

[343KKT_Kintaro]

1 hour ago, Karaya said:

Liking all the bugfixes and new features such as the recording hotkey.

However, what's the deal with this point?

Does this mean changes to the overall handling of biplanes?

 

Would love to see the cockpit camera angles in the new Tobruk aircraft fixed to be the same as in the older ones.

They are currently more limited and do not allow to look straight 180° back.

Also is there a chance for the gunshake and G-induced headshake to be reduced?

They both seem a bit over the top. Firing the guns on the Kittyhawk for example feels like riding a washing machine in spin mode. But all aircraft are affected by this.

 

 

I proceeded to a test yesterday, after my game was upgraded to version 5.030: a cold start-up, take-off, sortie and, finally, landing on board a Tiger Moth. I noticed no differences with the Tiger Moth's behaviour before patch 5.030.

 

 

[Cybermat47]

22 hours ago, BladeMeister said:

Thanks to all of TFS for the update. It looks like Cybermat has been very busy keeping us SPs very happy. TY Sir!

 

My pleasure 

 

More single missions coming in the next update ? 

[Art-J]

Zoom 50 is the biggest win for me in this patch. Finally I've got cockpit FoV similar to DCS and Il-2GB. Abilty to fully customize FoV by the player (by editing files) would be even better, but these new presets are already a massive gameplay improvement. Awesome!

[343KKT_Kintaro]

On 2/23/2022 at 11:40 AM, Karaya said:

Does this mean changes to the overall handling of biplanes?

 

 

Hi Karaya. I had an exchange of private messages with ATAG_Oskar, who kindly answered to our question. This new feature with the "biplane flag" is not intended to any interface that'd be visible for the player. On the contrary it is intended to those mission builders who know how to write scripts in the game's system files. So, this biplane thing is a tool allowing the mission creators to distinguish biplanes from monoplanes. The example given by Oskar says as follows: " if I wanted to keep track of how many fighters a player had shot down and divide that into biplanes and monoplanes the biplane indicator can be used to distinguish between them".

 

 

[Buzzsaw]

There is no change to the flight models or otherwise regarding the biplanes... this is just an organizational change to allow logging.