Update 5.106 has been published

[Hamaha15]

13 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said:

That said, yes it would be great if you could specify several weather zones per map. Maybe in the next "project"?

 

A function that had been available once but disappeared with the introduction of the new cloud system: the clouds cannot be set at an altitude below 500 m. This lack made all missions obsolete in which instrument flying was design intent or, in case of TC missions, where ground fog should play a role. Battle of the Bulge scenarios still work to some extent because the terrain is high enough but this is rather by lucky circumstances than design.

 

Some of us have discussed this matter in a specific thread ever since.

 

@LukeFF, @Sneaksie: is there a chance to get the lower clouds limit back below 500m?

Edited September 22, 2023 by Hamaha15

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

18 hours ago, Sneaksie said:

 

No, it wasn't intentional  The codes were created 3 months ago, so with much going on we have forgotten about them by now. And it wasn't intended to include Li-2 because it wasn't in the store back then.

 

Anyway, I just exceeded their time limit for another week until 27th and added Li-2 to the list of products the codes are giving the discount to. We hope you'll like the plane!

Thank you very much @Sneaksie!

16 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

Yes, that's correct. The first group of planes all have a single fuel gauge display and so the switch has to be rotated to switch from one given fuel tank to another.

With the P-38, what you are doing is checking the state of the fuel level in the outer wing tanks. This is done by checking the status of two red lights. If they illuminate when the button is pressed the fuel level is low in those tanks.

 

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Also, regarding some of the new features in career mode, I asked and received some clarification:

• There are indeed fewer enemy fighters on transport missions, but they will still show up.
• Enemy night fighters will appear on the following mission types: armed reconnaissance, intruder, and cargo para drop. So, for now you are safe if you are flying a nocturnal bombing mission.

I see the red lights, but can't see any button being pushed in the P-38 as I can see in the spitfires. Is it a problem with the animation or that I'm blind as a mole?

[E69_Cananas]

1 hour ago, LF_Mark_Krieger said:

I see the red lights, but can't see any button being pushed in the P-38 as I can see in the spitfires. Is it a problem with the animation or that I'm blind as a mole?

Close to your seat, on the left, if I remember correctly.

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

20 minutes ago, E69_Cananas said:

Close to your seat, on the left, if I remember correctly.

Thanks. I'll have another look this evening. It's like finding Wally. 

[LukeFF]

8 hours ago, Hamaha15 said:

is there a chance to get the lower clouds limit back below 500m?

 

I'll ask and see. ?

[LukeFF]

9 hours ago, Hamaha15 said:

 

A function that had been available once but disappeared with the introduction of the new cloud system: the clouds cannot be set at an altitude below 500 m. This lack made all missions obsolete in which instrument flying was design intent or, in case of TC missions, where ground fog should play a role. Battle of the Bulge scenarios still work to some extent because the terrain is high enough but this is rather by lucky circumstances than design.

 

Some of us have discussed this matter in a specific thread ever since.

 

@LukeFF, @Sneaksie: is there a chance to get the lower clouds limit back below 500m?

 

So, I received a quick reply from our QA people:

Clouds are not intended to be drawn lower than 500 metres and it will never work fine and look fine this way. It's only a reasonable restriction and there are no plans to remove it.

[=FI=Genosse]

10 hours ago, Charon said:

I did as well, but it affected other games and so I assumed it was a Windows glitch. For me it was resolved after setting audio output back to the correct device and then rebooting.

 

Well, after checking my sound settings in Windows I got my ingame sound back again. Thanks for your hint, Charon!

[IckyATLAS]

Excellent improvement with the Li2. Very nice plane with paratroopers etc. Love it.

Now comes the more negative stuff. Why no static version. It is a gain in performance as these multiple engine planes do gobble resources. 

You have the model. Just take the envelope (the outer skin) and you have it. Someone must explain to me why this is something that cannot be done or that would take so much effort that it is not worth it. This is really mysterious to me.

51 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

So, I received a quick reply from our QA people:

Clouds are not intended to be drawn lower than 500 metres and it will never work fine and look fine this way. It's only a reasonable restriction and there are no plans to remove it.

At least this is a definitive answer once for all. Not happy to hear that but we can live with it ? 

[LukeFF]

15 minutes ago, IckyATLAS said:

Excellent improvement with the Li2. Very nice plane with paratroopers etc. Love it.

Now comes the more negative stuff. Why no static version. It is a gain in performance as these multiple engine planes do gobble resources. 

You have the model. Just take the envelope (the outer skin) and you have it. Someone must explain to me why this is something that cannot be done or that would take so much effort that it is not worth it. This is really mysterious to me.

 

I asked about this recently and the reply is that static aircraft are only built when someone on the inside needs a static version of the model for creating a campaign or career development.

[AEthelraedUnraed]

9 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

I asked about this recently and the reply is that static aircraft are only built when someone on the inside needs a static version of the model for creating a campaign or career development.

@BlackSix do you by any chance happen to plan some static Li-2s or C-47s in your campaigns? ?

 

All joking aside, I think those two aircraft are probably the most important ones to have a static version of, as:

A) They were widely used for general cargo transport and were present at pretty much all the allied (including Soviet) airbases at one time or another.

B) They're rather large, which makes them a bit of an eye catcher. It's easy to make an airfield feel alive with a couple of C-47s; fighters are harder to notice.

[=621=Samikatz]

Having issues with actually launching the game since the update, anyone else have this problem? I have completely reinstalled the game, moved it between storage devices, updated all my drivers, etc. Nothing seems to work. The red bar at the bottom of the initial loading screen will complete as normal, then the game will freeze and eventually crash. Known issue?

[jollyjack]

If you have a fresh installation behaving like that i would suspect something external bugging you.

It seems it hangs on the installation part. Dunno what you mean by 'moving between storage devices' however.

Put the IL2_setup_Great_Battles.exe besides the installation folder, or delete the 'updates folder', the launcher will then check the installed files.

 

Or worse: Firewall, permissions, Antivirus, Windows mess-up (run SFC.exe), or maybe a graphics driver issue.

 

[Hamaha15]

1 hour ago, AEthelraedUnraed said:

All joking aside, I think those two aircraft are probably the most important ones to have a static version of, as:

A) They were widely used for general cargo transport and were present at pretty much all the allied (including Soviet) airbases at one time or another.

B) They're rather large, which makes them a bit of an eye catcher. It's easy to make an airfield feel alive with a couple of C-47s; fighters are harder to notice.

 

Same applies to the future release Waco glider.

How to litter the landing zones otherwise with countless gliders as in the real events?

Edited September 22, 2023 by Hamaha15

[AEthelraedUnraed]

1 hour ago, Hamaha15 said:

 

Same applies to the future release Waco glider.

How to litter the landing zones otherwise with countless gliders as in the real events?

Absolutely. Endless rows of gliders and Dacotas, that's how more than a few of the BoN airfields looked like in the days/weeks leading up to D-Day.

 

Although the C-47 (or Li-2) are different in that they were relatively common at almost every airfield throughout the entire part of the war currently covered by IL2, rather than a few hundred packed together on a single one.

[Vortice]

"Spitfire Mk.V, Spitfire Mk.IX, and P-38 aircraft have the fuel gauge button control implemented (P-38 has a remaining fuel reserve control button). The button is no longer pressed "automatically" from time to time, you have to press and hold the button to operate the fuel gauge (RShift + I by default)"

 

This makes me very happy. Now I don't have to fly with one eye on the gauge waiting for it to activate. Thank you for that. 

[JG4_Moltke1871]

So now we know for some planes the work with the fuel gauge selector is still in progress and will get it in next or later updates. About that I have a question about the Breguet 14. Does it have also a mechanic like that? The fuel gauge shows the full 260 litres capacity but the fuel indicator shows maximum 125 litres until the volume gets lower. Below the gauge are 3 buttons…?

Just curious ? 

Edited September 22, 2023 by JG4_Moltke1871

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

So now we know for some planes the work with the fuel gauge selector is still in progress and will get it in next or later updates. About that I have a question about the Breguet 14. Does it have also a mechanic like that? The fuel gauge shows the full 260 litres capacity but the fuel indicator shows maximum 125 litres until the volume gets lower. Below the gauge are 3 buttons…?

Just curious ? 

 

That is a good question - I will ask about that next week.

[FuriousMeow]

Was this a more difficult fix than I thought it'd be?

QMB itself the scheme is set for the entire flight. For AQMB though only player gets the paintscheme set for the entire flight. 

 

[FeuerFliegen]

Will the Soviet paratroopers ever get rifles, like the German paratroopers?

[ITAF_Airone1989]

1 hour ago, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

Will the Soviet paratroopers ever get rifles, like the German paratroopers?

Nope, it's an "enemy at the gate" version 

[LukeFF]

2 hours ago, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

Will the Soviet paratroopers ever get rifles, like the German paratroopers?

 

Probably not. I don't think the British or American paratroopers have weapons, either.

[Yogiflight]

6 hours ago, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

like the German paratroopers?

German paratroopers have rifles?

On 9/20/2023 at 10:35 PM, LukeFF said:

There wasn't enough time to add it to the A series

Will they overwork the fuel flow of the A3 and A5 as well? So it works like in the A6 and following, with the fuel taken from the rear fuel tank first and not from both simultaneously as it is now?

[RedeyeStorm]

3 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

German paratroopers have rifles?

Will they overwork the fuel flow of the A3 and A5 as well? So it works like in the A6 and following, with the fuel taken from the rear fuel tank first and not from both simultaneously as it is now?

Nope German paratroopers have mp40’s. Which I believe is historically incorrect. At least during the airdrops in the Netherlands (1940) the german paratroopers only carried pistols. There heavier weapons where dropped in containers together with the troops.

[LukeFF]

4 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Will they overwork the fuel flow of the A3 and A5 as well? So it works like in the A6 and following, with the fuel taken from the rear fuel tank first and not from both simultaneously as it is now?

 

I'm not sure at this point, but I can ask.
 

[IckyATLAS]

I have a terrible doubt. Is the Li2 flyable?. In the introduction video we see the pilot in the cockpit, the gunner positions etc.. But when I open a quick mission the plane is not visible. Only as AI plane I can access it and make it fly. AM I missing something here?

[BlitzPig_EL]

Of course it's flyable.  I have put it in a couple of my old DF missions, and have flown it myself.  Even managed to skip bomb a ship with it.

[AEthelraedUnraed]

2 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

I have a terrible doubt. Is the Li2 flyable?. In the introduction video we see the pilot in the cockpit, the gunner positions etc.. But when I open a quick mission the plane is not visible. Only as AI plane I can access it and make it fly. AM I missing something here?

It's a collector plane, so you'll have to buy it first. If you've bought it, it's flyable.

[IckyATLAS]

6 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said:

It's a collector plane, so you'll have to buy it first. If you've bought it, it's flyable.

 

Wow! That's true. I did now that it was a collector item, but was convinced I had it bought long ago. And you are right, after going to the store my surprise I had not bought it.

That's done now and I can fly it.

 

This is an excellent example of what happens when you slowly let the community fade. I always bought all the items as they came in to support the devs, and was convinced I had done it, but no and that's the first time. So I checked for the rest and no all fine it was just the Li2 missing or the last item in the collector plane list.

[TCW_SixFour619]

I am having trouble with downloading the update. I have had it stall out at 14.69 GB then saying update failed. I deleted the update folder but it keeps happening. Anyone else?

Edited September 24, 2023 by TCW_SixFour619

[Skycat1969]

The manual fuel selector switch is an inconvenience for me TBH. I fly in VR with a simple joystick, and the automatic selector worked for my purpose. Now I have to find a workaround. Any chance the next update could also include an option to disable the new manual indicator selection feature? (Or put another way, to enable automatic selection as a 'cheat'?

[Skycat1969]

Update: Okay, I mapped the new bind to Voice Attack and it works better than I anticipated. I admit the new feature is an improvement more than an inconvenience.

 

Question: What is happening in the P-38 when I activate RSHIFT+I ? I see two red lights come on but I don't understand what they mean.

[BladeMeister]

3 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

This is an excellent example of what happens when you slowly let the community fade.

No, this is an excellent example of when you were indecisive, did not purchase it upon first offering, have not paid attention to the numerous mentions of the Li2 collector plane in the Dev Diaries and forgot to check your sales history to see if you had pre purchased it or not.

 

S!Blade<><

 

[LukeFF]

6 hours ago, Skycat1969 said:

Question: What is happening in the P-38 when I activate RSHIFT+I ? I see two red lights come on but I don't understand what they mean.

 

They are checking the fuel state of the outer wing tanks.

[IckyATLAS]

10 hours ago, BladeMeister said:

No, this is an excellent example of when you were indecisive, did not purchase it upon first offering, have not paid attention to the numerous mentions of the Li2 collector plane in the Dev Diaries and forgot to check your sales history to see if you had pre purchased it or not.

 

S!Blade<><

 

That's exactly what happened: have not paid attention to the numerous mentions of the Li2 collector plane in the Dev Diaries and forgot to check your sales history to see if you had pre purchased it or not.

The question is why?

A momentary lapse of interest or a more prolonged one. Time will tell.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

On 9/23/2023 at 1:23 AM, LukeFF said:

 

That is a good question - I will ask about that next week.

Any answer? ?

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

Any answer? ?

 

Not yet. ?

[ACG_Dickie]

Has anyone noticed a drop in frame rates since the last patch?  I have VR and had a stable 58-60 locked in so no ghosting.  After the patch I am getting about 50-55,  and that ghosts fast moving aircraft.

 

I don't know if it's the patch, I can just say it's happening since I updated.

[Argosafe]

Yes.  I was getting mid 60's, now it's 5 to 10% lower.... It doesn't spoil things, but that old "more FPS is better" myth kicks in nonetheless. 

[Customizer171]

Looks like the problem with enemy ai aircrafts going vertical until they stall is back in quick missions!

[keithbriscoe99]

Maybe a dumb question, but sorry I'm still getting reintroduced to combat sims:

 

I have only BoStalingrad, via Steam. Am I likely on the latest version or do I need to purchase one of the more recent ones like Bodenplate or Normandy?  Which I do plan to do as soon as I see even a modest sale.

Thanks.