WWCephas Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Main features 1. German fighter/bomber Fw 190 A-6 is now available to all Battle of Normandy owners; 2. Fw 190 A-6 added to Rheinland Career mode (to the 1st and 2nd chapters to joinable squadrons III./JG 11, I./JG 26 and II./JG 26 and to all chapters to AI squadrons III./KG 51 and NSGr. 20); 3. Bf 109 E-7 got 4K quality external textures; 4. There are new truck variations (which look exactly like the regular ones) that are loaded with ammo and explode when attacked in a spectacular way; Aircraft improvements 5. AI pilots of fast fighters engage slow-flying targets much better; 6. AI pilots that are alone or from different groups carry out a landing approach much better - now all the AI pilots form the landing queue, not only the ones that belong to the same group; 7. MC.202 propeller rotation and twist were corrected; 8. Yak-9 and Yak-9T elevator is affected at high speeds similar to other Yak fighters; 9. On all aircraft with set throttle control positions the current position is shown in the technochat instead of the throttle percentage; 10. UBT MG gunsight scale on IL-2 mod. 1943 has been recentered; 11. A damaged Fokker D.VII won't visibly disappear at long distances; 12. Gunsight adjustment (target size and range) using buttons happens faster and their default values are set for a close dogfight against a typical enemy fighter; 13. German gyro gunsight Ez.42 damping corrected, higher frequency oscillations of the aircraft affect the calculated lead less; 14. AI pilots fire all 12 Hurricane MGs when installed instead of only 8; 15. Water vapor effect added to the damaged or overheated Hurricane radiator; 16. Oil and water drops won't visibly appear on the inside surface of the cockpit canopy on many aircraft; 17. A number of typos that appeared on Soviet planes after increasing the cockpits to 4K quality were corrected; 18. Bf 109 E-7 cockpit: a typo corrected, detail of certain controls improved, dimmer looks more historically accurate; 19. Bf 109 F-2 and F-4 wheels corrected; 20. BG-25 detail increased (Bf 109 G6/G6 Late/G14/K4); 21. Rocket control panel detail improved on Bf 109 G6 Late and G14; 22. Fw 190 A-3/A-5/A-8 ammo counters panel detail improved; 23. Hs 129 B2 cockpit: weathering and scratches on leather objects, weathering of the gunsight parts outside the cockpit, more detailed dimmer switch, revised coloring and updated lettering of gauges and parts to make them more historically correct, alpha layer adjustments; 24. MiG-3: enhanced textures of braided cables, redrawn placards, alpha layer adjustments; 25. P-39L: control stick weathering, more detailed radio equipment (MN-52H, BC-345, BC-451) and recognition light switch box, more accurate white aluminum panels and detailed text, enhanced throttle quadrant and fuel prime pump handle, improved gauges and parts lettering, alpha layer adjustments; 26. P-40E: more detailed radio equipment (BC-366, BC-451A, BC-450A), throttle quadrant and fuel prime pump handle, historically correct texture for exposed wiring (black wires and white braided cables), alpha layer adjustments; 27. P-47D22/D28: more detailed BC-765 switch box and fuel prime pump handle, upgraded textures of the white screws on the trim indicators box and flap control handle slide rail, alpha layer adjustments; 28. Fw 190 A-3 and A-5 default pilot positions and some skins of these aircraft were corrected; 29. Radio and lighting switches are now animated in Fw 190 A-3 and A-5 cockpits; Player controllable tank improvements 30. An option added that amplifies the gun aiming response to the mouse movement. If you play without a visual mouse aim indicator or aim the gun using buttons, it is recommended to leave it at the default setting (0); 31. Player controllable tanks now correctly collide in multiplayer; 32. A wrong technochat message about turning on and off the powered turret traverse won't appear while moving across rough terrain at high speed; 33. SU-122 and SU-152 crews throw out all the accumulated spent ammo casings when the hatches are opened; 34. The initial position of the shot off Ferdinand gun mantlet corresponds to the mantlet type installed; 35. 72-K 25mm round ballistics were corrected; 36. HE rounds of 72-K, 61-K, Flak 36, Flak 38, Flakvierling 38, Sh-37, NS-37, BK-3.7, M4 and Vickers Class S now have self-destruct fuzes (HE rounds without such fuzes were not used on these guns); 37. Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.M suspension animation corrected; Visual effects improvements 38. New bomb ground and water impact (impact, not explosion) effects; 39. 50-100 kg bombs explosion effects have a new style (it is planned to update all the explosions in a similar way); 40. Additional explosion effects added for rounds containing more than 450 g and less than 1500 g explosives; 41. Improved gunfire effects for the detailed ground vehicles; 42. APHE explosion effects corrected accordingly to the number of explosives they contain; 43. Ground vehicles leave better-looking tracks; Other improvements 44. The hook on port cranes is raised higher so it won't prevent larger ships to dock underneath; 45. The visual model of a destroyed 52-K AAA gun was corrected (it contained elements of an intact gun); 46. Blazing Steppe, Fortress on the Volga, Ice Ring historical campaigns: all fire effects updated, ammo trucks added, many other improvements and fixes; 47. During the Wind of Fury historical campaign you can encounter С-47 and Fw 190 A-6 while Bf 109 G-6 fighters were replaced by Bf 109 G-6 Late; 48. Fortress on the Volga historical campaign: fuel and ambulance trucks added to the transport columns, the overall number and size of the columns increased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 I will have to continue to be AWOL. Power is one for about an hour and a half and then off for half an hour on a pretty regular cycle. Pipes are frozen, so no water. Don't expect change until perhaps Friday (mostly likely Saturday for the pipes to thaw so I can assess the damage). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGeezer Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 I love fixes like this. I just figure someone like Duck sent in a complaint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSittingduck Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Been thinking about you Griph (and Robby). Saw a satellite picture of texas other day...whole frigging state was covered in snow. Glad to see you could get on long enough to let us know what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Man that sucks Griph, have had similar experiences in the past and I hope they stay in the past! Hopefully you can get it all sorted with minimal if any damage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGeezer Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Sounds wild. In those kinds of climate do you normally have electric pipe protection.....but than you loose it if no power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSittingduck Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Servers updated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Stay warm and safe Griph!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Ouch!!! Stay safe bro, and warm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I just discovered that the update overwrote my snapviews. Luckily, I have them backed up I wonder what else got overwritten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Only the A3 got overwritten, likely because of this "28. Fw 190 A-3 and A-5 default pilot positions and some skins of these aircraft were corrected;" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 12:14 PM, WWGeezer said: Sounds wild. In those kinds of climate do you normally have electric pipe protection.....but than you loose it if no power? Yeah, all my heat lamps and heat tape and just outright heaters do no good if there's no electricity. My pipes are wrapped under the house, but under the house is just an open space with a rock wall around the perimeter. There's no insulation, and no real way to put any. And I'm the one put the rock wall around. The house sits on piers that just sit on a few inches of dirt that sits on bedrock, and they just had wooden lattice around as skirting when we bought it. First 20 degree night a few weeks after we bought it busted some of the house pipes, and when I fixed those, I wrapped them good and contracted for the wall. It's done a good job for 16 years, but then mother nature decided to be just cruel about it. Houses down here just aren't built for this. And this is the first time in history (since they started issuing these alerts) that the whole state of Texas has been under a winter storm warning. We've been melting ice and snow when the power is on for a bit to keep the toilet tank filled. That's a surprisingly slow process! My main issue has been keeping the livestock watered. With everything frozen, there's just no way to get fresh water anywhere. I have enough hay, thankfully. Running low on grain. I have four stock tanks, and have been busting ice in them with a sledge hammer one at a time, but there's precious little liquid left in any of them now, and no real shot at a thaw until Saturday. Gonna have to try to drive to my daughter about a half hour away to fill some 50 gal containers. She has water. Roads have an inch or so of ice, then 4-6 inches of snow packed to about 2" and then, after last night, another inch or so of ice on top of that. My neighbor has a Jeep. I think I'll take that. At least my power has been on for the past three hours. Hope I'm not jinxing it. But that's the longest since Monday. I really don't like thinking about how much work I'll have to do before I can have water again, and I won't be able to start on it before Saturday's thaw at the earliest. Of course, those of you in regular climates where they have winter know things freeze pretty fast but thaw fairly slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 20 hours ago, WWCraven said: Only the A3 got overwritten, likely because of this "28. Fw 190 A-3 and A-5 default pilot positions and some skins of these aircraft were corrected;" And I, of course, only looked at those 2 aircraft... I should have bought a lottery ticket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Griph, I do hope you come out of this wintry mess okay. There's a lot of yakking up here in Minnesota about "how can they be so un-prepared for winter down there?" ... Well, I lived in Richmond, Va for many years, and I saw first-hand why: they so rarely have to deal with a serious freeze that it makes little sense to build for it. And not just homes, but business and infrastructure isn't built to withstand arctic-ish temps if those temps don't happen every year. It's cost prohibitive when not necessary annually. That does mean on those "once in a century" freeze events that major issues arise. And one more thing... I'll gladly take several feet of snow over 1/10 inch of ice. Ice is just wicked, it breaks everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSoarfeat Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Griph, I hope this stuff will move out soon and temps normalize. We just got through only two days without power and since on a well, we were without water also. Bad thing about the first storm was it was not predicted to be that bad so we didn't have the water we usually prep for. This last storm that was predicted to be so bad for us did not do as much damage as they expected and we did not loose power at all. My thoughts on this was the first storm cleared out most of the weak dead tree limbs, trees so this one came and the stronger stuff held up well. Just a bit longer and spring will be in, buds on our trees are already out. Hang in there !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 It's starting to melt. A lot of the ice is slushy now. The pipes are still frozen, but I expect them to thaw tomorrow. Around noon tomorrow it will climb above freezing and stay there. Keeping my fingers crossed damage will be minimal. Heat tape and lamps have been working non-stop in the well house since Wednesday afternoon and I don't see any damp areas and the wrappings are dry, so I may have dodged a bullet there. Knock on wood. I'd whole lot rather be repairing the house lines under the house than the main lines in the well house. And repairing the lines to the pastures is easy, as long as there's enough pipe and fittings left in my stash. I don't expect there will be much stock at the Home Despot or Lowes over the next week or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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