Hello gents,
On behalf of Daidalos Team, I would like to thank you for your support and patience while we have been finalizing 4.09 patch. We hope you will have as much fun playing with it as much we have enjoyed working on it.
Even though we have dedicated several months to internal and external beta-testing, it is possible that we might not have been able to identify all issues. Thus, we would like to ask IL-2 community for a feedback related to 4.09 content only. If you find any suspicious issue/bug, please report it in this thread, ideally backed with some hard evidence (screenshots, tracks, etc.). In order to report only those things that are not known to us, please read the PDF Guide first.
We are committed to look at each of the problems and try to fix it in our future release.
Thank you.
Daidalos Team.
As much as I love SM.79, I'm firmly convinced that its FM has some issues that need to be addressed.
Problem is - it's way too resistant to light MG fire. I ran a test in qmb: my SM.79 was empty, 50% fuel, I engaged level stab and flew level and straight, while an AI ace Hurricane was shooting at me. I ran the test 10 times. Hurricane failed to destroy me one single time, despite always discharging entire ammunition supply into me. Of course ace AI didn't have many problems hitting a clay pigeon - straight flying SM.79 who didn't shoot back. Most of the times I didn't even had any leaks, and never lost any controls. Only consistent damage that always occured (besides visual one) was killed dorsal gunner, which usually happened quite soon after the hurri started firing.
A few grabs:
Huricanne shooting...
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...obviously scoring a lot of hits...
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...and disengaging after ammo is depleted.
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Usual result: No fuel or oil leaks, no fire, no lost controls
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Only in two cases out of 10 the result was also a minor oil leak:
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It's easy reproducible, but anyway - tracks of all 10 runs here.
I just installed 4.09m over a clean, new install of 4.08m. However, the game won't launch. I first tried installing 4.09m (and the skins) over my saved, clean install of 4.08m and found I couldn't launch the game. So I uninstalled IL2 and then reinstalled it. That got me to 4.07m. I then patched that to 4.08m and then to 4.09m. I also applied the 4.09m skins. So this should be a pristine 4.09m install at this point. However, the game will not launch. I get an hourglass icon and it looks like it is going to start, but nothing ever happens -- no splash screen, no change in resolution, nothing. I just stay on my Windows desktop.
BTW, I test launched 4.07m and 4.08m after each install step and they worked fine. I also rebooted my machine after finding 4.09m wouldn't launch, but I still have the problem. Any ideas on what could be the problem?
OK, found the answer over on SimHQ:
I copied the two files (located in the home directory of the install) and now the game launches. Yep, I have an older machine.nforce chipset motherboards (a7n8x) require the mg_snd*.* files from 4.08m; otherwise, game does not start.
Possibly affects all similar configurations using older on-board sound.
A minor issue this, but I'd say it qualifies as a bug. There seems to be a problem with using the SlovakiaS map in combination with 'Scramble' and a large aircraft:
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The aircraft is spawned in a hanger, which immediately results in damage:
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I tried this again with a TB-3, which immediately exploded!
Trying a G4M1 seems to confirm that the source of the problem is a collision between the aircraft and the hanger, see this .ntrk.
The use of heavy bombers in combination with 'Scramble' was probably not anticipated by the developers, but with no enemy aircraft selected, a scramble is a quick way to set up a test flight from a runway.
Like I said, a minor issue. Probably all it needs is a note in the ReadMe file.
Heres an observation regarding the flyable fokkers. When viewed externally and all 4 guns are fired there is no buttlet stream or muzzle flash or tracers from the cowling guns. Empties eject from wing guns, nothing from under cowling. If selecting right gun tracer only, all ok inside cockpit view as advertized but from external view no muzzle flashes again from cowling gun. However it appears cowling guns fire thru tubes and their flash might be hidden by prop blur etc. From cockpit you get bullet streams and they do down enemy aircraft. So more of an observation than a complaint.
Overall impression, quite a good patch, flawles sinstall over 409beta and even on vista no problems so far. Good job Team Dedailos!