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We started back up on Friday after the holiday break, and last mission we were alone in the south again, and were outnumbered. It wouldn't have been too bad but they finally had really high cover. We've bloodied their noses a couple times down there in low altitude bounces. So they've learned, and we couldn't really go down to hit their attackers without exposing ourselves to Spits and 38s that the 190s can't do much with above 7K. Having even just a single 109, flying separately at the highest altitudes, but working with us, would help either occupy or push down their top cover and allow us to be more aggressive at medium/low altitudes where most of them are. Derring did a good job at it in the 190, but I'd much rather not have one of our regular 190s pulled away leaving only 2 or 3 of us in the main flight.

Seriously, if you want to come fly a 109, you can work the rust off as you go. It can't be any worse than a non-existent 109. So if you feel up for it, jump on TS some night and we'll get the game set up. After Tuesday's mission, there will be 9 missions left before we go over to Allied, and then who knows where the next campaign will be. They're talking early Battle of France, Barbarossa, hypothetical Anglo-American vs Soviet, Arab-Israeli 1948, all kinds of stuff. Just brain storming at this point, but competitive 109s are around right now for a few weeks.

Yeah, Stachl, there's a thread on it at the GS forums. It's a bit of mixed news I think. Any progress on CloD is down the tubes. But maybe this is long term hope that a true sequel series to IL-2 will happen. We're still years away from replacing this game though.

If we need to do this in the future, here's a one step patch that makes the DVD install version into 4.11.1. Pretty handy.

forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32479

Yeah, we're planning on moving GS to HSFX between stages of WOI, after both rounds of the Sicily part. As stated, you need to take a 4.10.1 stock (NO MODS) installation, and then put 4.11 and then 4.11.1 over it, and then do the HSFX 6.0 full install (multiple parts), and then patch that to HSFX 6.0.1. When I get the chance, I'll track down the link I downloaded them from and post back here on Wednesday.

Now that we're between campaigns, it's time to get caught up with the latest UP patches. You can read about them here. On top of the initial UP 3.0 RC1, download and install RC2, RC3, and RC4. All three of them, in sequence. Clear your JSGME list, and backup your UP 3.0 RC1 install before updating through RC4.

As UP 3.0 is coming out, we need to prepare our game version for the new mod version. Update an unmodded 4.10 game version with this 4.101 patch.

Hey Desert Fox. Best of luck with the new squad. I hope to see you guys around and look forward to flying with you.

Yeah, doing what Heiden posted gives you a properly proportioned widescreen picture to your monitor resolution while flying, but it doesn't actually give you more visibility. In fact it gives you less. By making the image bigger so that it reaches the left and right sides, you actually get the normal 4:3 ratio top and bottom cut off. Out of game, in the GUI or FMB you get side bars along the default 4:3 image, since it wouldn't be functional to have the screen stretched out like when flying.

There is some mod that redoes the GUI and FMB and fills the screen fully left/right, using modded GUI images, without stretching it up/down, but it is CRT=2 sensitive. There is also some other mod, much more complicated I think, that does allow you to expand your in cockpit FOV past default (I think 90 degrees horizontal). But if you go much farther than that it makes the cockpit too small and you get a noticeable fisheye effect.

Good stuff, thanks for the heads up Stachl.

Newest video posted by Oleg.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcm_5L6yZIY&feature=feedwll

The news is that US release date is pushed back to April 26, 2011.

Yeah, we still have training every Thursday. Currently, we are on 4.09m with the UP2.01 mods. What version did you leave off with?