Now the game is playable are there many of you guys flying CLOD?
I packed it in last year after the official patch made the sim unplayable with crashes after 40 minutes.
This TF Mod has been brilliant so far and JG5 are once again taking to the air albeit on a smaller scale. So far there is 4 of the original JG5 flying and hopefully we’ll twist a few more arms along the way.
At the moment we’ve flown on ATAG but apparently the JG27 guys have been running campaigns. The last one had something like 85 pilots online. They’re also starting to do a mid week historical mission which looks really interesting.
Everyone is well. Myself Thijs and Schuck started flying again recently after we found out about the TF Mod. Svale is on his hols but hopefully will be back flying again and I believe we will be able to tempt Boelie back as well. Our good freind Hess was on TS last night although he is phobic about Steam
I sent an email to the rest of the guys and it was nice to hear back from Jerry, Jara and Metal although those three aren’t likely to be flying any time soon. Not heard from Unkle yet but I will continue to spam his email until he comes back or changes it
I think there will be a couple of us online for the mission tomorrow night and once the summer hols are out of the way we should be back in business.
Let Hess know, I think it’s now possible to fly without Steam. There’s something on SimHQ about it, though I’m not a conspiracy theorist, so happily use it.
Perhaps see you online tomorrow then.
And please pass on my regards to Thijs and the rest, I haven’t seen him online for ages.
Well now SEOW is taken a holiday for me and I have a new office space at home with a new ‘old’ PC setup perhaps its time I really take a look at CloD, I bought it a while after release but knew my machine could not run it and as such I’ve not even ever started the engine simply installed, started, exited and went back to IL2 and SEOW
Ha ha I had a ‘high end’ and it still ran like crap for me
Some of the tweaks they’ve done to optimise the graphics are very good, you can now look at clouds without fps going in to single figures. Same for smoke, contrails and fire. They seemed to partly get rid of the tree shimmer as well.
The LOD problem has been improved a little but I think the next patch is where we will see that get fixed. Basically at around 1.4 km aircraft can appear to disappear but it’s no where as bad as before. I’m trying to find out other tweaks we can do ourselves, apparently changing the contrast and gamma helps, the JG27 guys seem to know what they are doing so I’ll see if I can get a list of tweaks from them.
It was just myself and Schuck tonight, we took off and escorted the Stukas over to Manston which was completely destroyed. A shipping convoy was then attacked and the RAF came up in inferior numbers and valiantly fought back. We didn’t get much action but it was nice to see large groups of aircraft flying in formation.
Tonight was our last mission of the current SE, it was blast in a 5FN but that another story with a beer in hand. Monday looks set for a DCG to get practice for the next North Africa SE in September, defending Malta in Hurris :). But I hope to dip into COD next Thursday now I know you lads are on - see you.
