First Eagles Patch (v12.27.06)

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File Name: First Eagles Patch (v12.27.06)

File Submitter: BUFF

File Submitted: 4 Jan 2007

File Category: SF Patches

 

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First Eagles: The Great Air War 1918

Readme File

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1. Patch Notes

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The patch fixes some of the issues encountered by the users,

as well as provide some improvements to the game based on

user feedback.

 

The patch will delete any saved campaign in progress.

 

If you have installed any mods to the game, please be sure to

back them up prior to applying this patch. Patch will delete

files that have been changed (please see the list below). If

you wish to re-apply your mods that were deleted, we recommend

you extract patched file and make the changes on those.

 

List of changes in this Patch include:

 

v12.27.06

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* Game crashing when starting multiplayer co-op mission is fixed.

 

* Bombs not being available for campaign missions is fixed.

 

* S.E.5a's gunsight showing as white circle when in Easy mode is fixed.

 

* Fokker DVII's rudder graphics disappearing at distance is fixed.

 

* Some of the airplanes missing their shadows is fixed.

 

* Some terrain tiles flickering on High detail setting is fixed.

 

* Campaign screen showing wrong date on the last unit on the list is fixed.

 

* Campaign screen not recognizing saved filename containing "." is fixed.

 

* Balloon kills are now counted as air-to-air kills.

 

* Accuracy of anti-aircraft gun are reduced.

 

* Comm menu ('Tab') is shortened to better represent hand signals.

 

* Aldis gunsight for S.E.5a no longer magnifies target image.

 

* HUD overlay for S.E.5a no longer shows Aldis gunsight image.

 

* HUD overlay now display speed in MPH for English unit.

 

* Reloading jammed Lewis machinegun also unjams the gun.

 

* Gun firing animations are added.

 

* Clock instruments in cockpits now display correct time.

 

* Some of the cockpit textures are cleaned up and made more legible.

 

* Flight model data are further tweaked and refined.

 

* Additional serial number decals for S.E.5a are included.

 

List of files that will be deleted by the Patch

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Flight\FLIGHTENGINE.INI

Flight\COMMDATA.INI

Flight\HUDDATA.INI

Flight\MISSIONCONTROL.INI

Flight\MISSIONSUMMARY.INI

Objects\AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INI

Objects\Aircraft\AlbatrosD5a\ALBATROSD5A_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\DFWC5\DFWC5.INI

Objects\Aircraft\DFWC5\DFWC5_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\FokkerD7\FOKKERD7_COCKPIT.INI

Objects\Aircraft\FokkerD7\FOKKERD7_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\FokkerD7F\FOKKERD7F_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\Salmson2A\SALMSON2A.INI

Objects\Aircraft\Salmson2A\SALMSON2A_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\SE5a\SE5A_AVIONICS.INI

Objects\Aircraft\SE5a\SE5A_COCKPIT.INI

Objects\Aircraft\SE5a\SE5A_DATA.INI

Objects\Aircraft\SPAD13\SPAD13_COCKPIT.INI

Objects\Aircraft\SPAD13\SPAD13_DATA.INI

Terrain\wwiVerdun\WWIVERDUN.INI

Terrain\wwiVerdun\WWIVERDUN_DATA.INI

Terrain\wwiVerdun\WWIVERDUN_TYPES.INI

 

If you have extracted and modified any of the above, and would

like to save your changes, back up those files before applying

the patch.

 

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