WOFF: Screenshots and Videos

[Hellshade 110]

Stunning pics guys.  I always love your custom paint jobs Olham.   They are so beautiful I don't think I would dare put holes in them.   Maybe you should paint all the German planes.  LOL

[Olham 164]

Thanks a lot, Hellshade, great compliment!

 

But mind you: the Albatros in the last tableau were all painted by OvS!

 

(I know he is OvStachel now, but for me he will always remain OvS. :D )

[Adger 85]

The SE5a Viper..(SweetFX)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2016 by Adger

[Olham 164]

Wow, that is a close-up details shot - sexy, the "Viper"!

 

How is WOFF running for you with so much detail on the ground, Adger?

[Adger 85]

Hi Olham..thanks

 

So far its not running too bad,ive yet to do a big 1918 campaign and yes it does slow down to about 30fps over airfields.

ive took the shadow detail down a notch aircraft shadow at 4,terrain shadow 2.

ive had a couple of random crashes to desktop that im going to keep my eyes on though,and also a few times it ends my missions prematurely which im also going to keep my eye on.

[33LIMA 972]

'Get that gun going, before it's hanging up in a Hun mess!' - yelled to an observer of an Aussie BE2 in Palestine; here, a similar situation has developed 'somewhere in France'...

 

[jeanba 1,920]

[33LIMA 972]

Scenes from a 56 Squadron campaign, mid-1917...

 

...a sausage for breakfast...

 

 

...and the ravages of war...

 

[33LIMA 972]

Hunting the Hun at his home...

 

 

 

Two-seater tussle...

 

[jeanba 1,920]

[33LIMA 972]

On patrol with the Red Baron...

 

 

 

Over the front with Jasta 40...

 

 

[33LIMA 972]

Scenes from the latest mission in my 56 Squadron campaign, May 1917...

 

Two of us are detailed to shoot down a German observation balloon. But on reaching the front, I see white smoke puffs from friendly Archie, engaging unseen enemy aircraft down low and left.

 

 

After watching cautiously for a while, I can see only one Hun, who appears to be putting on some kind of flying display for our troops...perhaps he's strafing them. I go down and put a stop to this.

 

 

The red-tailed V-strutter can out-turn me but by using what today might be called low yo-yos, I get him, and then scoot on over towards my original objective, the balloon.

 

 

I decide to attack the 'sausage' from the east, taking advantage also of some cloud in that direction to give me cover from the German gunners who have seen me coming and are blazing away. My flight-mate is lagging behind but I press on.

 

 

coming out of the cloud, it takes me a while to spot the balloon again but I'm soon diving down onto him, throttled back and guns blazing.

 

 

He begins to fall, trailing a plume of dark smoke; the next second, as I open up and jink away, he's goung up in a ball of burning hydrogen.

 

 

I've come off him heading west and home as planned. Instead of my flight-mate catching me up at this point, I find I'm being tailled by another Albatros, this time one with a black fuselage. He seems to be hot stuff and lands a few hits on my S.E.5, but again using the vertical at the cost of my height, I manage to get some hits in return, cause him to break off and run for it. My Lewis Gun is out of rounds, but the Hun is unable to out-run the rounds from my Vickers. Down he goes...

 

 

...and back I go to Vert Galand, with two Huns and a balloon to claim, equally pleased to find my flight-mate has also made it back to safety.

 

My log book shows eight confirmed victories from seven operational flights, and three claims pending confirmation...

 

...the latter likely including the Hun with the black fuselage, whose demise I have recorded in what I trust will be sufficient detail, to ensure that confirmation follows...

 

 

So far, still so good!

[33LIMA 972]

'So far, still so good!' turned out to be a rather classic case of speaking too soon...

 

First problem, despite being quite certain I got the balloon marked as our target, it's not credited, so we are sent out again to knock it down. Perhaps the Huns replaced it quickly. This time I have two companions and we get over the lines without incident. Soon, I'm looking down at the ballloon...

 

 

...but a glance behind shows my flight-mates peeling off, up and away to my left rear. Evidently, something is stalking us, and it's not hard to guess what.

 

 

I came here to get the balloon, and now's my chance. I roll right and swing down and around towards it - you can see the balloon just above the right-hand trailing edge of my centre-section in the pic below.

 

 

Archie begins to shell me as I come down. Another glance behind shows I'm still clear, with my flight mates still climbing up towards whatever the sun's glare is still hiding from me.

 

 

I end up attacking along the fore-and-aft axis of the balloon, and at first I think he's not going to burn with a single pass. But I'm wrong - down he goes...

 

 

 

I climb up and away to my side of the lines, drawing clear of the ground fire.

 

 

At that point, I should have perhaps gone home, and had I done so, I'd have got away with it. However, there was the little matter of my two flight-mates, whose alertness had enabled me to accomplish our task. I still had plenty of ammunition left, so I began a right-hand climbing turn, back to the scne of the action. I don't usually turn on labels, but this time I did, because I was experimenting with the keyboard commands to check if I had 'dot mode' turned on. What the brief glance I got at the text labels revealled was a sky full of Albatros scouts, mostly disengaged, but on top of the heap, one was fighting against a solitary SE.

 

 

I got no screenshots of the long dogfight that developed once I arrived back up there. But I chased that Albatros down to low level, and finally clobbered him as he tried to land. However, by that time I was down level with several of his friends, and had to make a run for it with their bullets cracking and snapping into my kite.  Not to be left out, Archie was having a crack at me, too.

 

 

Literally dodging between the trees persuaded the V-strutters to abandon the chase. But just when I was beginning to think I might make it back over the lines, my motor gave up the ghost. I clipped a fence trying to get down into a decent field, but managed not to turn her over. As it was, I only just avoided smashing into a clump of trees at the far side of my forced landing ground.

 

 

I knew my campaign had come to an early end, but instead of being made a prisoner, I was rather miffed to be told that I had been killed 'by direct enemy action', which seems to happen to me rather a lot after what seemed to have been a half-decent forced landing.

 

Perhaps I should have got out while I still could and not turned back, but at least, the honour of the squadron has been upheld!

 

OK, this has been more of a mini-mission report than a screenshot post, but if nothing else, it illusrates that there's a lot more to flying WOFF than taking pretty pictures!

[33LIMA 972]

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em...consolation for the premature end of my 56 Squadron campaign is at hand, flying for their most famous opponents, Jasta 11.

 

 

[33LIMA 972]

Some pics from recent careers in 1916:

 

Roland C.IIs of Feldflieger Abteilung 3 return at low level from a scrap over the lines:

 

 

A D.H.2 of 24 Squadron heads back to Bertangles after knocking down a Fokker:

 

 

An F.E.2b of 22 Squadron going down over the lines with a dud engine, after a collision with a Hun:

 

[33LIMA 972]

A day in the life of a Fee crew, No. 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, "Somewhere in France", 1916

 

"Take your pick, but for goodness sake, be quick about it!"

 

 

"There he is! Don't you see him?"

 

 

"Finally! Now get that gun going, before it's hanging up in a Hun mess!"

 

 

"All right, you got him in the end, but there's no need to be smug about it! And yes, I'll pay more attention to the turn and bank indicator, next time, but you just watch the Huns!"

 

[Hellshade 110]

Routine patrol escorting two seater recon when flight leader breaks formation and banks left. I and some others following him while a pair of other DIIs continue keep the recon company. We circle around but either flight leader doesn't see anything or else he didn't think it was a threat, so we turned back to our mission. Looking around, I spotted a new Sopwith Triplane. I had read about them in the news and decided to swing back and take a closer look. That was not a good choice...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEFLQS-YeRo

[Dutch_P47M 9]

A day in the life of a Fee crew, No. 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, "Somewhere in France", 1916

 

"Take your pick, but for goodness sake, be quick about it!"

 

 

 

"There he is! Don't you see him?"

 

 

 

"Finally! Now get that gun going, before it's hanging up in a Hun mess!"

 

 

 

"All right, you got him in the end, but there's no need to be smug about it! And yes, I'll pay more attention to the turn and bank indicator, next time, but you just watch the Huns!"

 

 

That always the problem and the main reason why I do not fly the Fee anymore, the front gunner is acting pure defensive and not offencive.  I still think that needs to be fixed or install a by the pilot operated front gun!!! 

[Dutch_P47M 9]

Here my first training missions on a "French" Be, flying near Paris. Beware I'm not flying this kite, it was my trainer.  Btw, this was my first flight after on my new Vcard the GTX 1080, for some strange reason one of my CPU cores is always being overloaded loaded, while using the AMD HD7970 [rebranded as R9 280X] the i7-6700k was reaching 73% max. I still do not know what is causing this on my i7-6700k, nothing has been changed only the upgrade from 4.12 to 4.15?    

  

 

 

[Olham 164]

Nice shots, Dutch!

WOFF is a sim that is using only 1 CPU core - no matter if your CPU has 2, 4 or 6 cores.

Maybe the performance on your AMD's CPU cores was higher per single core, while the INTEL has MORE cores?

Then the INTEL would be generally faster, but not per single core.

[Dutch_P47M 9]

Huh the AMD HD7970 uses one core, yep like the GTX 1080 it is just an single core GPU.  

 

Nothing has been changed only the swap from the HD7970 to the GTX1080 and the 4.12 to 4.15. 

 

can not believe the 4.15 did change the spreading of CPU load, so something has been changed by the nVidia settings.

 

Single core or multicore, I Always notice  when setting the core 2,3&4 exclusief voor CFS3.exe, the load is being spread to another core after one core is reaching 73% load, only now it stays to core3, despite adjusting the affinity as usual.  

Edited April 25, 2017 by Dutch_P47M

[Hellshade 110]

WOFF UE Jasta 2 Escort Patrol Jumped by N17s 

 

 

 

WOFF UE Breaking Formation for Targets of Opportunity

 

[Hellshade 110]

A few new videos for your enjoyment. They are all from a campaign.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2017 by Hellshade

[Hellshade 110]

Something fun.  OvS has spent the last year or so creating new high resolution skins for Early DIII and OAW DIIIs.   They look fantastic.  Not sure when they will get released but he sent them to the devs about a week or so ago.  Hopefully soon.   I think they make me fly better in a DIII.  ;)

 

High Resolution OAW Ace skin example

 

 

and another

 

Edited June 18, 2017 by Hellshade

[Hellshade 110]

So during my Christmas "break" from work, I decided to hop back into my old favorite plane, the Sopwith "Tripehound", and start a campaign.   First mission out and it was truly an incredible experience.    Only WOFF UE brings the war so much to life for me.     Some missions are long and dull.  Nothing happens.  This wasn't one of those missions.    On a side note, kudos to everyone who had a hand in creating the scenery in WOFF UE, including modders like Robbert Wiggins and his amazing Cloud Mod.  

"Tripehound" Mission Part I

 

And literally 30 seconds after that video ended and I thought I was just going to return to base, this happened.

"Tripehound" Mission Part II

 

 

Edited December 23, 2017 by Hellshade