Hellshade

The PWCG single player campaign mod Is very good but I think Pat has said he's happy with where it is right now, so no publicly announced planned changes for the future at this time. That doesn't mean he wont ever touch it again. Its a big world and anything can happen, but given that the last WWI flight sim Kickstarter of Red Baron crashed and burned (for good reason) and both of the remaining WWI flight sim dev teams have now switched their focus to WWII flight sims, it seems unlikely anyone is going to do anything significant with WWI for awhile (in terms of historically accurate flight sims). The interest and money just doesn't seem to be there. Yes, Battlefield 1 is WWI themed and has planes but I doubt anyone in their right mind would call it an historically accurate flight sim. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that the next significant update to a WWI flight sim will be if OBD ports the improvements for WOTR back to WOFF UE. Of course there was great hope for that happening with 777 studios porting their WWII stuff back into RoF and that never happened. I have no doubt that OBD has the PASSION to do that, but there still needs to be money to make it happen. One can only hope. I'm guessing when it comes to single player, historically accurate WWI flight sims, some version of WOFF UE will probably hold the crown for a very long time and RoF will hold the crown for WWI MP. I just haven't heard of anything else being developed. Has anyone else?

It is not. 777 is still using a modified variant of the Digital Nature engine to produce it's WWII sims, so they have no interest in opening the source code to things like Damage Models, Flight Models or the 'Split S to the ground and then circle slowly' AI. That sim is caught between a rock and a hard place. Plenty of folks would like to improve it but can't and those that can improve it don't even bother paying attention to the official RoF forums anymore, let alone the sim itself. Classic Scylla and Charybdis.

Don't tell them that. Nobody over there likes to have stuff like that brought up. And to their point, 777 has zero plans to do anything about it anyway, so why bother.

Is it safe to kill /delete this topic, since multiplayer has been dead for at least 3.5 years and was never officially supported to begin with. No posts in 3.5 years and no multiplayer to make new posts about. Any moderators or anyone else opposed to this getting the axe?

WOFF UE Jasta 2 Escort Patrol Jumped by N17s WOFF UE Breaking Formation for Targets of Opportunity

+1.

I'd have to agree.

I have no idea. I guess they just felt compelled to show up out of nowhere, be rude and then claim that I don't have a sense of humor...because were are supposed to believe that his flyby snarky insults were 'a spot of humor'. I'm sure everyone, including himself, totally believes that disingenuous excuse.

No loss to me, the forum community or the sim. Cheers.

By all means, fly right out of here. Feel free to not come back too unless you become capable of adding something constructive and mature to the dialog. Thanks.

I fly both RoF and WOFF UE. Each has it's strengths and room for improvement but for myself personally, I find WOFF offers the best single player campaign experience. Here's a dogfight clip from an actual campaign mission. We witnessed some Spads and Nieuports well below us and decided to jump them. Be sure to check it out in 720P for best quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qiQaJzzNcg In this one, I made the mistake of testing my skills against the newly deployed Allied Sopwith Triplanes. I survived, but they chewed me up pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEFLQS-YeRo

Great screenshots guys. :)

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

It is now officially a Necro thread. Back to life after being long dead.

I agree. The new layout is the worst. Frankly, that may cause people to flood back here, given that very little new official WOFF news is going to be released by the devs at this point as they focus on WOTR.

Bump for the Form Admin to notice.

It's a fabulous sim, especially if you love attention to historical detail and immersive single player campaigns. I believe it's still on sale at the moment, so the sooner you jump in, the better! Welcome aboard. This particular forum is a bit quiet but everyone is friendly and helpful!

Most of the last post dates on the major topics threads show 2014, 2013 and even 2012. IMHO, as I have said before, all it does it make WOFF look nearly abandoned, which does no favors for the sim. I agree, Dutch. Consolidate it down to one or two. That's all that's getting activity anyway. +1 to your idea of putting it in the WWI related forum as well.

The screenshots look excellent. Are their mods to make it look like that (great winter scenes, etc) or is that stock FE2? Where would one go to find most of any available quality mods for FE2? I fly WOFF UE and some RoF but I'm always on the lookout for other great WWI flight sims. I tried IL2-1946 with the CUP mod for Dawn of Flight but I can't say that it suited my tastes.

For those with slow internet connections or who just prefer to own a DVD copy - http://www.overflandersfields.com/buynow.html

Get 'em while they are hot! There has literally never been a better time to get into Wings Over Flanders Fields. http://wingsoverflandersfields.com/buynow.html

Straight from Polovski as posted on Facebook.

There was a discount for WOFF 3 owners for a time after WOFF UE just came out, but I don't believe it's available anymore. The 25% off for UE is the best option while the sale is still happening.

We don't. I'm guessing at least until Christmas but that isn't written anywhere that I've seen and nobody of OBD authority said that. So...get 'em while they are hot!

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Also now shadows will now remain visible from parts that are no longer in view. - new feature: dynamic ground shadows, fully replacing stock shadows with new much improved and faster shader versions. 3) Fully revised French squadrons to bring the French campaigns in the Champagne regions of Marne and Verdun to life as never before. 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Come home to lights on at your field at late dusk, night or early morning! 10) Added smoke and lights to factory facilities. 11) Added 11 detailed 'Specific Airfields' rendered as closely as possible as they historically were. These fields are fuilly rendered for all season types : German Roucourt Boistrancourt Phalempin Cappy British Droglandt St Omer and St Omer Extension Mont St Eloi Vert Galant East and West Fields French Behonne Vadelaincourt Lemmes Additional airfields are in the pipeline for future expansions. Note some airfields are period dependant. i.e they only appear in certain time periods of the war. 12) Revised Winter Trees now bring leafless deciduous trees to the Winter, Winter Light, Winter Medium, and Winter Full Snow, terrain sets, as well as at airfield Facilities for more natural realistic looking airfields. 13) Improved Fine detailed distant object rendering in game. 14) Additional Building models for Airfield Facilities. 15) Earlier operation start times should realise more dawn Patrols, when you can see the dawn and camp lighting for immersive moments, feel the dawn of a new day! 16) Additional British UK airfields and types. 17) Ability to suppress/turn off precipitation effects (rain and snow) in workshops. (Flights are still cancelled on inclement days and weather is still fully variable, there is simply no rain or snow effects in flight). 18) Airfield bumpiness now changes with weather and season conditions 19) Craft wheel rolling sounds now change with weather and season conditions 20) Ability to allow 3rd party mission editors to modify the campaign mission just prior to runtime. 21) Improved dynamic ground bumps on fields. 22) Improved Drum lamps. 23) Includes new RNAS squads for Caudrons. 24) Revised Damage rules to lessen craft instant destruction. 25) Updated graphical content for user interface. 26) Revised Flak effect. ------------------------------ Remember WOFF UE also includes all the WW1 features of WOFF 1 to WOFF 3, for the most immersive single player experience and much more. 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