Balalaika

Hello fellow flyers :) Just a couple of questions that I'd really like to find out more about and maybe fix: 1) WIND/CLOUDS. Whenever I get into cloud, I dive and stall and 'red out'. This means if I am flying on my own or am leading, I am forced to fly below the clouds, often at dangerously low altitudes (keep getting swooped from above). Whenever I am following a leader, they often take the flight way way high and I cannot keep up. The problem is exacerbated when using warp - if my flight comes out of warp within cloud, they carry on happy as Larry, yet before I can regain control of my plane, it is spinning towards oblivion. What am I doing wrong? Is it mixture settings (I use auto), or what? It's beginning to get me :( 2) I am having some sound issues. Ingame prop sounds and guns are fine. Music on 'set-up' screens is fine (and I really like the original music theme). However (da da daaa!) The other sounds are really crap. Very fuzzy and seem slooowwwed down. When I press on a button, there's a muffled crashing sound, and there's awful static-like noise on briefing screens. I viewed the credit screen and in the background was some staticy and very sllooow voice over that I couldnt make out at all (though from what I have read it is supposed to be a real-life ww1 pilot being interviewed). If anyone else has also had this problem and fixed it, maybe you could let me know too! thanks :) I am using vista 64bit with 6gig Ram and q8200 quad cpu 233mhz. IDT hi def audio codec (onboard sound). Other than those probs, am really enjoying the game and very glad I bought it. I am having my dad round at weekend who is also keen on flight sims (i just got him a pc to play BoB and FE on) but I don't think he'd be too impressed when I tell clouds kill you, but everyone else flying isnt affected - that's a bit of a gamebreaker! I have TS installed and would really like to fly with a more experienced player sometime too, so if you're reading this and are up to showing a rookie the ropes sometime, please post too. Well, its late so goodnight and hope to hear from *anyone* about any of the topics I mentioned. thanks, Bala

Sorry I missed it Winston, but I've been experiencing some bad internet issues due to my router (now ex-router) all week and culminated last night with it being crushed to death under my foot after having toyed with my expectations of it actually working for more than 5 minutes. Just got a new one, and all seems ok (at least I have internet access) and still setting up my security options on the new network. The time was ok, 6 pm for UK. But maybe saturdays are too busy for some people? Personally, Sundays are a good day to be allowed to do as you please after the weekend chores are done. Don't really know why more UK ppl are not up for it, as I think the posts of our MP exploits over the last few weeks have been very inspiring. Oh, well. Fingers crossed my tech issues are solved, and hope to see you in the air next weekend.

I'll be there, thanks for hosting! If there's only the two of us, we can practise some formation/acrobatics and a dogfight before any missions :) But I do hope we will be accompanied by many others.

Hey flyers, Regardless of what you may think of the movie, has anyone ever seen it with spoken/subtitled english language? It's hard to believe they spent the time on lavish costumes, what looks gorgeous cinematography, and great visual effects to film a story about a German, with German actors, IN ENGLISH and then DUBBED it back into German and never did anything with the original english language print. or maybe they did, and someone here knows all about it. Any info would be most appreciated, thank you.

Great Pics Sab! and Duck, I liked yours alot! heh, don't think i'll be able to pull off that again.. great fun as always. The fact there is shipping that is destroyable and sinks authentically, and that you can park up in a hanger, well, isn't this just THE sim!

C'mon you euro's, sort it out and get into Multiplayer - its very easy to sort out and FREE. Teamspeak is needed, which is a free download. MadMatts installer program is up and ready to install. Hardcore Damage is up and free too! I've been having regular saturday evening (for us) flights with our USA buddies and it's GREAT! But we need more europeans up in the air. I'll host some MP sessions for us all so time difference isn't a problem, but I'll need some help with IT stuff like port forwarding and how to open my PC up to clients without being open to massive internet virus attacks... but I'm prepared to host if someone would like to join. Campaign is great, but flying for an hour or so with ppl you can talk to is better - we can practise aerobatics and formation flying, dogfighting and covering each others tailplanes.. so, come on FLY!

lets all agree that gordon brown's a dick and keep chat about planes :)

haHAAHAAA! yeah, glad you said that UK. The years GWB jnr was in power I truly dreaded the extinction of mankind was sooo close at hand. Wierd tho, till I read your last post, I'd all but forgot about the jerk...

btw the Blue Max movie was great, historically accurate or not- fine movie. some of the shots with planes bombing the trenches are awesome. I highly recommend it. Plus one of the few hollywood movies where the main character is a true 'anti-hero' - which gives it extra props. The stuntpilot had to fly under a bridge section with 4' clearance on each side 17 times to get the shot! I'd buy for that alone! £5 Morrisons - with 2 free movies included! Aces high with old Malc, well very low budget and pretty blunt with its only message, but hey, its got planes in it.

Aww, man. Just got to repeat my thanks for hosting these games Ax - been a real highlight of the week and something to look forward too. Have a great vacation and hope you really enjoy it :) Thanks to all the great people I have met in the last few weeks, Ducky, Matt, Saburo, Joker, Ras, Stumpy, Rooster, Von Braur, Alpha, Kami, Ax, Gryph, Fokker ( missing this crazy dude), and any I forgot due to me being a lame ass ;) Thanks for your patience and raising the bar on flying skills - can't wait till next time!

Well, the guy has now a burning tail plane and his airfields are closing down as he looks for a place to land. Though don't feel bad for him cos he probably the best PC rig you could dream of with trackIR 5, pedals and flawless broadband...paid for by us!!! Hey Gordo, glad my last 6 months income tax went on something cool - now get the crap online with us and MP you ******r!

well, i'm not gonna watch it for a history lesson. wanna just sit and watch a well produced period drama with me wife, that has WW1 Planes in it!!

I don't understand, F4 was (until i got trackir) default virtual cockpit. always worked. Before I even started my forst mission I went into control options and assigned my hat directions to relevent views (up, left, behind, right). I'm as thick as 2 short planks. I cant even spell first.

Hi, first of all I'd like to congratulate all the hardworking soulds who made this sim possible - I would like to add my own thank you so much, it is truly brilliant to the already large pile of Gratz messages. Things I would love to see, and supporting other peoples suggestions: 1) Wind/Clouds affecting AI. Always has been the bugbear of campaign flight for me, having to break off from my flight and take the long and very low route to a target cos there's just this real beautiful, but incredibly deadly, cloud formation straight ahead. 2) Customise your plane a little with some preset decals and colour schemes, and be able to save it for future selection. 3) A list of your flight mates at mission end, BEFORE claims form pops up, or move claims form to the side. I have now a large stack of scrap paper with dozens and dozens of names at my side. It often takes me longer to write down who i'm flying with than the mission itself, lol. An exageration, sure, but you know what I mean? 4) Not fussed about a more detailed map - at least we can see airfields on it and gain SOME sense of where we are, which is all the info I'd expect to have if I was in a real plane and not sat comfy in front of my PC. But if you can make a hi-res game map, that doesn't take an age to load when pressing M, great, but it seems like hard work. 5) A hammer or something to ATTEMPT unjam guns. 6) an inflight display of fuel mixture settings that appears when you bring up the other HUD aids. 7) An 'escape from P.O.W. camp minigame'! - lol, just joking :)) 8) you can ignore all of the above. If the only thing vers 4 brings is easily accessible multiplayer - that'll do! I would pay you £10 GBP per month to subscribe and support a MP server. Of course this would be optional, and ppl could use the current SP and MP way of doing things, but a one click access to a server that checks and downloads all you need for a specific mission would be great. Inbuilt VOIP and leaderboards would be cool. BTW I am not suggesting we turn this into ROF at all!!!!! note the word optional!

Aww man, sorry to hear about that, sounds like a nightmare :(( Hope you get up and running without too much hassle Duck and get back up and running soon.

Widow - it's 10pm UK time, Thursday 11th June. I'm just going to start a SP campaign, but will join TS and leave it on till 11 - 11.30pm. If you're online and wantto test your TS, join the camel channel and say Hello - I'll pick you up hopefully and we can join our own channel (just right click on the new one you'll see my name in to join) and you can test your settings vs my eardrums!

Widowmaker: If have not got a headset, Plantonics do a nice 'closed-cup' set for about £30. TrackIR clips on fine. You can even pick up a budget pair for about 8 quid from Tesco. For Teamspeak, follow this link and simply choose to install the top option for windows: http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads ------------------------------------ After you install your teamspeak client software, settings are as follows server addres is 217.155.102.217:8767 (note colon befor 8767) Logon name is whatever you chose Password is camel Suggest you leave the setting "push to talk", until such time as you are comfortable with your input output settings. As some buttons conflict with OFF, after some trial and error, I use RIGHT CTRL key when I want to speak (actually, I should just record a macro that automatically says ''damn! ok, guys, is there a spare plane free?''). Right CTRL works a treat tho. Teamspeak comes with a chatbox that you can right click into to communicate whilst setting up the thing, but In my experience it just kinda works 'straight outta the box'. If you want, I can join on on TS and join a MP if you want to host on saturday afternoon?

8pm Widow - a great saturday nights entertainment!

Yeah, Axe - I just logged on to post that I was returning to the goat mascot back into the tent, in case its removal prompted people not to reply :(( There was so much interest in us vs you in the other thread, that some feedback may have occured. Maybe its me (starts to feel paranoid).

That's great news CJ. I bought the movie on blu-ray, thinking that *maybe* as its a new release on a premium format, there would be at least subtitles in english - alas no. Please can you post any info on your copy? Make/producer of dvd, I dunno - anything that may help me try to track down the elusive thing - thanks!

Sargeant Bala rushes to put the kettle on in the Brits Dispersal, finds the biscuits and shoos the goat out of the tent.

Obviously I'll join with the rest of the brits, but I'll warn you, having flown 3 sessions with our allied brothers - we 'll have a job handling em unless we start practising ourselves beforehand. They. are. good. Well, certainly better than me... lol, but I'll shoot anyone, just point me in the right direction. 90% of the time I'll hit the ground real good, but I'll at least prove a diversion for the few short moments i am airborne :) Will feel odd flying against the guys who taught how to MP and all, and I am VERY up for joint co-op missions, but I have feeling some good ol' dogfightin' will be a blast too. Any european pilots got TS and can host a game night we could join to 'hone' our skills and unlearn target fixation?

Yes, good points Ax, and as a fantastic host (very patient and helpful to get as many ppl online MP as poss), you know better than most what makes/breaks the fun. As Rooster said, sorry for shooting at ya when I respawned in an enemy plane. I did peel off and crash whilst trying to do some aerobatics tho before any proper damage was dealt :) I also feel particularly guilty cos all I did was Die on saturday and can well imagine the scoffs of my teammates - but throughly deserved cos i flew utterly crap! still had a good time tho :) Never slagged anyone off myself, and will never do. It is a game, right?

great fun as always! thanks for hosting Ax and Matt. Next time, I will REALLY REALLY try hard not to land prematurely in every mission (yes, I did indeed manage to land my Gotha in the sea) :((( thanks again, take care :)

almost 7pm. on TS, ready to go!