Polovski

Good day to all,  today we have released an update V1.28 for WOFF BH&H II users.

Just the one item but good for those flying in Dual role/multi aircraft squadrons.

Version 1.28   19 May 2022

1)    Dual Role Squads: Fighter 'B Flights' are no longer recommended to load up Recce type equipment, because A flight actually carries out the Recce mission goals and B flight assists by protecting them.

Of course this update includes ALL previous updates, including the recent 'Recon Wars' FREE expansion.
 

Understood, there will be more flyables.  For the WOTR expansion currently in development, I am working on a virtual cockpit as we speak.  However, yes as it takes a lot of time and work, without support from sales we'll never get there !  Kind of catch 22 there. (Sorry to use your name in vain catch ;)).

WOTR has something (like WOFF)  and that's a real depth, a full on immersive campaign, and great A.I. to fly with and against.  So that has to count for something other than "more flyables".  There are sims out there that have many flyables and nothing substantial to fly them in.

Thanks Dutch_P47M we seem Ok with that one.

I changed it to West.   Thanks for the vids and comments guys it will all help.

Known issues

FIXED IN V1.23 available now

1) After updating to version V1.22, it will still show as V1.21 in Workshops.  So for now...

You can check you have V1.22 installed by going to the workshop and clicking on  "Re Map Keys/Controllers" button top left.

You should see the "Wings Over The Reich Function Bindings" program top left  and it will say V2.0A on the end of the title

Close the  "Wings Over The Reich Function Bindings" and carry on..

Thanks to Rick for the 3 great videos  - all in post #1 now.

Hi all,

We have released a new update for WOTR which brings it to V1.23

Contents and Improvements WOTR V1.23   8 May 2022.

This release is to fix an incorrect version number that was reported in Workshops menu (in V1.22)

1)    Improved Roll-Rate on Spitfire MkI and Hurricane MkI

2)    Keyboard and Joystick Bindings Revised 2.0:    (WOTRKeys program).
        1) User is prompted to save if 'exiting after changes' without having pressed the save button.
        2) Simplified the editing of assigned joystick functions, all editing functions are available on clicking the bound item.
        3) Fixed an issue in Win10 and Win11 where the Joystick Button 'repeat value' was sometimes no longer valid.
        4) Implemented ability to assign controller axes to Gunner station
        5) Generally improved all round for ease of use.

Hi all,   WOFF BH&H II V1.27 UPDATE is now available.  

Version 1.27  6 May 2022 changes;

1)    Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in Ace AC in A flight not always having bomb loadouts when required.
2)    When a Ground Battle exists in your region, or is about to start in the next few days in your region, then time always advances by 1 day only.
3)    When a battle is in progress in your region, time always advances by 1 day only.
4)    Current Weather conditions now included in the 'Historical Weather Cancels all Flights'  'player decides' pop up message.
5)    Keyboard and Joystick Bindings Revised to 2.0:
        1) User is prompted to save if 'exiting after changes' without having pressed the save button.
        2) Simplified the editing of assigned joystick functions, all editing functions are available on clicking the bound item.
        3) Fixed an issue in Win10 and Win11 where the Joystick Button 'repeat value' was sometimes no longer valid.
        4) Implemented ability to assign Axis to Gunner station
        5) Generally improved all round for ease of use.

Of course this includes all previous updates for BH&H II,  including the fabulous 'Recon Wars' free expansion recently released in V1.21.

Please see the WOFF website for more info. 

Remember to use Ctrl+F5 in your browser if you do not see an update page on the web site yet.

On 21/04/2022 at 8:17 PM, BuckeyeBob said:

Thanks, Pol.

Yeah, I forgot to factor in my poor tactics when approaching two-seaters. Almost every time I have been killed by a two-seater, it was because I was approaching them directly from behind. Much better to use diving, slashing attacks, but that requires very good gunnery skills, which I am also not very good at. 

In summary: when fighting scouts, always try to get on their six. When fighting two-seaters, NEVER get on their six (unless the observer is kaput). 

Yeah, it's a lot of flying effort and time to invest to gain altitude, get ahead of the enemy and then swoop, to just go away and do the whole thing again and again.  Always thing how would I appear to the gunner. If you think you would be in the same piece of sky for a while and close, you will be shot down.  As I am often short on time  I'm too lazy so would often chase from behind.

The short red line is usually where you need to fly to, to get into formation. The turquoise/light blue is your normal route to the next waypoint.  Other colour could be when advised to "run" for home. 

I can make it a sticky,  although it seems some people skip them for some reason and only look below.  Probably as the stickies are not updated as often.

Thanks Rick I merged them as requested,. and deleted the last, now redundant, post

Excellent RR, many thanks these will help for sure.

As BB says

1) They are the ranges of enemy activity  - inner is where more action could be expected.

2) It depends on the aircraft, some fuel loads re very close to the pilot others not and that can affect the balance.  That’s why some can behave better or worse after a long mission as the Center of gravity moves.

4) do not approach from behind, otherwise you will be a relatively "still" target in the sky,  you need to move rapidly across which means getting close but get above and in front then come in with a slashing dive rinse repeat.  Or get underneath and as you overtake pull up and shoot, dive and climb back up, under.

Yes an AMD CPU should be fine.

WOFF BH&H II V1.26 UPDATE for 'Recon Wars' is now available.  

Version 1.26    20th April 2022 ...
  
1)    Fixed a target search issue that resulted in no 'French HQs' or 'USA HQs' being found, occasionally causing an error.
2)    Recon Wars CO Report was not being logged in the pilot log file correctly  - Fixed - for 1.26 going forward.
        Note: data that was not logged correctly for flights in Recon Wars prior to 1.26 cannot be recovered.

Of course, this includes all previous updates for BH&H II,  see the WOFF website for more info.

Current Known issues in V1.37

1)  Some aircraft can crash on landing around hills, at Sivry in 1916 (usually found with Jasta 6).

WOFF BH&H II ‘Recon Wars’ patch V1.25 is out now!  

This includes a new fix for the Nieuport 12 and of course includes the massive FREE ‘Recon Wars’ expansion recently released.

Please see our website for more details:  WOFF website

Saving a mission when your dead is not possible - but you could go to QC and choose an airfield nearby and save Scenario.

Great stuff glad its working.

Please only post in the technical thread.  I have already answered this elsewhere so I will delete this shortly.

I asked you to try some settings with "run as adminsitrator" etc.  However I will noty be responding in all these threads it's far too confusing.

For WOFF, please contact support and send your log files and other system info as requested last 2 pages of the WOFF UE FAQ (send via email, do NOT post them here)

Did you try any of the things I suggested socrate in the other threads?  Please don't post this into multiple threads.  One is enough.,  I will have to delete some soon I cannot read and post in 5 threads about 1 issue.

You may need to purchase WOFF BH&H II as that IS specifically compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

"OFF" or "WOFF" socrate?  I'm not sure the very OLD "OFF" will work on Window 10s.  Anyway check the comments above and try those please.

If it's the very old OFF then maybe you need to set it to run in WIndows XP SP2 compatibility

WOFF1,2,3 and above including BH&H II work fine on Windows 10 and 11.

Maybe send the files and logs (as explained last 2 pages of the WOFF FAQ)  to support email address (do not post here) and I can check the version etc rather than guessing.

Wonderful video socrate thanks.

It could be a number of things, what version of OFF is it?  

If you are on a non-English language Windows and are running older OFF you need to set  the Windows number settings to use , for see the FAQ section 5 (in the new BH&H II FAQ at least).  The FAQs are on the Support page on the website.

You may need to set compatibility settings on WOFF.exe and maybe CFS3.exe to "run this program as an administrator" too.  Seems some installs of Windows require that, oddly.   

(explained in section 17, see item number 13 and 14 there).

As Buckeye also kindly explained in previous thread you posted in.