I've tried the method recommended on the YuPlay forums for enabling swastikas in the game by editing the ini file, but it doesn't work for me. Any suggestions?

I don't think it works --- a bug --- I have tried the recommended solution as well to no effect

It seems that the BLK file is not really where configuration information is stored. I have looked at it and it does not reflect my true configuration settings which are being saved elsewhere.

SB

Thanks SB, that would explain it. Hopefully they will correct this, takes from the historic realism of the game, doesn't it?

Well it supposedly was working in the beta so a fix should not be a problem for them.

When they add skins, a QMB, and mission editor I doubt I'll have a reason to fly good ole IL2. On max settings this simulation has unbelievable atmospherics. Really shows you how long in the tooth IL2 is.

What strikes me is how well it runs on my P4-settings at high,looks wonderful and perfectly smoothly.

Here's the fix! from the Yuplay forum

NO ini i game root!

Change INI in C:/DOCUMENTS/MY GAMES/WINGS OF PREY/config.blk

put the required line in that config.blk file NOT the one located in the game's root directory

Should work!

S~!

I tried putting

debug { swastika:b=true;}

into the blk file of the proper directory.

Not working for me.

debug{
noVignette:b=no
swastika:b=yes
}

The entry should be put in the ini file as above and not seperately. Works for me now. Thanks to 1SMV BJ over on the YuPlay forums for this valuable tip.

Ah! Yes, that's it! It works now, thank Sky, those silly little x's wasn't cutting it. Planes look much more menacing now.

Craterman, we're not little boys, eh?, we can take this full realism and no danger we'll turn into nazis as a result. Unfortunate that people think a nazi characteristic(mind-control) is apt in order to 'prevent its return'.

History is history. Those who try to change it are the most dangerous of all.

Gentleman, relax. This topic has been beat to death in the IL-2 Forum. The end result was, and is, if you have the option and want to exercise it, fine. If you don't, don't. A historic FW-190 most likely has a swastika on the tail. It just does. If that doesn't suit your fancy, take it off. No harm done.

I guess you're right, no point in flogging a dead horse, though one could argue this is a new game and we can start again lol.

debug{
noVignette:b=no ---- can also should be no if you don't want the vignetting turned on (tested works)
swastika:b=yes ---- the important line - must be in the 'debug section' in order to work
}

Well spoken, I just went a couple rounds with my son's highschool, The new history books have almost nothing concerning WWII.
The teacher actually told me they don't want to offend people while teaching history ! I just about went off the deep end. I mean I have seen a ton of polls saying that 60% of all youth under 21 don't believe that the holocaust happened. I didn't believe those polls but now I'm starting to believe their right. I have been asking my son's friends questions here and there and most of them don't believe that the holocaust happened. Heck most of them think America faked going to the moon !
I really feel like parts of history are being slowly wiped out of education due to being politicaly correct. The teacher told me that within 4 years all the history books in the US will be like this one, so I should just get used to it.
DESODE

'If one doesn't learn the lessons of history, one is doomed to repeat it.'

OK guys, we are not going to go there with this. This was a subject that was debated until the point of nausea again and again in the IL2 forum, the EAW forum and the Janes WW2 Fighters forum when we had it.



Get it?

If you don't want the thing on your plane don't change the file. If you do then go ahead. If you want to argue the political factors of this set of pixels on an airplane go to the WCE and do it.

This is not the forum for political discussions. It can be enabled in the game so asking the question is justified. If the ability to enable it offends you then you shouldn't have bought the game.

LOL Love the Icon ! Thats a thing of beauty. I didn't realize this had been some heated political debate at one point on here.
DESODE

Ohhhhhh Yeahhhhh. The IL2 forums has several threads that required neoprene suits just to enter.

It was ugly.

I enabled it, but what I get, on the tail, is an "X", not a swastika.