Hi Guys - there are no outstanding patches for WOFF Ver1.

What is up and coming is an Expansion to WOFF V2.0 and it is payware.

Here is the preliminary features list (Note we reserve the right to change this list etc):

1) Expanded Theatre: Terror Over England:

Fly Home Defence in England and defend your country against incoming Zeppelin and Gotha Raids - Day and Night - on the actual times dates that they historically took place.

Fly With up to 12 Accurately researched British Home Defence squadrons to choose from as well as with special Home Defence Machines.

Or Enlist in one of the Gotha IV Equipped Bosta squadrons in Europe near the Western Front, and fly day and night sorties against England, Paris and the French Channel ports.
Note: Night sorties by Bosta squadrons begin in early August 1917, as they did historically, prior to this they carry out day operations.

New additional Craft for this Theatre of Operations include:

Gotha IV complete with all fully rendered gunner stations
Zeppelin R Type (AI flyable only at the moment)
Zeppelin P Type (AI flyable only at the moment)
BE2C HD (Home Defence Type)
BE12 HD (Home Defence Type)

Note: If Flying in a Bosta with Gothas, night missions start in early August 1917 as they did historically - up until then the missions are day sorties.



2) Expanded Campaign Features:

Advance Time: by a day, a week, or a month to allow your squad to recover from a bad sorty - craft and men are replenished as appropriate, and a detailed summary tells you what took place for the period of advance.
Note Advancing Time only brings your squad more quickly back to full complement - it will not speed up transfer requests etc!

Leave Request Button: now implemented - if the player has served more than 15 days since last going on leave he may submit a request for leave.
Note the request button only appears after 15 days have elapsed since last leave approval.
There are now two leave types - 48 hour pass if days since last leave is less than 45 days or a 5 day pass if days since last leave is greater than 45 days.

Time Advance to next Historical Date: If the player is in a region where historical missions are taking place a 'Time Advance to next Event Date' button will appear to enable him to optionally fast forward time to the next historical event date.
Note: The player may or may not be directly involved in these events - this is a region criteria advance.
This button will not appear if there are no historical events in the region.

New Workshops settings: Encounters - High or Realistic to tweak the chances of encounters for those that want it.

Claims System Revisions:

If 'Log All' setting is not selected in workshops then no claims can be made for Quick Combat or Scenario Flights irrespective of Workshops Claims and Promotions settings.

Workshops Setting Claims and Promotions Normal:
A 'Make Claim' button is available in Mission Details page after every sortie - players must fill in a claim form by pressing the button himself when appropriate - there is no prompting to fill in a claim form.

Workshops Setting Claims and Promotions Easy:
The player is prompted and taken to the claim form to make a claim whenever he has an air victory.

Workshops Setting Claims and Promotions Easiest:
Claims are automatically made on the players behalf when he has an air victory - the claim form system is bypassed.

New: Night activity implemented in England to reflect actual night activity in WW1.



3) Improvements and Additions:

DX9 rendering option now built in via workshops to create dynamic self shadowing of aircraft, dynamic ground shadows for ground objects, cloud shadows - all varying with the sun angle and moon.
DX9 Terrain Bump mapping and Improved Sea rendering - with minimal cost to FPS (does use more memory).

External Camera Field of View now settable in workshops (DX9 shader enabled)

Night effects have been revised to render darker flak and smoke at night.

New Searchlights added to theatre where needed- England and now in Europe (dynamically lit if using DX9 shaders).

Additional targets for long range bombing activity implemented in England and France.

Night complements and air activity implemented to better suit actual war time night activity.

Modestly Increased Bomber and 2 seater Recce Air Activity in theater.

Modestly Increased General Air Activity in theater.

Revised and improved Cliffs of Dover Geographic terrain models.

All British French and German Squads overhauled to include for more historical craft.

Revised AI morale factors to reduce 'fight to the death' scenarios even more, and to encourage better self preservation.

Increased wind buffeting effects.

Some Terrain tile revisions and improvements.

'Newly planted Growing crops' terrain now implemented in Spring - England and Europe.

Distant Dots (of Aircraft) improved to more accurately resemble 'specks' in the distance with subtle colour change.



4) Extra Flyable Machines and associated Squadrons to ensure comprehensive campaign usage:


Aviatik BI
Aviatik BII
Fokker EIV (Twin Machine gun version)
Halberstadt DIII (Argus Engine)


5) In total 9 additional Aircraft are included in the Expansion.


HTH

WM

I'm crying. You're the best!

Increased turbulence will most likely make it harder to get kills, which is good.

As long as the AI know that as well... lol!

Ain´t it fun? Last week (JUST last week), IL2 BOS subforum in SimHQ showed more than 60 users, meanwhile WOFF got a steady 25-30. You can go check now ;),...or save your time,...WOFF wins 61-17 You can´t fool all people all the time.

Ain´t it fun? Last week (JUST last week), IL2 BOS subforum in SimHQ showed more than 60 users, meanwhile WOFF got a steady 25-30. You can go check now ;),...or save your time,...WOFF wins 61-17 You can´t fool all people all the time.