CFM info here:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4057818/CFM....COMING_SOON.#Post4057818

Disregard all the TFM-412 references, this will go on a clean 4.12.2 with SAS modact, as stated in the manual.

There is also a new download link for the up sfs files needed:
CFM_UP_SFS.RAR - For all required SFS dependency.
DOWNLOAD
https://www.mediafire.com/?4031xcu3mkpgv73

Due any day now.

I am right there with you, in fact you have now reached where I reached here a few weeks ago.
Thank goodness for TF Cliffs and 1946 mods.

As it stands now, 1C/777 will never get another dime from me again.

Reading all the freaking text walls of complaining about the unlocks is hilarious. It's like watching a group of people stand around and argue for hours about how to cross a 2' deep river. None of you have aparently played the campaign enough to figure out how easy it is to unlock everything. All the unlocks for one plane could be done in about 2 hours. But to you all it's like some insurmountable obstacle and the end of the world!

Why do you keep making this stuff up?

Anyways, you and your "peers" still don't get it. Its the way they did it, and continuing to do it.

For me, its a matter of principle now because i cant stand stupidity in any form. And before you ask, yes, i can totally live with it if they go belly up.

If I sold you a car for $$, and then once you took possession of it...I locked down the AC, Radio, CD, automatic keyless entry, etc

And told you, no worries!...Just drive it cross country and by the time you get to Alaska...it will all be unlocked

And if you break the speed limit.....you can have them unlocked by the time you hit Vancouver BC

I am sure that you luv it....being from the free state of Texas and all

The furor over there on unlocks, etc, etc and now it's a "Combat Flight Game"...just shows that the Barbarians are not at the gate over there...they are running the place

careful guys, it's the thought police

Hi Sunchaser,

Quick question...I'm totally familiar with DBW and I also run 4.12.1

But I've only dabbled with early versions of TFM, so:

With DBW I can run virtually any DBW and UPC user made campaign.

With 4.12.1 I can run virtually any "stock" user made campaign.

With TFM am I looking only for TFM user made campaigns, or is TFM generally compatible with either "stock" or "DBW/UPC" campaigns also.

Thanks!

***

P.S. For those who have never owned IL-2 1946, if you add up the number of missions in the combined "stock" and "DBW/UPC" user made campaigns it comes out to over 13,000 missions which is roughly 13,000 gaming hours! Add to that the Lowengrin or Asura Dynamic Campaign Generators and you've got a lifetime of gaming!

And many of these campaigns are created by guys who go through a book they are reading chapter by chapter and recreate the events described by the author. These user made campaigns are the closest thing to feeling like you are participating in history that we'll probably ever see. Many of these user made campaigns are much more extensive than anything ever produced by a professional gaming company. And TFM flexes IL-2 1946's muscles more than any other 1946 enhancement. But it used to be very tedious to install and keep up with TFM. Now it won't be anymore!

1. Buy IL-2 1946 for $5 or $10
2. Update it to v4.12.2
3. Install CFM (which is the new compressed version of TFM)

...and in about 30 minutes you will have the most advanced Combat Flight SIMULATOR made. CloD is very nice indeed, but the breadth and depth of IL-2 1946 is by far without equal.

Go here for user made campaigns: Mission4Today.com

...and here for lots of great info and more stuff to download for IL-2 1946: Special Aircraft Service 1946 (aka SAS 1946)

Does anyone know it SweetFX/FlightFX work in 1946?

That ain't the point!

As 1CGS has said themselves, 90 to 95% of BoS customers are SP players. The BoS SP Campaign with its storyline centered around the unlocks is dull and boring. That's the point!

I'm happy for you if you think the SP Campaign is fun. But for the vast majority of BoS customers (who are single player customers by the way) the SP Campaign is dull and boring. That is why the unlocks are so disliked.

For MP players they also stand as an impediment to getting on with playing MP. The unlocks force MP players into a playing style they don't like...namely SP. But MP players only make up about 5 to 10% of BoS customers. So telling us how quickly we can run through the unlocks misses the point entirely for most players.

And I don't think the "Thick as a Brick" marketing approach is working too well for 1CGS:

1. Boy, we really don't like the unlocks.
1CGS: Here is a skin viewer!

2. Boy, we really don't like the unlocks.
1CGS: Here is an oxygen mask!

3. Boy, we really don't like the unlocks.
1CGS: Here are Techno Chat Icons!

4. Boy, we really don't like the unlocks.
1CGS: We're working on a Ju-52!

Boy, we really don't like the unlocks.

I tried it using OpenGL and it failed -- black screen --- I had to use Steam to identify the two DLL's that were removed/changed and then had Steam replace then and game was back to working

Have not tried it with DX8

Bucksnort, is this your question?

With TFM am I looking only for TFM user made campaigns, or is TFM generally compatible with either "stock" or "DBW/UPC" campaigns also.

There is so much content and so many changes in maps and vehicles and effects that there must certainly be conflicts.
There is this for NEW-TFM:
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,36018.0.html
MONTY'S MASSIVE DGEN EXPANSION
144 OF THE BEST DGEN CAMPAIGNS - FOR NEW-TFM LEVEL 34
Both MODDED and STANDARD DGEN with an easy way to switch!

It is for 4.10 with DBW and NEW-TFM.

The difference between 4.10 and 4.12.2 is reportedly great and SAS~MONTY27 who put it all together has said 4.10 is obsolete, thus he built TFM-412 which he now has updated and renamed to CFM and I would advise anyone to use CFM to gain the most optimized version of 1946.

When it is available Monty said he and others will work on updating campaigns, etc. to be compatible.

No the unlocks can be had really fast if you want to just "game the game" and go at it. My last mission in the IL-2 earned 480 points in 20 minutes just for a short ground support. To test how fast it could be done I scored 300 points in 15 minutes in the LaGG. It only takes about 2,000 points for each plane.

And 90 to 95% of BoS customers don't care about how fast you can get the unlocks.

Ok, thanks Sunchaser...got it!

Ole Sharpee does not understand....

It's not about the destination....speed does not matter

It's about the journey

And people are flat tired of driving through Death Valley at this point

I didn't say it wasn't boring. Gaming the game is boring. But instead of writing another text wall about the unlocks. Just Start Mission 2x to the target and back. Take off. Shoot it up. Go back and collect your points. Do that 6x and you're done with that plane. Then you can stop complaining.

An estimate of time should not be given on a best case scenario, that is misleading information, besides I've lost count of the missions I've been successfully flying home from only to have a CTD

OK, unlock all the stuff and then what? The farce that is the campaign can't be reset. There's no mission editor. There's so sense of continuity. There's no career mode to create and track a pilot's or a squadron's accomplishments through the campaign. There's nothing to do but fly the same boring missions over and over and over again to no greater purpose. The AI is still broken, the map is lifeless and the gameplay is shallow and unfulfiling.

You'll notice that nobody's actually talking about the gameplay anymore either here or at the official forums. The conversation is all either a post-mortem of what went wrong or desperate wish-casting for how it might yet be saved.

Not a good sign.

at this stage the drive to encourage people to endure the unlocks is sounding a little sinister, as if it is designed to subliminally to turn you into one of......'them'

Sure you can get shot down but that doesn't happen often. Go get the target and get out. I would have done this in half the time if I followed my own advice. Don't stick around the action point looking for more action. That's always went you get hit. Just go RTB