DCG Campaign: Leningrad 1941

[HunterICX]

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8106/planevdowlys111et4.jpg
Screenshot by Task Force


Game version: IL2:1946 - 4.09m (Modded, using the Unified Installer Version 1.0)
Current Campaign: Leningrad 1940
Flight Schedule: Monday, Wednesday (Probally), Friday
Time of Flight: 22:00 - 22:30 GMT+1

A new thread to keep it easier to follow

HunterICX

[Task Force]

Yep (i was hunters tail gunner, and fin was the front.) , today was fun. (really enjoyed flying in Leningrad today.:yep:)

[Oberon]

So, what's the aircraft line-up so I can get some skins?

I'll probably wind up flying for the Jarmins, Russkie stuff confuses me. :lol:

[HunterICX]

German Fighters: 109F2 / BF110C4
German Bombers: JU88's / HE111's

Russian Fighters: LaGG / I-16 / I-153P
Russian Bombers: R-10 / IL4 DB3M / MBR-2 / Tupolev SB

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

A good mix then. Are we all going to stick to one side or can we chop and change.

I think we should stick to one side really if there are plenty of planes. It is a shame that one jumps to a different team so as to get a kill or avoid being killed. I admit I did that yesterday over Singapore but that campaign just went belly up. So much for DCG....it seems to have a mind of its own.

[Dowly]

I think a good rule would be something like 3 deaths = allowed to change side or something.

[XabbaRus]

Sounds good.

Maybe a lottery at the beginning to assign sides and no switch until killed 3 times...maybe it should be shotdown 3 times.....stupidity doesn't count.

[HunterICX]

Just pick your side before we start the sortie, if you feel like shooting down Me or any other feel free to try :)

but if there is the case where we have 3 on red and 3 on blue I seperate the teams in Teamspeak so we can talk freely.
and honestly I dont mind a bit of Players versus players competition :up:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Wha? Leningrad?

That means I'm going back to the Gulag every sortie...Scheisse :nope:

[HunterICX]

Wha? Leningrad?

That means I'm going back to the Gulag every sortie...Scheisse :nope:

Join the Red Airforce, there are many Bridges we must destroy!

HunterICX

[Schroeder]

but if there is the case where we have 3 on red and 3 on blue I seperate the teams in Teamspeak so we can talk freely.
Why not the moment one joins the other side? One "enemy" listening makes verbal communications useless. I think everyone should go to the TS channel of his side. Makes "radio" traffic much more useful.:up:

[Task Force]

Dont know what side im gonna be on yet.:hmm:

Oah yea, heres Goering first day as a prisoner.:lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNuoRz6IMI&NR=1

(Something else thats intresting. footage of the hendenburg. Lots of intresting stuff on this guys channel.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuR2IgnimA&feature=channel_page

[Raptor1]

Wha? Leningrad?

That means I'm going back to the Gulag every sortie...Scheisse :nope:
Join the Red Airforce, there are many Bridges we must destroy!

HunterICX

Oh, that won't stop me from ending up in the Gulag

Ah, at least I could fly the MBR...

[XabbaRus]

Well I'll see you all tomorrow then. Should be fun.

[Kratos]

Aye it will be fun ..:hmm: Just done a few missions with dcg settings:

Squadron density-Moderate
Column Density-Moderate
Stationary Object Density-Moderate
Action radius-150 kilometers
Squadron balance-default
time passage-Normal
just 100+ planes
you get the picture, nothing on extra-ordinary settings,and it run like a slide show. It even froze up completely during the third sortie,:o
Cheezus i run my mareth-line campaign with 150+planes in the air,and the rest on heavy settings and it runs pretty smoothly. Sooo i got summit wrong or we gonna have a few issues with the capmaign (hope not like) :hmm:

[HunterICX]

we played just 1 mission in the Leningrad Campaign and it was fine for us,(Me, Fincuan, Dowly and Task Force)

DCG v3.39 -
my DCG Settings:
Squadron density-Heavy
Column Density-Full
Stationary Object Density-Full
Action radius-50 kilometers
Squadron balance-default
time passage-Normal
100+ planes (IIRC)

HunterICX

[Kratos]

we played just 1 mission in the Leningrad Campaign and it was fine for us,(Me, Fincuan, Dowly and Task Force)

DCG v3.39 -
my DCG Settings:
Squadron density-Heavy
Column Density-Full
Stationary Object Density-Full
Action radius-50 kilometers
Squadron balance-default
time passage-Normal
100+ planes (IIRC)

HunterICX

Good to hear :D
I might have some other settings configured wrong in my dcg :hmm:

[Task Force]

Yep, I can run those perfectly.:D (hopeful open gl wont crash on me.)

[Dowly]

Yep, I can run those perfectly.:D (hopeful open gl wont crash on me.)

Why not use DirectX? Muchos better performance atleast for me, only downside is that I cant ALT+TAB out without CTDing.

[Task Force]

Direct X killed my performance in Il2 for some reason when I was running it a couple of weeks ago.:hmm: (im gonna see if turning on extension limit in the Nvidia control panel helps.:yep:)

[Fincuan]

Why not use DirectX? Muchos better performance atleast for me, only downside is that I cant ALT+TAB out without CTDing.

Same here, pity it looks like crap compared to OpenGL, even on max settings. Alt+tabbing doesn't result in a CTD Win 7, but I still won't do it because it means bye-bye to force feedback.

[Dowly]

Why not use DirectX? Muchos better performance atleast for me, only downside is that I cant ALT+TAB out without CTDing.
Same here, pity it looks like crap compared to OpenGL, even on max settings. Alt+tabbing doesn't result in a CTD Win 7, but I still won't do it because it means bye-bye to force feedback.

I really cant tell the difference between the two except for the water.

As for the CTD, that's propably because my IL2 runs on 1280x960 while my desktop is 1280x1024 (I know i know you can change it from conf.ini).

[Oberon]

The Revolution will not be televised.

No screenshots chaps because every time I tried to take one IL2 froze up completely.
First mission was going well, a bit laggy but nothing too major until I tried to take a screenshot of some 110s diving on a tank column and IL2 froze up. :damn:

Second mission I lead the 109s into battle, with Dowly, Fin, Task Force and Kratos following. Spotted tracers and climbed to intercept. Lost sight during the climb and then spotted what I thought was a Yak of sorts nearby, dived on it, gave it a burst of cannon up its backside and got:

Task Force: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!

:hmm: :oops: :damn:

Finally found some real targets, but got there far too late to shoot them down so buzzed Dowly and Task Force on the runway and played chicken with the incoming He111s before spotting something being shot at. Found out it was Manfred Von Huntski in his little Russkie biplane. We must have spotted each other about the same time as it turned into a turning match, bad move because he could turn sharper than I, so I tried to outclimb him, bad move also because it gave him a perfect rear end shot. That screwed up my oil tank and engine, so when I came back down and tried to outturn him again, he turned me into a flambé. I parachuted out, but at less than 600 ft, the parachute had just about enough time to open before I became pavement pizza.
So, that left Kratos, Fin and Hunter still in the air (Raptor had sacrificed himself to the Socialist dream of bridge destruction), so Hunter levelled the odds by knocking down Kratos. Sadly both Kratos and Fin were having frame-rate issues (as was Dowly) with Hunters little biplane teleporting all over the place.
The AI Bf-110s had no such issues however and gave chase to Hunter, peppering his right wing and then in a display of Lolwaffle courage, smashing into him at full speed.
Which left Fin up to face the rest of the incoming fighters.

[Raptor1]

THEY TOOK AWAY MY MBR-2! :cry:

I shall make them pay...

[HunterICX]

Pings&Laggyness

Dont just stay quiet, shout for bloody sake.
if the game starts to bugger up at your end and it has become unplayable give a shout on the global chatbar or teamspeak.
that way I could pause and seek for a solution.
I found it strange that some of you left the server after you crashed/been shot down without saying a word...I had the odd feeling something was going on.

I discovered the issues at the end of the sortie, now this is aint the way fokes.
I feel terrible for the lag at some people's end (strange not all suffered the bad lag) and I know my Upload speed ain't the greatest but keep in mind I cant bloody smell the problem at your end
so for the next time, ring a bell so we know something is going on.
remeber it cant be fixed untill we know there is a problem.

HunterICX

[Task Force]

I had great performance. no lag at all.:yep: (even when planes were shooting.)

[XabbaRus]

I had no lag but suffered from stupidity at the start of the mission and since my jaw was aching from the dentist I bailed.

I think I did mention on red teamspeak..

I'll be up Friday for sure if there is a flight and no stupidity.

[Dowly]

I also had no lag in the 1st sortie, but the 2nd was pretty bad. Flying with Fincuan, I had to constantly drop my throttle down to 30% and up again to 110% because his plane was warping from being 10m away from me to 400m away from me. As we got to the combat, I had both warping and the usual "unreal" sliding I saw on the AI, so decided to RTB.

As for the pings, the 500+ is pretty much normal for me on Hunter's server, dont know why on Hunter's end it says 200+ but I recall someone else from the blue team mention high pings last night. Dont know if it's bad lines from Spain to the rest of the Europe or someone sucking up his bandwight.

Hopefully everything works on on Friday, if not, maybe trying to lower down the ground unit density might help, or as a last resort, have someone else host it.

[Oberon]

Yeah, I took a look at the pings and a lot of them were entering 300-500 regularly. I recall we did have a problem with Leningrad before, and Moscow I think, myself and Kratos in particular. Last night I didn't have much in the way of lag, but the strange crashing on screenshot taking which I've never had before. :hmm: I'll have to fire up IL2 and go snapshotting offline, see if it still happens.

[XabbaRus]

I thought it was to with the fact that in spain the telephone lines are made of string with tin cans and people named Jose and Juan every now and then to repeat the signal. :rotfl:

Obviously they were having a siesta....

[Kratos]

I had a bit of a lag in the first sortie, but mainly the second sortie where it kicked in,heard Oberon shouting ''I got Hunter here'' so i went to aid or hinder one of the two ;) thats where the stutter started..one minute Hunters there and then he's gone and then the bullets came through the windscreen :lol: and the game froze up for me.
This is not a Hunter bashing, as i explained in a p.m I (we) are grateful that he does host the campaigns,and i'm sure we could all work together to find a solution.:up:

[Dowly]

This is not a Hunter bashing, as i explained in a p.m I (we) are grateful that he does host the campaigns,and i'm sure we could all work together to find a solution.:up:

Amen. :yep:

[Oberon]

This is not a Hunter bashing, as i explained in a p.m I (we) are grateful that he does host the campaigns,and i'm sure we could all work together to find a solution.:up:

Amen. :yep:

Agreed. Normally my frame rate is fine, and last night, like I said, the frame-rates weren't too bad, but there was slight stuttering and that bizarre print-screen crash.


On that note, loaded up IL2 and a Pe-8 and dropped a FAB-5000 on a random bit of Kuban whilst taking screenshots. A slight lag on the first two screenshots, then nothing serious. My theory is the screenshot lag coupled with the ping rate to cause a time-out or drop.
That's my theory.

[XabbaRus]

Back when I had 512MB of RAM I was playing a DCG Winter War mission with a decent number of planes on each side. The thing was jerky as hell at the beginning as everything loaded up.

Flying was fine but at the end of the mission when I wanted to take screeny the thing crashed.

I think many airplanes, and lag = bad framerates....

[Task Force]

I wonder how I managed to get the smallest amount of lag.... and I live the longest way away from hunter.:hmm: (and was useing open GL, everything turned up, and with my edited config file, and fraps running taking???):-?

[Kratos]

A Little Mishap from last night :oops:

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/pasquarade/ob1.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/pasquarade/ob2.jpg


http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/pasquarade/ob3.jpg


http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd320/pasquarade/ob4.jpg

[Dowly]

Ow come on Kratos! :rotfl:The 109 has to be the most easily spotted figure in any WWII plane. :lol:

[Kratos]

Ow come on Kratos! :rotfl:The 109 has to be the most easily spotted figure in any WWII plane. :lol:

Ah was taking nooooooo chances after Fincuan done the same to me on Wed. night :lol: .... (after thought) ah!!! but Fin took me out from behind :doh:

[Dowly]

Ow come on Kratos! :rotfl:The 109 has to be the most easily spotted figure in any WWII plane. :lol:
Ah was taking nooooooo chances after Fincuan done the same to me on Wed. night :lol: .... (after thought) ah!!! but Fin took me out from behind :doh:
ROFL, that was hilarious. I was chasing you, Fin was behind me. Instead of shooting me, he decided to shoot you. :rotfl:Tosser, stole my kill. :-?

[Fincuan]

ROFL, that was hilarious. I was chasing you, Fin was behind me. Instead of shooting me, he decided to shoot you. :rotfl:Tosser, stole my kill. :-?

It was a pretty good shot though... 50 .cals, and a pilot kill with one burst :lol:

[Kratos]

TBH, I had an adrenalin rush, as you can see by the riddled windows i was taking quite a beating up,when i manouvered myself out of the line of fire and started to get my crate level again,with no ailerons,i spot a plane in the distance coming straight for me.I gave it a second or two and it made no effort to change course..so it was YIPPEEKYAY let em have it me old son ..and to my embarresment it was Oberon ''was that you that took a pot shot at me Kratos'' the voice came over T.S. :oops: sooo i made my apologies and bailed out over my airfield, and left poor Oberon with the Hamsters in his engine :88)

[Kratos]

ROFL, that was hilarious. I was chasing you, Fin was behind me. Instead of shooting me, he decided to shoot you. :rotfl:Tosser, stole my kill. :-?
It was a pretty good shot though... 50 .cals, and a pilot kill with one burst :lol:

Ah still got the headache :rotfl:

[XabbaRus]

Good to see it wasn't Hunter shooting his own side down.

[Dowly]

ROFL, that was hilarious. I was chasing you, Fin was behind me. Instead of shooting me, he decided to shoot you. :rotfl:Tosser, stole my kill. :-?
It was a pretty good shot though... 50 .cals, and a pilot kill with one burst :lol:

Oww yeh, that was a pretty good shot. :p

[Oberon]

:rotfl: :rotfl:

That was pretty funny :lol: I headed over towards you because I saw what I think were Hurris swarming around near you, I'd just tangled with one and gave it a few good burst and lost it (thinking that it had gone down or was going down...sadly the swine survived) and had some ammo left so I thought 'Well, I'll go have a tangle with them!'
Saw a plane coming the other way, and before I could ID it it opened fire and riddled me cockpit good and proper and threw oil everywhere. Then a 109 whizzed past. I paused for a moment and then put two and two together.

"Kratos...did you just shoot at an aircraft?"
"Aye, was that you?"
"...yah..."

:lol:

Great shots Kratos, and no hard feelings, at least I survived, unlike Fin who got roasted in his Zero after my particular blue on blue ;)

[HunterICX]

Just a little notification that I be a bit later (around 22.30 at the latest)
busy doing the basic configuration on my dads new notebook

HunterICX

[Oberon]

I'll stay in the hangar tonight, have a good one :up:

[Kratos]

I'll stay in the hangar tonight, have a good one :up:

Ditto.. By the time we get set up, It will be a tad on the late side for me, as i would have to hop off to attend to stuff. have fun anyways :up:

[Dowly]

Propably wont be showing up tonight.

[Task Force]

Im gonna be there. (almost sure.)

[Oberon]

Erm...which are we using, Mumble or TS? :hmm:

[Oberon]

Might join you guys later. :ping:

[Oberon]

Sorry for bailing, took a screenshot and IL2 froze up again :(
Good work on the combined destruction of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski with the Fascist-Blower 5000 (the best anti-axis pest controller in the east!).
The first sortee was hilarious though, and good shooting Hunter! :yeah:

Oh, and the white skin was my attempt at anti-flash white :D

[Kratos]

Sorry for bailing, took a screenshot and IL2 froze up again :(
Good work on the combined destruction of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski with the Fascist-Blower 5000 (the best anti-axis pest controller in the east!).
The first sortee was hilarious though, and good shooting Hunter! :yeah:

Oh, and the white skin was my attempt at anti-flash white :D
:03: He!He! I felt like Dowly tonight (the lone wolf) good sortie's though..oh! Fincuan i never recorded that second track, thought i did,:damn: so if you did,make a shorty m8 it's worth a look :yeah:.


BTW.. sorry for bugging out early but needs must.

[Oberon]

Sorry for bailing, took a screenshot and IL2 froze up again :(
Good work on the combined destruction of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski with the Fascist-Blower 5000 (the best anti-axis pest controller in the east!).
The first sortee was hilarious though, and good shooting Hunter! :yeah:

Oh, and the white skin was my attempt at anti-flash white :D
:03: He!He! I felt like Dowly tonight (the lone wolf) good sortie's though..oh! Fincuan i never recorded that second track, thought i did,:damn: so if you did,make a shorty m8 it's worth a look :yeah:.


BTW.. sorry for bugging out early but needs must.

I still can't believe you landed on our airfield, got out, had a chat and some vodka with the Russkie ground crews and then took off to attack us! :har:
How much did you bribe the flak gunners with?!! :06:

[HunterICX]

I wonder how he indeed managed to bribe our flakmen :hmmm:

HunterIXC

[Raptor1]

I wonder how he indeed managed to bribe our flakmen :hmmm:

HunterIXC

They are traitors, have them executed along with Number 3

[Oberon]

http://www.cncgames.com/arsenalpics/flaktrooper.jpg

"At least I have chaff!"

[Kratos]

Sorry for bailing, took a screenshot and IL2 froze up again :(
Good work on the combined destruction of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski with the Fascist-Blower 5000 (the best anti-axis pest controller in the east!).
The first sortee was hilarious though, and good shooting Hunter! :yeah:

Oh, and the white skin was my attempt at anti-flash white :D
:03: He!He! I felt like Dowly tonight (the lone wolf) good sortie's though..oh! Fincuan i never recorded that second track, thought i did,:damn: so if you did,make a shorty m8 it's worth a look :yeah:.


BTW.. sorry for bugging out early but needs must.
I still can't believe you landed on our airfield, got out, had a chat and some vodka with the Russkie ground crews and then took off to attack us! :har:
How much did you bribe the flak gunners with?!! :06:

:cool: Flew about for a while, met a few waifs and strays,decided time for a bladder break,so i landed at the nearest airfield it looked safe :88) ....came back from my wells waggle dance interval :cry: had no spitfire left (you know what i'm on about Oberon)



Had a quick look about, heard the chat ''theres a live one down there'' say's Hunter..sooo i decided to take the old kite back up for another look ..and loookie there's Ob-1 and the flicker, soo what did i do..like a friggin AI i attacked from behind, in all honesty i had no option. No speed no height, sod it go get em, that was the little voice in my inner ear .nothing ventured nothing gained is the old saying. Better than sitting in an enemy airfield watching the seagulls flying by :smug:
TBH I was chuckling that i had actually landed there and got away with it:DL

[Oberon]

Gah, no Spitfire :(

Goring, Goring, Gone ;)

I saw you close in from our four-five o clock and called out to Hunter who I think had already spotted you. I think it was you that damaged Engine one, but it was not a pleasant experience sitting in that cockpit praying that Hunter could nail them before something fell off and I plummetted to my doom. That being said, it probably wasn't all that pleasant for Hunter when I got bored of level flight and started mucking around, such as rolling the Pe-8, bridge hopping and tree height flying. :hmmm: :D
I thought it was another AI until I hear over teamspeak:

"Gah, that ain't no other AI, ya bastage!"

:salute:

Oh, and sorry for breakdancing on the runway Raptor, stupid Russkie kite went into a spin cycle on landing :hmmm:

[HunterICX]

''Schroeder : The AI is dumb anyway always attacking from the rear :haha:''

a couple of seconds later when I was done with shooting that chasing 109 as a gunner in Oberons might PE-8

-kratos blown out of the sky by Oberon :har:

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Not forgetting of course my accidental dropping of the Fascist-Blower 5000 on the outskirts of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski, I was looking around using the hat-button and must have knocked the bomb-drop button with my thumb as I looked back down. The conversation was hilarious:

Hunter: "Did you just drop the bomb?"
Oberon: "I dunno...did I?"
Hunter: "Well, I can hear this whistling noise."
Oberon: "Yeah...me too... :oops: "

I really hope someone got the track from last nights first sortee, it was just too funny. :DL

[Fincuan]

Oooh, just when I lose connection you guys have a proper Subsim Clowns sortie. I sure hope someone has a track.

At least I got to vent my rage on Hunter and Raptor's Pe-8s in the next mission :yeah:

[Raptor1]

Not forgetting of course my accidental dropping of the Fascist-Blower 5000 on the outskirts of Kraznyoktoberfestlolwtfski, I was looking around using the hat-button and must have knocked the bomb-drop button with my thumb as I looked back down. The conversation was hilarious:

Hunter: "Did you just drop the bomb?"
Oberon: "I dunno...did I?"
Hunter: "Well, I can hear this whistling noise."
Oberon: "Yeah...me too... :oops: "

I really hope someone got the track from last nights first sortee, it was just too funny. :DL

Luckily your mistake has been corrected in the second sortie, and the city of Krasnyomgwtfisthisov is no longer with us

[Oberon]

For the Rodina!!

http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-Graphics/24nuke.jpg