DD_Arthur

Agree with Crash. Hoping that Santa might have something like that in his sac ( ) for me too.

Six and a half minutes of poetry from the camera of Malcolm Aulde. #!Always worth checking out this guys other video's btw.

Very true but I'm pretty sure they'd be willing to don Chiffon chaplets at the drop of a hat and that's a definite reverse boner at the one minute mark!

Cor! That was good stuff. Got p.k'd eventually, low down over some ships in a six 'plane dust up. Fairly smooth, loving the LOD's now. See dots.... get closer..... still seeing dots.....closer still, dots become wing shapes (achtung Spitfire!).....engage.....still able to follow stuff around, nothing disappearing into the ether.......pity it's all going to grind to a halt until BoM.

'Ere...why has he got a picture of two gay men in his profile? Don't we have rules about that? I think we should be told. Inthemeantime........welcome Barnaby.

Hmmm......something slightly nightmare-ish going on there. It brought this to mind.

Call in Captain Jack!

How are they gonna' crate this thing? Doesn't a Mosquito have a one-piece wing assembly? Can't see that fitting in a '40 shipping container.

A new beta was released on Friday , find it here; http://forum.1cpubli...ead.php?t=34617 Once downloaded, remember to verify your game files through Steam so this patch is installed over the official version rather than the previous beta. Overall, I'd say this is another positive release. The actual game engine itself is now working rather nicely. Overall frame rates on my pretty puny dual core system are down but this doesn't really matter as it's so smooth now, well within shouting distance of Rise of Flight. Colours looking o.k. and everything nice and sharp. Although there is still no anti aliasing enabled in the game the 3 series Nvidia drivers have FXAA which, when enabled through the control panel, make a great deal of difference in removing the jaggies. What is very pleasing is the performance at low level over ground. Fps keeping up nicely and I've been able to increase some settings with no visible performance hit. Buildings don't seem to pop up too badly either. However, the ground shadows!! There's still a whole lotta shakin' going on around the trees. The option to turn off ground shadowing would be very welcome. The SU26? Well it's nice to have it at long last and it flies very nicely but it's not quite up to the standards of some of the other aircraft in this game, espaecially in the cockpit department. Instruments seem to be rendering at a lower level than the other details and it just looks and feels slightly less polished than the Spits, Hurri' and 109's. Apparently it is also armed with some "Laser weaponry"! Why on earth bother? 109's? Quick picture of the still gorgeous cockpit and the fantastic shadow play upon it that this game is capable of. So let us conclude that for now the graphics side of the game is working very well indeed and just does not need any more fiddling with for the time being. Unfortunately that leaves the rest of it and here it's still verging on the piss-poor quite frankly. If you enjoy single player well there are still no reliable a.i. commands to give your wingmen. If you enjoy multiplayer then there are still big problems with the net code, with having more than forty people on the server, no dedicated server patch, slowdowns when nearing several human controlled 'planes and most importantly for our purposes still NO RECOGNISABLE COOP MODE Aaarghhhh!!!!!!! Also still a whole host of bugs in flight models, not being able to start most British 'planes on the ground at the moment, overheating, CEM problems, etc. sigh............but some good news, went on ATAG briefly last night. Didn't see any opposition in the short time I was on it but did come across two a.i. bombers which appeared as very small dots in the far distance and grew into two recognisable Dornier DO17's without disappearing or swimming in and out of resolution as in previous patches. Could they finally have sorted the LOD's? Slowly, painfully the dev's are getting there and this thing just has so much potential. The problem now is that this stuff is likely to be some of the final work on this game until the release of the next in the series which will be Eastern front and mergable with CLoD. Unfortunately, this won't even be Alpha until next year but the whole of the dev team are due to be switched to working on it which will leave CLoD as a pigs ear still!

Have you been on the Buckfast again, Colin?

What goes up..........................................................

I see what you did there Sid. Beaver/bush piloting...............furnurrr...............

Speaking as a chronic late-comer and lawn-darter I think this a fantastic idea.

Welcome DD_Spambot!! Looking forward to flying with you m8. Louis Vitton handbag, chiffon chaplets and an "adverse boner" make you an ideal candidate for the Dangerdogz. However, I must tell you we normally fly in Speedo's.

The good news; Kermit Weeks has got himself one of those Go-Pro head cam thingies a la' Bongodriver. So this is the Curtiss Pusher from the business side. Rather like a flying Combine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XAlju9EXTw8 and here's his rather gorgeous DVa from the cockpit. First thing that struck me was what a good job RoF has done with the cockpit of their model.

Ooops.....another one I've pinched from the Banana forums but oo-er missus!!! Serious buttock-clenching is to be found at the two minute mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hrziTee4b2c What is it about South Africans and big planes? Not too long ago I was at Yeovilton Airday and a SAA 747 did a flyby ten minute display where the pilot threw this enormous machine around at low level, flaps down, 60 degrees of bank, no worries. He was positively Korean.

My God! You've been called out to a Cow stuck in a bathroom!?

Lol, very good...............and very spooky too!

No, you just made one more orbit of the sun. Deep down, you are still fourteen years old. Just like the rest of us. Good innit? Hope you and Jedi are having a great day m8!

Side car wheel in the air!? Crediton to Exeter road? Yeah, that all sounds familiar. I have great memories from twenty years back of runs out to Hartland Quay hillclimb from Ottery St. Mary. We'd take the Crediton-Hatherleigh-Holsworthy road out to Bude and then up the A39. Sunday morning, west Devon=no traffic. Great stuff on a Trumpet with m8's on big Ducati's, Zed thousands, that sort of stuff.

I have seen Oil-in-frame outfits so it can be done. Infact I think you could buy a Bonny and Watsonian chair, new, from Watsonian in the late seventies. I have only had two experiences of sidecars in my entire life. 1) Friends Beamish/Suzuki Trials Outfit. Slow, great fun, especially as he lived in mid-Wales at the time, though only the owner - after a great deal of practise - could steer it. 2) Friends Yamaha XS850 with "Sports" chair. Bought on a whim. One of two or three moments of absolute, unalloyed terror in my life was experienced in the chair of this vehicle. You were basically sitting in a one-hundred and ten miles an hour Canoe with ones backside hovering a mere four inches off the tarmac! The impression of speed from this eye-level overwhelms the senses. I accepted a lift home from a country pub in it one night. Oh Lordy!!!! Cornering technique seemed to be go-as-fast-as-possible-and-don't-brake-at-all-whilst-your-passenger-fills-his-pants. I had to be helped out of the bloody thing at journeys end and then lie on my driveway willing my legs to work. I know my limits so sidecars; we'll you're a better man than me, buddy. S!

Spring of 1986 and I haven't had a haircut for nearly a year because a; I don't have to and b; I'm a student! To celebrate I buy a 1973 750cc Bonneville with a proper right-foot gear change and a rear drum brake. "Wotcha buy that heap of shit for? It'll only go bang" says my Kawasaki owning brother as he took these pictures. He was right. Pretty soon it did go bang. Luckily my sensible option, an 850 Suzuki just kept on going and going and going, etc., etc. I pulled it apart in me mums shed and decided it required major engineering The first thing to do was save some money. Well, quite a lot of money really. I started buying bits; a main bearing here, a gasket set there and sent the frame off for blasting and powder coating. Eventually I had enough bits to put the engine back together and install it in the frame. Wow! it started to look like a bike again. This spurred me on to shell out even more cash. The only problem now being I was living and working in London and the bike was at Mum's house in Devon - a distance of some 150 miles. I spent more and more weekends in Devon. Seeing old friends, chasing women and fixing my bike up. About this time I realised that even though I'm a born and bred Norffffff Londoner somewhere deep inside has always been a country boy trying to get out. I met a charming young lady who I realised was "The One". Soon I was living in Devon again with my charming young lady and soon she announced she was up the stick!! Bloody hell!!!!! In the midst of all this I finished Bonny. Soon my charming young lady announced she was going to produce another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My beautiful Bonny had to go in the name of domestic bliss and financial penury. However, I did aquire another one - same model, same year - in bits and with my newly found know how and contacts I set to with some gusto and a big, big box of aerosol spray paint. Golly, how I wish I could turn the clock back sometimes and frollick with my little boys around daddy's bike once again.

Pinched from over on the Banana forum