IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad News

Dear Friends,

After the recent release of the update 3.102 many of you wondered "why there are no new Bodenplatte planes"? There is nothing strange about it: the remaining three player-controllable fighters and AI-controlled bomber are the most complex and difficult to produce objects in the entire history of our team. But the more difficult is the task the more interesting is the result. At the moment we plan to make all these four planes available to you in the next huge update at the end of September that will also bring the important new features we're working on at the moment. Here's the rundown on their current statuses:
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The work on the Rhineland map for Bodenplatte is also progressing well and we'll show you some of it in one of the coming DDs. We're working on the new Career timeframe 'Battle of Rhineland' in parallel. Now let's list the features that are at the final stage of development at the moment:
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We don't want our words to sound empty or unfounded, so today we can show you the in-game exterior shots of the P-38J-25 Collector Plane (that is included in Bodenplatte Premium, only version you can get at the moment), the cockpit of the British Tempest Mk.V ser.2 and the new German pilot in Summer 1944 uniform:
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Dear friends,

We're glad to report that the new update containing three new war machines are out. The first one of them is Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf.G German medium tank for Tank Crew - Clash at Prokhorovka project.
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The second one is the WWI RAF fighter bomber Bristol Fighter F.2B for Flying Circus - Volume 1 project.
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And the third one is another Flying Circus - Volume 1 aircraft - German WWI ground attack plane Halberstadt CL.II.
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In addition to them, the update includes exterior textures in 4K quality for Bf 109 G-14 and Fw 190 A-3. There are also several important improvements in the full list of changes:
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News on 3.102 update, full text

Hello everybody,

This time we'll start with a small release. As we said before, we began working together with Mikhail =HH=Pauk Zemskov who makes great gameplay videos. The first fruit of this cooperation has been presented to you in April in Dev Blog #222 - that video was dedicated to our first WWII project - Battle of Stalingrad. And today we present you his second work - Battle of Moscow. As always, =HH=Pauk captured the spirit of the project, its vibe, very well. See for yourself:
https://youtu.be/3OsOT1qZJlQ
The hero of the day is the British fighter Hawker Tempest Mk.II series 2.
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As part of our plan to have all the aircraft in 4K eventually, Fw 190 A-3 Collector Plane for Battle of Stalingrad will be available in 4K in the next update thanks to Martin =ICDP= Catney:
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Our partner Digital Forms is finishing the interior of Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.G and it's beta testing will start this weekend:
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Flying Circus is also moving forward: Halberstadt CL.II and Bristol Fighter F.2B airplanes have their cockpits finished and they are going to this beta too.
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Dear friends,

The Summer is in full swing and we're working on finishing the Bodenplatte project. P-51D, P-38J, B-25 and Tempest 3D models are nearing completion, their textures are being made right now. Today we can show you the cockpit of Hawker Tempest Mk.V:
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As we announced before, all Bodenplatte planes will have 4K external textures. Here are Bf 109 G-14 shots that show the texturing made by Martin =ICDP= Catney:
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At the moment we're moving to a newer FMOD version and our sound designer converts all the sounds to the newer sound engine.
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The work on the Bodenplatte map is nearing completion and we'll be able to show you the screenshots showing the result of this tremendous work soon. This also means we started the work on the Career mode for it that will be called Battle of Rheinland.
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Another important thing we must tell you is that American, British and German infantrymen models for Bodenplatte project are finished - they will man the guns, drive the vehicles and appear as airfield personnel. And here's the model of the Royal Air Force pilot for Summer of 1944:
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Now let's talk about other our projects. For Tank Crew, the next update will bring Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.G that has autonomous electric turret turn mechanism for instance. And in September we plan to release the two scenario campaigns for Tank Crew - Breaking Point and Last Chance, telling about the fighting near Prokhorovka.
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The next update is planned to include two - actually four - new aircraft for Flying Circus - Halberstadt CL.II, Halberstadt CL.IIau, Bristol Fighter F2 Falcon 2, Bristol Fighter F2 Falcon 3.
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Dear friends,

3 days after update 3.101 we release this hotfix to address the problems caused by the many changes and improvements of the recent release. We continue to improve the sim and hope you'll enjoy it.

1. Multiplayer: fixed some missing gunfire sounds and animations;
2. Multiplayer: when another player mans a turret of your plane or tank, an erroneous message 'reload the gun' won't appear and reloading sound won't be heard;
3. Multiplayer: when another player mans a turret of your plane or tank, erroneous messages about the main gun damage and repair won't appear;
4. Multiplayer: when another player mans a turret of your plane or tank, he is able to control the gunsight without issues;
5. Multiplayer: when another player mans a turret of your plane or tank, he is able to rotate the visors correctly;
6. Graphics setting Dynamic resolution factor won't cause the gunsight to glitch during firing;
7. There is a new exterior visual effect on player controllable tanks - gunfire smoke exits the tank through the ventilation exhaust;
8. Gunsight camera won't turn off for a short time whenever a turret control is turned on or off;
9. Me 262 A: an error that made it too stable in lateral (pitch) direction has been fixed;
10. Me 262 A: a graphical error on the tail has been fixed;
11. Me 262 A: canopy jettison lever is animated;
12. Spotter won't endlessly shout about the enemy;
13. VR: all closed gunsight cameras have 2x zoom enabled by default (VR zoom button gives 2x more, resulting in 4x zoom maximum);
14. Bf-109 F4: all skins should be accessible now;
15. La-5FN boost works as it should again.