Wings Over Flanders Fields (WOFF) (Dec 2013)

[Nefaro]

I doubt they update without doing all the settings from the Main Menu's "Workshop" or restarting your campaign.   Not while you're in one.

You could also possibly crash something if changing stuff while manually running the extra program elsewhere. 

[Grim.Reaper]

I doubt they update without doing all the settings from the Main Menu's "Workshop" or restarting your campaign.   Not while you're in one.

You could also possibly crash something if changing stuff while manually running the extra program elsewhere.

I gave it a try this morning and it does not crash anything and the settings are changeable within the keys program that you can alt-tab too, as long as you make sure you hit the save button.  I am pretty sure the keys program is the same as the program you get to while going through the workshop.  However, as expected the changed bindings did not take affect right away.  It seems the bindings get loaded at the start of a mission so they will take affect the next mission you play.  You do not have to restart an entire campaign to have the new bindings understood.

[Slick Wilhelm]

I also noticed that the key mapper kept beeping at me while I had both programs running at the same time, and was actually playing the game.

[Grim.Reaper]

I also noticed that the key mapper kept beeping at me while I had both programs running at the same time, and was actually playing the game.

That's interesting, I did not have that happen with that separate program.  I have seen the game beep sometimes when a dialog box is open but hidden in the background for some reason.  For example, when I was getting an error message about my graphic settings, I heard it.  Once it was closed, worked fine.   There might be some hidden box opening for you as well that you might not be seeing.  Just a thought.

[Nefaro]

I doubt they update without doing all the settings from the Main Menu's "Workshop" or restarting your campaign.   Not while you're in one.

You could also possibly crash something if changing stuff while manually running the extra program elsewhere.

I gave it a try this morning and it does not crash anything and the settings are changeable within the keys program that you can alt-tab too, as long as you make sure you hit the save button.  I am pretty sure the keys program is the same as the program you get to while going through the workshop.  However, as expected the changed bindings did not take affect right away.  It seems the bindings get loaded at the start of a mission so they will take affect the next mission you play.  You do not have to restart an entire campaign to have the new bindings understood.

As I thought.. it doesn't take immediate effect.

So you may as well exit the campaign to the main menu, when you finish a mission, and just use the Workshop before returning to it.    :P  It will have the same effect without you having to run the separate program, anyway.

[Nefaro]

I've had pilot death off for awhile now, and noticed something appropriate. 

After a few early deaths in the first week or two, I became much better at avoiding death later.  I'm sure some of it was due to familiarity with the aircraft and general experience.  It has helped me improve, though, and that was what I had been aiming for.

I'm still rather wary of turning pilot death back on right now since even the lightest flop over or injury always ends in death for my pilots.  Nothing more disappointing than doing a great job of landing a damaged plane back at your aerodrome, but tipping it up on it's nose just before it has stopped ends up in your pilot getting good & dead.  Even the smallest mishaps can be extremely brutal.

[Slick Wilhelm]

Well, that only took three days to figure out why my ailerons were so messed up. I noticed while flying that when I kicked my toe brake forward, I suddenly flipped almost upside down. Looking back, I discovered that my right pedal toe brake was mapped to the elevator!

So, a quick trip into the key mapper to unmap every other control on the rudder pedals except for rudder function, solved the problem completely. Why the hell they would have other functions defaulted to a set of rudder pedals other than rudder(and perhaps toe brakes) makes no flippin' sense to me.

Anyway, all better now.

[Nefaro]

I didn't realize some of you are using rudder pedals.  I knew this was an issue but hadn't head any complaints. *shrug*

I'm pretty sure I can't use them comfortably so I've never picked up a set.

[Slick Wilhelm]

Yessir, I'm doing the full HOTAS setup, including Track IR.

This is going to be brutal doing an early war gig in the Eindecker. As soon as the DH-2 shows up, it's going to be extremely difficult to survive.

I'm not so worried about the landing, except that they really need to clear out a couple more acres of trees to have a little more room to come in for a safe landing!

[Gusington]

You guys are slightly ahead of me in the game. Got the CFS3 DVD and went to load it up and it was corrupted :/ WOFF physical copy has not arrived yet either. But my 19.99 HOTAS stick did arrive. 1 of 3 aint bad :(

[Nefaro]

You guys are slightly ahead of me in the game. Got the CFS3 DVD and went to load it up and it was corrupted :/ WOFF physical copy has not arrived yet either. But my 19.99 HOTAS stick did arrive. 1 of 3 aint bad :(

There is no disc check if you install CFS3 on your hard drive, with the CD version. 

In case anyone ever wants to get the cheaper option.


Are you sure the DVD was the one corrupted, or was it your WOFF installer download?  I've occasionally had success copying & pasting the install files from a DVD onto a hard drive when the disc was scratched or behaving badly when trying to install from one.

[Gusington]

^Haven't downloaded WOFF, waiting for the physical copy to arrive. My internet is very slow.

Tried the CFS3 DVD in two different drives and got the same result...just spinning and spinning. Already contacted the vendor for a replacement.

[Nefaro]

^Haven't downloaded WOFF, waiting for the physical copy to arrive. My internet is very slow.

Tried the CFS3 DVD in two different drives and got the same result...just spinning and spinning. Already contacted the vendor for a replacement.

The WOFF installer just barely fits on a blank DVD-R.  I didn't order a physical copy.. did you?

[Gusington]

^Yep, waiting for delivery. And a functioning copy of CFS3. Thought I would install CFS3 ahead of time.

[Grim.Reaper]

^Yep, waiting for delivery. And a functioning copy of CFS3. Thought I would install CFS3 ahead of time.

Stinks it didn't work...but guess until you get the physical game, not a huge unless you wanted to try CFS3 with your new joystick:)  So far I am liking the joystick, can't beat the $19 for it.