With certain joystick/hotas/controller setups the Spitfire's Landing Gear Warning Horn is always on when Gear is up

This hotfix disables the Gear Warning Horn until we find the bug.

Sorry for that!

Greetings pilots!

Today we implemented yet another patch for IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk, which brings many bugfixes and several small, but noticeable improvements to the game!

As always, we'd like to thank all of our loyal fans who share their feedback in our Steam Forums or leave a review for the game. Thank you for your support!

• Bugfix: Spitfire cannon versions - wing cannons do not vanish any more when the wing is broken.
  
• Bugfix: Tiger Moth elevator trim lever animated again.
  
• Bugfix: Ju-88 A-5 versions pit: low resolution bombsight mask texture replaced.
  
• Bugfix: Bf-110: some inconsistent type naming fixed.
  
• Bugfix: He-111 H-2 cockpit: reintroduced missing photo frame.
  
• Bugfix: He-111 P-2 cockpit: second magneto switch made clickable.
  
• Bugfix: Bf-109 F2 & F4 versions nose cannon ammo counter animation corrected.
  
• Bugfix: Bf-109 F versions missing dashboard pic has been added.
  
• Bugfix: Martlet mixture lever direction corrected.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter MkIC - bombs no longer hang in mid-air after wing is detached.
  
• Bugfix: Ju-87 rear gunner ammo count changed to 13 magazines (@75 bullets = 975 total).
  
• Bugfix: CR.42 pits: Non-functional cockpit lights fixed.
  
• Bugfix: CR.42 pits: Animated barometer scale.
  
• Bugfix: D.520 all pits animated barometer scale.
  
• Bugfix: Macchi C.202 pits: Landing gear warning lights fixed.
  
• Bugfix: Macchi C.202 pits: Animated barometer scale.
  
• Bugfix: Macchi C.202 pits: Corrected wrong letters on compass indicating cardinal directions.
  
• Bugfix: Ju-88 all pits water temperature gauges letter "C" is no longer a mirror image.
  
• Bugfix: BR.20 wrong label on RPM indicator fixed.
  
• Bugfix: Corrected the "Slow-Running Cut-Out" button animation on all Hurricane MkIIs.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter pilot pits (all versions): Landing light switch no longer toggles primary illumination.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter pilot pits (all versions): Magnetic compass controls are more easily clickable in the pit.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter pilot pits (all versions): Glance at Dashboard view moved to side. Hopefully better.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter pilot pits (all versions): Default camera position moved a couple of inches forward.
  
• Bugfix: Beaufighter pilot pits (all versions): Animated barometer scale and a corresponding knob.
  
• Bugfix: Transparent section under certain lighting conditions in FortWatchOffice fixed.
  
• Bugfix: Misplaced tooltip over oxygen flow gauge in Martlet pit removed.
  
• Bugfix: Bf109E7 variants - corrected prop rotation direction.
  
• Bugfix: Sound - Resolved overstress bug.
  
• Bugfix: Sound - fixed metal hits.
  
• Bugfix: Sound - fixed various undercarriage sound issues.
  
• Bugfix: Sound - countless smaller internal optimizations and fixes.
  
• Added: Sound - lorenz beam + marker beacons.
  
• Added: Sound - landing gear warning horn - currently only spitfires.
  
• Added: Sound - Revised Merlin 45 engine with load effects and distance modeling. (to be rolled out to all Merlins shortly)
  
• Expanded the journal and history sections of the briefings for missions 4, 6, 7, and 8 of the Their Finest Hour campaign.
  
• Updated: Getting Started and Troubleshooting Guide - Czech.pdf

Operation Compass - Un Martini a Tobruk - Sat Jan 22

TFS Serv 3

Our first Event for the year.

Will be great to see the community there!

1900 - GMT
20:00 - Roma
14:00 - Toronto
06:00 - Sydney

This mission is set in the morning of the ground assault on the fortress of Tobruk. British ground forces will be attacking the southeast sector of the perimeter and warships have been deployed offshore to provide fire support. Italian and German aircraft are tasked with disrupting ground attacks and attacking enemy warships.

This battle will be a multi-hour dogfight over Tobruk and area.

Who will be enjoying a martini in Tobruk at the end of this day?

Be there to find out.

Greetings pilots!

Today we implemented yet another patch for IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk, which brings several small, but noticeable improvements to the game!

As always, we'd like to thank all of our loyal fans who share their feedback in our Steam Forums or leave a review for the game. Thank you for your support!

• Localisations, "Tempesta sull' Africa": Czech, German, Russian, Spanish
  
• Localisations, Campaign "Their Finest Hour": Czech
  
• Localisations, Fixed Loop Radio Compass Operation - > Russian.pdf
  
• Missions: Added flak defences to the Auderville Freya radar site in the missions Aftershocks, Battle Goes On, No Respite, Solent Skirmishes, and Southampton Blitz.

The GUI is now working in VR, including splash screen, home screen, selection screens and cockpit mouse interactions.

The minimap and 2D overlays are in good way.

As you can see in the video, there is some flickering in the virtual screen that needs to be fixed and will be.

We are getting closer to releasing the VR Beta to a selected group of participants... will be posting more details in the next few weeks hopefully.



Regards,

TFS Team

Under certain (hitherto unknown) circumstances the 2D target dot for an approaching aircraft ceased to be rendered a little moment before the 3D model starts to render, making the aircraft seemingly disappear for a moment.

Earth curvature was calculated incorrectly for 2D target dots of ground and ship objects, resulting them to be shown up in the air.

Ships were visible from a much longer distance than intended.

Greetings pilots!

Today lands another patch for IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk, bearing version number 5.027.

As always, we'd like to thank all of our loyal fans who share their feedback in our Steam Forums. Thank you for your support!

• New free campaign "Their Finest Hour" added to Blitz
  
• Improved far target visibility for screen resolutions of 2560x1440, 4k, and beyond
  Also see Contact Spotting: https://www.team-fusion-simulations.de/tfsresources/?&plink=25#item25
  
• Fixed: Shaking aircraft ForceFeedback effects resulting from firing cannons are not added on top of cannon's own ForceFeedback effects anymore
  
• New option to toggle all in-game info windows on/off (Options, Control, Chat)
  
• This will hide or show all the info windows that you have configured (also hide the Net Stats if shown). Note 1: If you have used this to hide all windows and then use Send Message, Toggle Net Stats or Flash Net Stats, this will unhide all windows, too.
  Note 2: The current status will be remembered until you exit the game, but not beyond.
  
• A barrage balloon at Dover that caused crashes has been removed from the single missions A Busy Morning, Attack of the Eagles, Attack of the Kiwi, August Attrition, Corpo Aereo Italiano, and The Kanalkampf.
  
• Please note that when Single Missions are updated by TFS it is not automatic that you will see the updated missions in your game immediately. This is because TFS will never delete any files that are
  in your "\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" folder! To get the updated Single Missions you must delete the existing missions in "\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\Single" while the game is not running. Next time you start the game the updated Single Missions will be copied from the game's installation folder (...\Steam\steamapps\...) into "\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\Single" where you can play them.
  
• Fixed: Mirror does not retain already subsided vibration/shake (when Difficulty "Head Shake" is disabled) anymore
  
• A previous Hotfix fixed crash-to-desktop in campaign "Gravity is my Friend"'s first mission

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049440/IL2_Sturmovik_Desert_Wings__Tobruk/

New 4K Gloster Gladiator Images

4K aircraft will be part of our massive upcoming visual update, which will include TrueSKY and VR!

Work is currently underway on the bombers :).

Regards,

TFS Team











Hi Res images of the 4k Gladiator and 4K CR.42: https://ibb.co/album/nMQgfv