While the team is busy on version 1.010 which already includes over 40 fixes and improvements I’d like to tell you a couple of words about one of the new features. I’m talking about the full event map that describes the entire mission in details. You’re going to see the whole route that you’ve been following and a net of markers showing all events that took place. Not only time and coordinates of kills and deaths are marked there, but also a lot of other curious facts such as:

• death of your fellow gunner;
• death of a gunner on an enemy plane;
• AI plane taking down another AI plane;
• AI tank (artillery unit, light armor unit) taking down another AI-controlled ground vehicle;
• death of the pilot in case if he loses control over the plane without any “help” from the enemy.

All events are going to have their own specific icons so you could easily read the map when the mission is over. The screenshots you see here are just WIP images, and what testers will see this weekend will be much closer to the final variant.

Among other nice new things, the 1.010 version will include several DM fixes, AI behavior improvements, on Bf 109 and Fw 190 in particular, some neat improvements in the interface, etc..
We’ve addressed the relatively new issue with the airfields not properly seen on the updated terrain texture in version 1.009. So, the upcoming update, as we believe, will mostly fix this issue and will allow pilots to distinguish the airfields from larger distances.
Microstutters that used to bother a some multiplayer fans were removed. Also a few new features were prepared for server hosts and mission makers: a topographic map which is way more convenient than the white one was added to the mission editor; a pretty handy zoom setting was made for those who spend a lot of time in the editor; the ping filter at last works properly in dedicated server settings, etc.

And while you’re waiting for the new version to be released next week, and while of dear testers are checking if we haven’t spoiled anything by adding new stuff, I suggest you some useful files to take a look at. These are the award tables that show what you can get by playing the Campaign. There are all awards here except 2 that are given for completing the entire Russian and German campaigns, and the Grand Battle of Stalingrad medal - these 3 are shown separately under the tables.

Have a good weekend, pilots! And keep in mind that the sale is still on, get 50% off until March 9th both in the IL2BOS store and on Steam.