NEW ADDITIONAL FEATURES IN WOFF BETWEEN HEAVEN & HELL II ... and much more you will discover when you fly with Wings: Over Flanders Fields Between Heaven & Hell II. FEATURES IN WINGS OVER FLANDERS FIELDS: OFF BETWEEN HEAVEN & HELL II New features added into BH&H2 (since WOFF PE); Note some of these have a large impact with a substantial effect on game-play and immersion - the bar keeps moving up! The list below are mostly brief descriptions of much more detailed changes; 1) AI 'Landing' or 'Going Home' are now more aware of enemy activity and react accordingly with 'Urgent Defense' on 'close proximity threat detection' even before a potential attacker shoots etc. They do not assess any Morale Factors hence its an Urgent reaction. Note: Aircraft may still sometimes not 'see' the enemy approaching and then may still not react. Note2: Aircraft that are Landing - if they are On Beam (Final Descent/Glide path to runway/field) then they will not abort the Landing - they will always Land. The variables for reaction to 'close proximity threats' when 'Landing' or 'Going Home' are: 1) Skill 2) Weather/Visibility 3) Do they actually spot the attacker? 4) Fuel and Ammunition status 5) Craft type 6) Health (Craft and Pilot damage states) 2) AI in 'Transit' now ALWAYS scan for 'close proximity threats', this is irrespective of the Transit 'Search Intercept' waypoint directive. Search Intercept is a long range scan directive and is only performed if they AI are directed to do so in the mission file. Close Proximity Threats are a short range scan - these are now always carried out. Note: Aircraft may still sometimes not 'see' the close proximity threat approaching and then not react. The variables for a reaction to 'close proximity threats' when in 'Transit' are: 1) Standard Fight 'Morale Factors' (extensive eg: Numerical Odds of the two flights, Altitudes, Directions, AI Morale, AI Skill, Aircraft Type, Distance from Frontlines etc etc) 2) Weather/Visibility 3) Do they actually spot the attacker? (human error die roll). 4) Fuel and Ammunition status 5) Craft type 6) Health (Craft and Pilot damage states) 3) A2S: Fighters doing successive passes will now U turn closer to the target eg 'airfield attacks'and or 'balloon attacks' 4) AI 'Taking Off' are now more aware of enemy activity and react accordingly with 'Urgent Defense' on 'close proximity threat detection' even before a potential attacker shoots etc. They do not assess any Morale Factors hence its an Urgent reaction. Note: Aircraft may still sometimes not 'see' the enemy approaching and then may still not react. Note2: Aircraft must be in 'Formup' stage of takeoff before they will react - they cannot react when on the field, climbing out or leveling off - for obvious reasons. The variables for reaction to 'close proximity threats' when 'Taking Off' are: 1) Skill 2) Weather/Visibility 3) Do they actually spot the attacker? (human error die roll). 4) Fuel and Ammunition status 5) Craft type 6) Health (Craft and Pilot damage states) 5) Fighters should now no longer endlessly chase an opponent that is 'running' and cannot be caught up to/intercepted. 6) Fixed an issue with Boom and BoomF manoeuvres at low level that would see the attacker often crash into the ground or dive inverted. 7) Improved Collision Avoidance routines especially with regard to fast fighter boom attacks on slow moving targets - NOTE! Collisions will still occur just as in real life due to pilot error! Because the AI are autonomous they might also turn in the same direction to avoid each other - just as in real life. 8) Implemented dynamic air turbulence which makes each craft look more real as the pilots jostle to keep formation individually - varies each mission with some overriding criteria: 1) Depends on local wind speed - and weather patterns 2) Clear days may be turbulent or smoother 3) Gets worse in cloud 4) Tends to 0 as Altitude above Ground tends to 0 below 300m Improved in cloud air turbulence. Implemented an extra workshops setting that allows player to have wind affecting AI aircraft but not his own aircraft. 9) AI will now spend more time in 'A2A_Seek' looking for targets in A2A before going to A2A_Formup, also revised the limits on number of attackers per target. 10) AI that are in A2A_Formup now 'check tail' to defend against potential attackers. 11) Improved formation target selection criteria when scanning skies to prevent chasing targets that are 'running' at medium range or greater, or re-engaging targets that have already been given up on in A2A (cannot catch - see 5) 12) Revised Speeds at which craft explode when flipping over - craft should now be less likely to explode - also improved pilots survivability in 'on ground' crashes. 13) Ground proximity now has less of a bearing on AI reaction to threats. 14) Aircraft will now start fighting for a period of time before doing morale checks to prevent immediately switching out of A2A and running. 15) Reduced frequency of 'all 4 wing' failures. 16) New Improved Ground Avoidance code (as featured in WOTR). 17) Fixed an issue with the throttle control that would sometimes occur in Ground Avoidance routine. 18) Ground avoidance pitch control now has sliding gain that increases with increasing proximity to the ground, once an aircraft is below the GA threshold altitude. This gives a smooth control action and avoids 'jerky corrections' once an aircraft does go below GA threshold. eg in 'run home low' situations. 19) 'Z function' now includes ASL and AGL altitude display. 20) Reduced probability of seeing enemies at night. 21) Flak Gun targeting angles revised. 22) Collision damage physics and effects associated with ground objects, scenery objects, terrain, and other aircraft overhauled and new effects implemented and or revised. 23) Progressive damage now modelled for main wings - AI and Player 24) All aircraft range/durations adjusted to be as near to actual as possible. 25) Vastly improved scenery textures. 26) Improved facility tree textures and rendering. 27) Many improvements in main terrain blending and overlays. Much more natural layouts. 28) Revised fence and telegraph pole scenery objects. 29) N11 gear oscillation issues on landing resolved. 30) Fixed an issue that prevented the Fe2b from engaging in fights correctly. Revised model to simulate fixed gun capability for real Dogfighting. 31) Implemented a new mission replay function. Added various controls and features to filter out information and focus on player or other details. 32) N12 Category changed from Fighter_Bomber to Tactical_Bomber 33) 'Trainable gun' Gunners are now only inhibited by rate of pitch/roll change and G Force - not static Pitch/Roll 34) Trainable gunners now park their guns if there are no longer any targets nearby. 35) For AI pilots, or autopilot the “Tacs Go Home” tactic is now switched to 'climb' if on enemy side of lines and the aircraft has taken a certain amount of damage. 36) Fighters now break off attack and leave targets that are heavily damaged and or too low. 37) Trainable Guns now no longer target Trees, Buildings and Tents etc 38) Fighters will no longer try to engage other aircraft that are a lot higher up in altityde than they are (opponent alt difference/range dependant). 39) Fighters will now do regular morale/continue? checks in A2AF mode. 40) Revised aircraft resupply rate and made it worse for German squads as war progresses to a close. 41) Players can now click the aircraft icon and see the aircraft stats when in main enlistment screen. 42) Squads that are 25 miles or less from the front lines now focus operations on the front line sector nearest them where possible. 43) A+B flights are now sometimes combined - all fly in B Flight: German: 6/1917 onwards: they may combine both flights into B as one large flight quite often - as player, and as an enemy flight that player may run into if he is not German. Other Nations: 6/1917 onwards - if A Flight is not allocated then B Flight is often now larger. 44) Frequency of operations revised and more intense during battles. 45) Enemy squads encountered are now more likely to be the squadrons in the immediate vicinity along the frontlines. 46) Rank Modifications: 1) On enlistment in any squad 2 pilots are ranked low - one high and the rest are middle ranks 2) Halved all prestige points to slow down promotion of AI and player. 47) 1) When receiving aircraft upgrades squads are now allocated full complements of the new craft rather than sometimes receiving only partial complements, and having all the old replaced craft removed. This avoids the player being penalised for an upgrade and having incomplete aircraft complements directly after the upgrade. Note reserves are not always supplied but will be put on order as needed. 2) Upgrades now occur irrespective of spares holding. 48) Implemented the facility to override/change Scenario Weather. 49) Wheel Gear on all Aircraft can now be damaged in battle, on impact, or overstressed in hard landings - individual DM for Left and Right gear. 50) Revised Lewis Guns - can now be reloaded (Ctrl+Shift+G) each craft has the historically correct number of drums and rounds. 51) Lewis Guns on Foster mounts can now be Lowered (Ctrl+G) and Raised (Shift+G) - Gun must be fully lowered to Reload! 52) Lewis Guns that are on Foster Mounts that are not fully raised cannot be fired. 53) Built in Engine Rocker arm animation axes as well as Engine vibration animation axes. Engine Vibration occurs: 1) At Stall 2) At Overspeed 3) At low RPM 4) when engine damaged 54) Built in pilot head animation for player craft - Externally pilots 'scan the skies' and craft controls: 1) Shakes/Dither noise when engine/prop is turning 2) Faces forward when shooting. 3) Reduces scanning activity when injured and head slowly droops more as progressive injuries occur. 55) Built in simplified head animation for all AI craft - faces forward when shooting. 56) Revisited Collision Avoidance and improved. 57) Player Pilot head now shakes from wind buffet even when looking straight ahead i.e even with no active 'look' animation being processed. 58) Support for Historical Ace Rank and Ace Aircraft is now incorporated and used for both the player squadron and all AI squads. Supported file name structure is: 'Ident'Rank.txt and 'Ident'Craft.txt and the files must reside in their relevant sub folder under the main Aces folder. These folders are called 'Aircraft' and 'Ranks' 'Ident' can be: 1) AceID number eg GermanAce01Rank.txt and GermanAce01Craft.txt 2) Ace FirstName and LastName (from main 'Nation'Ace File) with no spaces. eg ManfredAlbrechtFreiherrvonRichthofenRank.txt and ManfredAlbrechtFreiherrvonRichthofenCraft.txt 3) AceFile Recordline(10) ace kill file name: (xxxKill.txt) eg : MvRkill.txt MvRRank.txt and MvRCraft.txt 59) Ace Aircraft slots (3) are now allocated by Rank - either from the Rank file (if existing) or as interpolated from the Aces Rank in the main ace file - Recordline (17) 60) AI squads 'regular pilots' now use their three slots of aircraft differently from mission to mission, and is rule based. eg Esc 62 (dual role Self-Escort squad) will sometimes be seen using Strutters or Fighters 61) Both Ace Rank and Ace Aircraft (including skin specification) historical Database files now supported, in order to track Ace Rank and Aircraft over time and allocate these as per historical research. If an Ace is using an Aircraft from this Aces database, it is indicated in the main campaign GUI - "Active Airman" - next to the Ace's aircraft type by a '(*)'. 62) Player can now elect to override the aircraft allocations that are normally based on the AI pilots Rank. This is done in the Aircraft Inventory/Workshops interface accessed from the main Campaign GUI. Overrides are visible in the main campaign GUI - "Active Airman" - and are indicated by a '(!)' next to the AI Pilot's aircraft type. The player can only override normal AI Pilots - NOT ACES. Note: Overrides remain in place until the craft selected by the player for the AI pilot is no longer available to the squadron historically i.e when they get sent back as trainers. 63) Player can now elect to override his own aircraft allocation that is normally based on his Rank provided the squad has alternative craft historically assigned. This is done in the Aircraft Inventory/Workshops interface accessed from the main Campaign GUI. Note: Player craft overide is available to the player until the craft selected by the player is no longer historically available to the squadron i.e when they get sent back as trainers. 64) Aircraft allocations are now shown in more detail on the main Campaign GUI - "Active Airman". Indications are now included such as when there are insufficient aircraft to assign to the pilots (the Pilot then cannot fly), whether the AI pilots craft is in for repair (the Pilot then cannot fly), and how long it is before it will be fixed etc. If an AI Pilot cannot fly due to lack of default aircraft, or because of aircraft in for repair, the player can override the AI pilots allocation as in 63) and provided there were other types of craft available to the squad historically, and they are available in store, the AI Pilot can be rendered fully active again. A tally of 'Grounded' pilots is displayed to the player. Note: Aces always have aircraft available to them and thus are always equipped irrespective of losses or damage sustained. 65) Implemented the ability to 'Restore' a deceased pilot's Squadron in the Pilot Dossier GUI - Logs/Claims/Victories are all reset to 0 - player has to set up a new name rank dob etc. 66) Optimised the Squadron complements to better reflect historical squadron levels - Existing Squad pilots will automatically adjust to historical squadron levels over time (pilots will transfer in or out each day) Note: British Squadrons actually had 3 Flights - we only simulate 2 Flights: A and B and this moment in time thus British Squadron Complements reflect numbers for two flight capability and not three! 67) Squadrons now attempt to always put up maximum complements from 1917 onwards. 68) Player Squadron State is now implemented. The Squadron state is either: 'Operational' 'Working Up' - preparing operations at forward airfield. 'Forming Up' - for example at St Omer waiting for squad members to join (normally only for a few days). 'Settling In' - after a transfer to distant airfields. 'Deploying' - commonly to France 'Departing' - going to an Airfield in England closest to the coast of France to 'Deploy' or 'No Operations' - due to loss of aircraft or other historical issue that prevented the squadron from operating on that specific day historically. This status is displayed top left of main Campaign GUI. This only applies if Campaign Mission Frequency in workshops is set to Historical - any other Campaign Mission Frequency setting overrides this functionality (O/R) Squads that are not operational, due to one of the above reasons, will now no longer appear as an enemy squad or other friendly squad in the mission region of ops. This is irrespective of workshop settings. 69) Player Squad, if not 'Operational', now performs mundane chores e.g. test engines and or rigging or hone flying skills as opposed to actual sorties if player selects next mission. Duty Roster states that no operations are being flown by A or B flight. This can be overridden in workshops see 70) or player can advance time: T+. 70) Alternative Target Types options have been extended where possible. E.g. Patrol Behind Friendly lines has up to 4 alternative target types. Others may have 2 or 3 or 4 depending on mission type 71) Improved font scaling on widescreen monitors. 72) Revised Squadron Transfers - if the squadrons new Airfield is greater than 100 miles distant the transfer takes place via road. 73) Dramatically Improved Scenery and greater variations in trees and variations of blending - all seasons 74) Player aircraft will now play a sound when flown overspeed. 75) Revised Theatre : Terrain Textures, Landclasses, LSO, MOS, and Global layers - all seasons - Done 76) New Hi Res Maps for runtime and UI for improved navigation! 77) WOFF/OBD Theatre now extends to the whole of the mapped region, as opposed to just the WW1 campaign region - for possible future expansions 78) Player Airfield is now instantiated as a unique field and now has the ability in the future to have unique buildings as well as construction activity from time to time. 79) Player Airfield is now populated with player squad aircraft. 80) Lewis Drums: Number of Spare drums are now indicated in HUD. 81) Implemented vibration sounds when aircraft is vibrating at low idle speeds 82) AI improved Landing. 83) Rain intensity now varies from mission to mission. Also some rain has a misting affect from light to dense to reduce effective visibility. 84) Implemented 'Goggles Effects' for player when in VC view - complete with dynamic rain effects, oil, blood, and cracks, dirt build up - can be switched on and off in workshops or adjusted for visibility, for superb immersion 85) New cloud and vision code so Air formations that are in A2A pursuit mode will no longer continue to chase enemies that are obscured in/by cloud (cloud fog check), and thus no longer visible. Note: - Enemies are only spotted when there is a clear LOS to them - IOW only when they are visible (cloud fog check) - but this change now checks visibility constantly as the pursuit takes place/unfolds! Now you can try to run and hide in a thick cloud to lose a chasing enemy. 86) Player Airfield Attack Missions can now sometimes have Bombers (as well as Fighters previously) preparing to take-off as the attack starts. (GAI - MissionEnemyFlight) Many more changes - including all 80+ aircraft revised and updated, some extensively, for example: Aircraft Changes for BH&H II All craft with Inline engines have new or improved engine models complete with new appropriate pushrod animations (where visible). New improved blurred rotary engine in all rotaries and improved blurred prop hubs. Improved cowl and front fuselage metal reflectivity on rotary aircraft. All rotaries and some inline have new oil splattered or dark inner areas. New animated pilots and observers added to all aircraft and in virtual cockpit views where appropriate in 2 seaters. New gun models added to some aircraft. All tail skids improved with new textures applied and some with model improvements. Gear modelling improved for all aircraft, with new damage model added for individually breakable gear. General virtual cockpit vibration added to all aircraft, and to all observer gunner views where necessary. All Aircraft also have animations added to individual needles, compasses, control columns, and various other items in many such as pump handles. Fuel Pulsators have new animation and new liquid effect. External vibration animations added, including vibrating engines, guns, exhausts. Be2c, Be2c HD, Be2 Early, Be12, Be12 HD all have new cowl / front fuselage sections plus improved exhausts and other parts - all with new individual metal textures including new and fully animated RAF 1A and 4A engines. Se5, Se5a, Se5a Viper, new radiators (with DM) and many other model improvements. Exhausts improved with new design and textures, new HS Engine, new inspection windows and the inspection openings under the fuselage have been added complete with internal details. Lewis and Drum animations added for new Lewis drum rotation when fired and reload effect for aircraft that use Lewis. RE8 newly designed front fuselage section with new inline engine and high res textures. Albatros DII brand new external model (with new aircraft “skins” or textures by James ‘OvS’). Albatros DI new model updates to cowl and fitting (with new aircraft “skins” or textures by James ‘OvS’). Additionally almost all aircraft have had some new parts or improved areas, including some improved level-of-detail parts. New wind sound added, prop whines, and wires, vibrations FE2b added features to use the new fighting ability from code. Adjusted some eye-points to more realistic or useful positions where possible. Flying, landing and other wires appearance changed to more metallic grey on many. Other changes to aircraft include ability to use new code features associated with the flight experience in aircraft ; New wind sound effect in flight. New visual and audio dive effects including vibration of aircraft when over speed, Wires singing at higher speeds and dive speeds, as we reported in pilot memoires, Prop whine increase with speed. Idle vibrations and sound effects.

NEW FEATURES IN WOFF PLATINUM EDITION - EXPANSION WOFF PE will upgrade an install of WOFF UE. Always check if there is a WOFF PE update patch after installing PE. WOFF PE contains these NEW features and changes. Contents and Improvements WOFF Platinum Edition V5.00 1) Revised Terrain Tiles and Scenery object textures - all seasons. A large undertaking as we have 12 front lines states for various parts of the war, plus each of those has several "seasons"! 2) Improved Terrain Blending. 3) Improved Scenery objects density and draw distance and reduced haze for greater distance visibility. 4) Revised Sound system volume mix levels and improved many sounds. 5) Ground based MGs now no longer have tracers. 6) Increased gun/artillery fire along the frontlines - changes from day to day - more battles can now be seen in action. 7) Player can now restart engine after landing/end of mission and game physics is no longer halted - eg trucks no longer stop moving etc - Note player may now be attacked when landed in good health. 8) Revised damaged and ruined scenery building and frontlines object models. 9) If player now tries to start engine with low fuel or a damaged engine the instructor states it and engine start is not attempted. 10) Now quitting a mission over enemy lines or when forced down in enemy territory, the aircraft is 'captured' and is accounted for as a lost machine even if the player escapes and returns to duty. 11) Improved aircraft accounting systems. 12) Outcomes system now specifies the airfield that each individual squadron member landed at, including player, as opposed to the current formation squad landing destination specified. 13) Outcomes system now specifies if the aircraft was over (or forced down on ground) in enemy territory or friendly territory when mission ends. 14) QC Fuel and Ammo selections are now persistent mission to mission when player remains in QC. 15) AI captivity (and loss of aircraft) is now no longer a die roll but is determined by AI Pilot health, AI Aircraft health, AI Remaining fuel, and AI Distance Behind Enemy Lines. at the time the mission ends - these are used to reasonably determine whether the AI pilot makes it home or not. 16) If the Player quits the mission whilst in/over enemy territory or is forced down in enemy territory the distance Behind Enemy Lines is now reported. 17) Operations (Air Activity) radii for Local and Regional Squadrons (Living World) are now displayed on the briefing map - they vary with workshops regional air activity settings, with player location, and types of operations/craft assignment (These are not changed from WOFFUE - just the rings display is added). Note these rings dictate which squads are 'active/available' to put up flights and is NOT the limit of these squads flight paths. The rings simply dictate which squads in the theatre may fly - thus it is possible that flights paths can then exceed the radii of the rings if the specific squadrons target/directives selected during mission creation determine such (OOB system specific)! The percentage of squads within the two radii that fly is dictated again by the workshops regional air activity setting - its used for the two functions. Targets/Directives for the squads 'activated' by the Local and Regional radii (Search Functionality): Fighters: Fighter Squads generally obey their typical target range allowance as dictated by the squadron database - limited to a max of 70 miles. However if they cannot find a target within that range for their given mission directive (one must understand we have a finite number of targets in any given area) the range allowance is increased incrementally by 5 miles until they do find one. If they don’t find one they simply use the last one found. Note: at no stage do we abort the squads mission (cull the flight) - they will fly - this is important especially in sparsely populated areas (squads and targets) and early years to keep air activity going. 2 Seaters: 2 Seater Squads generally obey their typical target range allowance as dictated by the squadron database - limited to a max of 70 miles. However if they cannot find a target within that range for their given mission directive (one must understand we have a finite number of targets in any given area) the range allowance is increased incrementally by 25 miles until they do find one. If they don’t find one they simply use the last one found. Note: at no stage do we abort the squads mission (cull the flight) - they will fly - this is important especially in sparsely populated areas (squads and targets) and early years to keep air activity going. Heavies: Heavy Bomber Squads generally obey their typical target range allowance as dictated by the squadron database - and basically have no limit apart from their operational range - as they are long range bombers If they dont find one in range (seldom happens with Heavies) they simply use the last one found (this could be improved) Typically these squads will be flying long routes. Note: at no stage do we abort the squads mission (cull the flight) - they will fly - this is important especially in sparsely populated areas (squads and targets) and early years to keep air activity going. This is all part of the OBD Living World system that is SPECIFICALLY designed to avoid only having activity along the players prescribed mission path - as most other campaign systems do - and to create a world that is alive wherever the player might end up going. 18) Centres of the Local and Regional Air Activity Radii is now the nearest frontline sector to the player - where applicable. (Note does not apply to England Germany and or Heavy Bomber squads) - as opposed to always being the players airfield. 19) Frontline patrols now take place along two points on the actual frontline positions whenever possible. 20) Implemented the ability to move/edit waypoints in the mission briefing screen, so that players can setup mission routes as desired. 21) Selecting 'Airstart' now specifies where you will start, and the waypoint lines up to Waypoint 1 or the specific start waypoint are removed. 22) The approximate distance that the players airfield is from the nearest frontlines is now reported in campaign intro as well as on the small airfield location map (BFL Behind Friendly Lines) top of main campaign GUI. 23) 'Reconnaissance' craft will now also carry out bombing runs if they can carry bombs. 24) Scramble and Escort Missions are now allowed with Historical Mission Types set on in Workshops - even if squad did not carry out the role historically - for improved variation in campaign play. 25) Mission Briefing screen map now includes miscellaneous waypoints that were deemed non critical and thus not displayed (UE Map only displayed critical waypoints and objectives) these are: Altitude Up (friendly side of lines near airfield), Altitude Down (Ground Attack missions near target) and Patrol an Area (Escort Patrol Reccy craft that must note troop and or fall of shot over an area). They are now included to allow the player to adjust them along with the main waypoints see 20) 26) Implemented Gun Lever animations for ALL fighter aircraft - they animate when fired, jammed, and when unjamming the guns. Bullet belts also move. Vickers and Spandau are brand new models with others upgraded. 27) Revised aircraft effects: 'on fire', 'smoke', 'fuel leak', 'oil leak' etc. 28) Incorporated Revised and Additional Squadrons with additional aircraft allocations and airfields for WOFF Platinum : Total Squadrons incorporated are now: British(90) French(184) and German(203) Squadrons. We aim to release new aircraft coming in 2020/2021 in future addons and expansions to make use of some of the new aircraft slots required at certain dates in these squads and more. 29) Incorporated 3rd party weather and news files - thanks to Buckeye Bob and 77Scout of Simhq.com forums. 30) Updated all 12 Global layers 1914, 1915, 1916, 1916+6, 1917, 1917+6, 1918, 1918+2, 1918+4, 1918+6, 1918+9, 1918+11 to incorporate the additional airfields required by the Squadron Update. 31) Both Player and Regional flight target selection criteria are now more tightly bound to the region of operations (Air Activity) radii. 32) Added improved search criteria for the enemy flights that the player may face whilst on his mission as well as increased variety. 33) Revised search criteria for obtaining local Fighter Squadrons - improving campaign immersion. 34) Revised the Slot/Rank Breakpoints and optimised for each Nation to allow better allocation of the 3 Aircraft slots by Rank. 35) Implemented the ability to switch the Wingman on or off in workshops - default is off - Note if a players pilot has a wingman, and the workshop setting is toggled off and then later put back on - the last assigned Wingman is not remembered/stored even if he is still alive in the squad. 36) Implemented the ability to fly Lone Wolf missions at will from campaign interface via a new button in the button bar if player is in a Fighter, and located in either Flanders, Marne, Verdun, or Alsace and the campaign year is prior to 1917. He must have flown at least 5 missions. Lone Wolf missions will still be randomly assigned as well. 37) Implemented the ability to adjust Lone Wolf mission waypoints in the mission briefing screen. 38) Implemented progressive damage modelling on the Player Fuel Tank systems together with a 'Fuel is leaking - FIRE risk' TACS message prompt and a persistent fuel leak effect (moving and static). If the player leaves his engine running whilst fuel is leaking then slowly and randomly the fuel leak gets progressively worse and a fire and death can result. Players should be vigilant of fuel leaks and kill the engine and land ASAP. 39) Implemented Pilot progressive health deterioration if wounds are severe (Progressive DM). 40) Implemented better visual effects for the player aircraft for coolant (non rotary craft) and oil system leaks/damage together with progressive damage functionality - and implemented message prompts on the TAC. (Progressive DM) 41) Implemented progressive damage modelling on all AI craft to match players new progressive DM. 42) Cloud edge clipping in cockpit view now eliminated. 43) Scrambles missions now have revised waypoint structure to ensure the AI pilots more readily engage the enemy. 44) Fighter cockpits have new guns, and many have other visual improvements. Plus many other fixes and improvements. WOFF PLATINUM EDITION REQUIRES WOFF UE. Please ensure you OWN and have INSTALLED WOFF UE before purchasing WOFF PE. You do NOT need to install WOFF UE patches before installing PE.

: A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) in more detail;  Artificial Intelligence : The superb WOFF WW1 A.I. for pilots open up many possibilities!   Physics, Collisions and Artificial Intelligence : True Thinking A.I. Pilots   .:  The Aircraft Physics have been revised for Wings Over Flanders Fields:   All A.I.craft now use the same flight models and engine models as the player craft - they have no advantages, so they are flying the same complexity of flight model as the player. This includes ammo weights, wind forces and more.   Improved collisions for more immersion. All aircraft physics are more realistic than before especially when disintegrating or colliding with objects or the terrain including A.I. aircraft.     .:  Collisions have improved effects:   Scenery and Object collisions are now improved with differing effects depending on the speed of collision as well as the hardness of the object into which the aircraft is colliding.   .: With the Brand new A.I. code for Wings Over Flanders Fields the A.I. behaves more like a human pilot; his fears, skills, and mortality all play a much more important part:      Each A.I.pilot has a complete set of key human-like abilities that determines how he behaves - Skill and Morale being the major components of this.   A.I.no longer simply fight to the death, they evaluate their surroundings for enemy and friendly craft alike and can change their behaviour accordingly to these dynamic ever changing conditions as they carry out their missions. Some of the dynamic conditions considered include ;   · Number of Friendly craft in their Flight and condition, altitude, speed, direction and ability of craft.   · Number of enemy craft in vicinity that have been seen and their condition, their ability, altitude, speed and direction, and even the type of the aircraft!   · Condition of the A.I.'s own aircraft and his own health.   · Proximity to/distance over enemy front lines and which side is below him.   · If flying a 2-Seater without support morale may be lower, but enhanced if an escort is protecting the flight.   · Fatigue - each A.I.pilot can become fatigued over time in the gruelling dog fights and their skill and morale becomes diminished over time as they get tired from the G forces (!) and effort to move the control stick - if too fatigued they well may break off the fight and attempt to recover or break for home.   Based on these criteria, and others, the A.I.is constantly evaluating whether to stay and fight or flee to home base or nearest friendly base, or simply to try to continue on and carry out the mission. Above all they try to preserve themselves and their machines, as any human would!   .:  New A.I.Vision - the A.I.constantly look around the skies as they fly, to try and see any enemy flights - they do not always succeed and they also cannot see through clouds and visibility distance is reduced in haze. Their skill rating also affects their vision acuity. This applies to pilots and observers/gunners. Thus it is possible to sneak up on unsuspecting aircraft crews.   .: WW1 Flying Skills -  The A.I.pilot's skill rating affects the complexity of manoeuvres he may know, as well as the A.I.pilots integrity when it comes to dog fighting over the battle scarred landscapes or bombing airfields and other targets. For example an Ace pilot will know more manoeuvres than a veteran pilot and attempt them with more skill and vigour!   .: Trained A.I.-  A.I.are competent to fly WW1 aircraft and actually go through special training by us (yes they have the ability to be taught how to fly new aircraft!) to competently use the aircraft they are flying and can do everything from take-off, navigate, fight, land and much more. For example they have new low level flying and fighting abilities according to their skill levels, all the while constantly evaluating the environment.   .:  Ground Attack - New fantastic ground attack skills - the A.I.now co-ordinate attacks on ground targets and will break off at suitable moments depending on state of ammunition and or other threats to their safety!   .: Random Failures - A.I.Aircraft (as well as Player Aircraft) are subject to random mechanical or structural failure based on known traits and flaws of the machines they are flying at the specific time. A.I.try to control their aircraft and emergency land or try their best to survive a crash landing.   .:  New Landing Abilities  - A virtual and hidden Airfield landing controller helps to ensure correct flight and machine behaviour when landing at home or nearby fields for multiple and or large squadron flights - this means A.I.can understand complex airfield situations with multiple craft and flights landing on the same field. They also can attempt to ditch or crash land a damaged aircraft.   .:   Allow you the Pilot to Exercise control - over the A.I.pilots in your flight, provided you have sufficient rank, with commands such as Attack, Return to Base, Rejoin, Land here etc.   and much more you will discover when experiencing Wings: Over Flanders Fields ... 

A Real Immersive Dynamic Campaign for World War one air combat.   The New WOFF Manager controls and creates the new campaigns and missions -     .: WOFF is geared towards a real-time, fully immersive single player dynamic campaign system, designed to immerse the player in as realistic a world as possible, and to recreate as closely as possible the first world war, in a 'living world' about them! The WOFF interface also manages all aspects of the dynamic campaign and can take full advantage of WOFF AI and many new WW1 features. .: The WOFF manager and whole campaign code is totally written from scratch - specifically for WW1. .:  Enlist in an immersive dynamic campaign as a WW1 pilot in one of four Nations; Britain, France, USA or Germany. .:  Career dates range from early 1915 through to the completion of the war with over 80 different flyable aircraft available in the release version with more to come as add-on packs later. See the aircraft section for more details. .:  Choose from one of 500 (!) historically researched detailed squadrons to enlist in - all available in the WOFF BH&H II : Britain: 90 squadrons Germany: 203 Squadrons! France: 184 Squadrons USA: 23 squadrons   7000 unique aircraft skins included , for 100s of Historical Aces, Historical Pilots and many squadron specific aircraft colours. These ‘skins’ are included so that you fly with the correct squadron insignia and markings for the chosen squadron. Note: Some squadron aircraft are not currently available but we will be releasing more craft as add-on packs .: Now the Player can now elect to override the aircraft allocations that are normally based on the AI pilots Rank. This is done in the Aircraft Inventory/Workshops interface accessed from the main Campaign GUI. .: With over 1000 targets of opportunity for any of the 12 front-line states (see scenery for more details) - fly and defend your nation in one of histories most bloody wars. (In effect over 12000 targets for the war) .: Mixed flight complements: Fly with the Aces (many with their correct historically accurate skins and assigned to their historical squadron machines), and also fly in multiple mixed aircraft type flights! .: BH&H II brings new combined flights German: 6/1917 onwards: they may combine both flights into B as one large flight quite often - as player, and as an enemy flight that player may run into if he is not German. Other Nations: 6/1917 onwards - if A Flight is not allocated then B Flight is often now larger. .: New Mission replay function. Added various controls and features to filter out information and focus on player or other details. .:  When choosing a Squadron you are shown where the squadron is based relative to the front-lines, as well as the Squadron Craft Complement, Ace complement, Morale, Activities etc. so that you can easily launch yourself into a squadron that suits you and your virtual flying needs. Once in a squadron you can also use the Intelligence room check what the surrounding squadrons (enemy and friend) are. Or you can auto-enlist and be assigned automatically to a squadron, electing optionally to undergo training at a home field first. .:  Fully interactive Pilot log books keep track of up to 100 virtual pilots that you may enlist at any given time. The Log Book reflects Pilot Biography, user selected Photograph and accurately tracks the flyers Flights and Hours, Claims and Victories, Awards, and General Squadron Details such as location, craft upgrades, transfers etc. .:  Complete your training with your trainer at a historically accurate location to get the required flying hours and move on to the action in your chosen squad, or just join the fray as an experienced Flyer. .: Fly and survive - file claims for your kills (optional configuration settings allows kills to be awarded immediately) and climb the ranks and receive aircraft upgrades over time as the squadron historically did. Your missions are largely tailored to the historical mission types that the squadron flew during WW1. .: Lead your flight or be lead - depending on your rank (or optionally you can always lead your flight) as a leader you can control your flight with key commands and lead them to destiny. .:  With over 1000 targets of opportunity for any of the 12 front-line states (see scenery for more details) - fly and defend your nation in one of histories most bloody wars. (In effect over 12000 targets for the war) .:  Mixed flight complements: Fly with the Aces (many with their correct historically accurate skins and assigned to their historical squadron machines), and also fly in multiple mixed aircraft type flights! .:  Select your own personal skin (Players may create additional personal skins in their favourite paint program and use them). .:  Equip your flight and your personal aircraft load outs, from flight loads to individual pilot loads in your flight. .:  File requests for a Transfer to another squadron at any time. This may or may not be approved depending on your rating and the rating of the squadron you have requested to transfer to - it also takes time for approval.(Or select the configuration setting option for instantaneous transfer - no approval required and you transfer immediately!) .:  Squad dynamics change constantly over time with painstakingly accurate and detailed data research, for each and every squadron, to reflect the changing Craft Allocations, Airfield Locations, Ace Complements, Morale, Skill, Material and Manpower Issues, Current Role (defines squadron's historically accurate activities at that moment in time) and Frequency of Operations, to name a few. .:  Fly in a dynamic world with no artificial 'air spawns' - up to 250 aircraft are dynamically assigned to fly from real squadron bases on real squadron operations based on the squadrons historical detail data for that moment in time. If you deviate from your flight path beware: there is a war on, and you will run into these squads and ground units - for good or bad - together with active ground units. Flights are sometimes waiting on the ground at fields to takeoff or are 'scrambled for takeoff and interception, based on in-coming AI craft approach or the players approach - a true 'living world'. .:  Protect your men and material - excessive losses can eventually lead to your squadron becoming grounded whilst you wait for your replacement pilots, aircraft or repairs. .:  Visit the stores room to evaluate aircraft stock and aircraft repairs status .:  Visit the 'Intelligence' room to get the latest on the war or evaluate nearby enemy squadrons that you are likely to encounter over the front lines! It is here that you can apply for Transfers as you evaluate possible squadrons to transfer to. .:  Ground activity reflects the major battles as and when they raged along the front-lines for the duration of the war. .:  A master 'Order of Battle' system controls the air and ground activity in each of 4 sectors - Flanders, Marne, Verdun and Alsace to reflect the dynamics of the air and ground war. .:  Accurate tracking of all player squadron pilots, including the players A and B flight members, in runtime, for accurate post mission results and tallies. Each of the AI pilots in your squad have logbooks which you can peruse to evaluate their progression strengths, weaknesses, claims and kills, and even view their medals. .:  Dynamically moving front lines modelled in 12 states follow the historical battle actions of the western front as accurately as possible from 1915 to 1918. .:  Many historical Landmarks that become permanently damaged when they did historically. .:  Fly with either dynamically changing weather or historically accurate weather - bad weather will see all air ops grounded. Other features include windscreens that are affected by weather (frosty, rainy, etc.). .:  Pre Flight briefing interface shows details of the intended operation, way- points, and target on an interactive map so that you are fully aware of what you have to do. and more including Terror Over England Campaign - defend England from Gotha and Zeppelin raids, or fly for Axis and fly the giant Gotha bombers against England.