posted 03-16- 05:40 PM               

-All the pilot sounds translated, re-recorded and 'authenticized'. Many sound more authentic now than the default nation sounds, imo!
-All the medal graphics for each nation have been added, and again look amazing!
-Several historically accurate squadrons for each nation have also been added, with full hangar information.
-Several scramble missions have been made for each country, although it would help if we had more soviet and italian planes!
-Proper ranks for each country, set on a system equivalent to those that shipped with the game
-I'm so excited right now I can't remember the rest!!!

The Nations zip file is available at the BCATP (link below). Please note that because a lot of work was put into this, especially by a core group of people, we have decided to ask something of the community; other than the sites listed below, please do not mirror the nations zip file until March 25th. As a small return for their hard work, it would be nice if the nations crew could generate a little more traffic from our work before the big boys take over (*cough* FSHangar *cough* ). These sites are:
BCATP (Werner)
War Paint Factory (Zoycite)
Flying Poodle (Poodle)
Lector's Fighter Squadron Section (Lector)
Tailslide's place (In lieu of Yevgeni O.)
gterl's site (sorry, I forget the name!) and Siggi too, if he has one.

This group of people, (Jeeves, Zoycite, Poodle, Lector, Gterl, Tailslide and Siggi) represent the backbone of the nations project. This group recorded wavs, make graphics, missions and squadrons, beta tested and otherwise did a TON of grunt work. When I got this whole thing started as a result of Laika's Ishak project, I intended to do it myself. I had no idea how much work was involved, and without their help I'd still be recording wavs.

Thanks also to spin for helping us with last-minute beta testing and bug squashing, and Jag for offering to host a nations beta on the hangar's ftp while we were having some big email problems. Two relatively small, but VERY significant points, well worth mentioning!

(I'm waiting for the guys next to the podium to start pulling on my sleeve here...)

I don't think I've forgotten anyone here, but in the event I have (or misspelled a name, tail) please let me know asap! I'm leaving for a couple weeks on saturday, and won't be able to fix anything on my site while I'm away.

So boys, download and enjoy!

Werner

posted 03-16- 05:54 PM               

Thanks everyone for all your work.

posted 03-16- 06:16 PM               

That should do it!

Werner

posted 03-16- 07:46 PM               

109s and 190s with italian skins (diego has done quite a few) work well with italy.

...of course it would be nice to have some macchis or MiGs floating around...

Werner

posted 03-16- 09:02 PM               

Heya Nat-

posted 03-16- 10:48 PM               

Razer

posted 03-17- 12:53 AM               

Oh, one more thing. Please smile! I get worried when people post like that and don't. I don't want to make anyone mad!

Werner

posted 03-17- 01:09 AM               

Razer, cheers mate, LLL.

AGAS 5 out.

posted 03-17- 03:23 AM               

And now:
Please! To all the plane-guys we def. need somme italian planes :-D
Btw whats the status of the SavoiaMarchetti from Whirlwind?? (That would be a great one)

cheers
and once again thanks WERNER

posted 03-17- 05:53 AM               

Wahh.

Is there a mirror wich allows resuming broken downloads ?

posted 03-17- 08:50 AM               

"strSoviet Union" and "strJapan" instead of "Soviet Union" and "Japan." The squadrons all look fine tho, and the US, Brit, and German menus are OK.

I assume I need to unBig one of the parfiles to fix this. Anybody want to give me a hint where to start lookin?

Someone might want to do up a short readme for how to put training missions using the Zero or I-16 into the appropriate places too. (I know, that's "easy," but there are some folks who shudder at the thought of making new folders and whatnot...)

I might take a stab at the MC 205 if nobody else is going to.

posted 03-17- 11:44 AM               

Should this not be an isolated event, PLEASE do not email Jeeves or myself about it. We are working on the problem right now, and every bit of time spent answering emails means less time bug squashing...

Werner

P.S. If anyone d/led a very early beta of this from Poodle's site a long time ago, and is having trouble making v1 work, Poodle has an app already made to fix the prob. I'd post it, but I'm running out of time!

posted 03-17- 12:19 PM               

And it works fine, the only thing I noticed is that I get more CTD´s than before.
All other things are right, I installed SDOE completely new and patched to 1.5 + Meatwater Soundpack.

posted 03-17- 12:26 PM               

Werner