Wings Over Europe: NATO Fighters

[column5]

COMING SOON!

I am happy to announce the first in a series of new, free expansion packs for Wings Over Europe. NATO Fighters leverages many individual mods released over the last four years to significantly enhance the WOE experience.

The most obvious omission in WOE is the lack of the ubiquitous F-104G Starfighter employed throughout the 1960s and 70s by many NATO air forces. WOE:NF adds this important aircraft and updates the 1968 and 1979 campaigns to include several flyable NATO squadrons. In addition, the pack adds the outstanding Lightning F.6, the Belgian Mirage 5BA, and other aircraft, all fully integrated into the campaigns. Finally, a number of visual enhancements breathe additional life into the environment.

I must stess that all of the mods included in this pack are already available. This series of expansions simply brings them all together in one place, fully integrates them into the campaigns and makes installation a snap. The goal is not to include every NATO squadron, but a representitive selection of units to allow players to fly for nations other than the US, Great Britain and West Germany.

Here is a list of expected features:

New Aircraft:

F-84F Thunderstreak
F-104G Starfigther
Lightning F6
Mirage 5BA
Su-15TM Flagon
Su-17M Fitter

Campaign Updates:

1968

- Added Belgian No. 2 Squadron in F-84F
- Added Belgian No. 350 Squadron in F-104G
- Added Danish Esk 723 in F-104G
- Added RAF No. 11 Squadron in Lightning F6
- Added RNLAF 311 and 322 Squadrons in F-104G
- Added West German JG31 and JG74 in F-104G

1979

- Added Belgian No. 1 Squadron in Mirage 5BA
- Added Belgian No. 350 Squadron in F-104G
- Added Canadian No. 421 Squadron in F-104G
- Added Danish Esk 723 in F-104G
- Added RAF No. 11 Squadron in Lightning F6
- Added RNLAF 311 and 322 Squadrons in F-104G
- Added two Soviet SU-15TM units as adversaries
- Added two Soviet SU-17M units as adversaries

The pack also includes Deuces' Effects Pack 3 and enhanced WOE terrain, JSF_Aggie's high-resolution airbases and a custom weapons selection for the add-on planes.

This pack is in final testing and should be ready in 2 to 3 weeks! Additional packs will follow, each focusing on a specific theme such as adding the French AdA, and naval operations.

[mittelkimono]

thank you very much

but there' s only one little problem
the fact is that WOE is not getting released from now in france ....

[maitretomtom]

Sounds very good !
I can't wait to see WoE in french stores

Au fait c'est quand déjà la sortie en France ?

[column5]

thank you very much

but there' s only one little problem
the fact is that WOE is not getting released from now in france ....

I think the European release will be soon! I heard some talk about it on TK's forum.

[mittelkimono]

Sounds very good !
I can't wait to see WoE in french stores

Au fait c'est quand déjà la sortie en France ?

aujourd' hui peut etre ou alors demain ...
qui saura , qui saura , qui sauuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrra !!!!

comment je ne suis pas sur www.starsdecédées.com ah mince
alalala Michel sardou et mike brandt il nous manque hein ?
comment ça michel sardou n' est pas mort

[maitretomtom]

I think the European release will be soon! I heard some talk about it on TK's forum.

I saw a realease date as "September".

Only 15 days left

It would be funny if the game and this pack be released at the same date

[maitretomtom]

C'est sorti !

=> http://www.column5.us/forum/index.php?showtopic=5865

[sony tuckson]

en biblio ce soir....au format RAR et non 7Z pour la facilité de tous

[manetsim]

Quoi, mais c'est super le 7z...

[maitretomtom]

Quoi, mais c'est super le 7z...

D'autant que les fichiers RAR s'ouvrent avec Winrar qui sait ouvrir les fichiers 7z.....
(je vous taquine)

[sony tuckson]

oui, la théorie voudrait que winrar ouvre bien les fichiers 7z

la pratique est beaucoup plus restrictive et il est préférable d'avoir le soft spécifique..

la prochaine fois, je le mettrai dans un format inconnu de tous, et vous n'aurez qu'à tirer votre plan na!

[oli]

Je l'ai téléchargé et installé dans un répertoire temporaire pour voir ce qu'il avait dans le ventre.

Je n'ai que SFP1.
J'ai fait une copie de mon install SFP1 et j'y ai installé les répertoires Effects, Flight (environment.ini), Objects et Sounds.
Les avions NATO se lancent ensuite sans problème dans SFP1. Sympa !!!
Par contre, j'ai l'impression que l'environment.ini me réduit pas mal l'éclairage.

Quelques screens :

[maitretomtom]

Très très joli....

[galoub]

J'ai testé sur Woe très beau boulot seul petit souci d'autres confirmeront : les temps de chargements de missions sur la carte woe. Je ne sais pas si ce sont les nouveaux effets de l'eau de deuce mais ça rallonge un max le temps de chargement....

[column5]

J'ai testé sur Woe très beau boulot seul petit souci d'autres confirmeront : les temps de chargements de missions sur la carte woe. Je ne sais pas si ce sont les nouveaux effets de l'eau de deuce mais ça rallonge un max le temps de chargement....

The new high-res runway textures cause the load times to be greater than normal.

Uhm...

Les nouvelles textures des bases aériennes sont responsables, à mon avis.

[galoub]

Oh thanks for your answer C5, anyway the job you made on this addon is fantastic, i mean it's a great pleasure to play with. Actually i made two installs of the game as you advised in the readme file, according to me loading time is not a real problem as long as it may not crash the game but pehraps you can told us which files to delete ( i mean high res runaway texture files) so as to reduce this loading time. thx for your great addon
regards

[oli]

Thanks a lot C5 for those beautiful NATO Fighters.
Beautiful skins and cockpits.

A said before, i installed them in SFP1 SP4 because i don't have WoE. They seem to work well.

Is there any way to adapt the campaign to the addon terrain "Deutschland" in SFP1 ?

[column5]

Oh thanks for your answer C5, anyway the job you made on this addon is fantastic, i mean it's a great pleasure to play with. Actually i made two installs of the game as you advised in the readme file, according to me loading time is not a real problem as long as it may not crash the game but pehraps you can told us which files to delete ( i mean high res runaway texture files) so as to reduce this loading time. thx for your great addon
regards

Glad you like the mod! I will post a list of the runway textures soon so that you can delete them.

[column5]

Thanks a lot C5 for those beautiful NATO Fighters.
Beautiful skins and cockpits.

A said before, i installed them in SFP1 SP4 because i don't have WoE. They seem to work well.

Is there any way to adapt the campaign to the addon terrain "Deutschland" in SFP1 ?

I think that the mods should work fine with the Deutshland terrain, but the campaign files would have to be updated for it. I'm not sure how much work the conversion would entail.

[oli]

Thanks C5, i'm gonna have a look at it and try to update if i understand the files contents.

[galoub]

Thx a lot

[column5]

There are a total of 63 files in the runway mod. You will need to delete all files matching the criteria below:

airfield*.lod
conc*.bmp
hammerhd_*.bmp
runway*.bmp
taxiway*.bmp
taxiw-t*.bmp

That should reduce load time considerably.

[sony tuckson]

mais réduire l'aspect visuel.....

[galoub]

Hi
i've just tested it and yes it works perfectly. As Sony said, airbases are certainly less beautiful but i prefer like this...
Thx another time for spending time answering our questions....

[oli]

Je n'ai pas d'écran radar dans le cockpit du Mirage5 BA (ainsi que dans plusieurs autres cockpits de Nato Fighters). Est-ce normal ?