Hi folks,
I wanted to discuss some new features on the ATAG server.
1st of all, when you join the server, now you will be greeted with a "Welcome Screen" with a clickable GUI. It looks like this:
After clicking the "continue" button you will be taken to the normal briefing / flag selection screen you are accustomed to. So you'll spawn in a plane normally, but here's a twist: During your entire sortie any damage whether it be by another enemy fighter or another enemy target, and the damages you incur to your own aircraft are now recorded.
To get to this screen simply press escape after you have spawned. Then you will get access to the damages screen. It looks like this:
From this screen you can see the types of damages that was discussed previously. But here's the kicker, the only way your sortie and the damages you do towards the enemy and the damages the enemy does to you are recorded, is if you stay alive! If you bail out or die, your recorded damages are over. So hopefully this will encourage some folks to want to actually land their sortie and see how they did!
But if you like flying a bomber, there's a nice utility included within the damages GUI that can help you out. It is especially useful to Axis bombers with the LOTFE 7 bomb sight. But for any bomber, the nice thing about the utility is you can get the altitude of the target you are trying to hit.
So clicking on the utils screen takes you here:
Now you can click on the bombing utility which will take you to this screen:
From this screen, for the Axis bombers with the LOTFE 7 bomb sight, you can enter in your altitude and true airspeed. *Remember you can hit escape and use this utility while in level flight* After your airspeed and altitude have been entered in the utility, you'll also want to know the elevation of the target you are aiming for. So you'll want to click on the "Select in Map" button.
This will bring up the map screen where you can pinpoint with the mouse exactly where the target location is to get a correct elevation of the target area.
The map screen looks like this:
The bottom map screen with the gray box is what you will move around with your mouse to get to the part of the map where your target is. On the top map, that is a zoomed in portion of the map. On the top map you want to double click on the area where the target is. This will bring you back to the bombing utility main menu and will have your elevation to target automatically entered for you.
So now you can have a screen that looks like this:
And if you want to know how the bombsite calculation should look like, simply click on the "view settings in bomb sight" button.
This will take you to a screen that looks like this:
And there you have it. Hope everyone enjoys this and has fun trying to inflict the most damage on the enemy. I'm hoping for screenshots of who can do the most in a sortie!
And of course, special thanks to ATAG_Colander for being a magician with 0's and 1's and ATAG_Keller for his work with the bomb sight utility.
Good luck and happy hunting.
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