CMO Public Beta - Build 1265.1

[Dimitris]

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rlo1-d ... sp=sharing

To apply: Unzip on the existing installation of CMO + "Tiny" update.

NOTE: This is a public beta. Standard disclaimers apply.

Build 1265.1 Release Notes (changes from B1263.1)
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* NEW SIM FEATURE (OPTIONAL): Weather affects the maximum speed of surface ships. When enabled, deteriorating weather conditions (and especially increasing sea state) has an adverse impact on the maximum speed that ships can travel. This effect is particularly acute on small-displacement ships. Depending on sea state and ship size, a ship may be forced to run at 3/4, half, 1/4 speed or even heave (effectively remain stationary).
The information about the weather-related limitation is shown in various ways:
- On the ship datablock: https://i.imgur.com/aIShD8P.png
- The Unit Status panel: https://i.imgur.com/qHZzZDO.png
- On the throttle/altitude window: https://i.imgur.com/j8VGrTw.png

Because this feature can potentially unbalance existing scenarios, it is optional (can be toggled on the "Scenario Realism Features" window) and is "ON" by default when making a new scenario, and "OFF" by default when loading an existing scenario.

* NEW SIM FEATURE: Aircraft maximum airborne endurance. This fixes the "aircraft may stay up indefinitely by multiple A2A-refuellings" realism flaw. Aircraft are now limited in their total airborne endurance depending on their size, type and crew complement. The information about current airborne total time and maximum endurance is listed on the fuel panel: https://i.imgur.com/mlsgADN.png ... and is color-coded for at-a-glance evaluation (dark red is bad). If an aircraft reaches it max endurance limit, it enters an "RTB - Exhaustion" state, turns straight for its home base and will refuse any manual orders to change course or engage in any other activity.

* ADDED: [Lua] Unit wrapper endurance-related properties (Unit.currentExhaustion & Unit.maxExhaustion)
* ADDED: [Lua] Added color to RP and Zone command and wrappers
* ADDED: [Lua] Color property in ReferencePoint functions
* FIXED: Mismatch in some Zone transform
* FIXED: Error creating 'mines' list
* FIXED: Lua setting formation caused crash in Formation Editor
* FIXED: Exception cause by missing groups
* FIXED: Exception for "Is Inside This Area" check collateraly causing OOM (heap full of exceptions) for large scenario
* FIXED: Slugtrail "use" option was entirely ignored
* FIXED: +/- key to adjust were not working as a shortcut to increase sim acceleration to "Double Flame"

[alphali]

The work you do guys is incredible. I bought over 50$ of DLC's today knowing am unlikely to touch them this year with the backlog of scenarios because I wanted to support the incredible work you've been doing especially the past couple of months.

[hrfepo1]

Fantastic work! Thank you!

[rmwilsonjr]

Thanks to the devs! Do you ever sleep?

[boogabooga]

I have a recommendation regarding the exhausted aircraft. Instead of forcing them to RTB when they reach the semi-arbitrary exhausted state, just force the AAR refueling doctrine to be 'never' at that time. Then A/C can RTB naturally as they reach Bingo/Joker. That should smooth it out a little bit...knowing that patrols MUST RTB and stop following orders after exactly 8 hours or whatever is potentially just another kind of exploit, IMHO.

I do really appreciate that you guys are considering this, however.

[alphali]

I have a recommendation regarding the exhausted aircraft. Instead of forcing them to RTB when they reach the semi-arbitrary exhausted state, just force the AAR refueling doctrine to be 'never' at that time. Then A/C can RTB naturally as they reach Bingo/Joker. That should smooth it out a little bit...knowing that patrols MUST RTB and stop following orders after exactly 8 hours or whatever is potentially just another kind of exploit, IMHO.

I do really appreciate that you guys are considering this, however.

Yes and that would introduce some variability as even aircrafts launched at the same time would likely have different fuel levels. So instead of having all the aircraft that launched at the same time return at the same time, there will some time between them.

Another interesting thing that could be added in the future is further exhaustion penalties for aircraft that engage in dog fights and extreme maneuvers and fights. This can be applied using the g-force as a proxy as that is already being calculated. Pilots who are on patrol just flying around will not have the same exhaustion time as pilots engaged in combat.

[KnightHawk75]

NEW SIM FEATURE: Aircraft maximum airborne endurance.
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Can a player or author also turn this off (or set the endurance limit time) at the scene or unit level at present? Or does one have to constantly reset the airborne time to override this?

Thanks for updates,esp color options for rps.

[Count Sessine]

Great work. Very happy to see more environmental factors having an impact.

[ExNusquam]

Where should we be posting issues with the new exhaustion times? For example things like El Dorado Canyon are no longer achievable.

[thewood1]

El Dorado Canyon is a community scenario so I would reach out to the author directly and post in the mod section.

[ExNusquam]

Not a question of the scenario, simply using a example. The time limits placed on certain aircraft are lower than what has historically been done with the platforms.

[stww2]

Kushan (EDC's author) is aware of the potential issue; he discussed it in yesterday's stream.

[Nikel]

Is it still beta or official?

In the title is said beta, but not in the name of the file.

https://www.matrixgames.com/game/comman ... operations

[thewood1]

The basic concept is if its a google or other filesshare service download, its beta. You can also easily check by looking at the My Games page for CMO on the matrix site.

[Nikel]

I am talking about the new ftp patch.

[thewood1]

OK. I see it now. I assume its beta if it says it here and on the my games.

[Scorpion86]

Thanks for pushing the Beta to the Steam release! It's much apreciated!