xvii-Dietrich Posted July 30, 2021 Posted July 30, 2021 Recently we've had crashes in the Storm of War statistics, which we traced back to an unannounced name-change of Ford airfield on the Normandy Map. It seems that the airfield name was altered in the DCS 2.7.4.9632 Open Beta - 21.07.2021 patch from "Ford_AF" to "Ford AB". What is puzzling is why this is the only airfield on the entire map which has AF, or now AB, after the name at all? All the others have no suffices. For example, Tangmere, Barville, Carpiquet, etc. are all just the names. . 1
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted July 30, 2021 ED Team Posted July 30, 2021 I will try and get a reply from the team on this. thanks 1 Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
71st_AH Rob Posted July 30, 2021 Posted July 30, 2021 I think technically it should be called RNAS Ford/RAF Ford/HMS Peregrine/RAF Ford depending on the year. HMS Peregrine would most suit our timeline for the latter half of 1944 although I suspect that the RAF still referred to it as RAF Ford when they posted units to it. AF is a USAAF term and AB is a USAF term, although the USAAF used codes to refer to airfields in Europe during WWII and Ford would be AAF-362. 1
xvii-Dietrich Posted July 30, 2021 Author Posted July 30, 2021 2 hours ago, 71st_AH Rob said: I think technically it should be called RNAS Ford/RAF Ford/HMS Peregrine/RAF Ford depending on the year. HMS Peregrine would most suit our timeline for the latter half of 1944 although I suspect that the RAF still referred to it as RAF Ford when they posted units to it. AF is a USAAF term and AB is a USAF term, although the USAAF used codes to refer to airfields in Europe during WWII and Ford would be AAF-362. I understand if they want to leave the RNAS or RAF or whatever tags off. I mean, you could have hypothetical scenarios where these are not UK airfields, right? The others are all fine (in my opinion). It was just Ford that seemed to be the odd one out, and which had been inexplicably changed in the recent patch. Regarding the codes: these strike me as being similar to the ALG codes for the airstrips in France (e.g. Carpiquet = ALG-B-17). Possibly less important, but mMaybe the AAF-codes could be handled in the same way as those, and displayed on the resources overlay window?
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