Welcome to a new Redux release, hot on the heels of the last one a couple of weeks ago. You're not dreaming, we're working hard to build up a regular tempo of releases as we head towards the festive season.
This release brings some much requested fixes and some smaller improvements as we continue to work on the larger pieces that we hope to launch before the year is out. We'll try to get to the Steam discussions too, but we're monitoring the forums and actively fixing things we find and can reproduce there. So if you want us to address things please send them there with as much detail as you can.
Without further ado then.
Features
- The blasted aircraft status icon has received some much needed love. I added the original as a debug feature to help us test the game and it clung on for nearly thirty years. Well no more. Now we have dials, customised to each view with bombardier and navigator versions. We're working on making it movable too.
- Another visual upgrade to the Books and Files - working towards a more authentic feel. More to come in the next release too.
note: expect more backgrounds in the next release too
Fixes
- Ball Turret Sight: Fixed, bullets now go where the sight points.
- P-47s and P-38s: Can now taxi and take off without precipitating a conflagration.
- Planning Map: No more crashing when exiting after adjusting the bombing height.
- Crew First Aid (1): Crash fixed when another crew member tried to route through a crew member receiving first aid.
- Crew First Aid (2): A fallen crew member no longer blocks the first aider.
- Timeskip: Wounded crew members only block timeskip when they go down.
- Squadron Commander Mode: Scrapping a bomber you had picked to fly (just why?), no longer crashes the game.
- Startup: Rare crash due to DLL mix-up fixed.
- Mission Lead: Destroyed bombers no longer lead the mission.
- Bomb Release: Bombers finish the release before breaking formation.
- Game Over: No more teeny-tiny text.
- Misc: crashes and bomb collision issues.
Known Issues
- There's a long-standing first start issue related to movie playback. Only happens on the very first ever launch. Working on a fix, but restarting the game will resolve it.
1 in a series of 1 - Mildly amusing comments from squadron commanders in their post-mission briefing notes
Impossible to write these words the day after the announcement of Patrick Stewart's passing without comment. RIP Patrick, you were without compare. Targeting 13th November for the next release. In the meantime, brave the deadly skies over Europe. 
