IL-2 Korea Career Service Record

[VISHNU]

I'm not entirely sure if you've seen this before....please ignore if you have. 

This error is only happening to one of my careers.   All the others are fine.

 

[hjbb1975]

Hi, at some point in career mode, you must have had a couple of missions that failed, which is why it says that two weren't logged. I'm getting the same message in one of the career modes—there were two missions that the crew on duty fought in, but they failed.

[Arrow_1974]

Hi @VISHNU,

no need to apologize, it's a fair question, and the message is about the game, not your installation.

The game build of 29 September had a bug: for every mission flown on it, the game saved the mission itself, the awards and the pilots' totals, but threw away the per-sortie flight records. The hotfix of 2 October fixed it. That's why only one career is affected: it's the one you played during those days.

Service Record can put those sorties back by itself (from version 2.2.0 on). It rebuilds them from the mission debrief the game did keep, after making a backup of the career file. Please try this:

1. Update to the latest version (2.7.0). You can check your version on the start page of the Service Record, next to the title. Update from the Update page in the Career Helper, or download it from the link in the first post.
2. Close IL-2 completely. While the game is running, the career file is locked and the repair can't write to it.
3. Open Service Record and open that career again.

If the message is gone, the two sorties have been restored. If it's still there, those two missions don't have the debrief data needed to rebuild them, for example because they were ended early. In that case they can't be restored, but nothing else in the career is affected: your awards, promotions, totals and all other missions are complete and correct.

Edited October 17 by Arrow_1974

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.7.0 — the Operations Room

Gentlemen,

2.7.0 gives the Service Record a second face. The paper record stays
exactly as it was; next to it there is now the Operations Room, a dark
layout that puts everything you open the record for on one screen.

NEW: THE OPERATIONS ROOM

Choose "Operations Room" under "Layout" in the bar at the top. The change
is immediate, and Service Record opens in the layout you chose last time.
Switch back to "Classic" whenever you like.

The first screen, without a click:

- The pilot: photograph, rank, name, squadron emblem and status, the
  ribbon rack, birth date, health, efficiency and the three
  characteristics, with sorties, flying hours, air victories, ground
  targets and awards in large figures.
- The latest mission: type, date, result, aircraft, loadout and the
  targets hit, beside a small map with the briefed route, the target,
  the kills, the track you actually flew, losses and the front line.
- The flight: everyone who flew that mission, with their aircraft, time
  and result.
- The last five sorties, and the latest events of the career: decorations,
  promotions, wounds, aircraft lost, pilots killed or missing.
- What comes next: the next promotion and the two awards you are closest
  to, with progress bars.
- The squadron: pilots active, in reserve, wounded and lost; aircraft
  serviceable, in repair, in reserve and written off; fuel, ordnance and
  equipment.

Everything on it opens something:

- A mission opens its combat report; the small map opens the operations
  map with that sortie drawn bold.
- A pilot opens their details; a medal, rank or the squadron emblem opens
  its description, a decoration with its citation and certificate.
- The ribbon rack opens the tunic.
- Sorties and flying hours open the flight record.
- The pilot counts filter the squadron table to those pilots ("Showing:
  Lost ×" clears it).
- The document buttons along the top open the biography, flight record,
  personnel file, combat report, airframe record, squadron portrait, war
  diary and Pilot's Notes, as before.

Below it, everything else the record holds sits in six folders, one open
at a time: Missions & map, Combat, Awards, Squadron, Aircraft & supply,
and Service log. Click the open folder's tab again to close it. Service
Record remembers which one you had open.

In the Operations Room the start page, the operations map, the pop-up
windows and the bars of the document pages are dark too. The documents
themselves - forms, diary, files, certificates - stay on paper.

The Classic layout is unchanged.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.7.0 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.7.0.exe
           SHA-256  e42c03f2221c0fbbf23bb6227fb7a0b438c53eb58cb45cf4742405c84aa0dff9

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.7.0.zip
           SHA-256  b8f8e32dbb7b8cce677af01a57817ef8b8712be227b474da29b1ae21281d2bf1

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.
 

Edited October 18 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[hjbb1975]

hi, tried to update but got this message 

[Arrow_1974]

@hjbb1975

Hi Héctor,

thank you for the screenshot, and sorry: that one is my fault, not your installation's. The installer is fine and properly signed. The bug is in the updater of 2.6.1: before installing, it checks that the new installer was signed by the same publisher as the program you're running, and in 2.6.1 it looks for "the program you're running" in the wrong place (a python.exe that doesn't exist). So it refuses every update.

Please update by hand this once:

1. Close the Career Helper and Service Record.
2. Download the installer from the release page: https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/latest (IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v….exe)
3. Run it. It installs over your current version and keeps your settings and photos.

The next version fixes the updater, so from then on updating from the Career Helper works again.

Best regards, Alex

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.7.1 — updater fix, dark Career Helper

Gentlemen,

IMPORTANT FOR 2.6.1 AND 2.7.0: PLEASE UPDATE BY HAND ONCE

The updater in 2.6.1 and 2.7.0 has a bug: it refuses every update with
"The installer does not have a valid Authenticode signature ...
python.exe was not found". The installer is fine and properly signed;
the updater looked for its own program file in the wrong place.

If you are on 2.6.1 or 2.7.0 (the version is shown next to the title on
the start page of Service Record), please install 2.7.1 by hand:

1. Close the Career Helper and Service Record.
2. Download the installer from the link below.
3. Run it. It installs over your current version and keeps your
   settings and photos.

From 2.7.1 on, the Update page in the Career Helper works again.

CAREER HELPER IN THE OPERATIONS ROOM

- When Service Record is set to the Operations Room layout, the Career
  Helper opens in the same dark look, title bar included. In the Classic
  layout it stays as it was. It follows the setting when it starts.

THE "MISSING FLIGHT RECORDS" MESSAGE

- The message for careers flown on the game build of 29 September now
  says what happened and what to do. That build saved those missions
  without their flight records; the game update of 2 October fixed it.
  Service Record restores the records from the mission debriefings by
  itself: close IL-2 and open the career again. If the message stays,
  those missions have no debriefing to restore them from, and nothing
  else in the career is affected.

OTHER CHANGES

- The pilot status stamps in the squadron table have been redrawn.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.7.1 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.7.1.exe
           SHA-256  3ebb88a2d1128dc2c908c0aff08180a69ec8ccdbade1edc3665f2132f91e3fad

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.7.1.zip
           SHA-256  5882d68d711bc2233b29068ea8da76301892a162cee426c51d8f2c4b0d63359f

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
From 2.7.1 on, existing installations can update from the Update page in
Career Helper.
 

Edited October 19 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.7.2 — mess dress, new promotion thresholds

Gentlemen,

2.7.2 dresses Air Force pilots for the evening, re-sets the promotion and
unit citation thresholds, and repairs the "stock promotions" option of
the awards mod.

NEW: USAF MESS DRESS

Click the ribbon rack to open the tunic. Air Force pilots now have a third
dress beside service and full dress: the mess jacket, the formal evening
uniform.

- Miniature medals over the left breast, each with the pilot's own oak
  leaf clusters, V and service stars.
- Four to a row and no more than four rows. With more than sixteen, the
  rows take a fifth medal from the bottom up, slightly overlapping.
- The rank in gold braid on the sleeves, for every rank up to Major
  General.
- The Medal of Honor at the neck, under the bow tie.
- No ribbons, unit citations or badges, as with the real uniform.

AWARDS MOD: PROMOTIONS AND UNIT CITATIONS

Since Service Record takes the napalm phantom kills back out of the
career, the career points (PCP) that promotions need grow far more
slowly, and the old thresholds were set too high for the honest figure.
An AI pilot earns only one to one and a half points a sortie: after 158
missions my own squadron had one Captain and nobody above him.

- Promotions now need 55 / 120 / 200 / 350 / 550 / 850 / 1250 PCP (was
  55 / 150 / 250 / 400 / 650 / 1000 / 1500). A good AI pilot now reaches
  Captain around his 90th sortie and Major around his 150th. The step to
  Major General needs 350 career days (was 300).
- Distinguished Unit Citation and Navy Presidential Unit Citation: the
  surface-target route now needs 1300 / 3000 / 6000 / 10000 squadron kills
  (was 3000 / 8000 / 14000 / 21000). Those numbers had been measured on a
  month that still counted the napalm phantom kills. The air-victory route
  is unchanged.
- The change applies from your next mission. Ranks and citations already
  held stay as they are.

AWARDS MOD: "STOCK PROMOTIONS" REPAIRED

If you chose "stock promotions" when installing the awards mod, the
installer had been giving you an outdated awards file for several
versions: without the napalm guard, still awarding the Bronze Star with V
device, and with the old Distinguished Flying Cross chain. 2.7.2 installs
the current file. Only the promotion rules differ from the standard
option now, as intended.

OPERATIONS ROOM

- Active, killed-in-action and reserve stamps redrawn for the dark
  squadron table.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.7.2 --> outdated, newer version  avilable

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.7.2.exe
           SHA-256  bf36364e71f489aa475b19e96af480562e673dfb2ab571fe0bbdf0f64f488947

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.7.2.zip
           SHA-256  f0b292ca99397ffe0b76531864948d8f2b8b878eb58032fb5ca88dbcfb5056a5

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.
If you are still on 2.6.1 or 2.7.0, please install by hand once: their
updater cannot update itself.
 

Edited Wednesday at 12:38 AM by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.7.3 — corrections while you fly


Gentlemen,

2.7.3 corrects your career while you play, starts and stops together with
the game if you like, and puts the finishing touches on the Air Force mess
dress and the certificates.

NEW: CORRECTIONS WHILE YOU FLY

Since the game build of 29 September, napalm on airfields books the same
destroyed buildings again and again, and the game pays career points
(PCP) for every one of those phantom kills. Service Record has been taking
them back out, but only when you opened your career - by then the game had
sometimes already promoted a pilot on the inflated figure at the next day
change.

While Service Record is open, it now watches your career and corrects it
seconds after each debriefing, before the next day change. Tested in two
napalm sessions: in one the game counted 442 points, 426 of them phantom,
and the 16 real ones were all that reached the career. No promotion is
granted on phantom kills any more.

This only works while Service Record is running. The easiest way to make
sure it is: let it start and stop with the game.

NEW: STARTING AND STOPPING WITH THE GAME

Two switches for game launchers:

    --companion          starts Service Record quietly in the tray,
                         without opening the browser
    --quit --companion   closes it again when the game has ended, after
                         any correction in progress has finished

If you open Service Record yourself, it stays open when the game ends.

With Game Companion by izolini @joker_BR
(https://github.com/izolini/GameCompanion), which starts and stops tools
such as TrackIR, CrewChief or Joystick Gremlin with a game, register it as
one more utility:

    Name              IL-2 Korea Service Record
    Executable Path   your installation folder\IL2_Korea_Service_Record.exe
    Start Arguments   --companion
    Post-launch wait  0
    Instant, Delay Start, Run as Administrator, Auto-restart: unchecked
    Stop Method       Command, with the arguments --quit --companion

Then tick it in both the launch and the stop sequence of your IL-2 Korea
card. Please use Command, not Kill: Kill could stop Service Record in the
middle of writing to your career.

Without Game Companion, a desktop shortcut to
IL2_Korea_Service_Record.exe --companion does the same before you start
the game.

USAF MESS DRESS

- The miniature medals sit on the left lapel, where the Air Force wears
  them with the mess jacket, a little larger than before.
- Their ribbons are shaded like hanging cloth and they cast a shadow, so
  they sit in the photograph instead of on it.
- A new Medal of Honor at the neck.

CERTIFICATES

- A certificate opened on its own page now lies on a green leather desk
  blotter, in both layouts. It is scaled to fit whatever its shape. In
  print and in the personnel file nothing changes.

FIXES

- "Flight records missing" no longer appears for an emergency scramble
  that was never flown before the day changed.
- Starting Service Record a second time no longer wipes the log of the
  copy already running.


DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.7.3

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.7.3.exe
           SHA-256  43fd120327c1b1121e4a3906209c0919d6bb465366e7410e18ea27d4d2f78ea5

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.7.3.zip
           SHA-256  43c89fcb17203af1da18ce25417b45932c06d0b8d4b6cae639049926df4289e6

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.
If you are still on 2.6.1 or 2.7.0, please install by hand once: their
updater cannot update itself.

Edited Wednesday at 12:41 AM by Arrow_1974

[Xavier69]

I can only say, amazing Mod, well done. Something like this should have been implented in the game at the beginning. 

[Patricks]

It's been 3 days, no new version? 🤣

[Arrow_1974]

@Patricks

Quote

It's been 3 days, no new version?

I am running out of ideas...So please write me, if you have anything you want to be implemented...

[VISHNU]

@Arrow_1974  Hey Arrow, I was just wondering if it's at all possible to make the combat mission report just a teeny bit larger.   I'm 57 years old, and I'm having a tough time reading it.    I use VR, and I have to search for my readers to see it.    If it's not possible, I understand.

 

***EDIT***   Just an idea, is there anyway possible on the main screen if you click on any of the destroyed targets if it could bring up a picture of what you destroyed?  ie:  you bomb a bofors, but want to see what it looks like?   Perhaps drawing from the museum of the  game itself?   It may be more complicated, but I think it would be cool, because there are soooo many different targets in this game.

Edited Saturday at 11:52 PM by VISHNU