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Total Sims announced the release of a non-mandatory update to the MMO flight sim Warbirds III, labeled 08.28.02. The update, not required to play online, includes the following changes, from the Warbirds III website:

• NEW: Aircraft and cockpits: P-39D, P-39Q
  
• FIXED: Aircraft and cockpits: MC205, Mosquito IV, Mosquito VI, CV6 USS Enterprise
  
• FIXED: WinXP/2000 load times improved
  
• FIXED: All Shadows.
  
• FIXED: Fixed most of the 'flying roads' instances
  
• FIXED: All three flak and explosion sounds are used again
  
• FIXED: Game honors the no cockpit selection offline
  
• FIXED: Carrier takeoff and landing groundspeed/airspeed discrepancy
  
• FIXED: Tonnage on Target now resets after a .load is done in an arena
  
• FIXED: Drone(including wingmen)-launched paratroopers will now count towards field capture
  
• FIXED: Issue with the field data not being relaoded when you are in the spawnpoint selection area and you change the terrain
  
• FIXED: Bug where if a non-player-mission .off file (like the 1v1,2v2 air attack off files) were loaded and issued .fly
  command the settings in the off file (such as #wingmen,
  #enemies) were not being honored
  * FIXED: Drone Wingees as follows:
  
• SBD and JU87 (non-bombay-doored planes) should now drop bombs
  
• Salvo settings now honored
  * Gunners will not fire if player's plane is on ground
  
• Less likely to oscillate in formation
  
• Now possible to customize which planes can and can't have wingmen by a host setting
  

The upgrade is for Mac OS 9 only, as Total Sims is working on incompabilities with Mac OS X 10.2. Warbirds III is a massively-multiplayer online wargame with an emphasis on flight simulation. It takes place over Western Europe during World War II.

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