Kendo said:

Excellent post. A pity more people don't have the balls.

You know one of the reasons I come here is that I feel envigorated due to the fact that it's easy to feel happy when I'm surrounded by misserable people wallowing in their self pitty.

It actually makes my life look really peachy keen and rosey!

The news and/or patch will either arive when it's ready or it won't. Need to deal with that guys! Keep up the good work Devs!

As a side note I've had to cut my goatee into a nasty looking mustache to go to a swinging 70's Party to night.

Catch you all on the filp side fella's!

:)

You must of missed the ROF turmoil when it was also released "unfinished" albeit not as "unfinished" as COD was. Jason bought into ROF after the game engine was finished and now has a very good idea what the game engine can accomplish, so he can answer questions and provide updates with confidence. At the moment Luthier doesn't have that luxury, the much more complex COD game engine still requires alot of work. Even if Jason was able to buy COD months ago, it would not have been possible for him to confidently say what the future would hold for the sim, nevermind meaningful updates. That said the future of COD and the new IL-2 series will be told soon enough, they are running out of time.

I was involved in the Beta of RoF Chivas
 

I do remember Chivas, none of us could believe it when they said the Beta was over and they were releasing it, it was a bomb site full of bugs. I think they`ll fix this game at some point, but they need a better public face which costs nothing.

Really? How do you know it's MUCH more complex than the ROF engine?

I have no problem with your post and relaxed approach, that's good for you :) But this....

...is just total balls mate.

I think it's because 777 have stated the limitations of their engine. They (apparently) have limitations with the top speeds and achievable heights of modelling in the atmosphere. A ROF flying mate told me, so don't shoot the messenger. It could be rubbish though, I'm interested to hear the truth though myself.

Also, RoF has a nasty fundamental flaw in how it models cross-winds effects. (in short, cross wind rolls the aircraft). Jason acknowledged it, and said there's nothing they can do to fix it, short of a whole rewrite.

Big flaw indeed for what is otherwise an excellent flight sim.

that's already been answered by Black6 in this thread

hopefully that means it will be this WE, but maybe it will be later

if you try and remember the last post luthier made, where he said he would answer some questions, he stated that they had reached an important milestone in development (presumably the new stable gfx engine which is largely bug free and performs well, as well as their progress of work in the BoM sequel) and were now submitting their next schedule for work/release-dates to the bean counters, and luthier indicated that if accepted he intended to put one last push into the big CoD patch with the main fixes (eg, even hm putting that time and effort into CoD is subject to their approval !)

with luthier being swamped with a deluge of questions ( AND a large amount of abuse, which would make him less cooperative rather then more),and him being subject to some restrictions on what he can say regarding further/future development, and him not yet knowing if his new subjected timelines are going to be accepted (which includes him asking for time to spend on the CoD patch) i am not surprised he didnt linger. hopefully luthier will soon have a better idea what amount of time he can spend on CoD fixes (and this will allow him to determine what he can include), and i suspect that with the recent development milestone being reached we might also get the "big announcement" soon (the one that was delayed a couple of months ago, and which many here expected were related to the MMO)

your mind, and many of the disgruntled "fans" here works in overdrive and is on a perpetual very short fuse, in contrast the progress and evolution of luthiers team has been almost in slow motion because of their small team and the almost overwhelming task they had in fixing/rewriting the game engine while simultaneously working on BoM in the last year (the first 6 months post CoD release were wasting in trying to fix it)

if that rate of progress is to slow for some peoples frayed nerves, then dont keep watching the paint dry, come back every 3 or 4 months to see what further progress has been made and if new patches are out. if you do have some interest in having as comprehensive and thorough a patch for CoD as possible, then join the technical discussions in threads that are trying to identify and quantify the existing bugs. just bitching at everything and making irrational "demands" doesnt serve any purpose and compounds the problems we already have

Isn't he talking about BoM, the game announced......


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