There are a ton of quiet people who come here every week to check.

A lot of us. Soon, I think.

Done.

S!

...and here's one, waiting more and more impatiently for The Patch. Even thought this is my first post here, I have been flying the original Il2 series from the day 1 it appeared and kept flying it for almost a decade - many of those years online.

CoD was SO eagerly waited for years, that it's hard to describe how it felt when it first came out. I never bought it... and to be honest, was sure that it wouldn't never succesfully gather ppl flying like the original one.

But couple of weeks ago, I heard about this "soon" (yep, two weeks) coming patch that would eventually make this sim worth it - so I bought this game via Steam - and immediately read about these new problems and that the release of The Patch was postponed.

I speak only for myself (and this is no ultimatum or anything)... I like flying CoD. It has tons of potential to become THE sim of the decade. Game works pretty well (for me) and I really enjoy flying online. It felt like in the old days (lack of pilots is alarming). Some of my squadmates are propably coming back too and we really have high expectations. Every game has it's lifespan, how much do we have afford to use it like this?

No intentions to piss on anyones cereals...just wanted to come out and give my 2 cents. Thanks for the dev's for this sim, it's a good one- we all hope it'll become a great one.

Hmm... Seems like the "detractors" are still undefeated....

YAY!....go detractors......detractors for teh win!

Anything new in CLOD beta patch land? This is starting to look like :

http://www.swotti.com/tmp/swotti/cac...g%20story1.jpg

I liked Never Ending Story! The only problem was, it just kept draging on and on and on .....

That just made my day :)

yet they are sending very rookie pilots recently ...

Yeah, I appreciate those moments - I really do! However, I just can't even share my joy with my wingmen, let alone ground stations. This complete lack of radio communication is THE thorn in the side for me. I mean, this rather trivial problem existed from the start and is still un-fixed and that is far beyond my efforts of patience and calmness.
I could look over most of the bugs quite easily, if that ONE problem would be taken care of.

As has been said many times, this game has a lot of potential and I fully concur with that. CoD is a shining star in terms of potential - however, you all know where we're stuck at (I'm pretty sure that the guy with the vision was/is Oleg, btw).
And the way the "dev team" handles this potential, blatantly throwing away most of it, makes me sad and angry. And angry and sad.
I'd bet on the patch arriving no earlier than 6-8 weeks before the release of the Addon. You know why...