+ 1 million

It's a shame that the most important air battle of history (IMHO) has been reproduced on this simulation the way it is... I fell completely cheated! Damn this thing had a huge potential... :shock:

Thanks for the Christmas present Black 6.

Have a good one! :razz:

glad i got a refund :grin:

+1 Thor. He probably refers to another forum, or maybe another game :)

I don't expect much from 1C, since the CoD release and Oleg left the sinking boat, but everyone needs to face facts imo: Luthier or anyone else can't develop much nor fix the game without money, and patching won't make money.

If the sequel is good (and it will need to be because there won't be many preorders, this whatever CoD receives in term of patches, i guarantee), then patching CoD via the sequel is a non issue. If sequel is not good enough, serie is dead, and Luthier is probably very much aware of this, as all of us, happy or upset customers, are, so switching every effort to make the sequel good is not the worst option imho.

This said, i won't preorder sequel, and won't buy it until it works as well as IL2 does, so make it good this time if you want my money :cool:

The way I am reading things - and I admit that the following contains pure speculation on my part - I am beginning to believe that Maddox Games consider CloD a failed effort and not worth the hassle to fix it. Rewriting the engine (FM, sound, GUI ... anything left that'll not be changed?) tells me that the current engine is not salvagable. IMO the new management 1C got when it merged with Softklub last year is another factor in this (read: money grabbers).

If BoM is indeed all that Ilya wanted for CloD then that would be nice, but from my PoV - and I have been an ardent fan of the Il-2 series and I have done little bits and things for almost each version of the game, at least until Oleg departed - that product will have to be just as big a hit as the original Il-2 was. It needs to be thematically sound, needs to have all the relevant objects and aircraft, it will need a much less complicated and nerve-wracking GUI, it will need a campaign system that is worth the title ... In short it will need to contain everything that CloD is missing right now. That's a tall order, especially since Maddox Games was never particularly good at developing gameplay factors or not wasting effort on pointless objects/aircraft. :|

You still here?

The Q & A make no sense to me........it reads like a suicide note.




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why wouldnt i be??

I'm not that negative Alpha. I don't see more bad news than before, rather some good news about FM, GUI and mergeability of BoM and CoD. The only worrying issue is the patch for CoD, which imo is not in sight yet.