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Originally Posted by RCAF_FB_Orville
Why don't you wait till the first large scale patch before condemning it?
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they have already released some patches since it was 1e released, going by the gradual minor fixes included, this is going to take a very long time and there is no indication that the real main issues will ever be addressed satisfactorally (easy to join online servers for coop missions, dogfight and campaigns, a firm promise to remove the DRM if the game flops so people wont have wasted their money, free mission building, object making and campaign management tools so the comunity can take the ball and run with it to buid on what basic content there is now, etc..)
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Originally Posted by RCAF_FB_Orville
All the things you say about Multi-player are true, the campaign sucks as well.
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and what you are forgetting to mention, there are some further major issues with what should be the best core components of this game to, like takeoff distances for aircraft are 4x to long, placing doubt on their environmental physics modeling, odd damge models with aircraft striking the earth at full speed, static weather patters without terrain masking for AI (magic vision seeing through mountains and clouds) etc...
i think the red barron crowd whom have for a long time been waiting for a new replacement game, they keep hanging on to the glimpses of quality RoF shows and it must be frustrating for them to see the botched product they were landed with right now. for them i hope eventally RoF will be patched to fix it (err for free of course, rather than the pay as you go carrot dangeling they are using now)
for the rest of the flightsim community RoF as a "new product type" (perpetual console type addon sales), its beta status at release time, the fact the product wont play at all if RoF flops, major elements missing in the game, etc.. means that this is the worst possible type of new flightsim. If it succeeds it is bad for us because it sets a new lower standard for all future products, and if it fails it is bad for us to because it will be used as a reason for other investors not to enter the market in the future and make new products. the only glimmer of hope is that RoF could rapidly address the major issues with decent free patches and open up the game to community input, which i seriously doubt will ever happen before they run out of money and have to close their doors, at which point you will be left with nothing, zip, de nada, rien ! personally ifyou are going to do an act of charity i prefer to give my 50$ to a homeless out of work person so he can buy himself some food for a couple of days.