Is COD still a flight simulator ?

U505 · #1 02-25-2012, 10:33 AM

After watching the latest patches I wonder in which way COD is evolving. My sensation is that the game will end up as a collector of several games at once, i.e a plane game and a tank game or what so...

Verhängnis · #2 02-25-2012, 10:46 AM

It is going to be the one thing that wargaming.net isn't creating! A World of War simulator!

Honestly though I don't see what it matters when the priorities of coders, modellers and the entire development team is focused on the Flight Simulation aspect. The way I see it is that right now they are focusing on alot of coding problems and it appears that drivable vehicles had always been coded in since the beginning but just not implemented, the ground vehicles controls' listed being a fine example. The vehicles were already finished aswell, and possibly so were the interiors, it would not make sense to go and find resources on a vehicle and not get the interior while you were there.

Chancing a guess; even if the coders were needed, then possibly code was just adapted from the aircraft code, to work with the ground objects, obviously some new things were done, but they musn't have taken overly long. The ability to drive vehicles is a nice extra and the movie makers and mission designers are going to love it, obviously it won't draw the FPS crowd in to buy the sim, and that is not the point of it. As it is always said in the modding crowd for 1946; it adds a new dimension to the sim. Besides, if not now, it would have come at a later date anyway either from 1C or third party modders, as it has for 1946.

Although I don't know why, I am still waiting for my Su-26... But still looking forward to it's anticipated arrival! So to answer your question:

Yes. But now, it's even more immersive and simulating of a simulated war, and nothing great like this has really been done before.

Feathered_IV · #3 02-25-2012, 10:57 AM

I won't be surprised if things like clickable cockpits and whatnot get dropped for future aircraft. The dumbed down vehicles will create a whole new subset of compaints and expectations for improvement. This will certainly have a follow on effect for the aircraft side of the sim.

JG52Krupi · #4 02-25-2012, 10:59 AM

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I won't be surprised if things like clickable cockpits and whatnot get dropped for future aircraft. The dumbed down vehicles will create a whole new subset of compaints and expectations for improvement. This will certainly have a follow on effect for the aircraft side of the sim.

LOL what mindless drivel...

Feathered_IV · #5 02-25-2012, 11:27 AM

Sutts · #6 02-25-2012, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

LOL what mindless drivel...

+1
That's all we ever get from him.

5./JG27.Farber · #7 02-25-2012, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sutts

+1
That's all we ever get from him.

+1

Feathered_IV - forever the bringer of doom and gloom, lighten up!

The tanks are not a bad thing. It will definatley improve the ground objects behave. For example if two objects in 1946 fb touched, they exploded. So this is definatly a step up.

Besides it might be nice to have a "for fun" tank war once in a while.

ACE-OF-ACES · #8 02-25-2012, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Sutts

+1
That's all we ever get from him.

+1

ATAG_MajorBorris · #9 02-25-2012, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

LOL what mindless drivel...

I was going to say that

ATAG_MajorBorris · #10 02-25-2012, 04:22 PM

Beowolf makes a good point that the added content will realy only be as good as we make it.