Friday Update, Q&A - December 23, 2011

[Skiiwa]

Really hate that the complainers got to them. As Ive said, I will continue to buy this series. Cant wait till I get my 109-g10 and my p-38! (Yes I realize the end of the world will be here before I get those planes. One must have dreams!)

I love this thread. It appears to be a competition to see who can put the most negative spin possible on the latest update from people who are constantly complaining about the lack of updates.

[Pudfark]

Originally Posted by IamNotDavid

I love this thread. It appears to be a competition to see who can put the most negative spin possible on the latest update from people who are constantly complaining about the lack of updates.

Not really an update to me...more of a dynamic "stall"..imho...

Originally Posted by Pudfark

Not really an update to me...more of a dynamic "stall"..imho...

I know. Your response is one of my favorites.

[41Sqn_Banks]

Originally Posted by katdogfizzow

Perhaps there are scripts and workarounds that fix the gametype. I'm not sure. It seems like an easy fix?

Workaround/Script for co-op: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28559

[AnttiK]

I'm at loss... So to get currently very much incomplete product completed we have to buy the sequel? I'm not talking about which planes and which maps we get, I'm talking about broken features. I thought we'd get the game patched to a standard gold level as per usual for the price we paid for? Did I miss something?

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Urufu_Shinjiro

Insuber, I don't understand where you, and others, have gotten the impression that there will not be any patches to CloD until the sequel, where did you read that? You must have a better monitor on your PC than I do because I cannot see these hidden words you have apparently seen. The last thing Black Six said is that the patch may have a beta before the end of the year, the release patch will not likely be before the end of the year, and that info was from this frickin week. Relax folks, and learn reading comprehension, if someone says possible beta before December 31st. but not the final patch, that DOES NOT mean there will never ever be a patch as long as we all shall live, I have never seen a blacker bunch of pessimists and doom-sayers in all my days, how you have managed to make it through another day without hanging yourselves in a closet I'll never know....

Thank you for singleing me out as pessimist, which I'm not; not really a nice thing. Re-read better my previous posts Urufu and apologize, ideally falling on your knees and spreading ashes on your head .
And actually it's only that I am the ghost writer of Tree_UK ... .

[BigC208]

It's all good. The game will be patched up to where it's playable for everyone, not just those with top of the line computers. Those that don't want BoM can leave it on the store shelves and still enjoy CloD.

Luthier is praising himself for still working on the game after 7 months. I see that a bit different. As far as I'm concerned we're still in the 7th month of a paid for Beta. I'll regard it the release version when the next patch delivers on the performance increases and bug fix promises. I don't expect a multimillion dollar sim experience for $50. What I do expect is a finished product at some point. If Clod is not playable for all (min box spec) before BoM is released I'll wait with buying untill the reviews are out.

For me personally the sim in it's current state is enjoyable. Even with the messed up comms, the now and then crashes, the gui that sucks, the trees I can fly thru without collision, etc etc. When I get ticked off with some of the things I miss I'll just go play RoF or DCS for a bit. I keep coming back to CloD because there is simply no other WWII combat sim out there that's as immersive and detailed as CloD. When (not if) Luthier's team fixes what needs to be fixed this series will keep us entertained for the next 10 years.

[slm]

Originally Posted by luthier

We are trying to pull off a very difficult balancing act with developing a new game and supporting an old one at the same time. Pretty much no one does that. Most large developers simply release games, support them for a month at the most, and then switch to new paid content regardless of the state of the game. We are however trying not only to patch up major issues, we're working on improving things that generally work - and we're doing that for free seven months after release. We are doing that by trying to parallel tasks as much as possible and improving CoD while developing a sequel.

That is however simply not possible with some features. In some cases that's a question of limited resources. We cannot make a new flyable for CoD because that means one less flyable for the sequel. With other tasks it's simply a matter of time

One way of saving resources might be just dropping support of 32-bit operating systems. When I was using CoD in WinXP I had quite a few serious problems, like the game freezing in multiplayer. Most of those seem to be gone now. Probably because 64-bit Windows7 allows using more memory.

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by AnttiK

I'm at loss... So to get currently very much incomplete product completed we have to buy the sequel? I'm not talking about which planes and which maps we get, I'm talking about broken features. I thought we'd get the game patched to a standard gold level as per usual for the price we paid for? Did I miss something?

Really... with RoF we need to buy planes...

In DCS we need to pay for compatibility patches...

You guys need to calm down and look to the good side: we'll have more scenarios and planesets in any nem sequel, and we will upgrade the game engine with all previous scenarios and planesets with merged install, just like any IL-2 title...

What's so bad about that? I always liked IL-2 bussiness style.