Friday Update, Q&A - December 23, 2011

[furbs]

Cheers Luthier! after that Q and A...

You can stick BOM where the sun dont shine.

[Helrza]

Not to be negative or anything... but im slowly getting the feeling that the next patch will actually be the sequal. nm, ill put her away until then damn shame that, but at least when it does come ill have my new build waiting to rip it apart

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

Cheers Luthier! after that Q and A...

You can stick BOM where the sun dont shine.

And some folks here wonder why Luthier does not post here more often.. Jezz

[furbs]

ACE ive supported IL2 all through from the start, brought every sim Oleg made.

Oleg made good on his word for IL2.

Luthier and his team are taking the ****

and ACE no offence mate but i dont give a feck what you say on this.

[addman]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

And some folks here wonder why Luthier does not post here more often.. Jezz

Hey luthier! one pre-order for BoM right here ^

[Doo]

From this and the last Q&A, regretfully, I have lost all faith in this sim and it's makers.

It will remain a lethally flawed product.

Very sad.

[F19_Klunk]

Originally Posted by 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.

Very well put and pretty much the same as I feel. To work on a "half broken" title to make it work properly... even 7 months after release, is the only decent thing that can be done to keep customer and reputation.
I too enjoy clod from time to time now on a very expensive rig (it ran like crap on my old, with lowest gfx setting looking like something from late 1990s), online only with crashes every 40 minutes. It bugs me that it feels so "unfinished" (antialiasing problem for example) when there is so much working for it... the sensation of flying is fantastic.. you can really feel the weight of the planes in contrast to old il2 series. It bugs me because I can see how great this title COULD be.

We will just have to see, Clod could have a contender for beeing THE WWII game in upcoming World of Planes.... they HAVE to succeed with Clod imo... or loose the upperhand that I feel that they still have.

Great to hear from Luthier that the team will continue to work with the issues and that the strategy for upcoming sequels will be the sams as with the "old" IL2 series.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

What you describe is AirQuake with bombing.

I'd hardly call it AirQuake. Once you realize that the current situation of the game, in the MP side of things, doesn't allow for massive bomber formations or realistic flight times to make any sort of "historical" scenario, then you'd also realize why we have the maps are setup like they are atm.

I don't get your mentality. If you don't like the current MP offerings, then by all means, please do make your own. But every where I look you constantly call what we do as airquake, and quite frankly, it's getting old.

Maybe spend 100's of hours testing and making different missions and you'll probably easily realize why we HAVE to do some of the things we do.

[Thr0tt]

lol, ok this has convinced me to uninstall this pos game - Will check back in a few months but what a shame this game series died like this.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

ACE ive supported IL2 all through from the start, brought every sim Oleg made.

Oleg made good on his word for IL2.

Luthier and his team are taking the ****

and ACE no offence mate but i dont give a feck what you say on this.

If your not happy, that is fine!

And it is fine for you to say your not happy!

But to tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine?

Don't you think that is a little childish?