Even I am going negative now.

[ElAurens]

So yesterday, two of my BlitzPig mates, Raven and HamishUK, and friend 1.JaVa Sharpe, decide to give the latest patch a try online for the first time.

Before we can even enter the "client" screen Sharpe has a loading error and CTD. He has been unable to fly CloD for a long time and can find no fix for his problems. We were hoping that the latest patch level would help him out, no joy there.

So, the three Pigs join the Syndicate full real sever without Sharpe. We work out our loadouts and spawn at Manston. As we are warming up Bf110s attack the field. This is about 20 to thirty seconds after we spawn. At this point all sound completely stops for all three of us. (We are the only players on the server). Hamish quits as there is no point flying without sound. Raven and I take off, make one circuit of the field and land. We then quit as there is no reason to keep going.

Except for offline sight seeing there really is no use even trying to fly CloD anymore, especially online.

It's a real pity too, as there is so much good lurking just under the surface, but if we cannot use the sim for what we like, what good is it?

Really, what good is being able to select your serial number, skin, and loadout if you cannot fly the sim with sound? Even the awful stock original sounds are better than none at all.

You guys know I'm a long time (since 2001) fan of the IL2 franchise. I dearly want to continue to be so. But right now how can I be?

Maybe by Christmas it will be working.

Please Luthier, will it be?