Friday 2010-06-17 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I have to laugh.

ROF doesn't even get crashes modeled correctly, in the least.

And now with neoqb being forced out in favor of takeover by 777 Studios, I believe that ROF is in it's last days.

I have to laugh at your spiteful hate campaign against ROF, El. Just to make it clear, ROF is a Flight Simulator, maybe you are looking for another title. 'Rise of the Crash Test Dummies', perhaps? Show us your vast library of photographs with WWI aircraft buried nose first 4ft in the ground please? Most photographs you will find they are a crumpled heap, some more disintegration is in evidence.

This of course is a real 'deal breaker' in a combat sim, as we all immediately switch to an external view to watch our foe crash when in the middle of a furball don't we? Does wonders for SA. There are actually some very impressive ROF crashes if one bothers to look for them on youtube, not saying they are perfect as they should be, but its a very minor, tertiary and inconsequential 'gripe', if you can even call it that. We don't see planes disintegrate into a million pieces. Lawks, the sim is doomed.

As to the comments about diving full speed from 4000 metres, err the plane will disintegrate well before that when exceeding its Vne, as in real life........so a wee bit irrelevant.

El has been saying that 'Rise of Flight' is 'in its last days' since roughly, lets say......3 days into its release? 1 year on it is unrecognisable from its earlier (lets face it Beta) state and vastly improved. I would take what he says with a pinch of salt, as he actually knows very little about WWI aircraft (not that I'm a world authority myself mind, still learning), as evidenced by his slightly less than illuminating contributions over on SimHq.

Yes, Oleg criticised elements of the DM on initial release (as did I in the same thread, before Oleg did. He also praised its simulation of physics and was overall positive about it. It is much better a little over a year on.

El, you don't like ROF, its not for you. Ok, we get it and you are of course entitled to your opinion. Fine and dandy, but I don't understand what you 'get' from constantly and spitefully bashing it? Call yourself a flight sim fan? Yeah, right......try to bury the only WWI sim there is likely to be for some time.

There are sims I don't like, but I don't go around bashing them constantly, what purpose would it serve? Why would I want to do that? Maybe El should ask himself that same question. If he says 'I care about standards' I will fall of my chair laughing, because his constructive criticism of ROF was negligible if not non existent.

Get over it El, nothing personal but it is beyond me why you do this. ROF is in my opinion now an excellent (not perfect) sim.....I would recommend it to anyone interested in WWI aviation. The 'feel' of flight surpasses anything out there by a country mile. Still a ways to go......(2 seaters coming up and revamped career mode amongst other things).

Had some great fun playing it and yes still very much looking forward to SOW, room for both in the world.....they are not in competition.

Oh and I fly as 'Biggles07' if anyone wants to shoot me down in flames online, I wont take it personally.

Peace be with you all.