Did a player review of CoD over at Gamespot...

[ICDP]

Originally Posted by mazex

Look here:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/il-2-...html?id=760873

Do you agree? Go there and give the game a boost in that case by voting for the real game that most of us can see looking through the bad fps and stuttering that for sure will get fixed (along with stuff like force feedback support etc).

So let me get this straight, you wrote a review and gave CoD 9.0 based on what it "could be in the future, IF the developer decides to fix it"? Being a bit pressumptious and to be frank a bit of a blinkered fanboy there.

Who in their right mind gives a score based on potential fixes that might not even see the light of day. CoD does have potential but potential is not a tangible measurable thing, it is definatetly not something you can use to artificially bump up the score for what is essentailly a bug ridden mess right now.

At most CoD should be getting around 50% for effort and no more, certainly not 90 based on what might be and what you want it to be.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by ICDP

So let me get this straight, you wrote a review and gave CoD 9.0 based on what it "could be in the future, IF the developer decides to fix it"? Being a bit pressumptious and to be frank a bit of a blinkered fanboy there.

Well, the intention is to tell the story of how we have gotten the other titles in this series for spoiled 18-year old brats that usually only buy block buster titles from studios with budgets that compete the major Hollywood movie productions... Maddox Games is not a development studio with 200+ persons working on a title like Call of Duty. I guess that their QA department that is larger than the whole MG team. It is tough, but we are that QA team in many cases, like with other small developers. As it is now this game has been pushed out to early, but like I write - just flying that Moth over the channel proves to me that this game is a 9.0 when they just fix the major bugs...

But that is naturally only my opinion, which you have the right to challenge

[chappy]

Originally Posted by mazex

Well, the intention is to tell the story of how we have gotten the other titles in this series for spoiled 18-year old brats that usually only buy block buster titles from studios with budgets that compete the major Hollywood movie productions... Maddox Games is not a development studio with 200+ persons working on a title like Call of Duty. I guess that their QA department that is larger than the whole MG team. It is tough, but we are that QA team in many cases, like with other small developers. As it is now this game has been pushed out to early, but like I write - just flying that Moth over the channel proves to me that this game is a 9.0 when they just fix the major bugs...

But that is naturally only my opinion, which you have the right to challenge

if we are the QA team, then they should definitely have done what DCS did and open beta it for more widespread testing. that is in effect what is happening this very minute except we bought it with the expectation of a realease ready sim.
what would u score it right now if it was to not receive any fixes or improvements? i personally would score it about a 6.5

[maxwellbest]

but like I write - just flying that Moth over the channel proves to me that this game is a 9.0 when they just fix the major bugs...

After posting earlier on the state of this sim, I went and fired up a single player mission, set friendlies to 4, enemies to 4, video to med. I, like you, just got a taste of what is under the hood with this sim. The sea looked sensational, the cockpit canopy frosted over as I flew through the light/dark puffy clouds (Brrrrrrr, its cold out there), couldnt hit jack with my Hurri (hmmmmmm, those internal sounds...need some work there) but thats my forgetting a lot of what I had learned in IL2. Yes. Its all true, there is a wealth of potential in there. Fingers crossed.