Friday Update, February 3, 2012

[FS~Phat]

Ive copied all Blacksix responses to our questions to the first post so they are all in one place.

Thanks for the excellent response B6!

[Jatta Raso]

well seems that MAYBE there will be modifications on existing AC and MAYBE will be further improvement on the FMs.

time to ask, what kind of a simulation is that??? most performance data IS ALL WRONG!!!

which btw renders one of the few AC useless (MkIIa), as for being the most similar to its real counterpart, is banned among the less faithful ones (the irony) for being ubber against them. and they don't get it....

seriously, for the first time i'm starting to loose faith in this guys; holding judgement for the patch arrival, not my breath neither much faith

[tintifaxl]

Multiplayer plagued by CTD's, single player plagued by AI and not working radios coms. Nothing said about fixing that and nothing on correcting the fm and dm.

Not impressed at all.

To me it looks like the new graphics engine is a pre-requisite to sell more copies of BoM in the russian market (with not so powerfull computers and strong interest in the scenario) and so all their ressources go there, while CoD's more pressing problems are put on hold.

[Insuber]

This quite vague update is still better than no update. So thank you. The improvement of fps is impressive, but for instance we still don't know the % of real optimization vs. the % of quality tradeoff.
As far as the CoD patch issue date, I humbly suggest the devs not to miss the game's release anniversary ...

[SG1_Lud]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Ive copied all Blacksix responses to our questions to the first post so they are all in one place.

Thanks for the excellent response B6!

Thank you!

[Osprey]

Not quite FS~Phat, you missed this one from klem. Thanks if you can get an answer

Originally Posted by BlackSix
11. Are you planning to make different octane fuels an option for the plane load out?
Not for Cliffs of Dover.

Originally Posted by klem

Does this mean there will be no 100 octane for BoB or that some aircraft will have it but they will not have an 87 octane option (like when you out the Rotol prop on the Spit Ia but could not have the DH)?.

I'm surprised nobody but klem picked up on this actually, and coupled with the other item

Originally Posted by Ploughman
Whilst there wont' be any more content for CloD you will still be looking to improve FMs won't you?
Yes, maybe

Perhaps we're lacking some clarity and I'd be delighted if B6 could provide that. Does this mean that the FM's in COD won't be fixed in the patch? But may be later? From this I would understand that the COD patch is for our graphics and crashes mainly, and that we will not get tweaked FM's nor 100 octane. HOWEVER this would come later with the BOM release? Please confirm B6 because I'm confused.

From my perspective the correct octane options and updated FM's/DM's for the aircraft in COD are a must, whether they come as a patch or as a part of BoM. If at all possible could you please confirm?

Thank you

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Not quite FS~Phat, you missed this one from klem. Thanks if you can get an answer

Originally Posted by BlackSix
11. Are you planning to make different octane fuels an option for the plane load out?
Not for Cliffs of Dover.




I'm surprised nobody but klem picked up on this actually, and coupled with the other item

Originally Posted by Ploughman
Whilst there wont' be any more content for CloD you will still be looking to improve FMs won't you?
Yes, maybe

Perhaps we're lacking some clarity and I'd be delighted if B6 could provide that. Does this mean that the FM's in COD won't be fixed in the patch? But may be later? From this I would understand that the COD patch is for our graphics and crashes mainly, and that we will not get tweaked FM's nor 100 octane. HOWEVER this would come later with the BOM release? Please confirm B6 because I'm confused.

From my perspective the correct octane options and updated FM's/DM's for the aircraft in COD are a must, whether they come as a patch or as a part of BoM. If at all possible could you please confirm?

Thank you

Sorry I was only posting questions at the front which received an answer.

[Osprey]

Understood. Do you think that B6 reads this far in? (This is the whole point klem previously made about getting rid of unrelated or pointless responses for update threads)

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Does this mean that the FM's in COD won't be fixed in the patch? But may be later? From this I would understand that the COD patch is for our graphics and crashes mainly, and that we will not get tweaked FM's nor 100 octane. HOWEVER this would come later with the BOM release?

From reading back over Luthier's posts since the last patch I believe the next patch will be much wider ranging than just the new improved graphics engine.

To recap, they are working on the FMs, AI, comms as well, and have already made more improvements to the sound engine - "The sound has also gotten much fuller and bigger and more varied. We have ambient sounds, much more “vocal” airframe, and other cool things. I really enjoy listening to the game as I fly and look around. "

The big answer to your question I think is that we can definitely expect to see these improvements before release of the sequel. However what exactly will be in the next patch and what will follow in subsequent patches is something we'll have to wait to see.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Not quite FS~Phat, you missed this one from klem.
From my perspective the correct octane options and updated FM's/DM's for the aircraft in COD are a must, whether they come as a patch or as a part of BoM. If at all possible could you please confirm?

About the fuel options I`m not sure, because the choice to select the type is a feature nonetheless and needs implementing.
With FM however is a different issue. It is said thet Battle of Moscow will be as :
1. a playable standalone game or
2. installable on COD game.

So if you install BoM on CloD, the british planes will be there. Judging from the IL2 days, the FM tweaks never focused on the last release, but all of them included up to date. This means that even if BoM comes out, the FM tweaks of CloD-only planes will be also introduced.

I guess that FM tweaks are nowehere near as hard as building a plane. So basing it on specs 1C has, it wouldn`t take more than few months. Why would it?

Who in the 1C team is responsible for the FM tweaks BTW?