Reviewing Luthier's roadmap

[Bobb4]

When an obvious fanboi, and believe me I was one stops playing a game they have spent years dreaming about playing, that is constructive critisim at it's best.
I fly IL2 everyday, if I am not flying IL2 I am flying RoF. I am not flying Clod and have not flown it since two days after installing the last patch.
If I as an avid flightsimmer feel let down by the lack of sound in multiplayer (and please the morons who say but they are working on it need to ask themselves one simple question, how the hell could such a glaring error have escaped even the poorest of quality control.) For that matter how the hell did this game even get the green light from Ubisoft in the first place?
To say i am bitterly disappointed in the game would be an understatement.
The fact that I come back to the forum every now and again is in the hope that Liuthers road map actually is going somewhere.
You read thread after thread, all complaints, whines and moans and you have to say to yourself, surely someone in the remnants of Maddox Games should be actively engaging the community timelining when things will be fixed.
And honestly when you have to show pictures of your team hard at work, that is a sure sign the community have stopped believing a word you say.

But yes, I will be back next week and Clod remains installed on my computer in the hope that some uber patch will be released that lifts this brilliant shell of a game to where it belongs, as a classic, a living masterpiece.

My original post was an honest statement, nothing else.
When a game developer starts losing people like me, they are in trouble because I live eat and breath flight sims. Trust me I have every copy of IL2 ever released. I have downloaded almost every mod. I have thousands and thousands of hours flight sim flight time and yet in clod I only have 40hrs plus some change.

[robtek]

If you have logged only about 40h in CoD then you are waaayyyy too easy to disappoint!
in 40h you are just able to scratch on the surface, imo.

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by robtek

If you have logged only about 40h in CoD then you are waaayyyy too easy to disappoint!
in 40h you are just able to scratch on the surface, imo.

Sorry i should have been more specific, 40 hours online
I did not count the countless hours messing about offline seeing what was under the hood

[Sammi79]

@ Bobb4,

I don't think MG given the choice would have released it in its current state. Obviously if it was up to them the game would not even be released yet. UBI didn't look at it and say 'OK MG, its obviously not finished but we'll go ahead just for you' - UBI doesn't give a flying cheese board as long as they've got your money. Look at almost all of their PC releases over the last few years, it is very apparent that quality control is not something they like to spend money on or care about in the slightest. MG does care however and IS working to resolve the problems and finish the product. At least thats the impression I get from reading their posts which have been regular and informative. There have been many demands that they communicate more. IMHO Its our privilege that they communicate at all, they certainly are not required to as part of their job description, or because they personally owe us anything.

Thankfully (as I suppose all financial support from UBI has long since ceased) 1C has distribution in Russia meaning they will still be getting money to work on this product. UBI cut the money from Silent Hunter 5 after 2 patches which fixed very little. The Dev team was UBIsoft Romania so when the plug was pulled, that was that. Now if you think CoD is unfinished in its current state it is certainly more finished than that turkey will ever be. Also, they are still working on it so be patient. People here are busy trying to trash it comparing It to DCS:A10c - which is a fantastic simulation - but the marketing strategy was totally different, DCS sold BETA copies (unfinished! bugs! errors!) as pre-orders I.e when they release you get the finished product for free for helping them financially develop the program, and guess what? there are still bugs and errors in it! They still have no decent cloud or weather effects and many other features are unfinished or even unstarted as of now, etc. after half a score of patches. And their last official communication about updates was about 3-4 weeks ago now but funnily enough there isn't a single moan about that fact on their site.

Hey, showing pictures hard at work shows they're in trouble? after so many here screaming about communication well I guess you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. The moral of the story is if you want CoD to develop quicker, best start giving MG some more money (MG not UBIsoft). Otherwise, patience.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

And honestly when you have to show pictures of your team hard at work, that is a sure sign the community have stopped believing a word you say.

Nope, it`s a sign for you. You are not the community. The moaners say the same thing, though they are just the loudest ones.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

When an obvious fanboi, and believe me I was one stops playing a game they have spent years dreaming about playing, that is constructive critisim at it's best.
I fly IL2 everyday, if I am not flying IL2 I am flying RoF. I am not flying Clod and have not flown it since two days after installing the last patch.
If I as an avid flightsimmer feel let down by the lack of sound in multiplayer (and please the morons who say but they are working on it need to ask themselves one simple question, how the hell could such a glaring error have escaped even the poorest of quality control.) For that matter how the hell did this game even get the green light from Ubisoft in the first place?
To say i am bitterly disappointed in the game would be an understatement.
The fact that I come back to the forum every now and again is in the hope that Liuthers road map actually is going somewhere.
You read thread after thread, all complaints, whines and moans and you have to say to yourself, surely someone in the remnants of Maddox Games should be actively engaging the community timelining when things will be fixed.
And honestly when you have to show pictures of your team hard at work, that is a sure sign the community have stopped believing a word you say.

But yes, I will be back next week and Clod remains installed on my computer in the hope that some uber patch will be released that lifts this brilliant shell of a game to where it belongs, as a classic, a living masterpiece.

My original post was an honest statement, nothing else.
When a game developer starts losing people like me, they are in trouble because I live eat and breath flight sims. Trust me I have every copy of IL2 ever released. I have downloaded almost every mod. I have thousands and thousands of hours flight sim flight time and yet in clod I only have 40hrs plus some change.

+1 and great post. I could just copy and paste it and call it my own. I am the IL-2 series. When someone like me starts doubting the development team then that's a sign -FOR ME- that something is wrong.

[ParaB]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

When an obvious fanboi, and believe me I was one stops playing a game they have spent years dreaming about playing, that is constructive critisim at it's best.
I fly IL2 everyday, if I am not flying IL2 I am flying RoF. I am not flying Clod and have not flown it since two days after installing the last patch.
If I as an avid flightsimmer feel let down by the lack of sound in multiplayer (and please the morons who say but they are working on it need to ask themselves one simple question, how the hell could such a glaring error have escaped even the poorest of quality control.) For that matter how the hell did this game even get the green light from Ubisoft in the first place?
To say i am bitterly disappointed in the game would be an understatement.
The fact that I come back to the forum every now and again is in the hope that Liuthers road map actually is going somewhere.
You read thread after thread, all complaints, whines and moans and you have to say to yourself, surely someone in the remnants of Maddox Games should be actively engaging the community timelining when things will be fixed.
And honestly when you have to show pictures of your team hard at work, that is a sure sign the community have stopped believing a word you say.

But yes, I will be back next week and Clod remains installed on my computer in the hope that some uber patch will be released that lifts this brilliant shell of a game to where it belongs, as a classic, a living masterpiece.

My original post was an honest statement, nothing else.
When a game developer starts losing people like me, they are in trouble because I live eat and breath flight sims. Trust me I have every copy of IL2 ever released. I have downloaded almost every mod. I have thousands and thousands of hours flight sim flight time and yet in clod I only have 40hrs plus some change.

Couldn't agree more.

I haven't been that disappointed with a sim since Micropose's "1944: Across the Rhine".


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[furbs]

Well...this is the last time for a patch before the US release. lets hope enough is fixed.

[addman]

Originally Posted by furbs

Well...this is the last time for a patch before the US release. lets hope enough is fixed.

Agreed let's all hope for the best for the next patch.

Originally Posted by furbs

Well...this is the last time for a patch before the US release. lets hope enough is fixed.

Yeah i agree, if the patch to fix MP sound isnt in the American release then its goodbye CLOD.