Development Status - November 14, 2011

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Thanks a lot Vengeanze

Hehe. What can I say, what can I say!?!

[snwkill]

Appreciate the update... The CTD is definitely annoying, but knowing that the new engine will take care of this is nice to know.

[Winger]

Yes thanks for the update. Since the game is broken for me anyways with those frequent crashes i just keep playing one of the many other games that just released and hope in 2 or 3 weeks we will get a really nice experience in this game as a christmas gift.
Only thing i dont like about it is that my skills will start rusting

Winger

[Ailantd]

If they are recoding so much of the game, then you can easily expect times about two or tree months at least. Probably more.

[Redroach]

okay, this will be the... 3rd or 4th 'graphics overhaul' and another round in sound tweaking, but...
What
about
Radio commands?/Messages?
or what about getting the FM's on track?

Seriously, this is so cruel... CoD looks great right now, but we just aren't progressing beyond a showcase flight simulation... The 'combat' part is lacking, and lacking severely. No (radio) interaction between planes/flights/ground control is just wrong and it should, by all means, be priority number one by now. I'm getting slightly psychotic about that...

[Flanker35M]

S!

Redroach, I bet the AI commands and such are less important at the moment than getting the BASE of the game working aka GFX engine along with FM/DM after that. When these things work as they should, everything else is just tuning and adding more a lot easier. Or this is how I see it..mileages may vary

Originally Posted by luthier

Hi everyone,

Quick status update.

We are aware of the issues many of you are having. We are monitoring the forums, and we are checking the crash dumps you are sending, for which we are especially grateful.

The crashes are caused by an old graphics bug that’s been in the game all year. Since we are in the process of seriously overhauling graphics, we cannot release a quick fix. The bug simply doesn’t exist in the current version of the graphics at all. It got thrown out with a lot of other bad code, but the overall feature isn’t ready for the world quite yet.

We’re also improving the sound quite a bit, doing exciting things with aircraft, and generally progressing along the same fronts I’ve listed in my older updates.

These are all major features so they take time. We only have a tentative ETA at this point, but considering this forum’s special relationship with the word “tentative” I’m not going to say what it is. It’s not this Friday or the next – take that as you will. We’ll keep you updated as we get closer.

How did this old graphic bug that causes crashes ever get past alpha and beta testing and why is it still causing crashes 8 months after release?? Either it is some sort of super bug or you guys are the most incompetent game makers of modern times.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

If they are recoding so much of the game, then you can easily expect times about two or tree months at least. Probably more.

If you consider the impact of the modification, its beta testing + all the patches etc I would estimate 8 to 12 months to have an (almost) bugless graphics section.


Cheers!

[mazex]

Originally Posted by addman

So it's the Friday after next Friday then? Yaaay! Thank you for that confirmation.

Well, he says it's not in two weeks (Friday after Friday), and as everyone knows that two weeks is really 4-6 weeks I guess he says it will be more than that

Good to hear that they have done some serious refactoring though!

[louisv]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

How did that old graphic bug that cause crashes 8 months after release ever get passed alpha and beta testing??

I'm sure its not a single bug...more like a swarm.

The first bug in history
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...8a/H96566k.jpg