Friday Update - December 9, 2011

[jayrc]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

That's all very nice, but most of us didn't buy the game to continue programming the multiplayer UI for the developers, we were all rather expecting that the basics would be down and C# scripting would be a cheeky bonus for advanced users rather than a compulsory step for half-decent coop play. I don't go to a restaurant and order steak with peppercorn sauce, then expect the chef to bring me a raw steak with some lovely peppercorn sauce in a jug, and then hand me a pan and apron and tell me to "get on with it then!"

We have a restaurant here where you cook your own food, different strokes I guess, that said, what does any of this have to do with IL2, all these analogies? The game is very playable right now, they've given us patches, updates, great sound, new patch coming soon, alot of stuff coming, add-ons. This is going to be the greatest ww2 sim for a very long time, be patient!

[Bobb4]

Seriously, the thing that scares me the most is they (the developers) have moved on to Battle for Moscow. Admitedly we will get all the merged goodies but at the price of buy a new standalone sim?
Just how stupid do they think we are? We have the Royal Navy represented by a German mine sweeper the grand total of ten flyable planes, and no I amnot counting variants of the same plane.
We have a dedicated few people, unpaid I might add working to figure out exactly how the FM builder, scripts and a whole host of other things work.
And we have the developers saying they do not have the time to write a guide to how the FMB works.
This was the sim that was supposed to take over from Il2, and yes with the inclusion of the battle of Moscow it should be getting there...
The problem is what will they skimp on in that sim.
I am definately not going to be an instant buyer of that one, that is for sure. I will give it a good six month waiting period before purchase. If hindsight was worth anything i would never have bought Clod, it sits on my machine, last time played a month ago...
So maybe, just maybe, the developers should take a good hard look at their development model and decide to deliver on a few of the empty promises they have made or throw in the towel and leak the SDK to interested third parties that can give a good shining

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

...We have the Royal Navy represented by a German mine sweeper the grand total of ten flyable planes, and no I amnot counting variants of the same plane.
...
This was the sim that was supposed to take over from Il2...

C'mon those were not planes but floating ghosts.

We are lucky here to get a serious job on most FM with tremendous graphics.

You can always compare a fine glass of Bordeaux with a pint of beer and say you can get more burps out of one

[Allons!]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

We have the Royal Navy represented by a German mine sweeper..

Yep, it took ssome time but finally we made it

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by jayrc

We have a restaurant here where you cook your own food, different strokes I guess, that said, what does any of this have to do with IL2, all these analogies? The game is very playable right now, they've given us patches, updates, great sound, new patch coming soon, alot of stuff coming, add-ons. This is going to be the greatest ww2 sim for a very long time, be patient!

I'm not complaining, I just don't understand the people who say "don't work on this because if you install <insert unsupported user modification here> it's kind of fixed in a not particularly pretty or satisfying way".

Also, on the restaurant thing, does sound quite nice actually...but cooking your own food is a lot quicker than cooking your own game when someone else is getting paid to do it.