Friday Update, Q&A - December 23, 2011

[JG5_emil]

Originally Posted by BigC208

Nah, I bet you'll buy it the first change you get "IF" the reviews are positive. Oh, and you'll pay top dollar for it! Just like myself and all the other flightsim junkies out there.

Game Computer $1500
Hotas Warthog $500
CH Pro pedals $100
Track IR4 $120
3x22 inch monitors $900
CH trhottle Quadrant $120
Cambridge soundworks 7.1 surround sound $200

Bitching about the $50 we're being charged to play the game we plundered our kids college funds for...Priceless! (I know, I know, I bitch with the best of em.)

Merry Christmas to the 1C team and the fellow sim junkies out there!

Spent nearly £3000 in total to play IL2 CLOD. Not interested in WW1 or modern air warfare so actually I can bitch because it's not the $50 I feel I've wasted but the £3000!!

The absolute priority should be a hot fix for the memory leak to get things started, we shouldn't wait for other content just get that done asap because at the moment many of us cannot fly long missions. My experience with the JG27 CO-OPS was 3 early crashes out of 3 Missions flown which was very disappointing. Sure I can fly dogfight server but I am not into that. Then there is offline play which is utterly hideous, tried again last night and the AI is terrible. So there is limited scope for fun at the moment.

My main bitch is that after years of flying in a theatre I am not 100% interested in i.e. Eastern front and then Pacific I was really hoping for BOB and then expanding on to the Med or Battle of France or even fighting over Europe.

Really it feels like MG dipped their toe in to the BOB only to go straight back to stuff covered extensively in the IL2/FB releases. I really wanted to see more time spent on a theatre I am very interested in. I am sure many others feel the same.

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Never in the field of game development was so much whining done by so many to so few. The funny thing is that I don't recognise those people from online play at all - are they even on?

well you can see me online every other week i gess, but given the state of the game its not worthy. i finally managed to overcome the techincall dificultys of performance in my rig, but in the middle of my happiness i jumped into a dull, airquake multiplayer. not interested in it. and from what i know about you, neither are you.

as it stands, USL for COD is 4 years away or so

[Krt_Bong]

I am annoyed that features get removed as opposed to being options because of a small vocal group of whiners who want their way over everyone else. It's not like cockpit shake is unrealistic and most sims model it one way or another. Let's try not to undermine the development by giving the devs BS to sort out because of nitpicking..

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Insuber

I believe that 99% of those who declare that they won't buy BoM will be the first to jump on the wagon ... flight sim addiction is a bad beast ...

So true!

[BigC208]

Was I the only one? Cockpit shake gave me the willies after a while, almost like when I just got my first TrackIr. It felt like being drunk or sleepy and not being able to hold my head still. In all my 30 years of real world fying have I ever felt that sensation. Barrel rolls, asymetrical stall breaks, inverted spins, even turbulence, the head always stays stable. Never asked to have it removed though. Probably was another FPS muncher that had to go.

Even though I'm not happy with how things have been handled in the past I'm happy with the outlook. The developers are overhauling the game engine. To me that's the utmost form of support. Game engine broken, they fix it. They could've also patched it up to where it was acceptable but not brilliant and then orphan the whole thing. Now hopefully with BoM we get a better optimized engine and GUI. Even better, it'll be backwards compatible with CloD. All this is time consuming. You can bet your last Dollar (or the devs last Ruble) that they're not going to repeat the cluster coitus release of CloD. So having to wait for BoM to get some earlier promised content and paying for a new game is fine by me. I'm actually glad they 're going this route. It's of utmost importance that they survive as a bussiness. If another company had to start the whole gamedevelopement from scratch we would be without a quality WWII sim for probably another 5 years.

There is so much under the hood of this sim's engine, so much potential. I want to see it all realized. They bit of too big of a chunk when they started. Glad they realized it and now feed it to us piecemeal with each new theatre release. That way computer hardware can catch up with Oleg's brilliant vision. Hat's of for Luthier, he had to make it make it happen with todays and last years hardware.

[M1sF1rE]

Originally Posted by Insuber

I believe that 99% of those who declare that they won't buy BoM will be the first to jump on the wagon ... flight sim addiction is a bad beast ...

You are wrong. You guys give this game too much credit. It runs fine for me, it's just broken in so many other ways. I was hoping they would allow the modding community to fix it, I guess that was asking too much. What good is a game if it reaches gold status 18 months after you bought it? I have racing sims I enjoy also and they have taken up most of my time since this POS was released.

I keep waiting for a meaningful update status, but this just wasn't one of them. I find myself checking less and less frequently and at some point I will give up.

There is no damn way I would ever pay for a sequal.

[Heliocon]

Not spending a any $ on an expansion so you can screw customers out of more money to buy content and stability that should of been present in CLOD itself. Unbelievable... They basically just told us we will have to pay to receive game fixes that they will be purposefully withholding unless we buy another of their products.

THIS IS BULLSHIT. Not worth the $ in this case and in Russia we all know the state of the law, but in europe/auz/us you could be taken to court for this.

[=FI=Scott]

Originally Posted by M1sF1rE

You are wrong. You guys give this game too much credit. It runs fine for me, it's just broken in so many other ways. I was hoping they would allow the modding community to fix it, I guess that was asking too much. What good is a game if it reaches gold status 18 months after you bought it? I have racing sims I enjoy also and they have taken up most of my time since this POS was released.

I keep waiting for a meaningful update status, but this just wasn't one of them. I find myself checking less and less frequently and at some point I will give up.

There is no damn way I would ever pay for a sequal.

That says it for me.

As far as simming goes nothing would make me happier than the devs delivering on CoD so that it is stable, runs smooth on a decent machine and has good content. The problem I have is you could set the most recent updates to the score to somewhere over the rainbow.

[klem]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

I'd love to play online more, but since i suffer from this bug,

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=27322

like quite a few others, having to restart the game after every nearly every bloody flight gets to be a pita. When this stops happening, i'll pick the game up much more.

So i stick to something that works, il2 and RoF, and that my squadmates fly, because many of them haven't got rigs that can fly Clod yet, because of real life commitments don't allow everyone to have a monster rig for CloD.

Plus dogfight servers haven't interested me since @2005, although i am following the user made work around for co-ops with interest.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...3&postcount=31

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Not spending a any $ on an expansion so you can screw customers out of more money to buy content and stability that should of been present in CLOD itself. Unbelievable... They basically just told us we will have to pay to receive game fixes that they will be purposefully withholding unless we buy another of their products.

THIS IS BULLSHIT. Not worth the $ in this case and in Russia we all know the state of the law, but in europe/auz/us you could be taken to court for this.

Now you're just bashing the company in their own forums and you're embarrassing yourself. Players with your similar same setup have the sim running great and have played over 1000 hours in the air and the FMB....and are generally having a blast.