Friday Update, April 6, 2012

[Kwiatek]

Originally Posted by 6S.Manu

WOW... The bar is really low...

I'm not going to play seriously until the FMs are fixed.

Well said. Without FM/DM and other improvments still it wouldnt be too much sense to play CLoD.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Being able to play online and practice with squadmates with out the game stuttering and crashing would be a grand thing though.

[F19_Klunk]

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

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The current state of this sim combined with the choice for the next (BOM) installment has left most folks i converse with looking for other aerial combat sims.
The graphics and damage model are light years ahead of IL-2 1946, but so are some of the other flight sims on the market. As for the potential, actions always speak louder than words.

Maybe You are right, but it seems to me that the Russian market is, and always has been Maddox Games' most important market, thus the choice of next theatre (if we ever end up there) is both obvious and economically sound.

I do agree though with your final point; "... actions always speak louder than words." So True, and unfortunately we have mostly seen words....

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Being able to play online and practice with squadmates with out the game stuttering and crashing would be a grand thing though.

Agreed but for me personally I didn't have lots of crashes and tbh I think there are other factors at steak as to why a lot if not most don't play this game as it is..FM's are and have always been a massive part of flight sims especially this series..

A patch that just improves performance will bring a lot more whinging about these things because more people will be able to experience it or shall we say it will be highlighted more..just my 2 cents

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's reason for not playing this game was just down to crashes?

[ElAurens]

I stopped playing only because of the crashes.

It made no sense to fly for 20 minutes then end up on the desktop, over and over and over...

Or line up a flight of Ju 88s and... CTD.

If I want frustration, I'll just go back to work.

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

I beleive what is unaccounted for on these forums is the " silent majority". I read the update thread twice a month maybe, less as time goes on.As a cosumer I view this this sim as" competing" for my entertainment dollars. There is little entertainment value in the on-line experience that crashes constantly , off line is not much better with the constant freezes. I would venture a guess that the majority of would be consumers do not even post, they just move on to other interests or forms of entertainment.
The current state of this sim combined with the choice for the next (BOM) installment has left most folks i converse with looking for other aerial combat sims.
The graphics and damage model are light years ahead of IL-2 1946, but so are some of the other flight sims on the market. As for the potential, actions always speak louder than words.

The silent majority aren't so silent, they just post here because this forum is just too horrible for words. Go look other places and you'll see a lot of flight sim communities. At this point the CloD community outside of this forum consists of making fun of how terrible CloD is and laughing at how so many of you banana forums people sing and dance and clap and act like the dev team just handed you a puppy and a bag of coke when they show you a picture of a beautifully rendered fence post. Meanwhile, the game sits in this broken, unfun state over a year after launch.

IL-2 is basically the Duke Nukem Forever of flight sims. We waited years for an IL-2 sequel and got something laughable. The only difference is nobody is still defending DNF over a year after launch.

[Wolf_Rider]

I guess you're just helping to make it (in your words) horrible then...

[Frequent_Flyer]

Originally Posted by F19_Klunk

Maybe You are right, but it seems to me that the Russian market is, and always has been Maddox Games' most important market, thus the choice of next theatre (if we ever end up there) is both obvious and economically sound.

I would agree the Russian market is an important one,however i think the western market place is much larger. I think they would capture more evenue with Med. theater sim. Although the state of the sim would dictate the simple Eastern front vs a much more complex and diverse PTO.

[bw_wolverine]

After tonight's group flying, I will again say that the crashes are definitely the MAJOR issue with regard to my enjoyment of the game.

Everything else, at this point, is gravy and good will towards customers.

Tonight could have been much much better save for the launcher.exe crashes.

[klem]

Originally Posted by EvilJoven

The silent majority aren't so silent, they just post here because this forum is just too horrible for words. Go look other places and you'll see a lot of flight sim communities. At this point the CloD community outside of this forum consists of making fun of how terrible CloD is and laughing at how so many of you banana forums people sing and dance and clap and act like the dev team just handed you a puppy and a bag of coke when they show you a picture of a beautifully rendered fence post. Meanwhile, the game sits in this broken, unfun state over a year after launch.

IL-2 is basically the Duke Nukem Forever of flight sims. We waited years for an IL-2 sequel and got something laughable. The only difference is nobody is still defending DNF over a year after launch.

The acid test for me is simply this: while TD's IL-2 1946 4.11 is a huge improvement on the IL-2 1946 left us by 1C/Maddox Games I still find myself preferring to fly CoD. It just feels better, even with the stunted FMs. Now, why is that if CoD is "so terrible"?

Take away all the incidental stuff like the GUI which doesn't affect the actual flying, fly on line (I know that's not a preference for some), take the excellent support of the community servers like ATAG, live with the FMs for now because a Rotol Hurricane gives me a fighting chance against the 109s and restart the game each sortie. Not perfect by a very long country mile but I still prefer it to IL-2 '46. No, it isn't the BoB yet but its very enjoyable.