Will there be an online community for COD after BOS?

[Destraex]

I see COD is $5 at gamersgate and was thinking of getting it for friends at that price.
Using fusion4 of course. But now I am thinking with BOS out in a few months is it worth picking up and learning?

I love BOB theatre and BOS theatre in comparison is fairly boring to me.
I have only just got interested in COD again after that horrid launch and the myriad of bugs that even still exist... rear view mirror facing the right way yet?

So the interest is there. Question is will the community be there?

[SlipBall]

The answer would have to be a big yes. Just look at the 46 crowd, they took it over and consider it their brain child.

[Destraex]

Good!
Because I just spend $10 on two copies from gamersgate and now have to choose two initiate pilots very carefully... but then I am fairly new to this as well!

[DUI]

Good decision, Destraex! I am looking forward to seeing you and your friends in the BoB skies!

To me BoS will only become a topic when it is released in another 6 months. But as this might be round about the time when the Team Fusion patch 5.00 with its new theatre (Mediterranean?) and planes (Bf 109 F, Spitfire V?) might come out...

In any case a very good time for combat fligt simmers!

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by DUI

Good decision, Destraex! I am looking forward to seeing you and your friends in the BoB skies!

To me BoS will only become a topic when it is released in another 6 months. But as this might be round about the time when the Team Fusion patch 5.00 with its new theatre (Mediterranean?) and planes (Bf 109 F, Spitfire V?) might come out...

In any case a very good time for combat fligt simmers!

This is my main problem with the current TF concept...originally I was hoping that they could bring back some of the features that were removed by the devs, and maybe concentrate on the reported bugs. But adding variants is not a healthy direction IMHO, and will create an stagnant pilot environment like that of 46, where they are stuck in the last decade. They(TF) have done a good job on some things, but the job of adding aircraft, belongs to the devs/games of the future...who we must support or that too will fade away

[CWMV]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

This is my main problem with the current TF concept...originally I was hoping that they could bring back some of the features that were removed by the devs, and maybe concentrate on the reported bugs. But adding variants is not a healthy direction IMHO, and will create an stagnant pilot environment like that of 46, where they are stuck in the last decade. They(TF) have done a good job on some things, but the job of adding aircraft, belongs to the devs/games of the future...who we must support or that too will fade away

Thats just nonsense.

[WhiskeyWhiskey]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

They(TF) have done a good job on some things, but the job of adding aircraft, belongs to the devs/games of the future...who we must support or that too will fade away

I couldn't disagree more.

The new era of flight sims has been horribly flattened out because of this limited scope of development which excludes the interests of half the world.

Team Fusion is about the add the first American aircraft in the "new era of flight sims", the P-40E, and the F4F-3.

BoS has way too much development for simply one battle, in one era. Way too limited in scope, and the method is just not practical to expect to see other theaters of the air war come from that team.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Destraex

I see COD is $5 at gamersgate and was thinking of getting it for friends at that price.
Using fusion4 of course. But now I am thinking with BOS out in a few months is it worth picking up and learning?

I love BOB theatre and BOS theatre in comparison is fairly boring to me.
I have only just got interested in COD again after that horrid launch and the myriad of bugs that even still exist... rear view mirror facing the right way yet?
So the interest is there. Question is will the community be there?

First off .. CoD for $5 is a no brainer at this point. By all means a very good choice. CoD has managed to pull itslef out of the trash can and back in the Pantheon of great sims.. but it will always be limited unless TF can find a way to eat with it becuase it is too much work and they will not be able to compete with the likes of 1CGS and RRGDCS doing this in their spare time. It takes nothing away from what the have done because in the minds of many CoD would not be what it currently is without TF... even with the last official patch from 1C.

Originally Posted by DUI

Good decision, Destraex! I am looking forward to seeing you and your friends in the BoB skies!
To me BoS will only become a topic when it is released in another 6 months. But as this might be round about the time when the Team Fusion patch 5.00 with its new theatre (Mediterranean?) and planes (Bf 109 F, Spitfire V?) might come out...
In any case a very good time for combat fligt simmers!

I think that BoS is going to start making waves come Tuesday. In 6 months unless there is some kind of global disaster .. BoS, with it's limited theater and all is going to shake up the flight sim world.. like it hasn't been shaken up in over a decade.. I guarantee it. The Alpha Early Release slated for Tuesday is the sim at 32% .... Come February of 2014 we should be seeing something closer to the final product.. but in any case it is going to be a game changer come final release

Originally Posted by CWMV

Thats just nonsense.

I don't know about that... but I understand where both of you are coming from .. and I agree in part with both of you but I think that CoD is only going to go so far for the reasons I mentioned.. Unless TF can find a way to get paid for their time and work... there will only be so much they can do because they have to eat .. they have to live.. they have to work.. and there are so many hours in the day .. especially when you have a family.

I have no idea what Ilya is going to do in DCS... but BoS is coming and it is going to make a wave.. not a splash.

[SlipBall]

all good points BC