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Posted by Luthier 10-17-2011 3. Performance. We are in final stages of testing a thorough overhaul of the game’s graphic engine. It won’t look any different but it will be much more streamlined. It’s too early to say what the FPS increase will be in the final version, but it shouldn’t be less than 50%. Supposedly in Final testing stage 5 months ago and still no patch LOL. Still waiting. The "go do something else while waiting for the game to be fixed" routine is worn out. |
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You don't think it's a big deal? Fine, then mind your own business. Keep your insults to yourself. |
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The patch isn't finished yet, really? We'll, I'll be. No, I didn't miss that, however I did catch where 5 months ago its release was in the "final stages". We will probably hear the same thing in November 2012 by the look of things. I read somewhere this game has been in development for 5 or more years, and the graphics engine is almost finished? :rolleyes:
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The real problem which is pissing people off is how un-professional and pathetic this company is acting. And we should really be striving for a direct contact with someone higher in Maddox Games to complain about the attitude and terrible public relations between the IL-2 team and the customers. Because they cannot forget that their actions have not only a direct impact on the series of IL-2 but the reputation of the company as a whole.
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Tell you what: 1C will give a flying fart about how and if their employees at Maddox Games are interacting with people in a message board. The only thing that counts for them is the little digits on the balance sheet at the end of the day. Don't like the proceedings? Then vote with your wallet next time.
@ Doggles So? You judge me by my signature? Terrific piece of work mate. Really. :roll: |
I doubt seriously IC, like most Russian companies, really have caught on the western notion of customer service, trust, and how it directly correlates to the digits in their balance sheets. That is entirely the problem, and why they don't give a flying fart. Also, they don't realize you cant push out a substandard product and have those of us who have grown up in the Western market embrace it with open arms. Wondering, who beta tested this thing? I know we have been round this forever, I guess we are, but at some point, you get tired of beta testing a game you have paid for and want the finished product.
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Well then they will be terribly dissapointed when those little digits get decimal places and the whole series is cancelled.
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Are these pre-schooler upsets/sandbox battle/crybaby not getting their way antics, threads, really necessary?
What do they hope to achieve?... it certainly won't open the door. Mods, please... just nip these threads in the bud. |
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So we've paid a fair bit of money on a software-product that turned out to be not all that great. Big deal. Accept the loss and move on like an adult, and notch it up as a Derp-moment, or live with the choice you've made. Besides. It will be fixed. Eventually. Sometimes I wish I could distill patience and fill it onto tubes to sell. I'd make a killing on it. |
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I have and so have the rest of you, PAID money for the product. There are bugs, some not so obvious others are in you're face bugs. To me it is unfinished and NOT what i spent my hard earned dollar for :( We are the people that KEEP these guys in business, If it were not for us and others buying there product then they would be OUT of business. Personally i think i HAVE we have the right to updates/explanations and anything else that comes with me/you PAYING for a product and not receiving a GOOD result. Having said that i uninstalled it ages ago. So does that give the right to complain? TOO RIGHT it does. As far as there UBER expansion/Standalone game, i don't care. They left us with a white elephant while they pottered of to do something else knowing full well that the CoD was in a shambles. |
MG appears to ignore that their past, present and future salaries are ultimately paid by us, the customers. And Friday's updates are their storefront.
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Maybe BlackSix is just in a bad mood because of the Mass Effect 3 ending.
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[QUOTE=Luftrofl;399835]Apparently we are supposed to be thankful for their shoddy programming and even worse customer support.
Posted by Luthier 10-17-2011 3. Performance. We are in final stages of testing a thorough overhaul of the game’s graphic engine. It won’t look any different but it will be much more streamlined. It’s too early to say what the FPS increase will be in the final version, but it shouldn’t be less than 50%. QUOTE] I am a bit late in joining in on Cliffs of Dover, i had put off purchasing the game due to early reports I had read on the forums, finally decided to go ahead and purchase it as it sounds like it has improved, and reading about the aforementioned graphic engine update to make it even better. While I have just installed the sim and yet to have run it, if the above statement is true - that the gain should not be less than 50%. well that would certainly be incredible to say the least. Maybe I should wait on actually clicking the "play" button until the patch is out! Hope we all see it soon. |
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How long has it been since the last patch? We were told a patch is coming soon, any day/week and still we after weeks (not soon) we still know nothing new. If there is a problem let us know don't tell us any day now.
I have always been a FAN BOY and tried to be positive. I've played the game every week. The problem is I get told a patch is coming I play a little less because if I'm playing with a porked FM I'm learning bad habits. No problem I'll wait. But now I'm starting to get worried. I get the idea that the sequel is getting worked on when ALL EFFORT should be delivering old promises first. I mite be wrong but unless I get told something I will start to loose faith. |
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the "online air quake slog fest" is the only working element that is available right now in CoD, and even then only for people with higher-end pc's (or you need to dial everything down so much it looks significantly worse then 1946) midrange pc folks have lots of problems that make the sim much less functional (small stutters and microfreezes for ex, even if much better then 5 months ago, its still a big problem). and 12 months after release there is no excuse for them not having fixed coop functions. just as an example re coop's: we should be able to run a coop mission with several players against AI and have new people able to join while the mission is already in play (the host should then have control over who can join, and what red/blue team they can join, and allow people who have "died" to re-enter the game and then join a multi crewed plane on the side they were flying for for ex ) the long promised dynamic campaign engine also needs to be available (for online and offline), and tools provided for the community to improve on it to instead give us a few pictures of new planes they are working on for BoM, and no patches at all to address some of the other omitted elements is pretty bad. even if the gfx engine fix is the most important as we all agree ( and will be released in the next patch), the other missing features could/should have been worked on in the meantime |
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I couldn't give a rats a$$e really. I have plenty more stuff to do than wait for a CloD patch. IL 2 with DBW is rather cool atm ;)
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giving news on features being added to BoB/CoD is good, like control of some ground vehicles and AA guns we had recently (because 80% of the work on those had already been done in previous years), and we hope to hear about many more elements that are currently either not present, not included, or not working (lack of dynamic campaign engine, coop problems etc) i think luthier 'n Co understand this by now, hence they stopped giving BoM focused friday updates, i can only hope the release of the long awaited gfx patch is just around the corner, and that within a few days or weeks they release the "full version" with the included game fixes that are badly needed (ai behavior issues, some plane damage models, etc). failing this, the BoM release will get little traction in the west. however vocal and unreasonable some of the complainers are here (other then a few who just come here to complain no matter what, and have made it their sole purpose in life), the fanatic flight simmers that want to see this project succeed are the trend setters for the more moderate gaming enthusiasts that follow in their wake, and having these prolonged negative reports will directly hurt sales and this in itself can directly threaten the long term survival of the project (in which case we all loose, the simmers, the whiners, and luthier and Co) |
A patch/mod can be as simple as changing a spelling mistake on a title screen so don't tell me there is no such thing as a simple patch.
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I haven't posted in ages, but if I were working on CoD, I wouldn't have anything to do with this board. You're all such total arseholes. You completely embarrass me. I'm ashamed to share a hobby with you lot. I can only imagine what little control you have over your real lives that to spend so much energy guffing off at some guys making a game seems worthwhile.
They're making a game. It's probably not the most important thing they'll each do this decade. Can't you all just grow up? |
Let's go on strike,absolute radiosilence until they start wondering what happened to us LOYAL fans!
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As for flaming anyone with a concern you are insulting some very decent people.
My wife and I run a small business and I can tell you as a fact we would much rather hear a customer complaint than have them simply leave the store never to be seen again or worse telling their friends. A least on hearing a complaint we have a chance to make things right. What we won't do is ignore the customer. |
You know something guys?
I had a nice day and a terrific evening yesterday and did not think at all about a patch update :) ~S~ @Jack Morris: Bab alShams ;) |
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Oleg wrote that his main mistake was to trust some developers that they can make a new engine in 2 years. If it could not be made in 2 years I do not think it can be completely reworked in just 6 months no matter how much luthier wants it or trusts his new developers. Maybe they need another 6-12 months to finish the rework or fix critical bugs of the rework. There is no point to make any updates that say that patch does not work yet. As soon as it works we will have the patch. No updates till then probably. |
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Also, I sincerely hope that the patch won't require another 6-12 months. I think if that is the case COD really is dead and buried. |
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Then again, the original IL2's fanbase picked up over the years. I'm fairly confident that CLoD and sequels will recover as well. |
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It's just like real life,if people don't do what they promise for long enough,sooner or later you turn your back,simple...
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I like it how alot of the people who complained about CoD have now switched and sided with the developers given that they haven't achieved anything yet so as to make themselves feel like a better person. Good job.
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There are a lot of ppl with nothing more constructive to add to this forum... this includes myself... So, to help management to keep track on the health of a forum and satisfaction of customers it would be wise to add a Remove Membership Button .. with a quick reason why.... This will be better then an account just going silent and not knowing why. thanks... |
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I think this is very well said, and sums it up in all honesty, you simply can't rework what is a complex engine in 6 months...something that takes years to develop correctly, its overreaching by devs...we wanted to believe it, it we may still be surprised, but its like Porsche developing a new engine after they start selling the car. Anyway, time to just disconnect and check back this summer. |
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If only it were that simple. Money wise, its a not go apparently. 5-6 years in development ( I remember following snippets in the internet), broke upon release. A year after release, still major bugs. At some point, they are not going to keep throwing resources they don't have down the hole. They will move on to something that works and is profitable. To do otherwise would just be bad business. Too many tanks and MG's...no enough core fix. |
The main problem isn't lack of communication.
Some of it lies with what we do with it. The devs and black six have been in communication about the issues. And some of them there isn't anything new. But communication or lack there of, does not change anything. Only thing that will change is the patch release or game fixes. And its funny. Once Il-2 Moscow / Cliffs gets working like Il-2 1946, everyone, including those that vehemently declared they would never purchase this game or give money would buy it, heck even twice. UNless there is a serious WW 2 sim contender, but so far this game has the lead in that area. Yeah I'm annoyed, but there's more dangerous things in life I should put my worries to. Quote:
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There will always be fans who are patient enough, but the vast majority will not. It's dangerous to make assumptions that COD's recovery would be inevitable no matter how long it takes to be put right. In 6 months time I dread to think what level of customer base they would have held on to. Once things reach a certain critical state it is likely to be impossible to recover. |
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The same will hold true here. When word spreads that the sim has matured enough, or when the level of tech on part of the customers' computers (which HAS been an issue for CLoD, regardless on how you look at it), people will start to trickle back. Will they ever have the same amount of players as they had box-sales? Only time will tell. |
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The best thing would be if the devs announced that they'll be incommunicado until patch release.
There would be no more reason for moaning, as there is nobody listening. And if some people really would leave......, that would make the forum only a nicer place, maybe to talk about what is already working and known workarounds for bugs. But then, that's only me, dreaming :-) |
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This memory leak issue that I keep seeing discussed, apparently is a huge problem - is this issue fixed in the upcoming patch everyone is anxiously awaiting for? |
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The Crash to Desktop (CTD) memory leak (also known as a launcher.exe error) is a huge problem for those flying online; it doesn't seem to occur when flying offline (someone correct me here if I'm wrong on this). As its name implies, it is characterized by a sudden onset of a drop in framerate and/or stuttering, quickly followed by an outright crash back to your desktop. Sometimes a screenfreeze will result requiring a CTL ALT DEL exit to Task Manager to quit the program, or even a hard reboot if your PC doesn't respond to anything! Definitely a show stopper! For most the CTD can occur anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes into online gameplay; sometimes sooner, sometimes never. For myself and others, it seems to occur during moments of intense action -- especially in low level dogfights over terrain. Bomber pilots have reported CTD's when flying multi engine aircraft in formation for extended periods -- effectively killing the mission for them. What to do? Reports vary from nothing can be done to fairly successful work arounds (which are a bit of a nuisance until a fix can be found). Work around 1: After each sortie/mission exit CoD completely, then relaunch it. On ATAG's Teamspeak Server there is a one-mouse click .bat link which relaunches CoD directly back to the ATAG Server, greatly speeding up the process since you don't have to navigate through all the intro GUI's. Still a nuisance, though. Work around 2: Before each online session delete the entire Cache folder (C:\Your Documents\1C Softclub\IL2 Sturmovik\Cache) (including the Shaders subfolder within). A new Cache folder is automatically built when you start CoD -- nothing further to do on your part. I've tried all kinds of stuff as well; running in low resolution, knocking out grass, trees, shadows, etc etc to reduce graphic load on my GPU. Doing this DOES help keep framerates up overall, but I've been gradually enabling different features again (I like the eye candy), including increasing the resolution once more to 1680 x 1050 on my 22" Samsung. I've only had one near-CTD this year (frame rates dropped to single digit in a low level dogfight, resulting in me crashing into terrain -- but no actual crash or screen freeze). I don't bother doing (1) anymore, but I try to remember to do (2). The time I had the near-CTD I had neglected to delete the Softclub Cache folder for some time. Several other times during intense low-level coastal dogfights I noticed my frame rate dropping so I immediately disengaged and turned towards the sea -- my framerate instantly rose back up to the normal 60 fps (I have VSynch turned on) allowing me to resume play with no further interruption. Other things that may help that your system possesses: Win 7 64-bit (CoD is only 32 bit, but the extra RAM you have no doubt helps handle the background processes and affiliated programs (TrackIR, Teamspeak, etc) while CoD is running. Hope this helps. We need a fix for CTD's, these are only a few tips that may or may not keep things running when flying online. |
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You made a bad purchase. That's all. When you go see a bad movie are you entitled to write the script for the sequel? Are you entitled to have updates from the director? No. If you buy a car that is a lemon, it's your problem, fix it or sell it or sue whoever you want but don't ask the designer to keep you updated on their work and to incorporate every idea in the next one you're going to buy. It's the same thing. You just have to buy or not to buy. |
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I am curious: So what is Oleg doing these days - just finding out by catching up that he has left this series. What/who is MG? Just trying to get caught up. Thanks, |
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And when they call me at the office I answer that they need to fix it alone... even if the issue is my application itself. In your opinion should I send them the source code? Of course if they give me feedback to improve the application then I can rightly send them to **** off. After all improving a product to meet the user's needs is totally useless... in your world. Movies and videogames are like apples and oranges. |
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Much appreciated! Hope they can get this issue resolved soon for most especially multiplayer, I can imagine that is extremely frustrating. |
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As far as I can tell, Oleg has no involvement with Cliffs of Dover. |
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Ok thanks for clarifying that for me. I think I am up to speed now... |
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We will have any info-update tomorrow friday? B6? any news?
Please restart the comunication with the community. A lot of people here are waiting "some" to calm down the anxiety. Thanks. |
I don't have any anxiety.
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"yes, they're working on the patch" :)
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I think we all know the update will not neither be tomorrow nor in the next weeks so let's wait and see.:mad::mad:
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this is like take you car to get fix and the mechanic never answer the phone :P
Seriusly 1C answer the phone and tell me how's my bloody car... |
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http://comc4.files.wordpress.com/201...a-tibetana.jpg Your technique? |
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I think they'll provide us some info or they 'll have to handle a forum civil war :P
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i want to hear that from the mechanic himself, not for the guy in door ;)
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where's my molotov cocktail??? :evil: |
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LoL what an inocent... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pehK1MWS14...rnet-Troll.jpg |
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AHHH finally we are talking the same language! :grin::grin:;) |
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I'm trolling in the web, I'm trolling in the web (sings like singing in the rain) |
Lovely dance step Potz! :grin:
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Naah mate, you need a longer song than that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkfVdrtLcRs ;) ~S~ |
naaaah this is miles better, what Trololo is really singing :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bRlh5KO0VQ |
"Como me rompe soberanamente las pelotas que me copien mis posteos preguntando por actualizaciones del simulador a los desarrolladores a este thread de la pelota de cristall..."
"I am very tired that copy my threads asking to the developers about any news of the simulator to the crystal ball" Sorry my english. THANKS! |
Either you believe that the devs are working on the patch and release it when its ready, then no answer from the devs is needed,
or you dont believe what the devs have said, that they are working on the patch, then also a answer is redundant as it wouldn't be believed anyway. Okay, its black and white, but not wrong! |
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