Great post Mystic, thats just it we want it to be fantastic and have the online community IL2 has, but until we get a stable and working sim it wont happen.
What baffles me is some of the problems are day one release...the particle, cloud, smoke and gun hit slow down has been there for ever, cant someone at MG have worked on that for the last 14 months plus development time and at least got that working ok?
Honestly i just dont have any faith in them fixing these problems anymore, all this time and now they say "just a few more days to optimize the grass, trees and clouds" who they kidding? we were told the trees, grass and buildings were already optimized 100% in one of the first patches, remember?
How many times have we heard "fixed AI commands" no they didn't, they just took the broken ones out.
CLOD seems to be going backwards regarding looks, they keep chopping stuff out or braking features, its not funny anymore.
One of the first patches broke the sound engine, remember having to turn off trees to have sound??
how can trees affect sound??
The next patch fixed the sound but introduced the CTD for alot of people.
The last patch put us back to alpha stage, has done nothing to some of the problems from day one, granted it a step forward with the under the hood fixes but CTD's remain for alot of people.
Honestly it looks like they are chasing their tails round and round and round.
You can just forget them adding dynamic weather, coops or any other major feature for years, its just not going to happen.
I would bet my life 99.9% of the "moaners" just want to fly a working sim, i know i do.