I don't envy luthier...

[ElAurens]

Online is dead.

I flew on the Syndicate server last night and there were only 8 to 10 people in there. On a Friday night.

On a map that size it makes for a snooze fest. I patrolled in my Hurri and used up half a tank of fuel just puttering up and down the coast near my base when a lone 109 shows up. We did a bit of scraping about then he just broke off for no apparent reason and flew away across the channel. No way to catch him so I landed and shut the game down.

You need 30+ fliers plus AI to make a map that size, and of that historical context, work.

Couple that with the high altitude problems suffered by all aircraft and it really makes it hard to keep with it.

As for Steam being the magic bullet of sales success that all the Steam fans promoted early on, ummm...

I suspect that the reports from the FPS kiddies that have tried it, and there have been several posts at UBI from this demographic, have already doomed CoD to the wider Steam "community".

Steam is a double edged sword. It can be a great avenue to open up new market segments, but by the same token, news travels fast there, and the initial reports have probably done more harm than good.

1C shot themselves in the foot on that one.

Oh well.

I'm not going to uninstall it. I'll wait to see how it plays out.

But my online time is going back to IL2/46.

[Sven]

Online is not dead as it was never alive in the first place, patience young padawan.

[ElAurens]

Young?

I wish.

[Sven]

Hehehe

I wish MP was alive though, I really like this sim, but its limited time-frame and current performance problems have me playing IL2 1946 MP more then ever. Time is the cure, and it's not that I'm fed up with playing 1946, not at all

[smink1701]

I agree with all.

I have been pretty content and impressed to just fly around England and France and marvel at the beautiful details inside and out of the plane. But...yesterday I tried a number of missions and what a mess...sound dropping in and out, a few freezes, stutters, many, many things that took me right out of the experience.

Time will tell but I can remember when CFS3 came out and it was such a disaster it ended the MS CFS franchise. Hope the same doesn't happen here. I would love for someone who really has the inside track to report on how a sim that is in development for six years gets released like this. And the whole Oleg thing. What a mess!!! I just hope they have the time, money and talent to clean it up.

Well, I think that North America's release will be the real turning point...It is 1C's last chance to make COD come back on the track...and get enough good reviews to bring new players along and getting back those who quit...
And the fact that Oleg, the father of the mighty Il2 sim is now gone, will contribute to the falling prestige of COD. Luthier has a huge cliff(!) to climb back...Both technical and marketing wise...
COD needs to get at least 80 % grades to keep the community interseted...and UBI' support to "finish " the game...But that is my personnal conclusion...

Salute !

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by smink1701

I agree with all.

I have been pretty content and impressed to just fly around England and France and marvel at the beautiful details inside and out of the plane. But...yesterday I tried a number of missions and what a mess...sound dropping in and out, a few freezes, stutters, many, many things that took me right out of the experience.

Time will tell but I can remember when CFS3 came out and it was such a disaster it ended the MS CFS franchise. Hope the same doesn't happen here. I would love for someone who really has the inside track to report on how a sim that is in development for six years gets released like this. And the whole Oleg thing. What a mess!!! I just hope they have the time, money and talent to clean it up.

This is the first IL-2 flight sim for me to try. I very much like the sim.

The things that are in CoD are second to none.

I also see CoD as fixing the problems.

I also think that alot of the problems of the sim not working on some of the players PC is strange. I have a upper middle range PC and the sim flys good. The big thing is in my case I need 64 bit os. Cod tryed to reach a wide range of PC with XP and up. Thanks for that. But CoD is a 64 bit sim.

I can live with the sound problems. The controls is what needs fixed. Such as the ammo load outs and the gunner positions. To me you get that working and CoD is on its way.



I think this Sim will be fixed by the time it hits the USA market.

flyer01

[tagTaken2]

Originally Posted by smink1701

Time will tell but I can remember when CFS3 came out and it was such a disaster it ended the MS CFS franchise. Hope the same doesn't happen here.

CFS3 was a real pig, alright. By the time I had a PC capable of running it on High settings, it looked totally obsolete.

But I think what killed CFS3 was mostly Il-2. Especially after the Aces Expansion pack, when you could compare the planes in CFS3 with Il-2 versions.