Friday Update, January 27, 2012

[Insuber]

One thing was promised by Oleg (may I dare to say "Oleg"&"promise"? ), and it's sorely missing: reflections on distant objects, helping to spot EA's. Yesterday I was flying on a 747-400, high above Macedonia, Black Sea, Afghanistan etc., and a bright reflection from a glass surface in a distant village glowed from at least 20 km afar.

Afaik Oleg said that the effect was overdone and needed refining, but currently there is none.

BlackSix, will we see canopy reflections from afar?

Cheers!

Originally Posted by Insuber

One thing was promised by Oleg (may I dare to say "Oleg"&"promise"? ), and it's sorely missing: reflections on distant objects, helping to spot EA's. Yesterday I was flying on a 747-400, high above Macedonia, Black Sea, Afghanistan etc., and a bright reflection from a glass surface in a distant village glowed from at least 20 km afar.

Afaik Oleg said that the effect was overdone and needed refining, but currently there is none.

BlackSix, will we see canopy reflections from afar?

Cheers!

Whoa ! Insuber ! The verdict has fell down here ! WIP ! Everything was WIP ! During the last 6 years , All WIP ! Nothing but WIP ! You know what it means, don't you ? NO promises...And nothing was ever promised ! Where is the link to prove Oleg promised that ? Or anything else in fact ?!!! ?

I've been through this once you know, so I am with you on this my friend ....

Salute !

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by kalimba

Whoa ! Insuber ! The verdict has fell down here ! WIP ! Everything was WIP ! During the last 6 years , All WIP ! Nothing but WIP ! You know what it means, don't you ? NO promises...And nothing was ever promised ! Where is the link to prove Oleg promised that ? Or anything else in fact ?!!! ?

I've been through this once you know, so I am with you on this my friend ....

Salute !

OK OK I abjure, recant and forswear, Oleg didn't promise, he just alluded to the hypothetical suspect of the probable but unconfirmed existence of occasional glints from distant planes' canopies, and only in the version of the game compiled at the time of his propositions.

Now, can we have those reflections again, BlackSix? It would be very cute ...

Originally Posted by Insuber

OK OK I abjure, recant and forswear, Oleg didn't promise, he just alluded to the hypothetical suspect of the probable but unconfirmed existence of occasional glints from distant planes' canopies, and only in the version of the game compiled at the time of his propositions.

Now, can we have those reflections again, BlackSix? It would be very cute ...

Haha! Good one !
I have a new definition for WIP now : Was It Promised ?

And Bsix will probably answer that he just can't...promise you anything

Salute !

[Qpassa]

Its a pity that devs doesnt want to tell us the ETA

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

Its a pity that devs doesnt want to tell us the ETA

'course they do: it's 2 weeks!*








*DISCLAIMER: it's a JOKE..

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

Its a pity that devs doesnt want to tell us the ETA

it is a pity but I think it's not hard to imagine why they wouldn't, but I think it can't be very far away as it does sound like they are in the tweaking/testing stage.

[smink1701]

IL2 is a business and in business it's all about $$$. They will fix CLoD and the sequel ASAP because they need the income. I am sure the game has generated a fraction of the sales they anticipated because of the problems. They will fix the problems to get the franchise back on track or will go the way of Microsoft and kill their combat flight game division.

[Qpassa]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

it is a pity but I think it's not hard to imagine why they wouldn't, but I think it can't be very far away as it does sound like they are in the tweaking/testing stage.

Mmm the main thing is that they havent found the solution for the memory leak problem

[hiro]

* all the promises oleg gave are nil and void, because he's not with the current dev crew.

thanks for the update . . .


I do like how the devs explain the intricacies of Modern Software coding. Its alot, and you have different teams doing different parts of the code / working on their part / aspect of the game. Then you have to bring it together. and that's a really, really simplified version.

Alot of complainers really show their lack of knowledge how a professionally made software package / application / game is made.

Its like thinking Hollywood blockbusters are made by a writer doing a script, a director getting it, a guy running the cameras filming, and then later two graphic artists and a sound guy completing the sounds . . .

There is more to it. It can take years to make such a thing. There are lots of names in the end credit.

This is game is a blockbluster and it'll take years. The only issue is that what should've been just a trailer (demo), got released as the full movie.


And Oleg probably had most of the code said and done way back in '08, but since he jumped ship, he probably took it, and they had do lots of this game in scratch which explains the shoddy release it was.


People wanting specifics and exact dates, its like watching a grass grow. The devs and blacksix are catering to the high ground by expecting us to understand that coding is not a simple thing.

In fact if they gave us the blow by blow, it'd be an insult to our intelligence and it'd be like watching grass grow:

01-30 6 AM: it's not sprouted yet.

01-30 7 PM Yes we've watered the grass seed.

01-31 BIG UPDATE: Oh shiz, a bird just took one of the seeds. Will replace missing seed in 2weeks.

01-31 still waiting on seed order.

02-01 post office tracking isn't working, no update.