Friday Update, April 13, 2012

[F19_Klunk]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

The patch is good news even though it signals the impending death of CLOD, maybe as a good will gesture all of us that purchased it within the first month will get a discount on the release of BOM. Food for thought.

I choose to view the Maddox' way of things as a way to enrich CloD, or rather enrich the platform that CloD and BoM is built on. CLod is dead the day sequels, addons, DLC's, patches and the like has sezied to be developed. Just the way our original IL2 works.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

The patch is good news even though it signals the impending death of CLOD, maybe as a good will gesture all of us that purchased it within the first month will get a discount on the release of BOM. Food for thought.

I got the feeling as well. If the "full version" of this beta patch ends up being the last patch for CLOD I will be extremely disappointed.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

The patch is good news even though it signals the impending death of CLOD, maybe as a good will gesture all of us that purchased it within the first month will get a discount on the release of BOM. Food for thought.

Consider yourself fortunate if they don't add a forum ban surcharge.

Originally Posted by David Hayward

Consider yourself fortunate if they don't add a forum ban surcharge.

Please stay on topic sweety, we are talking about the update, please pm me if you want a talk about other stuff, I would hate to see you get an infraction for posting off topic.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

The patch is good news even though it signals the impending death of CLOD, maybe as a good will gesture all of us that purchased it within the first month will get a discount on the release of BOM. Food for thought.

to quote Blacksix,

Originally Posted by BlackSix

SLI and AA will not be fixed in first beta.

First repeat first beta patch.

[BigC208]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

The patch is good news even though it signals the impending death of CLOD, maybe as a good will gesture all of us that purchased it within the first month will get a discount on the release of BOM. Food for thought.

Impending death? You're right. we've been basically beta testing this thing for the last year, and paying for it also, so it was. If BoM is needed to keep the financial ship upright and floating, so it be. The combined purchase prise of the Russian and US version was $50 for me. I spend about $2000 on a new rig last year mainly for Il2CoD. When the 110 based Nvida GPU's comes out in the fall I'll built an 8 core IveBridge machine around 2 of those plus 3x27 inch 120hz led monitors. Another 4 grand down the pipeline. This is not a hobby but an addictive obsession. I'm thanking Oleg, Luthier and the rest of the developement team on my bare knees for developing this groundbreaking simulator. Bit over the top maybe? I don't see anyone else out there making my virtual flying dreams come true. They have us addicts (waaaaay beyond fanboism here) by our gonads where it concerns WWII combat aviation. With the program patched up and a SDK released we, the people, can fix the BoB to our hearts content while the developement continues.

[recoilfx]

Originally Posted by furbs

Good news on what IS coming, though Luthier is a little unsure on the online CTD, he says they have a internal server on which they test, is that the same as us playing online?
If that is not fixed then the will be a lynching.

Still the AI improvements are welcome, though unless they fix the "superman maneuvers and non engaging AI" then its not really going to get anyone playing offline.

What is very disappointing is the lack of news of other fixes and improvements for CLOD, so i guess no COOP's

I gotta admit though, after playing online for so long, then going back to single player, even the 'superman' maneuvers don't bother me anymore, they are just somehow easier to shoot down...

Perhaps this is why the devs don't think it's a problem, because they just don't feel the frustrations after playing for so long.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

We should wait the patch, before cut each other's throats. The fact that the IIa will be worse, does not mean that it will be worse than the 109! They have huge advantage now, and if the devs not touched the agility, turning ability, the IIa still have the great advantage of the same energy 1v1 air combat.

(The pre-fight tactics, situation awareness and the teamwork is already independent of the machine's performance... )

+1 To this to all who are already complaining about fm's.

Lets see what the patch brings first eh.