BETA PATCH v1.06.17582 - May 05, 2012

[jibo]

there is way too much happy campers in here, furbs must be boiling, be kind tone it down a lil bit

[Hooves]

Well I am completely disgusted at this point. I have never had so many micro freezes, launcher crashes and just over all terrible performance.

This patch did ZERO of what it said it was accomplishing, in fact it feels more like the game on release than anything.

In fact Ill say the only thing that works properly is the new nerfed red planes lol, WAY TO GO 1C!!!!

I cant understand how a team has had this long to FIX a game and has only taken it 5 steps backwards. I cant wait to see how many steps backwards 2 years of wait time will provide.

Im hoping that the sequel is running a fresh and clean engine, and not some kind of franken engine that CloD, seems to suffer from.

But my honest consesus is that the current Dev team was handed this game, that they don't understand, and they just throw code at it until something different happens, not better, just different.

If this was an FPS title it would have been abandoned as fast as HOMEFRONT. An equally horrible release, and poorishly supported game.

[Ataros]

Repka 3 server is patched. Everyone is welcome for a quick dogfight on a small map.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by jibo

there is way too much happy campers in here, furbs must be boiling, be kind tone it down a lil bit

Nope, i just wish i was one of them. The sim now has gone from being sort of playable online with a crash after 45 mins, at least i could get a sortie in, to being unplayable with a CTD every 10mins.
I know this is a BETA patch but its taken 6 months to get here, what chance of them fixing the multitude of new bugs with in the next 6 months?

They said they tested and fixed what should be the number 1 priority for the so called "rewrite" fix the CTD, everything else is secondary to that.
The patch has given me a slight boost in FPS, though i put that down to them taking out the clouds and making the textures low res.

The major patches so far have...

1st -Screwed the sound (remember having to select no trees to have sound!)
2nd -Fixed sound but introduced the CTD
3rd - Not fixed the CTD and introduced new bugs and taken out clouds and high res textures.

As for adding new features like weather, COOP's, tree collision model, fixed AI commands and the host of other things we need to be added to have a real "BOB" sim, not a snowball chance in hell...none.

Personally i dont think they can fix CLOD and have had a very small number of people working on it for a while but its not the major graphics rewrite they have been telling us, its more of a tweak and stall tactic to get us closer the release of BOM.

6 months to get here? and they say 2 days to fix this and that? they haven't fixed the CTD in 6 months work, yer right.

I dont envy Blacksix's job over the next few weeks but im pretty sure Luthier will be hard to find, apart from a another "im really sorry but making sim is hard, we will fix it, crush everything and blah blah blah"


CLOD is now effectively done, its toast.

[addman]

They must have meant the final patch when they said everything will look the same but with better performance, right? Because I'm looking at a somewhat increased performance but at the cost of seriously downgraded visual fidelity. Pop-up clouds? WTH! Will wait until the final version of the patch before passing judgment though.

Bad times.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by furbs

CLOD is now effectively done, its toast.

You can't imagine how happy I am with the patch, no CTDs, higher FPS, more sounds, working AI commands.
This patch has been a a godsend for me and the other guys in our flying group.

If you really would like to fly the sim, I would suggest you to ask guys on ATAG's TS3 channel who do have the game good an running to help you with the install. Some guys I know thought they had the patch installed good but ultimately didn't, and after they did it right they were flying happy without CTDs and same or higher FPS.

Also, try different settings, be sure to turn off trees and grass, as they would cause stutters and bad performance according to the devs.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Sven

Also, try different settings, be sure to turn off trees and grass, as they would cause stutters and bad performance according to the devs.

Thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll wait to turn CloD in to Flight Simulator 95 until the devs have fixed those "small" niggles "in a few days".

[IvanK]

Spent over 2 hours On line in ATAG (Thanks ATAG) server today with the new patch. No CTD's. RAM usage was rock steady at 65% +- 1%. This with 30 or so players on. Ghosts still present and the Sand bar of Dover still there when looking from afar. All in all things are better for me. Still a fair way to go imo but a big improvement.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by IvanK

Spent over 2 hours On line in ATAG (Thanks ATAG) server today with the new patch. No CTD's. RAM usage was rock steady at 65% +- 1%. This with 30 or so players on. Ghosts still present and the Sand bar of Dover still there when looking from afar. All in all things are better for me. Still a fair way to go imo but a big improvement.

Did you turn off tree's and grass? im going to try this...il report back.