BETA PATCH v1.06.17582 - May 05, 2012

[priller26]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

They released it to shut people up who were screaming for the patch; now look where we are.

So now it's the end users fault that the game seems to have taken two steps backwards? I've been very patient in waiting for the patch, and will continue to do so. I don't see though how we as users are now responsible for the failed state of the game. They have had 14 months to polish this thing, and we are always just a few days, weeks, etc from a fully optimized and stable game, with good performance, instead they tore the engine apart, and thought what could not be done in many years, a flyable sim, could be reworked in a mere handful of months.

I have no idea what systems the devs were testing this game on when iit was in development (much of the high end hardware being used now didnt even exist when the game was released) and I wish I knew what the system specs were they are alpha/beta testing the game on. Too many unknowns.

I really think I'll just avoid the frustration for now, some new titles coming out and good old standbys which are really more fun to play, and I don't see BOM as anything for the realistic future if at all.

[Insuber]

Sooo ... let's recap my experience today, after few hours on ATAG:

- fps: no increase on my machine, but they were already ok. Avg is around 28-30.
- stutter: no stutter or very very rare before; I have frequent 1 sec freezes now. Someone says that it's when a new custom skin is loaded. I cannot verify this. I had those freezes seldom also when in dogfight.
- CTD: never had one after the patch, vs. around one every 1h to 2 hours before.
- graphics: no comment as the devs have disables some gfx features for this beta. Anyway I was surprised to see that the trees shadows shimmering is sill there, despite the new gfx engine. Promised or not ...
- FM's: didn't try the red planes. The 109 seemed to climb better at high alt. The G.50 is now playable, despite the initial heating time is still very long. Once my 109 entered in an unrecoverable spin, lwhere before it was nearly impossible to spin. No change on the 110 as far as I can tell.
- sound: the only big issue before was that pesky sound radar, and it is still there. I didn't try the new Merlins. Breda Safats had a nice sound.
- ground explosions: I've noticed a shock wave on ground explosions which I'm not sure was there before. Nice.
- misc: the canopy doesn't get wet in the clouds anymore on the 109, while it still does on the G.50. Weird.

Cheers,
Insuber

[d.burnette]

Wow,
Just got back from an out of town weekend, see this patch has been released and have read most of this thread. I purchased CLOD several weeks ago, and have kind of been in a holding pattern as I knew the patch was coming. I did get all my control mappings done, so I am good to go when the time comes.

Not sure what to think after reading this thread, but I realize this is bascially an alph patch and they are hoping to get a lot more feedback I guess for areas they need to work on.
I think I will hold off until the patch is complete or at least more complete.

I do hope they get it to the level most folks here have been waiting patiently on for many months.

[Freycinet]

I didn't install this alpha patch and I'm getting the feeling that 99 percent of those who did shouldn't have... - Do those 99 percent even know what an alpha patch is, I ask myself?

1) It is for those who feel really comfortable messing around with their game installation.

2) It is for those who actually read the read-me that comes with the patch.

3) It is for those who are ready to send in info about bugs in the proper format.

4) It is for those who realize that the purpose of installing an alpha patch is not to play the sim, but to take part in the procedure of improving the coding.

- I haven't got neither the time nor the inclination nor the knowledge to take part in all that, but obviously this forum is full of expert programmers who feel qualified to do it... A lot of them just hide it very well...

[SPITACE]

will we still get that black screen on start up with this patch??? that makes the sim un playable has adding the update got the sim working for you now???