Communication and work with community

[yobnaf]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

The short news, August 31, 2012

We're working on a release candidate patch for CloD. We plan to complete this work in the near future. I can't specify the exact date, please wait. If the public testing won't show serious bugs, this patch will be available via Steam officially.

Stay tuned

Wow..good news. I can see a big shining patch coming !

[David198502]

great!
i hope by then:
-low res skins
-serious stutters
-serious frame rate drops
-launcher crashes
-particle effects
-sound bug
-trees
-clouds
-bomberformations
-ai behaviour
-FMs
-ground handling
-conf.ini, conf.user exploit
-netcode
-full screen

....will be fixed

making official what we have now, would be a big step backwards to the last official steam version.

[smink1701]

Originally Posted by David198502

great!
i hope by then:
-low res skins
-serious stutters
-serious frame rate drops
-launcher crashes
-particle effects
-sound bug
-trees
-clouds
-bomberformations
-ai behaviour
-FMs
-ground handling
-conf.ini, conf.user exploit
-netcode
-full screen

....will be fixed

making official what we have now, would be a big step backwards to the last official steam version.

This is a golden opportunity for 1C to get CloD on track and get back a lot of the trust and respect they have lost as a credible developer. It will start with them actually releasing the patch in September. After that, I hope we can see a significant difference. In many of the previous patches the updates have been a bit underwhelming. I think most people would say that with all the missing features and graphics problems, CLoD has felt like a half-finished game. I hoped the RC is the polished product we paid for.

[Ataros]

BlackSix, could you please ask Luthier again to assign somebody to making a sample of a multiplayer Add-In. We discussed it some months ago @ sukhoi and IIRC you said it is possible to come back to the issue after patch is released. Naryv mentioned that MP Add-Ins should work since resent beta. Making a small sample should not be very time-consuming then.

Luthier lost many potential customers of the sequel when decided to exclude COOP mode from CloD. MP Add-In sample will allow community programmers to bring COOPs back to CloD without much time spent by the devs. This will bring some of the customers back and make them interested in buying the sequel afterwards.

This would be a really smart move to use community efforts to make more money for 1C and the dev team. I hope Luthier can make it. Maybe the dev team's future depends on it as COOPs made original IL-2 so popular and long-lasting (online wars, etc.).

PS. Community knows how to make single-player Add-ins now but they do not work in MP which was supposed to be fixed in beta according to Naryv. Now only a small sample is needed.

[il_corleone]

Originally Posted by Ataros

BlackSix, could you please ask Luthier again to assign somebody to making a sample of a multiplayer Add-In. We discussed it some months ago @ sukhoi and IIRC you said it is possible to come back to the issue after patch is released. Naryv mentioned that MP Add-Ins should work since resent beta. Making a small sample should not be very time-consuming then.

Luthier lost many potential customers of the sequel when decided to exclude COOP mode from CloD. MP Add-In sample will allow community programmers to bring COOPs back to CloD without much time spent by the devs. This will bring some of the customers back and make them interested in buying the sequel afterwards.

This would be a really smart move to use community efforts to make more money for 1C and the dev team. I hope Luthier can make it. Maybe the dev team's future depends on it as COOPs made original IL-2 so popular and long-lasting (online wars, etc.).

PS. Community knows how to make single-player Add-ins now but they do not work in MP which was supposed to be fixed in beta according to Naryv. Now only a small sample is needed.

You are rigth. Hey B6 please, see this, if the guys finish their work whi the engine, i think will be a smart move, thinkin of the SDK and the Coop Mode, this will bring back so much good moments like the last il2, and i think i am not alone thinkin this, if you guys need to work in another important things, releasing the SDK will fix much problems, the Comunnity has done Very Good gob to the game whitout SDK, only think we will do whit it.

[5./JG27.Farber]

B6,

Here you can see examples of the net code problem.

watch the aircraft zoom and fly sideways.

[flash]