Thinking about a Community Patch

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by SiThSpAwN

You should be able to prevent Steam from doing that automatically... I have the original IL2 in steam and its full of goodies that dont seem to be hurt by Steam.

As for people commenting on whether they would like us to mess with the code I say its modding, and modding is what kept the IL2 series afloat for all these years... I think if a team could be put together it could be interesting for sure...

Well that would be great to get rid of Steam. However I specifically asked Luthier if he would ever get rid of it and he said 'no'. Although he did say later he will be releasing SDK for modding. So, I think he supports modding, but he would like you to do it through the SDK. I understand this. They need to make a living doing what they do, somehow.


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2. will you ever consider getting rid of steam and going to hyper-lobby format?
No.

On the other hand, if you invested thousands of dollars in hardware to play this dud, I can see a strong case for wanting to circumvent and make the game playable in the meantime until the sequel. Self interest verses community, usually the former wins out.

If I was Luthier, I would get on that SDK release really fast.

[SiThSpAwN]

I dont think you need to sweat Steam too much, I think you could work around it, the only issue would be after the sequel and how it all meshes together with that and mods...

[SNAFU]

Great idea! Let´s diivide the 50 CloD online player into 5 different mod-groups, so everyone can enjoy his one-and-only-real-plane. Well, on the other hand, it doesn´t really matter, 50 players are not enough anyway.

And it will finally happen, whatever we do, so why not control it...

[philip.ed]

The mods breathed new life into Il-2. I agree with Feathered_IV; when CloD is abandoned I can't see an issue with people modding the stand-alone game proper. It could improve it tenfold.

I'm sure all the online fliers who love the series will be itching to make use of BoM with CloD installed into it anyway, thus using a completely different game altogether.

[baronWastelan]

Sure, let the "Community" muck up CloD with mods and end up with a shambles like this:

[Anders_And]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

Sure, let the "Community" muck up CloD with mods and end up with a shambles like this:

What am I supposed to look at here?!?