Good news on future of BOM

[WTE_Galway]

Let us be honest, a great slab of the work invested into CoD involved getting the maps historically correct, the airfields historical and attempting to get the 40's feel and look historical for the period but that all turned out to be of no interest to the majority of players, or at least the majority posting on forums.

In the end it turned out what people really wanted was the ability to showoff their elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics and who cares about historical accuracy.

The new sim sounds like it will be awesome for showing off elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics without to much attention to historical detail mucking up the online game balance.

Sounds to me that people are getting exactly what they have been asking for.

[klem]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Let us be honest, a great slab of the work invested into CoD involved getting the maps historically correct, the airfields historical and attempting to get the 40's feel and look historical for the period but that all turned out to be of no interest to the majority of players, or at least the majority posting on forums.

In the end it turned out what people really wanted was the ability to showoff their elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics and who cares about historical accuracy.

The new sim sounds like it will be awesome for showing off elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics without to much attention to historical detail mucking up the online game balance.

Sounds to me that people are getting exactly what they have been asking for.

I can't agree with that. Historically correct maps? Barely, not considering the data available, its more like one of those simplified maps from a tourist guide. Historical airfields? No, just airfields put mostly in the right place with some correct runways (and too many unuseable runway surfaces). The attempt to make it look and feel like the 1940's fell short of making it feel like the BoB or historical basically due to the poor FMB which is why offline and basic on-line campaigns are naff. On-line campaigns are now only beginning to feel like the BoB because of the amount of work put into them by some of the dedicated members of the community, not easy when it calls for extensive complex scripting. The poor FMs don't help it feel historical or like the BoB either. They got close to getting it right then jumped ship.

What do we want? Most guys I meet on line want realism not FPS.

Awesome graphics? Yes I'd go with that for CoD, it is a big step forward but BoS will be Dx9. Can Dx9 deliver CoD-standard grapics? The RoF graphics don't impress me. In this respect CoD raised the bar.

My worry is that we will get exactly what we haven't been asking for. We can only wait and see.

[Punch_145]

Ground Objects, frame-rate, historical accuracy, new A/C ....................Just make Co-ops work that's all we need............

Regards,

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Punch_145

Ground Objects, frame-rate, historical accuracy, new A/C ....................Just make Co-ops work that's all we need............

Regards,

+1

Hello Punch

[Punch_145]

How you doing m8......................been a long time

[DuxCorvan]

None of this would have happened, had CLoD been half as good and appealing as it was supposed to be after years of unending development and heart melting promises. In the end, they were overwhelmed, they botched it, they got deaf to critics, and it was a dud. Planes were few, the campaign was a bore lacking all immersion, the FMB was a joke, the engine was stuttery and too demanding, and terrain colors were terrible Van-Goghesque pastels.

CLoD was a failure. The price to pay, is that industry does not trust anymore in the conoisseur-targeted formula. They have a business, you know, and they want it to be profitable. CLoD is not.

Of course, if they go for the mean and greedy micro-DLC business formula they used in ROF, I'm out of this one, too. And pray they don't resurrect that stupid constant online DRM they used then, now that is somehow fashionable again.

[ElAurens]

I have my doubts that the R0F folks can pull it off as well.

Sure they will have a title called IL2, and it will work on many different spec machines, but, it is being built on an old engine that is severely limited in capabilities.

I guess I'm just jaded after all this time.

I hope the new sim will be good, nay, great. But I expect it will be mediocre at best.

Hope I'm wrong.

[Matt255]

Originally Posted by DuxCorvan

Planes were few, the campaign was a bore lacking all immersion, the FMB was a joke, the engine was stuttery and too demanding, and terrain colors were terrible Van-Goghesque pastels

Unfortunately, that's all true for RoF and/or will most likely be true for BoS aswell, unless they fix all that in a few months (about same time as they are working on the Channel map alone now). I thought the CloD were too vibrant and not at all pastel like, atleast compared with the RoF colors, but oh well.

I don't care who develops this next sim, but it will take a very long time until we'll get a complex WW2 flightsim like that. The 2014 release date will either mean low content, bugs or both. They should take their time and get it right for once.