oleg, you better hurry, RoF is releasing a ww-2 sim next

[ElAurens]

If you look at my early posts at SimHQ, I was very enthusiastic about RoF.

I still am in some ways.

The flight modeling is very good indeed, as are the aircraft models.

However, after flying it for a while now the new has worn off and the problems are becoming very apparent. My most recent posts at SimHQ reflect this experience with the sim.

You can agree with the business model or not, I'm not getting wrapped up in that debate, but no one can tell me that all is well and that the unicorns and rainbows are there for all to see. The rabid fanboism at SimHQ is out of control. If you are an onliner and post about problems with the multiplayer aspects of the sim your comments are brushed off as trivial gamer talk. Only "serious" off line players can have valid observations there it seems.

I want RoF to succeed. It has tremendous potential.

But right now the emperor has no clothes, and the fan boys are blind as a bat.

[Feuerfalke]

That's true, zapatista.

Considering neoqb has to maintain online servers 24/7 for all their stuff it makes you wonder why they don't have some official servers running for their customers.

[Chivas]

It does surprise me that Neoqb doesn't have dedicated servers running for their customers. I could be because the code hasn't been optimized enough to run effectively with large groups of players. It doesn't bother me at this point as I usually like to learn the aircraft and practice shooting skills before venturing on-line.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

If you look at my early posts at SimHQ, I was very enthusiastic about RoF.

I still am in some ways.

The flight modeling is very good indeed, as are the aircraft models.

However, after flying it for a while now the new has worn off and the problems are becoming very apparent. My most recent posts at SimHQ reflect this experience with the sim.

You can agree with the business model or not, I'm not getting wrapped up in that debate, but no one can tell me that all is well and that the unicorns and rainbows are there for all to see. The rabid fanboism at SimHQ is out of control. If you are an onliner and post about problems with the multiplayer aspects of the sim your comments are brushed off as trivial gamer talk. Only "serious" off line players can have valid observations there it seems.

I want RoF to succeed. It has tremendous potential.

But right now the emperor has no clothes, and the fan boys are blind as a bat.

I will have to read your thoughts on ROF over at the HQ...I had thought that you were very happy with the sim...should be an interesting read

[ElAurens]

SlipBall, many aspects of RoF do make me glad I bought it.

But after seeing aircraft after aircraft crash in to the earth from thousands of feet and bounce or just crumple a bit, I'm becoming less enthusiastic about the DM. Oleg had this pegged in his comments on it. It looks to me like they just applied FPS "rag doll" physics to the crash DM. One of the German squads put together a little vid of various aircraft collisions with ground objects. It's like the planes are made partly of rubber. They flew an Albatross head on into a moving train and it just bounced and bent the fueslage a bit. Rubbish. That aircraft should have been totally destroyed.

And after flying the thing almost nightly since I received my copy I'm simply getting bored. Multiplayer does not exist in any way that those of us who have flown IL2 from the beginning understand. I've never been an offliner, but the RoF "campaign" is dull and lifeless, the only thing good about it is the fact that at least the AI will engage you and they don't have super human powers like Oleg's do.

If online were really an option I would be a lot happier.

neoqb really needs to get off their butts and get this sim brought up to a level where one could realistically call it a finished product.

They don't have a lot of time to do this, at least as far as I'm concerned.

They have the basis of a very good and long lived title here, really they do. But they need to fix it. Yesterday.