Friday Development Update - September 16, 2011

[150GCT_Veltro]

This beta is an important step forward, but do you guys have any news about clouds? I'm not talking about dynamic weather, but properly clouds that are the same from IL2 (placeholders?).

Is there a time line for the sky update?

[robtek]

One thing after the other, i'd say.

Don't put more pressure at the devs, they're working on their own accord, let them fix it right.

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by 150GCT_Veltro

This beta is an important step forward, but do you guys have any news about clouds? I'm not talking about dynamic weather, but properly clouds that are the same from IL2 (placeholders?).

Is there a time line for the sky update?

Hummm ... 7 days ?

[heywooood]

hmmm - same ol' same ol'

Hello Ilya - looks like you have your hands full again...

I have held off purchasing CoD after reading the early reviews and now it looks like a carbon copy of the original Il2's teething pains.

Like that one this sim was rushed, Il2 was too strong for current hardware, patches were needed to dumb it down, some effects had to be removed or reduced, no one was really happy - or rather - each patch angered some and pleased others, until finally the hardware began to catch up and you could begin to unlock and update and make Il2 the way it was supposed to be. This stuff isn't new to anyone who was around when the original was released.

And just like back when, your priorities are never the same as the 'fanbois' priorities. You talk about 3d and they want to know where their Caproni is at already....yikes

This looks identical to that situation, so you have my sincerest sympathy.

I will keep looking in on these boards though - I do plan on buying CoD someday...the screenshots look terrific

[Jamir]

Originally Posted by ktodack

So for 3D what kind of monitor and glasses will be needed?

Try to find as much information you can, take your time. Worst to Best cap is huge and every tech have their + and -. If you chose wrong you will end up at "it's a gimmick" camp chose right and you will not go back to 2D. I would go DLP projector + 3D vision set at the moment or wait new Sony HMD.

Make sure that TV/monitor/projector that you chose have minimal amount of ghosting, some off it come from glasses but over 95% is from display device. This is number one issue for sure, over time it will start to bother(there are many angry TV set owners for this reason), it will give you headaches, it will make your eyes to fatigue + it just look bad. So look for ghost free.

http://3dvision-blog.com/ this site have many reviews of LCD monitors.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

I hope a release of an official patch, with significant content is released in the very near future. I beleive it would help stimulate on line interest,at present not a very robust following online.

Well, if they really mean that what we got two weeks ago was a beta, then we can not expect the release version to contain more features than the beta (albeit with bugs fixed that where found in the beta) ? Otherwise it was an alpha we got

Mazex

[adonys]

it was always an alpha until now: each "beta" version release we've got was never re-released then as an official release, but was followed up by another version official release (and not only containing fixes, but also new features which were not present in the "beta" release).

which, by the book definition means that all releases we've got are in fact beta ones

[Frequent_Flyer]

Based upon the various forums, the majority, myself included beleive the sim in it's present state is a Beta release. I am not certain what your point was?

[ingsoc84]

Originally Posted by Frequent_Flyer

Based upon the various forums, the majority, myself included beleive the sim in it's present state is a Beta release. I am not certain what your point was?

Agreed..holding off on upgrading my video card until I see what the new releases/patches etc holds..I love the game...its just (still) seems to be early in development.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by mazex

Well, if they really mean that what we got two weeks ago was a beta, then we can not expect the release version to contain more features than the beta (albeit with bugs fixed that where found in the beta) ? Otherwise it was an alpha we got

Mazex

Exactly. If something extra comes along it will probably be some small features or bug corrections that weren't initially mentioned for this patch, but not something radical.

The way it usually goes is:

1. dev update after an official patch saying what they are working on for the next patch
2. one or more extra dev updates depending on how long it takes to get a beta ready
3. beta release and testing
4. beta bug reporting
5. correcting beta bugs
6. official patch release
7. rinse and repeat

No reason guessing what the patch is going to include, it's mainly what the beta included or was supposed to include (in case of features that needed more work).

Sorry to be a killjoy for some, but let's maintain reasonable expectations to avoid disappointment later on

P.S. SDKs and the like are scheduled for after the main phase of graphics/sound/performance changes are finished, maybe the FM/DM corrections as well, at least that's what Luthier said some time ago.