QUESTION: Patch 4.10 state

[Viikate]

Originally Posted by indy

So there are several possible conclusions:
1. It already done but someone waits for something. e.g. SoW:BoB release.
2. The project is frosen in some state.
3. The project was stopped and no one keeps work on it any more.

4. The project is being worked every single day. As much as everyone has time to spare after RL duties such as work and family.

[_RAAF_Smouch]

Thanks Viikate.

And fully understand the RL issues as well.

May I be so bold as to ask how well it is travelling though?

[indy]

Originally Posted by Viikate

4. The project is being worked every single day. As much as everyone has time to spare after RL duties such as work and family.

Thanks Viikate. The question is off. But some more appeared:
What is the stage of testing - alpha, beta or pre-release? If the stage is beta or pre-release is it possible to made some kind of beta version increase involved testers amount?

[Mysticpuma]

Come on guys, I'm fed up with this, you know that everyone is waiting for this and yet still you refuse to release it!

I feel it's my duty to let everyone know that the real story is 4.10 but you are actually working on Patch 5 Final.

It will include A Zepplin, Bizmark, every 109 variant ever made, un-porked .50 calibres, real smoke and fire effects, FMB+++++, QMB++++++, Moving Dogfight Server, Very Moving Dogfight Server and Emotionally Crippling Dogfight Server.

The Heavies will all be flyable with accurately modeled Cockpits, the online will have friendly fire directed back at the person shooting it, there'll be a Mosquito Tsetse version, all P-38's and P-47 variants along with a B-26, B-52 and F-86 and Mig's.

All the above are due......but maybe I got that confused with patch 4.11?

Okay, reality check, guys, when it's done it's done. Looking forward to the results but I agree with you making sure it's as good as it can be, as you want time away from the forums to enjoy your labours, not have to fix a rivet 0.1 micron historically inaccurately placed!

Cheers, MP

[SG1_Gunkan]

We love you Daidalos team, keep on the hard work!!!!

An official patch with Zuti work and 6DOF is really needed online.

+1 to all your work, and if you need money, i will pay for your work.

BoB won't be a reality soon.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

Moving Dogfight Server, Very Moving Dogfight Server and Emotionally Crippling Dogfight Server.

+1

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

It will include A Zepplin, Bizmark, every 109 variant ever made, un-porked .50 calibres, real smoke and fire effects, FMB+++++, QMB++++++, Moving Dogfight Server, Very Moving Dogfight Server and Emotionally Crippling Dogfight Server.

The Heavies will all be flyable with accurately modeled Cockpits, the online will have friendly fire directed back at the person shooting it, there'll be a Mosquito Tsetse version, all P-38's and P-47 variants along with a B-26, B-52 and F-86 and Mig's.

On the naval side do not forget the midget submarines, Graf Zepplin carrier, HMS Hood, Operation Sealion Rhine river barges and a selection of little boats for proper Dunkirk simulations.

Observant players will spot various famous personalities including Patton, Rommel (mounted in Grief), Guderian, Montgomery, Indianna Jones and Eisenhower driving around the battlefield. A special feature will be concert tours by the likes of Vera Lynn and Glenn Miller.

Tactical modifications include the ability to kill Tiger tanks by bouncing 0.50 cal off the ground and a special "ludicrous mode" that allows the P51D to perform like the movies.

New maps include Tibet, Casablanca complete with Humphrey Bogart and a fully detailed Rome map complete with his holiness the Pontif waving from his balcony in the Vatican.

There will be Apple OS, Linux and Nintendo Wii versions of the game.

2 weeks

[Oktoberfest]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

On the naval side do not forget the midget submarines, Graf Zepplin carrier, HMS Hood, Operation Sealion Rhine river barges and a selection of little boats for proper Dunkirk simulations.

Observant players will spot various famous personalities including Patton, Rommel (mounted in Grief), Guderian, Montgomery, Indianna Jones and Eisenhower driving around the battlefield. A special feature will be concert tours by the likes of Vera Lynn and Glenn Miller.

Tactical modifications include the ability to kill Tiger tanks by bouncing 0.50 cal off the ground and a special "ludicrous mode" that allows the P51D to perform like the movies.

New maps include Tibet, Casablanca complete with Humphrey Bogart and a fully detailed Rome map complete with his holiness the Pontif waving from his balcony in the Vatican.

There will be Apple OS, Linux and Nintendo Wii versions of the game.

2 weeks

Don't forget the ability to control your bailed out pilot, run to a tank or a car, drive around and recreate the battlefield with Modern Warfare Graphics modeled on the ground.

[Majo]

I really do not get the point...

We do already have all those things some of you mention as "out of any reasonable expectation", as "what great opportunity to show my magnificent sense of irony".
A significant part of the community enjoys everyday those "out of mind requests", even quite a few more and many of those generous additions to the game have been developed by single efforts of people which are very well known in the virtual skies.

So what do I really expect from the 4.10 patch?

What I expect is the confirmation that the work done by the community it really is appreciated by the official staff of the game.
That additional support will be given to those who, mostly alone and in some “non formally acceptable way”, have insufflated unexpectedly new life to the game taking it far beyond anyone expected.
I really expect some few more things, but I think that by now you already have enough arguments to make ingenious comments which I sincerely value.

Forgive me, but I must say one more thing…
There is no reason to confront others in order to defend the game and how things are being handled.
Salutes.

[FC99]

Originally Posted by Majo

So what do I really expect from the 4.10 patch?
What I expect is the confirmation that the work done by the community it really is appreciated by the official staff of the game.

What exactly you are talking about, who is community, who is official stuff and where is DT in all of that?

That additional support will be given to those who, mostly alone and in some “non formally acceptable way”, have insufflated unexpectedly new life to the game taking it far beyond anyone expected.

Again, make you post clear, who are you referring too, if you are talking about modders than say it so.

If you really talk about modders , only them fit “non formally acceptable way”,than DT position is clear and stated long ago. Anybody who he has something to offer, can do that but we are not going to encourage anybody to do things in a “non formally acceptable way”. We might turn the blind eye from time to time but preferred methods are those done in “ formally acceptable way”.
As far as I'm concerned, things that are done and not released as mods have much better chances to be included in future patches than those which are released as mods previously.

Fact is that rare are the ones whose work is good enough to be seriously considered and even rarer are those who are willing to bring up their work to required standard when asked to do so.

Making mods is much easier than making official patch and levels of responsibly are not comparable at all. And that is the main reason why only a few "3rd party" projects will be included in in 4.10.

As far as 4.10 status is concerned, there is only one "big" problem left to be solved. List of features is "locked" and we are doing mostly non-glamorous things like writing translations of all new text added to the game, finalizing new QMB missions and doing minor corrections in 3d models and textures.