Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

Originally Posted by Tanner

Screenshots = perpetual jaggies
Video < fan-made videos of gameplay on YouTube from Igromir.

Please try to do better than a fan-made video. You're professionals, right?

You're new to Oleg and Team's work right? I would have pre-ordered even if there were no screenshots or videos. If CoD develops the way IL-2 FB did, all the naysayers will have to keep quiet for awhile ... but you probably wont.

Thank God for "ignore."

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by luthier

However we actually are shipping the weather in its current state with the game, accessible to the player via the FMB as a "play with it at your own risk" undocumented feature. And we will definitely be updating and improving it in the future.

Cool! Good to hear.

Originally Posted by luthier

All settings maxed out except no AA.

That's what he said, and the video was fluent. With that CPU. Above water, yeah, but anyway.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by luthier

Most developers stay completely shut in from the world up until a few months from release. We choose to interact with the community throughout the process because we feel that you are mature enough to understand the concepts of "work in progress" and "subject to change".

So I'm not sure how to react when people latch on to something said 5(!) years ago while ignoring everything that's been said over the past year and a half. I guess we brought this onto ourselves.

Some people here just don't have a proper grasp on reality. Don't let them get you down.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by luthier

work. In. Progress. Please understand these simple words.

+1000000000000000000000

[Skinny]

Originally Posted by luthier

My system isn't good enough to run the game at full settings while flying over populated areas, especially over London.

That's actually the fault of the CPU. Even if we replace all objects on the screen with single pixels, it doesn't run any faster. There's just so many objects around you being tracked - buildings and trees - that constantly updating their location relative to you takes a lot of resources.

Luthier, am I right concluding from the above that CoD (much like IL2) is mostly CPU bound, rather than videocard bound ? At least at "normal" resolutions (HD and below) and AA settings, IL2 doesnt care too much what videocard you have, you can increase resolution and AA and it barely makes a difference, even on my old 4870, but the CPU speed makes all the difference in the world, game performance scales almost linearly with CPU clockspeed.

Do you know how well the CoD engine makes use of 4 (or more?) cores, and whether or not that shifts the bottleneck towards the GPU again, or is even a Core i7 or whatever the main bottleneck?

[Skiiwa]

Originally Posted by Old_Canuck

You're new to Oleg and Team's work right? I would have pre-ordered even if there were no screenshots or videos. If CoD develops the way IL-2 FB did, all the naysayers will have to keep quiet for awhile ... but you probably wont.

Thank God for "ignore."

There is an Ignore button on here? I need a see "Only" Button. I only care about the developers coments!

[Friendly_flyer]

Very nice update!

The terrain has a nice hot summer feel to them now, the colour being spot on for England in August to my eyes. I would have liked to see some bushes though, not just trees (unless the ground shots are from a grazing pasture, in which case I miss livestock).

[LukeFF]

Ilya,

What is the status on the dynamic campaign system? We know from the announcement on the Ubi forums that it won't make the original release.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by luthier

If we didn't listen to criticism, Il-2 would never in a million years get to where it did back in 2001.

So please keep it coming.

However it really is best to form your thoughts into a coherent argument in the shape of "x is bad because of y, it would have been better if z". That's constructive, drives the discussion forward, and is the best way to convince us you're right.

+100000 excellent post, and well worth taking note of