Monday (???) April 4 Development Update

[sg1221]

The beta patch you're releasing before Fridays steam patch , will it be available for all of us to download and try or just for 1c beta testers ? If it is for all of us will it be posted here?

Many Thanks

sg

[Winger]

Originally Posted by sg1221

The beta patch you're releasing before Fridays steam patch , will it be available for all of us to download and try or just for 1c beta testers ? If it is for all of us will it be posted here?

Many Thanks

sg

If i got it right it will be accessible to everone.

Winger

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by luthier

2. Trees are still much slower than they can be, but we did completely reshovel the entire code to completely remove microfreezes. They're gone. The code is currently bruteforcing a lot of the stuff so it's not nearly as fast as it can be. We'll be optimizing it some more. Should not take a long time at all.

Ironic the "speed trees" are slowing it down.

[nearmiss]

On Target... Great news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9SpHLyZuP0

[mcler002]

Originally Posted by luthier

hello everyone,

thank you all for your continuing support! Thought i'd update you on our progress made after the release date patch went live early on the 31st of march. We worked through the weekend to improve the game some more. I have to note that this wasn't anything unusual, most of the team has been working on a schedule like this for months. As i think i've mentioned somewhere, i've been working 7 days a week since mid-summer.

Our main priority, as stated before, is improving performance.

Here's what we've done as of the end of the day today.

1. Buildings are as fast as we can make them. That's it. I doubt we can improve them more.

2. Trees are still much slower than they can be, but we did completely reshovel the entire code to completely remove microfreezes. They're gone. The code is currently bruteforcing a lot of the stuff so it's not nearly as fast as it can be. We'll be optimizing it some more. Should not take a long time at all.

3. Misc bug fixes, as we can get to them, are also being put in. We've fixed the extremely unfortunate fmb oversight with the labels - it was the result of an overly zealous optimization effort last week. We've also done things to our info windows, since they gave people more problems than we could ever possibly imagine. That alt-click, we still need to figure out what to do with it. Maybe even reverse the entire thing and make the cockpit alt-clickable and chat windows normal-clickable. I don't think we've ever done anything that confused the players more than these damned windows.

4. We've also finalized updates to the multiplayer gui - see attachment for preview.

5. Unfortunately what seemed like an easy fix to the server search issue in steam still eludes us. Since i'm only allowed to admit to our own faults but not to other peoples' i can't say anything more about this.


The plan right now is to release an open beta version of the patch tomorrow night or the next day. It'll be a small archive you manually extract on top of your game's install. This is to allow the people to test the fixes. Since we've done some radical things in #1 and #2, we don't want to make the patch live to the entire world right away. We're hoping that everything will go smoothly and nothing new is found in the update, which means we can go ahead with our plans and push the update out to steam the end of the day friday.

Our great hope that the friday version will allow everyone to run the game smoothly and finally begin complaining about fm and dm and ai and skins and missions and gui and landscape and the clouds and the weather!

thank you - your'll be happy to know that i brought a second copy of the game already

[Ctrl E]

is there any word on SLI support and core optimisation?

I only ask because many of us who built high end machines specifically on the promises made around this game now find the game unplayable.

[Vierzinger]

Thanks for the update.
I bought the Sim friday. Most of all to make sure that your guys will get paid and hope that you will have the energy to continue working on the successsor to our beloved IL-2 1946. As COD is now, it won't replace 1946 right away. But looking at all the features I do see its potential.

Goodspeed

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

is there any word on SLI support and core optimisation?

I only ask because many of us who built high end machines specifically on the promises made around this game now find the game unplayable.

This post addresses SLI (and I assume xfire): http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=20472&page=2.

[dflion]

Appreciate this update Luthier, I am just working quietly on familiarizing myself with every thing and getting the cockpit controls working well. The FMB label fix will be much appreciated.
DFLion

[esmiol]

before thx i will wait the patch!

if it make all it must do...then i will be the first to thx you all!

but i wait friday to see!