Your CLOD rating...(before)

[JG52Uther]

I gave it a 50.Some parts of it ARE brilliant, such as the cockpits,but its obvious there is a lot to be done, and everything just feels so 'clunky' now, GUI, multiplayer, even the QMB is not as good as il2. If I didn't know it was made by MG/1C I would think it was made by another company.
Lets hope we can improve on the scores after the next patch.

[SacaSoh]

70... i can enjoy the sim, but only as an "over the channel 6x6 skirmish generator".

[Feathered_IV]

I gave it a generous 60. Clod is still a weird mix of obsessive detail, placeholders and broken features.

This poll is going to be a great snapshot of the current build. Will be interesting to see how it compares this time next year.

[Rattlehead]

I scored it a 60, for now.

The meat of the game is present. There is so much attention to detail and so much obvious painstaking research and commitment to delivering an authentic WW2 simulator that it's mind-boggling. When I'm up there flying, I'm pretty immersed by the whole experience.

But you can't ignore it's shortcomings at present either. It's very, very unpolished at present, and whether it's a sim or not, made by a small team or not, it has to be compared to other video games out there.

That is the way I approached this thread... I totally understand the circumstances and challenges in creating a product like this in this market, but many people, many of whom are not hardcore simmers, will pick up this game and simply want to fly without hassle.
Without the much-needed polish, much of the true genius of this game will go unnoticed by many.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

I gave it a genClod is still a weird mix of obsessive detail, placeholders and broken features.

A very good comment that tells a story about mismanaged development. Ironically this will probably work out in our favour eventually since the game will hopefully be filled in after release and into the expansions.

This has turned into an interesting poll! Ignoring the outliers the curve peaks at 60-70 which seems about right to me. Hopefully this improves after the next patch.

[Viper2000]

If I'm generous, 45%; I think it's a half-completed 90% sim. I guess it'll be done in about 2017; but by then it'll probably only be about a 75% rating if we assume 3% inflation...

Haven't played for quite a while now, and don't expect to until there's a major patch. Just popped into the forum to see if there had been any developments or updates and it would appear not so I'll go back to other stuff.

I doubt I shall be pre-ordering anything from 1C again because the expected level of communication, updates, and patch progress hasn't materialised, so I might as well have waited for it to hit the bargain bin.

I am not so bothered by the unfinished state of the sim, or even the lack of progress, as by the lack of consistent updates.

It's pretty simple to type a paragraph a week saying "we did this; it went ok; next week we'll try doing that...".

If a simple update like this cannot be achieved on a weekly basis, then that doesn't exactly inspire much confidence that the really difficult tasks (finding the bugs, fixing the bugs, adding missing content without adding a disproportionate number of further bugs) are actually getting achieved.

Providing updates obviously consumes time which might be used for working on the code, but 15 minutes a week isn't much; 0.625% of a 40 hour week. And we're given to believe that 1C are working much harder than that. So really, a small weekly update would represent an insignificant investment of time, and would greatly increase confidence that things will get better.

It is that confidence that will keep the community going until the sim is genuinely functional (ie until it reaches the point at which the critics consider re-reviewing it), so that there is a good MP experience available to drive sales, especially sales of additional expansions, which will presumably be where 1C starts to really make some return on their investment.

This is important, because I for one won't be jumping to buy any such expansion unless and until it may be demonstrated that the current sim is finished. What I mean by this is that 1C don't even need to finish the current sim for free; they could fix it as part of a paid expansion, and provided that the price is not more than a normal full-price game, I'd probably buy it. But, and this is crucial, I would only buy such an expansion after reading good reviews, because I'm not chucking good money after bad.

Anyway, I'm off again. See you again in 2 weeks or whenever a patch comes out...

Where's the option for zero?

[Jatta Raso]

my's on 60 right now, though i see potential to grow to 90

voted 20, game is very bugged, a few good bits but I voted it down due to the awful development team, i have no trust left in them at all and they deserve to go bust.

[Feathered_IV]

Are there any original members of the team left now. Or has the lineup of Maddox Games changed completely since the Forgotten Battles days?