Friday Update, April 13, 2012

[furbs]

Did i miss something about a new GUI?

[addman]

Originally Posted by luthier

We wanted to make in-game graphs for CoD, but we ran out of time to build the GUI. And because we're moving to a whole new system for our GUI, thank goodness, we won't be able to make it for CoD.



Spit I got better. Its speeds at altitude got progressively worse than the real thing in the old build. The patch will make it better.

The Hurricane got about 20 mph slower, sorry. It's historically accurate.

The Blenheim got a major boost though, so - no reason to cry the way I see it.



We like the offline AI. It's realistically dumb on lower levels, and pretty tricky at higher levels. There won't be a huge change there.



Yes all of this goes into the one beta patch you'll be seeing in a matter of days.

If you have a dual core you will still see a tiny improvement, but it won't be as much as a quad or 8 core. Still, in the old build you still overused the first code and underused the second one, so there will be an improvement anyway.

Of course, there's a larger overall FPS improvement that's due to code optimization, not multithreading, so everyone will benefit regardless of system specs.

Originally Posted by furbs

Did i miss something about a new GUI?

Second time I re-post what luthier said.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by addman

Second time I re-post what luthier said.

Ta! it couldn't be worse than the one we have now.

[addman]

Originally Posted by furbs

Ta! it couldn't be worse than the one we have now.

Well, as you may have noticed in luthiers post, they weren't too ecstatic about the current one that's for sure. If I remember it correctly, we were shown the current GUI for the first time shortly before CloD was released. I bet they just had to scramble something together as quickly as possible. I'm not defending the current GUI, it's horrible in almost every way but I can understand why it is such a mess.

[furbs]

Agreed, it looks rushed beyond belief. Will we see new one in CLOD right not just BOM?

[Robert]

I like the esthetics they were trying to achieve with the UI in CoD. The functionality is what could use the work. I'd not mind a combination of an updated QMB as in IL2:1946 and this, but I'd settle for the former without combination if it's not possible.


Oh, BTW 1C team - Thanks for the efforts. They are appreciated and I, like many, are looking forward to the improvements this new beta gives and to the future of CoD.