Communication and work with community

[kendo65]

it seems that they have given up now on any attempt to keep people informed.

BlackSix is frustrated at us. But he can only tell us what has been authorised and that seems to be precious little.

What happened to the 'Big Announcement' that 'had to happen' in June?

We don't even know now whether the sequel is Moscow, Stalingrad or both.

What about the MMO? Another nugget thrown our way and then left hanging without any further information or explanation - or even the most basic confirmation of whether the game will continue to have offline single player and online modes as well as MMO. (I suspect it will but once again the detail given is hazy enough to raise doubts in people's minds)

Where is Luthier?

Mention of a Release Candidate for the Steam patch to appear this month (hopefully) is encouraging, but overall the situation continues to be a shambles.

[FS~Phat]

I've no time to clean up this mess right now.

Guys you really made a mess of this.

[JG52Uther]

[BlackSix]

Originally Posted by RickRuski

BlackSix, Sorry if you misunderstood my question, nowhere did I suggest that the information came from you, it didn't. It was originally posted by either Luthier or Ilya (not sure which) when questions were asked as to what will hapen with sequels. My question was related to that information. Here's another relevent one: -

What is happening about Sli/Crossfire support??

This statment was issued by Luthier back in about April 2011: -
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5. Resurrecting SLI support. This is our next biggest priority; it’s done by the same programmer now in final stages of optimizing buildings. We are really hoping this will be a quick task, but I don’t have an ETA at this point. It’ll either be a couple of days, or a much longer undetermined amount of time if we have to submit versions to card manufacturers and ask for their input.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS IS OUR NEXT BIGGEST PRIORITY??

His last answer is:

Is in the upcomming Patch SLI and Quad SLI still working as "Performance Break"?Is this crazy feature still in? Or did you solve the Problem?

We haven’t made changes to our SLI and Quad SLI support in the upcoming patch.

More specifically about the SLI question.
SLI support is two-ways, it needs to be in our game and in NVidia drivers. We have it in our game, but the patch needs to be certified by NVidia and a change needs to be added on their end.
We probably will try to get the upcoming betapatch certified by NVidia and get SLI support for the game with the next driver release.

Originally Posted by kendo65

What happened to the 'Big Announcement' that 'had to happen' in June?

We don't even know now whether the sequel is Moscow, Stalingrad or both.

What about the MMO?

Where is Luthier?

1) 'Big Announcement' was canceled and postponed to an unspecified date in the future
2) Theater of operations will be disclosed in the announcement
3) No comment about MMO
4) Luthier has a lot of work

[wannabetheace]

what does MMO stand for ??

[BlackSix]

Originally Posted by wannabetheace

what does MMO stand for ??

Nobody here does not have accurate information. And I don't comment this question.

[Torian]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

Nobody here does not have accurate information. And I don't comment this question.

Ummm...was that meant to be a serious answer to his question??

Massive Multiplayer Online perhaps

MMO = My Massive Omnishambles

Ben

Hi Blacksix, could you ask Luthier to give a little more detail on SLI rather than we will 'probably' get Nvidia to certify. Many users have SLI and Crossfire systems and although Luthier said back in the development days and I quote 'SLI should work why wouldn't it?' and then just after release he said that the epilepsy filter was preventing SLI working and again last year he went on to say that the next official Nvidia patch would have a CLOD profile. Unfortunately 18 months after release SLI is still very hit and miss some see benefits others dont, would it be reasonable to suggest that your customers should finally have a definitive answer on this seeing as past statements from Luthier regarding SLI have turned out to be more than a little dubious?

[BlackSix]

Originally Posted by Torian

Ummm...was that meant to be a serious answer to his question??

I understand the question about MMO as "how it relates to our future games?".