Communication and work with community

CWMV · #1 09-12-2012, 03:55 AM

Wtf are you on?
ZUTI MDS went a long way to killing UP, to quote a very highly respected contributor to it and dbw, it was a death knell for UP. Simply too complicated.

Further, I'm betting they are waiting for further official il2 releases, as DT has been outdoing themselves recently.

Finally, this probably isn't the place to gripe about you favorite mod pack for A TOTALLY UNRELATED SIM.

MadBlaster · #2 09-12-2012, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by CWMV

Wtf are you on?
ZUTI MDS went a long way to killing UP, to quote a very highly respected contributor to it and dbw, it was a death knell for UP. Simply too complicated.

Further, I'm betting they are waiting for further official il2 releases, as DT has been outdoing themselves recently.

Finally, this probably isn't the place to gripe about you favorite mod pack for A TOTALLY UNRELATED SIM.

i had already read the post you are refering to at SAS before I asked those questions.

Why did zuti leave and stop supporting MDS??? MDS was his baby. Why would someone put all that work into a free mod for the community, give it to UP, which I would argue was the most popular online mod pack, and then disappear of the face of the planet without handing over the reigns? Maybe 1c money, I think. It's a legitimate question.

CWMV · #3 09-12-2012, 04:19 AM

But UP wasn't really that popular, it was simply the only option.
Mds killed coop's, a complaint we hear about CoD all the time. It made additional mods to UP difficult bordering on impossible.

In short UP is a one trick poney with MDS, DBW and now HSFX are just better, with more content, and more flexibility.

But no one knows what the future holds.

MadBlaster · #4 09-12-2012, 04:37 AM

Well Hades says out in the open on UP website that it is not for co-ops. It's for dogfight, mission based server and was built for that purpose, and until recently, very popular. So, Hades wasn't trying to pretend it was for co-ops crowd.

Now ask yourself, the 1c "announcement" we are all waiting for, MMO or whatever...128 player online battles that never materialized. How do you get that going when your game doesn't even work? In cutthroat business, you buy the competing talent. Zuti is the talent. He made it happen already. He is proven commodity. So, make logical sense to me for 1C to buy him out. It is quite possible that is why he did MDS in the first place. To show off his talent. Then get big money contract and sign deal, then shut the free game down.

But, of course, I can only speculate. So, I ask my questions because I want to know why the best mod pack for full real moving dogfight mission based servers seems to be going down the drain overnight. And since I paid for CLOD, I can ask.