Answers to Community Questions

stelr · #1 10-01-2012, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

I appreciate the second set of answers Luthier.

The way I see it from your replies is that whatever is fixed in the next patch is what it will be for good?

BoM will be a new game, new gui, fully working graphics (still using speed tree), a proper campaign, dgen and the maps and aircraft from CloD will be imported into the new game engine?

With regards to the 'new' graphics engine, screenshots don't make look much different from CloD at the moment so can you tell us what's changed or going to change?

Your replies indicated that you were handed over a broken product and your time has been spent repairing it. Now that you will be 'free' of CloD what do you intend to do differently?

Lastly it really is appreciated that you take time to interact with the community, if you did this more regularly I really feel there would be considerably less animosity across the forums.

Finally the way I read your reply is that BoM will be a new game with CloD maps and aircraft imported into it?

If a player has CloD installed that will be a standalone game, if a player buys BoM they get BoM with CloD incorporated into it? So the BoM won't install over Clod it will contain CloD and probably remove the old version when BoM is installed?

Thanks again for the replies, although not what I wanted to hear your interaction (in the second set of answers and some of the first!) IS appreciated.

Please interact more in future.

Cheers, MP

BTW, I think the reason so many of us are passionate about this is that we were spoiled by 1946 and we know we have touched greatness. CloD just didn't fulfill the promises we hoped for.

Good luck with BoM, is there any provisional timeline for releasing it? Maybe 2014, second quarter?

I was about to comment (as this is my first time writing on this forum), but could add nothing to the above. These were my questions exactly. Standing by for answers to these critical questions.

I think if you answer the above points, specifically and clearly, most of the animosity will be abated and faith restored.

v/r
Stel

klem · #2 10-01-2012, 01:48 PM

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Luthier, you say that many core problems will be fixed by the sequel but there will only be one more CoD patch. The fact that the sequel can be loaded over CoD means that CoD will benefit from all of those improvements. These may be net code, LODs etc which we may have to wait for.
BUT! Unique CoD issues have only one more chance. This essentially means the map and the aircraft. Everything else would seem to be 'core' although I may have missed something.

As stated previously, it’s still my hope that we’ll release a map-making SDK allowing the community to change the existing map as they see fit.
Aircraft – as I wrote previously, they won’t be abandoned with the upcoming final patch. We are carrying everything over to the sequel, and they will get the same attention as new sequel aircraft and definitely benefit from our future efforts.

Luthier,
just to be absolutely clear, because some people here will split your words if they can....

Are you saying that if I buy the sequel and load it over CoD I will be able to return to the CoD BoB map, use the sequel's FMB to build new CoD missions, use its new GUIs, use the sequel's new AI commands, in fact use all of the sequel's new core utilities and improvements, to create new CoD/BoB scenarios including off-line missions and will have the old CoD aircraft included with their FMs updated (where necessary)? In other words the CoD part of "SoW/whatever" will be brought to the same level as the sequel.

fruitbat · #3 10-01-2012, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by klem

Luthier,
just to be absolutely clear, because some people here will split your words if they can....

Are you saying that if I buy the sequel and load it over CoD I will be able to return to the CoD BoB map, use the sequel's FMB to build new CoD missions, use its new GUIs, use the sequel's new AI commands, in fact use all of the sequel's new core utilities and improvements, to create new CoD/BoB scenarios including off-line missions and will have the old CoD aircraft included with their FMs updated (where necessary)? In other words the CoD part of "SoW/whatever" will be brought to the same level as the sequel.

I took it as him saying that you won't install it over the top, it wil be a separate game, but will have this content in as well as the BoM stuff.

notafinger! · #4 10-01-2012, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by fruitbat

I took it as him saying that you won't install it over the top, it wil be a separate game, but will have this content in as well as the BoM stuff.

My understanding as well. Sequel will include CloD planes & maps.