Quick epilepsy update
 

Hello everyone,

Once again I want to point out that a lot of your earlier anger was misplaced. Actually, our colleagues at Ubisoft are extremely interested in making this game a success, they care about our opinion and yours, and everyone we work with there is understanding and cordial and more than willing to listen and change their mind.

Having said that, I'm glad to announce that the debacle has been resolved.

We will be making the filter optional, however turned on by default. And we will be adding a large epilepsy warning to our splash screen. I am almost certain that this update will hit the steam servers on March 30th and thus seamlessly make it onto everyone's machines when the game is installed on the 31st.

The March 30th update will also address some of the issues reported with the Russian version, but we'll provide more details with the patch notes once we know for sure what it'll contain. Obviously, we need to test the heck out of all the changes to make sure we don't introduce any new bugs while fixing the old ones (the team's favorite past time lately as it seems).

So there! Do a happy dance, I know I did.

very good news...so the very nice looking props stay? :)

Hurrah thats great news thank you, and great for all us SLI and Crossfire users. :grin:

Rock on :)

I'm sure there will be a great many very happy people :)

Yes furbs all the props will be back no more Spitty jets.

Thanks for the update, Luthier. I'm sure that will put many minds at rest.

Might want to make this a sticky for a few days.

+1

Thanks Luthier

Thanks Ubi

What did I tell you nay sayers? :-)

Thank you for the news.

Please, stick this. It will help to stop the panic. I'm going crazy. :(

Awesome news mate.

Just one question, have the DVD versions been affected by this epi filter? I mean I've been advised my order will be available tomorrow so I would have assumed the store would have had my copy sitting in the back room for about a week now.

Thanks for the update and your time Luthier.

The game will not allow you to play the version that's on the DVD even if you try. The installer will automatically grab and download the latest version as it exists on steam's servers, and install that right off the bat.

So, whenever it is you install the game, your version will be the same as everybody else's. You can choose to disable future updates if you like but not with the initial install.

Awesome - thanks Luthier, Oleg and team!

Can't wait until Cliffs reaches the quiet backwaters of retail Canada (May delivery from Amazon for the DVD it would seem) - no doubt by then there'll be several iterations of patch to download from Steam (I've been impressed with how this process works with other titles so no concerns there).

Cheers,

Spinner

Sweet ... thanks for clearing that up Luthier

Well, Luthier...A big kis...heu...hug...And I think that UBI deserves a big thanks from the sim community...I had enough on this UBI bashing...And they
did change the DRM process , and now, they revised their position on a major legal issue...I think that shows their good faith and their total support to COD...It is a VERY good news, for us, for you, the team and Oleg who certainely needs a break here... as well as you !!!!
So go ahead my friend ! Dance ! Because...WILL BE BACK WITH LOTS OF COMPLAINTS AND WHINNING :evil: !!!!! ;)
Thank you sooooo much ! :-P

Salute !

Thanks for the good news. Does this mean, if we disable the epilepsy filter, we will be seeing the game as it was originally designed, and not one that was tweaked to pass the epilepsy test without the filter?

No, it means you'll have a seizure :-P

The epi filter is not a legal requirement, it's voluntary, the only legal requirement required is a warning label on the product. Whether that be on the box, on the manual or on screen it doesn't matter, it only has to be displayed. UBI have put in place a voluntary health and safety check that surpasses the legal requirement for games.

Yes, but they did that to avoid having a law stomped on their heads (and other editors' & studios')
and when you make such an engagement, it becomes somehow binding, even if not purely "legal".
The lawyers at Ubi must have been consulted on that one.

Yay, everybody can have happy thoughts now....will these changes do much for the multiplayer aspect of the game?

Just to clear things up for me:
Will this boost performance and cut the stuttering?

EDIT: Will the game finally be playable?

Thanks

MugiSNK

You have the game installed then?

So you know how it performs on your system already?

:grin: :grin: :grin: THANKS Maddox Games!!!!! :grin: :grin: :grin:

Me? No. All videos I've seen include the stutter. I hope it will be fixed by the next update, as said.

That's a good start. Hopefully they make some progress on the memory handling issues as well.

Amazingly, things really aren't all doom & gloom given a bit of patience.

Thank you very much, a lot of us knew you were going to fix this very soon and you did.Those who were insanely worried can take a rest now?

A big thanks to Luthier, Oleg, 1C and Ubisoft! Grrreat news!

Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

Such good news. Way to go guys. Its good to hear that Ubi is supporting the
effort to make this game a success. All the speculation was getting heated and
nearly outta control.

I have a simple question... (maybe a silly one for those who know)

When we install from DVD - the filter will be there right? But Steam will auto update
immediately after install with a filter "Switch" so we can choose to have it on or off?

Is that how it will work? Please can someone tell me if this is how it will work.
Thanks.

Great news! Thank you!

That's how I read what Ilya said.

Ok when the performance issues have been issued I'll get the international version as well.. :cool:

Well said, an honest man(woman) will never be without friends ;)

And you needn't worry about CoD it will far surpass your expectations.... :)

Thanks BADAIM, I just had a moment there.

Luthier was right about the little dance, I had one a minute ago, felt good.
I feel like I just won a car in the county raffle.

I am sure the community is breathing a collective sigh of relief.

Iam buying a new quad core CPU tomorrow. Hopefully will be enough
to run COD smoothly. The new GPU will have to wait another month.
Yay!

Luthier, I am very glad to see sanity and common sense has prevailed. I have no doubt this epilepsy filter caused you guys plenty of grief even before CoD hit the Russian streets.
So, and I am sure I speak on behalf of all of those who have been involved in IL2 for the past (up to 10 years), many thanks for persevering in what must have been "the mother of all battles" to get this aberration made selectable - bloody well done old chap as they used to say in the RAF.
This thread should be a sticky under the heading "Western Version Epilepsy Selectable Solution"

What a turn around (I mean the community response) - I was never in any doubt :D

Bloody good show Ilya, If I had to take the crap you guys take on a regular basis I'd either be in the fetal position or in a clock tower. Thanks for the update, although you didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know was going to happen.

No prob mate, It's been a crazy house here, it's a little contagious!

Woot! Thanks Luthier! :grin:

I personally think the anger generated on the forums helped to convince Ubi to consider alternatives :-P

BobTuck.

Great news.

Thanks to UBI for a logical approach, and thanks to Oleg and the entire team for what had to have been some pretty "interesting" conference calls between Moscow and Paris.


And some thoughts I've been mulling over about UBI Soft.

You know, in the great scheme of things, the IL2 franchise is pretty small time stuff to a big company like UBI. All those big selling console, FPS, and various other titles that dwarf IL2's sales. Did you every stop to think that just maybe UBI sees having the best WW2 air combat simulator in it's stable as a feather in it's cap? A corporate image enhancer? I know I'd feel pretty darned good about having the title that "shot down" Microsoft's high dollar CFS series.

Food for thought the next time you feel like kicking UBI in the chops over a decision that most of us probably know very little about.

:cool:

awesome possum news 1C, thanks for your hard work in this matter.

Now it seems the many out weigh the few.

Have you seen any reports of people running the Russian "non epilepsy filter" version on SLI/CF rigs? Qurious how much difference it makes. I keep reading abour Russians disabeling CF and doubling their FPS. Sounds right up your ally, as a system builder, to investigate and test this as soon as you get your copy of CoD.

A big thank you for these words. This is kind of a relief. AND it is how a developer and a publisher should listen and communicate. Again, thank you very much.

Just to confirm, this DOES apply to ALL the versions of the game, right?

You might edit the original post, Luthier, just to make that clear.

victory, west all games wooooooooooooooooot

I hope it will,but probably in a gradual way,by my understanding.
The important is that I'm totally confident about the future of CoD now.
Thanks Luthier and Ubi.

:) <-------------this is me

:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) <------------------this is me doing the Happy dance


Luthier you big beautiful Russian speaking dreamboat you.... if they would let me into your bloody country without a passport i would fly there personally and hug you :)

please give my congratulations to ALL involved i know this was probably weighing heavy on all you guys and none of us really helped with our panicking LOL my humble apologies sir :)

Thanks to the many who posted on UBI there desire to have this be an option as well this may have helped sway them.

WOOOOTTTT <--------more happy dance:P:P

Woohoo!!!

This is great news. I'm curious what changed Ubisoft's minds. Was it the wave of cancelled pre-orders and the rage from the forums? :cool:

From what luthier wrote before, it seemed that they were pretty much set to enforce the filter.

Anyway, this rocks.

Hang on Tree, for a change you may be to positive here, didn't Luthier say that some of the changes to the prop were irreversible, I hope this isn't true as the planes look a bit strange without it?

I must say this is overall excellent news, I feel positive that given time we are going to get a great sim out of CoD, this has made my day :grin:

That is really good news Luthier.
I wish you guys so much luck in the success of this simulator.

Not to be a debbie downer Tree, but SLI being used or not in COD is probably a separate announcement and/or decision. Ah, you are your wishful thinking - always the optimist eh?

:)

Thanks Luthier! I'll be doing a happy dance :)

Awesome news!

This is fantastic news! I'm so geared up about this, I've preordered the DL version, but I promise you this: I'll find and buy the Collectors ED whenever it's available to me :) If not CE, I'll go for normal retail version :D yay!

Awesome news thanks

Good news. Must be a great relief for you developers.

Placing....order...now.:grin:

Hooyah!

That's music to my ears. :grin:

Thx.

Great news !!

This concerned me, glad it has been resolved. Thank you!

Day one purchase for sure now.

I'll buy you a beer if you can increase my frame rate by 5.

Different issues...Not related...Luthier said that they have found the 'stutter" culprit and few other errors...They were already working on the code to fix those...

Salute !

The Russian version have great prop f/x said in many reports......So, I imagine that we should also get it...

Thanks

What a HUGE Relief!!! Going to pre-order Now!! Can't wait for April release!!!

Well done 1C!!!
 

Dancing as I type :)

Great to see commonsense still exists!

Awesome news. :)


Wheels

As a diagnosed and confirmed Epileptic, I thank you and Ubisoft for seeing sense. I appreciate the opportunity to "Play at my own risk". Its nice to know I won't have to contact the Epilepsy foundation of America to get them to talk sense into Ubi and make this 'safety feature' optional. Particularly since "photo sensitive" epileptics are not common to all the very small minority of the population that has seizures.

Again, thank you.

(Does a Happy Dance) :grin::grin::grin::grin::grin:

This is the best news since I first heard you were making SOW:BOB. I am so glad common sense can prevail here. Think I'll go make my pre-order now.

And wich version are you gonna play ? Would it be safe for you to play the "unfiltered" version ? :confused: It seems that COD has highly scored in the tests mesuring "epilectic inducing seizure"...But you must know by now where are you personnal limits...;)

Salute !

I did one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nn9dd6FfE8

Great news :)

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6...stepilepsy.png

Below, my reaction to hearing this news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs


Thank you so much for this information. I can't express how happy this news made me, especially considering all the bad vibes that have been moving around this forum recently.

I feel like some part of me that believes that we can have nice things has been re-vitalized.

Now I know how to do it, so did I - for 2 hours what's more.

Well, I'm not one of the Epileptics that are photo sensitive so the first order of business for me will be . . . turn the damn filter off. :D I just really appreciate the opportunity to be a grown up and decide for myself.

Haha! We are not alone !
 

"DirectX 11 Support To Reach Crysis 2 Sometime Today
12:11 AM - OhmWrecker - 35 Comments
According to the guys at Maximum PC Crysis 2 should receive a DirectX 11 patch today which will also unlock an advanced graphics menu in-game.
Crysis 2 already looks amazing in DX9 mode, so it'll be interesting to see how much more DX11 adds to the visuals. Thanks goes out to "N Baker" for the tip!

Update: Uh oh, it looks like Maximum PC's sources were a bit off on the release date. Crytek's Tiago Sousa did indeed confirm that they were working on DX11 features on his Twitter account, but he did not give a date. Sousa's tweet has since been removed, and Crytek Community Manager Tom Ebsworth issued the following statement:

No patch was ever confirmed, I have no idea why this website even posted such information. This thread is locked just the same as the others for trying to spread inaccurate information. When there are any big announcements regarding Crysis 2 they will be posted on MyCrysis, if you read something about a patch for example, but don't see it on MyCrysis.com, then it isn't genuine."

DX9...Looking great...New Engine...No DX11 yet...False rumors...
Sounds familiar ? ;)

Salute !

Great news, thank you, 1C.

YAAAAAAAAAY!!!! You're the best luthier! Almost choked on my morning coffee there. Great news.

this is good news but Les does have a valid question.

Thanks Luthier! Great news. All will be well, as the patches roll out this will become the sim that we all hoped for. Thanks to all the team who are working on this. I have complete faith in Maddox Games fixing any problems with this superb game. Can't wait to get my CE and boxed set in a couple of days. Well done all!:grin:

Thanks a lot for the info Luthier :mrgreen:. I´m a happy camper now and I´m going to do my magic COD dance in few minutes. Now I just have to get my computer sorted and get mysef a new GPU.

We're back! Just pre-ordered through Steam. Thank you guys! Looking forward to it.

WONDERFUL news!

I'd like to think that this would have been done without the upset of the fans, but I there might have been a small part played by the vocal minority in this one.

Good to see a general lightening of the mood among the majority of posters on this forum. I have faith that the initial bugs will be resolved quickly and we go all get back to virtually killing each other.
As an aside- i am epileptic and that is the main reason i have to make do with virtual flying rather than flying IRL (I've been very lucky to find medication that works and just managed to avoid the scalpel jockeys drilling through my head a few years ago). My seizures are not triggered by flashing lights but they can be triggered by lack of sleep- will there be a filter to stop me having too much fun and staying up too late??? ;-)

Thanks Luthier and all those involved for working on this and coming to a practical solution.
It`s only in situations like this that one can be tested, how a person acts under various circumstances shows up their nature.

"You don`t know what you`ll do until you`re put under pressure,
Across 110st is a hell of a tester"
Bobby Womack

horrido! he is going down :)

Great news! I'm taking my day of from work on 31th of March ;)

This is indeed a very good news. We'll see more tomorrow, I guess, after downloading that patch.

The only question from me will then be: can the Russian version be internationalized :) But anyway, my Cyrillic is improving fast. And when can we hope for map editor/creator.

Thanks for this.

Thanks Luthier for this great news!

Being a so called fanboy has not put me to shame at all :)
Ah well. Though I can not tell the difference, or dont know what to look for, I must say I am thrilled to how things are being handeled. Than you for taking your time to inform the community about this.

~S

Thanks for listening to the community!

Doing the 'happy dance' now,wo hoo,thanks Luthier Oleg and co.:)

Great luthier
 

This game certainly does stir passions.

I have waited 6 Years for this and Maddox games releases as well as those of other games are certainly not perfect but like Il-2 and Whine, aging will make it better and Better.

best wishes

Hunger

:grin:

great news!

Then I can buy a western copy as well!!! My translation sucked anyway :) .

Im sure I read a post from Luthier somewhere that it was the Epilepsey filter that was killing SLI/Crossfire performance, do any of the guys who got the russian version have SLI or crossfire? Maybe they can confirm if Luthier is correct.

Common sense prevails. Nice. :)

**** yeah ! :D <3