thank god they delayed this game
 

2 whole months!

In this short timeframe from the original release look how much has been done to improve the game!

This is a godsend because if they would have launched it next week it would have killed the games chances in north america of forming a steady community.

It sucks that i dont get to play it now , but if there is two months to patch of the game it should be running pretty good when it comes out , and will feel more like a complete game.

Keep up the good work guys !

They have had 1 official patch in April and 1 official patch in May.At that rate, 1 official patch in July.

If they want to get the physical disks stamped,boxed and out to the retailers by July 19th I suspect they need to go gold by July 10th.Maybe enough time to squeeze one more official patch out by July 10th.

You can play it now. Just go to Just Flight and do a digital download.

http://www.justflight.com/product.asp?pid=645

:grin:

You dont want to play it now GS, it will only frustrate you :(

What I would like to have at release in the USA is a disk that I can pop in, install and play without any Steam involvement. Not first downloading 5gb of updates to get the game up to speed. I already found a solution around steam for the Russian version I bought and there is no way I'm going to ploink down $50 bucks only to be anoyed by Steam in the games current condition. If it gets to the point where the game is 100% fixed, I will get it but not before that.

There will, at some point, be different modded versions. Messing with Steam will be a pain in the rear end. I probably installed IL2-1946 5 or 6 times in a row before I had it modded the way I wanted it. Don't see myself doing that with steam, having to download patches at a snails pace.

If I can't have my cake and eat it too I'll just stick with the Russian version that plays without steam. This is really a double whammy. Unfinnished game=lots of patches=lots of waiting for steam to update game. If they published patches outside of steam via torrents or their own website it would be a lot more doable.

Thats a big maybe...I did that yesterday and I've not been able to launch the game yet.

Only if you have a low end PC with less than 1gb vram and less than 4-core cpu @ < 3ghz :grin:

There are many absolutely happy customers here :grin:

i never download games from sites other than steam , if im going to buy a digital copy of a game they all have to be in one place and thats steam. It makes it easier to manage.

also i dont want to play the game in its current state

unfortunately gone are the days where pc games can come without some form of security. currently steam is the best solution.

Steam is a fantastic program and i used it with 1946 and a bunch of other games and have no issues modding with it. You can also turn off automatic updates.

Its just smarter to have all your games in one place , you dont have to manage discs which degrade over time and CD keys which you can lose since gone are the days of actual jeweled cases.

i will never understand the hate steam gets in this place

Have to admit i dont mind it at all, done alot of formatting and reformatting lately and Steam is so easy.. i think its to do with the 'big brother' mentality which is fine i understand that although i would be very weary of what else you have/watch/download if that was the case

It's not hate, it's personal preference. For example, i don't want to have all my games on one online account. A single snafu on their part and i lose all my games and before someone says it's impossible, look at what happened to the playstation network recently :-P

In the case of anti-piracy it's not really effective, Steam is the most pirated platform and pirates prefer the steam version of any blockbuster game to do their thing on: they will pre-order, pre-load, crack it (since it's one method for all steam games) and have it up on torrents as much as a week before release.
It's way too easy and even updates and DLC packs are circulating.

As far as real benefits go, the only one is that it gets the game a bigger exposure and a better cut of the selling price for 1c. Everything else is just steam doing what anyone can do on their own anyway, which boils down to personal preference (people who like automation use it, those who like manual tinkering don't).

I'm not going to lie, it works as intended (mostly) expect the fact that it resets auto-updates to on whenever i run CoD and that i really dislike being unable to roll back a patch so i have to make backups of each version and use up my hard drive space, but if i get a way to disable it and only turn it on for patching i will definitely do so.

How i wish i done that too mate..this patch suxxors

Well if you think the bible is true you wont get to play it after saturday as some religous wackos think the rapture is saturday and baby jebus is coming to take all his believers with him so if you think hes real can you leave me your bank account number and PIN so your money wont go to waste, also could you sign over your house to me before saturday!!

I have been working on gamesdistributor, steamgames can be golded months before launch, because there is allways 0day patch when it unlocks in steam.

Some steamgames doesen,t even be installed from cd at all, all the data comes from steam, if i'm not wrong cod is just like that, you don't even install it from cd. Not sure because i bought it from steam.

Actually we got many steamgames on warehouse 3 weeks

atheists are disgusting , ladies and gentlemen exibit A

"HE POSTED SOMETHING THAT SAID GOD IN IT , HOLY SHIT I HAVE TO TROLL HIM AND PRETEND LIKE SCIENCE CAN ACTUALLY DISPROVE ANY RELIGION IN ITS CURRENT STATE"

GuiltySpark, I believe something is wrong with your programming. You of all people should know, it was the Forerunners that created the Halo array, not this guy "God".;)

Careful your ignorance is showing. Remember to close your door your unicorn almost got out!

dur hur , read this , in its entirety and bathe in your ignorance

http://www.deism.com/dogmaticatheism.htm

Stay on topic guys- i dont want to have put up with religious arguments in a forum dedicated to a flightsim. Take your arguments elsewhere.

+1

Big i am going to make a suggestion to you...backup all your files delet windows departition the hard drive and then repartition it into 2 drives (C:/D:)
Then reinstall windows on both drives but keep drive D: for GAMES ONLY!! NOTHING ELSE will be installed on that drive except GAMES! no AV no FIREWALL! nothing! and then set it to performance (click START right click COMPUTER choose PROPERTIES click ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS under PERFORMANCE choose SETTINGS and then check the ADJUST FOR BEST PERFORMANCE button)
then you will need a boot disk unless your system is new enough that there is a splash screen that gives you the option to select "boot " device.

one of the reasons i get better performance than people with same or better rigs is because i have a clean and performance tuned OS :)

S!

Thank's, but did that...when I try to launch I see the aircraft logo then nothing. Game just will not run for me

It actually proves my point. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim like yourself claiming that a person could perform magic or that unicorns are real or dragons are real. Try actually reading your theology books for a change.
Heres a good link to open your mind a little. This has been know for centuries but clergy dont like people knowing this as it could cut into there attendance and profits.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/0...-scholar-says/

All this off-topic back and forth reminds me of the south park episodes where religion was abolished in the future, only for the people to be fighting about which version of atheism is correct with the exact same fervor displayed by religious fanatics.

Friendly tip, it's not the belief that differentiates ideologies, it's the practices. I can claim to be anti-anything, but if i follow their methods i just become one of them. Just another part of the the daily dose of mirth and hilarity we've come to expect and cherish in these boards :-P