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Originally Posted by adonys
you can safely bet that the people who worked on IL2 AI's went away, and were not in there anymore to work on IL2CoD's AI.
you can also bet that the new people haven't worked on IL2 CoD more than half-a-year - a year (and most probably there was only one assigned to this).
that's what my almost 10 years game-developing experience tells me when I am looking at the launch/current state of IL2 CoD's AI.
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I'm not so sure about that. To me it seems more likely they focused on certain area's (ground details, FM, DM, cockpits, AI and so on), but when they all tried to glue it together in their game engine they hit a wall. It stopped any further progress and they were pressed to release it anyway (lack of money, whatever).
Today, even after many patches, even with just 1 plane in the air and a few ground objects, the terrain still does not load smoothly on a very high end system. Adding more ram and more cpu power hardly makes a difference because the game is unable to use it.
To me it seems the real root cause is the game engine itself. Only when they've managed to fix this they will have time to look into the AI.
We can only hope - and Luthier mentioned a ~ 50% improvement - they'll find what the real trouble with the current CoD game engine is. Right now, it's still not running smoothly, especially when compared to IL2 10 years ago.
Rgs,
FP