Yet another week of running in the dark.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I can run Il-2 on max. But I know that CloD will not run on my current system, because RoF won't. (Dual Core processor, 2.0GHZ, ATI 4650 512mb, 4GB RAM). And even if CloD would run on the lowest settings, it would look and play worse than Il-2 or BoB2.

So you don't have the game yet? or did I miss read that second sentance?

ROF is a dog on a dual core that why I did a stop gap upgrade to a quad core q9400. Unfortunately I sold off my dual core to cover costs before COD so I couldn't comment on what in -game performance you could expect.

Originally Posted by philip.ed

And the promises? Whilst I don't agree with the sentiment the team need to make allowances to suit certain people's wishes, Tree is correct in stating that we were promised many features. Oleg said that the terrain would be 'photo-realistic'. He also alluded to a dynamic campaign (which the original 2006 release said we would get). Other features included the ability to man AAA guns, and the weather model shown in the development shots clearly wasn't implemented into the game.
On the face of it, certain promises were kept, but the game is so bugged, the features just can't be used, sadly.

There were many thing talked about since '96 when the game was first announced. Depending upon settings, height above ground, time of day, etc some of the screen shots from game can be fairly close to photo-realistic.

I can remember a lot of people asking for dynamic campaigns, but I aslo remember Oleg stating that he was in favour of static campaigns for Historical events like the Battle of Britain. I think he did state that there was scope for third parties to implement features like that. (I could be wrong about the third parties)

Manning AAA guns would be cool but clearly not a prority at the moment and as stated before the weather system is a resource hog and it'll be a while before we can run it.

Unlike a some others I haven't had any bugs that have stopped me from playing the game. Untill the first patch was released I flew over the ocean. Then I stayed away from the cities.

In it's current state it's fairly good performance wise. (Always room for improvement though Don't want them getting too comfy do we! ) We still need the sound system fixed up (Multi player) and AI raidio communications sorted out, but this is just the usual fixes that accompany a games release.

Both A10 and ROF had similar problems. I can't remember a flight sim initial release that didn't have problems.

I have just spent the last hour or so playing on a dogfight server with a ping of 450 odd (my fault for living in the Antipodies) and about 15 players. In '46 this would have been unplayable due to warping and stutters especially when AAA starts to go off, It was smooth and I only saw 1 plane warp once. It was an absolute Hoot!

Yes there are some problems with the game, but there is alot right with it as well

Cheers!