Simulation or Shoot-em-up?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by col123

I cant see much more effort being put into COD to be honest..i mean even after 6 years of effort and it was still released broken and bugged to a somewhat hoodwinked market, the amount of work needed to fix ALL the broken bits will take a lot more of that effort and money..i doubt 1C will invest much more time and cash trying to fix this sim...for all we know after its release to the USA market the Devs may just quietly leave it at that and move on counting their losses and turning their attention to other things with less hassle...after all thats what it appears has happened with Oleg so whos to say the whole team wont follow!.....am not saying that will happen and i hope it wont, but you never know...my confidence rating for 1C at the moment isn't very high to be honest..i cant see them wasting what little revenue they may receive on COD sales updating and patching it over the next year or so..and it wont be fixed in the next few months...its just not feasible looking at all the issues...and i don't just mean smooth and reasonable FPS....

The whole sim is lacking any coherent structure with so many quirky innuendos and strange mis matches in consistency and major bugs its a miracle they have got away with releasing it in the state it is to be honest.. I remember Il-2 and it was never as bad as COD on release!

If the plan was to drop support for COD, there would have been a world wide same day release, where they took the money and run. They certainly wouldn't have done an Eastern release with all the bad publicity that caused, then worked 24/7 for months for the western release. The plan is still to support and add on to the series for years. The early release just enfused the project with much need cash to continue work. The devs and publishers have certainly taken a serious publicity hit, but I suspect most in the community understand the process and have enough foresight to see the product improved for many years.

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The plan is still to support and add on to the series for years.

Exactly. It's not nor ever was intended to be a released finished single download product. It will be followed up with later theaters of the air campaigns as it is developed.

If you own a copy you can look at aircraft menus and see the years 1940 through 1952 and there are place holders for 8 engines and all that comes with having that many. Many many controls.

As technology improves as it is already is improving exponentially the updates that will continue to follow even major ones with the newer / later years added it, probably require upgrades to my hardware. This is the nature of the beast. People ask for it and they got it. I am pretty sure I will follow their lead because I don't want to miss one episode.

[Flanker35M]

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Jagr, I know about the Allied bombing things etc. The Hurricane and Spitfire were armed with rifle caliber as well. At that time it was believed that they would be enough and you have to remember that He111 or Ju88 were developed against fighters of that time their plans were introduced..in 1930's with Gladiators etc. The rapid development of more modern planes caused them to be obsolete in speed/defense department when Spitfire/Hurricane came out.

But you could not park behind one for ages and not expect to stay without being hit. In CoD you can, kind of gone from IL-2's extreme of sniper gunners to CoD's blind idiots behind the guns. In EAW you could engage bomber formations with proper tactics and survive, but if parked behind you were dead or damaged. In B17 II also applied, used head-on attacks to kill B17's with minimal damage on me.

CoD has the potential and is being patched, hopefully a lot before US release, so the future looks not so bad. But until then I am off to other games like World Of Tanks etc. as they simply just run fine and are fun. CoD will be when ready.