Communication poll

[furbs]

Carguy, what part of COD are you playing so much?

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by furbs

Carguy, what part of COD are you playing so much?

SP German campaign plus offline skirmishes, quick escort sorties and sighseeing flights.

[Rattlehead]

This communication issue is a bit of a wierd one.

I think we got used to Luthier posting regular patch news in the early days of this sim, and now that the patches have been moved to a longer schedule, we don't really have anything to go on, news-wise, on a weekly basis anymore.
Many of us are sitting on our hands eagerly awaiting that weekly slice of news, and the longer we wait the more agitated we become. It becomes a bit of an obsession.
To me many if not most of us here are a little bit guilty of micro analysis, in that every little aspect of this game, mostly the broken stuff, has been discussed again and again and again, and a tunnel vision, almost obessessiveness, has developed.
It's like when your favourite football team has hit the skids and fans go into panic mode and post and talk obsessively about what's wrong and what the manager should do. You desperately want the situation to change but you can't do it yourself, so you think, analyse, vent, fret, moan and worry until the crisis passes.

I was starting to obsess a bit a few weeks back, and for me the best thing to do was to just go do something else and take my mind off it all for a while. Not saying everyone should do this, but it does help to put things into perspective a bit.

Anyway, my point is that the forum feels agitated, maybe more than is neccessary, about the fact that we don't hear too much from Luthier these days.
But having said that, I find it puzzling that mere days before the US launch, we still haven't had any news. I don't see them postponing the launch again, not at this late stage, and to hear absolutely not even a snippet of news is not acceptable, at least to me.
The community manager never appeared, and proposed more regular updates have not either.
I can't really blame people for being annoyed by the situation, but again I think that the annoyance has for some, gone well beyond annoyance or agitation, and they're driving themselves nuts.

[Trumper]

Just to clarify,i want to buy the sim BUT i cannot justify spending the money on upgrading my computer to run it + the cost of the game on the off chance it MAY be completed oneday and the lack of input is such a poor selling point.
When you are struggling you get a better response from others and leeway if you keep communicating,explaining.

[furbs]

Carguy, i brought COD for online, SP for practice but 90% for online. For me the sim is broken, i expected when i paid my money for COD that i would at the very least have the same level of function as IL2, it didnt, not even close.

It says COOP on the box, you can look on your very nice collectors edition box. but you cant play COOPs on the battle of Britain map.

Servers keep dropping from steam after a hour or so but the main bug is the very well known no sound bug. Do you expect people to play without sound?
Would you agree that its a game breaking bug to not have any sound?

so i decided to practice offline but what i found was the AI is worse than IL2, what with AI that can perform like F-16s, but cant hit you if make even the slightest turn(they still cant fire defection), plus it seems that after about 5 mins somebody rings a bell and the AI give up and fly home in perfect formation which allows you to shoot down the whole lot.

So then you fly home, and find as you touch down, your whole flight piles into ground next to you.

So whats left? oh yes, i can go sight seeing.

Now hear this Carguy, i don't know why you seem to think your the internet police here but people can post what they like within reason. its not up to you to tell me what i can or cant post.
i don't care if someone posts how much they like COD, im happy for them, great!.
i don't give a "boob" what you say and nothing you do is going to stop me moaning about the "boob" state COD is in....so do us both a favor, put me on ignore.

[robtek]

Originally Posted by furbs

......So then you fly home, and find as you touch down, your whole flight piles into ground next to you........

A typical error easily avoided.
When you return to base, start circling and you will see that one by one your wingmen peel off to land.
So, if you a bit patient, you can finish your flight in a nice and orderly manner.

Originally Posted by furbs

.....Servers keep dropping from steam after a hour or so ......

That is a steam-error that can't be fixed by the devs.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by robtek

That is a steam-error that can't be fixed by the devs.

So, you say there's 400 Multiplayer-Titles+ on Steam and only the servers of CloD disappear... due to a Steam error?

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

So, you say there's 400 Multiplayer-Titles+ on Steam and only the servers of CloD disappear... due to a Steam error?

Hey Feuerfalke, long time no see! i guess your having as much fun with COD as me then.

[Jatta Raso]

Originally Posted by robtek

A typical error easily avoided.
When you return to base, start circling and you will see that one by one your wingmen peel off to land.
So, if you a bit patient, you can finish your flight in a nice and orderly manner.

that's BS and you know it. wingmen don't crash to ground in RL if you land before them, and it shouldn't be up to player to workaround an escape to that situation. it is an evident bug. something that's not right and disrupts both immenrsion and game-flow. what if you need to do an emergency combat landing??? although cargiy probably can come up with some sort of justification to that as always...

[Jatta Raso]

today i tried to have some fun with CoD. been testing the FMB and finally got to know how to place objects such as clouds, so i could see the big ones at last. the FMB weather system is bugged as hell, but after some crashes i went over some big clouds, well CoD will look significantly better with them, they look great and very real but they're in unfinished state and cannot be used right now.

then i went on a 1 spit mk.I vs 2 109 E-1, as i wanted to test AI and friendlies never follow orders anyway. after irritatingly being unable to change my load-out, i went head-on... now i'm no expert on real AC stats as many gents in here, but even i can see that the mk.I couldn't be so damn slow. i also can't see the use of a prop pitch with 2 fixed positions if one of them is useless. as for the AI, well they can't hit an elephant in a corridor if it steps slightly to one side. after about 5min of engagement, they turned tail and headed home, allowing me to catch them from their 6... AI is fit to fly nothing but bombers right now (and even some gunners don't always work). as online is out of the question, i really don't know what to do with CoD right now. maybe i'll try the campaigns that have been coming up... as for sightseeing, atm i prefer to go out.