Friday Update - December 9, 2011

[furbs]

True ACE and CLOD has 10x less.
As you can tell im still really pissed off that CLOD has turned out this way, im so disappointed because i was looking forward to it more than any other sim than i can think of.

[JG53_Valantine]

As a Co-Op squad who have pretty much officially switched to CloD I can say quite fairly that what we are doing is not a true co-op, it is as close as we can get using a dogfght server and fixed "in house" rules however there are so many limitations right now that we cannot operate anywhere near the way we used to which is slowly killing people's enjoyment of the sim.
Bring back proper Co-Ops and fix stability: two of the bigget things they can do to make this sim much more accesible for the online community in my eyes - they say they have the new graphics engine where this launcher crash doesnt occur almost done? well they had no qualms about releasing an alpha copy for us to buy so why not rush this new graphics engine out as a beat patch too!

As for this "sequel" - it is kind of what I expected, and I've no real problem, bar a few grumbles, about it providing it merges with CloD and brings a load more to the table, if it is in a similar state to CloD or if it is a stand alone then I really can't see justification in getting it as support has been pretty poor considering the history of the IL2 series.
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[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

True ACE and CLOD has 10x less.

Not only CoD, but most others online sims come in 10x less..

But it is not totally fair to compare a recently released sim to IL-2.

Because IL-2 has been around for 10+ years and has build up a very large base over that time. So I am not surprised that CoD, RoF, DCS, etc all fall short of the IL-2 numbers

Especially when you factor in the hardware equipment! Just about any kid-o in a 3rd world country with a 5 year old PC can play IL-2 on and offline

But it takes a very high end system to play CoD, RoF, DCS, etc. That reason alone is why most of the people I have talked to have not made the jump to CoD, or any other current sim.

But time will solve this problem! Just as long as 1C does not upgrade their graphics engine every year like they currently are

Originally Posted by furbs

As you can tell im still really pissed off that CLOD has turned out this way, im so disappointed because i was looking forward to it more than any other sim than i can think of.

Me too bud!

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things to be upset about wrt CoD! My only point is if we step back and look at it from a un-biased perspective we will realize it is not as bad as most of the gloom'n'doom whiners would have you belive!

Knowing what a nitch market flight sims are, it only takes a few gloom'n'doom whiners to float a myth that scares off prospective buyers.. And that does not do us or 1C any good!

That is to say, if you only have one GOLDEN GOOSE laying WWII flight sim games eggs.. Are you going to wring it's neck because it only layed 96 out of the 100 eggs you were expecting?

[5./JG27.Farber]

I think the game is great and has allot of potential. I can no longer play IL1946 after this. For me as a 100% online player the CTD's are the biggest killer...

I can handle every other thing in this game but the CTD issue is killing it. How can we host events and fly against other units when we can't stay in the game longer than about 40 mins?!

This game has so much potential.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

I think the game is great and has allot of potential. I can no longer play IL1946 after this. For me as a 100% online player the CTD's are the biggest killer...

I can handle every other thing in this game but the CTD issue is killing it. How can we host events and fly against other units when we can't stay in the game longer than about 40 mins?!

This game has so much potential.

Agreed, it would be sad to see so much work go to waste due to a lack of polish...