Friday Update, April 13, 2012

[Figura]

Waiting for update ...

[_YoYo_]

Antialiasing and aniso will be included too?

[Hooves]

So basically you don't have a chance against a 109 unless you have your 3 friends with you. So if my 3 friends aren't on, I'm not going to log on either, leading to others not logging on leading to a bunch of empty servers, except for the packed blue team of coarse.


I love how the realites come out of the wood work when the nerf that has just occurred benefits them. But cry foul when anything is touched on their beloved aircraft.


Realism simply will not work in an online environment. At least not the realism that 1c is apparently going for. If a single player can't log on and have half a chance of surviving 5 mins let alone getting a kill. Well guess what.... They leave and they don't come back. Like it or not that is online gaming no matter what your targeted audience. if you aren't going to somehow enforce the tactical directive of the LW, how on earth can you think that FM realism will produce anything but discontent? In this case the circumstances are as equal to if not more important than the FM.

[RickRuski]

I was hoping we would see some official support for Sli/Crossfire mentioned with the new patch, but we will just have to wait and see. Good to see mentioned that they have worked on the stutters/micro pauses that a lot of us have been getting. No mention either about memory leak fixes that some are noticing, another wait and see what happens. This should make some major improvements if it all works as planed. Maybe with the new graphics Nvidia/ATI will come to the party with some Sli/Crossfire coding for CoD. Reading Luthier's comments further improvements will come with the expansions just as the old Il2 series just as I said in an ealier post about the subject. This is now showing signs of becoming all that the development team said it would. Great to see multi core support being optimised, another huge improvement.

I have one question for Luthier, how will the new graphics affect those of us with 1gig of V/ram in our cards?? at the moment my system shows that my 1gig is being used totally in some missions.

Have just noticed a reply from BlackSix in another post, NO SLI/Crossfire or AA fixes in this patch

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by RickRuski

Have just noticed a reply from BlackSix in another post, NO SLI/Crossfire or AA fixes in this patch

He said "not in this beta", so who knows, maybe they'll sneak it in the final release.

[Bloblast]

I m happy to hear that AI won't be crashing anymore when player has landed. But will they land on their home base I was thinking.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

This is true but it leads me to another conclusion.

Since we don't die, we all gradually inch towards complete "mastery" of our respective machines. If the 109 is by a margin the better fighter, won't the 109 pilot eventually have complete 'by a margin' advantage over the Hurricane/Spit pilot?

Just an analogy to help the point: I've got a Mazda 3 Sport and I drive it every day. I drive it so much that I think I'm pretty good at pushing it to its absolute limit. Now my buddy gets an Audi r8. While he's brand new at driving it, he spins out in corners or whatever and I pass him. It's an even race...up until he gets skilled with it. No matter how well I drive my Mazda 3 Sport, as long as he doesn't f it up in the r8, he wins. Because we've spent all the hours we need to get mastery with our equipment.

Just sub in a Hurricane and a 109 for the cars.

This isn't a casual game. I doubt we've got too many online pilots who just play a few minutes here and there and will never make their skills improve.

Even Hartmann got shot down a few times. Everybody lets their SA drop now and then, and team tactics will always trump 1v1 skills.

[Atreides]

I really hope the CTD issue in multiplayer has been fixed with this patch. That has been the biggest problem of this game IMHO.

[Wolf_Rider]

That's what the Beta will be all about... testing in the wild over a large range of different configurations before official RTM

[gonk]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

Good day everyone!


Finally, we need to mention the launcher.exe crashes. This was a very hard issue to address as it wasn't caused by a single 100% reproducible bug, but rather rare combinations of various uncommon events. The work described above, coupled with a huge volume of general bug-fixing performed, should have at least minimized the number of instances that lead to crashes. We haven't encountered one in months, but determining whether that'll be the case for the general player base will be one of the leading goals for this beta test.

So you have had improvement for CTD for months ? thx for sharing...

Originally Posted by Atreides

I really hope the CTD issue in multiplayer has been fixed with this patch. That has been the biggest problem of this game IMHO.

Looks like after months it is still not 100%.. what happened to all the people who said don't release it until it is 100%?? lose your patience ? This should of been released in smaller patches months ago. Watch the fur fly when the beta is released...and still no su-26 that was mentioned as a flyable plane right at the start...