"Friday" Update, April 28, 2012

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy

Nice to know you are on the inside and actually know what is going on in the development office.

All official communication is just made up?

Saying false things like this doesn't help anyone at all. You have no evidence to back you up so don't bother.

Holy dogfighting batman! Where have you been over the last year? I don't know what's going on in the dev office and I don't want to, but one thing is for certain: Bugs are (mostly) NOT fixed. But if you got any reasonable explanation why my no.1 issue is not cared about since day 1, I'm more than willing to listen

(waiting for the "reasonables" to make their move, expressing disbelief about why people get worked up despite those inflammatory postings)

[Damixu]

Redroach, I see where you are coming from and I am with you on this...

I can only imagine the complexity of this software (been on the software business over 30 years by now) and the details are really pain in the ass to get everything just right.

[Walrus1]

Originally Posted by Redroach

I don't know what's going on in the dev office and I don't want to, but one thing is for certain: Bugs are (mostly) NOT fixed.

Yes, there are still bugs in the current version of the game. My understanding is that a great deal of bugfixing is encompassed in the patch that we are waiting for. Unfortunately, as is stated in the first post in this thread, there are some technically difficult bugs still being fixed that are delaying the release.

[=FI=Scott]

If there is to be a productive future for the CoD series of sims two things must happen.

1. The simming community must let go of what happened when the sim was first released (it's done, nobody is dead ( I hope))

2. The developers must turn out the goods.

Its up to the team now. In shades we can see in Cliffs of Dover (as it is) what they can do. Pissing in each others faces wont fix it. It is down to them.

[ElAurens]

Well said.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by =FI=Scott

If there is to be a productive future for the CoD series of sims two things must happen.

1. The simming community must let go of what happened when the sim was first released (it's done, nobody is dead ( I hope))

2. The developers must turn out the goods.

Its up to the team now. In shades we can see in Cliffs of Dover (as it is) what they can do. Pissing in each others faces wont fix it. It is down to them.

+1

[Ploughman]

Quite right. We're all waiting for the sim to become good. None of us are here because we dislike flight sims. Once the game's performing all we can all settle down to listening to the Luftwhines, just like always, and we'll know all is well again in the combat flight sim community.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Stop sniping Ace.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Redroach

Holy dogfighting batman! Where have you been over the last year? I don't know what's going on in the dev office and I don't want to, but one thing is for certain: Bugs are (mostly) NOT fixed. But if you got any reasonable explanation why my no.1 issue is not cared about since day 1, I'm more than willing to listen

(waiting for the "reasonables" to make their move, expressing disbelief about why people get worked up despite those inflammatory postings)

The number one problem with the sim was the performance level, if they couldn't fix that they may as well shut down. There was no point fixing any bugs until the sim was playable, and stable for the majority of users. Once the performance, CTD's, and Launcher exe are addressed then they can move on to fix the missing features like the radio commands and bugs.

To accomplish this required the graphic engine rewrite. It appears they were successful in fixing the performance, CTD's, etc, and were even able to add some FM, and Radio Command fixes.

Unfortunately when you rewrite a major portion of the code you are going to create new bugs, some may even stay the same. Now they are addressing those issues. With any luck we may see those fixes in the next few weeks.

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by Redroach

Holy dogfighting batman! Where have you been over the last year?

Here, I bought it full price day one.

Originally Posted by Redroach

I don't know what's going on in the dev office and I don't want to, but one thing is for certain: Bugs are (mostly) NOT fixed.

The patch is being worked on fixing FM and performance. Once there is a stable engine then they can fix the (in comparison) relatively minor bugs. Unless you have evidence from the developers to say there is no and will not be a patch, stop making thigns up. Yes it has taken a long time, we've all been waiting. That doesn't mean it wont come at all.

Originally Posted by Redroach

But if you got any reasonable explanation why my no.1 issue is not cared about since day 1, I'm more than willing to listen

What is your number 1 issue? radio communication? In comparison to terrible performance and CTD it is a secondary bug. When they have fixed the engine there will inevitably be more fixes for bugs. One thing that naysayers dont realise:

1)there is evidence of the sequel, they have hired external devs to do maps etc.

2) They want people to buy this sequel

3)Therefore they will fix the shared engine of the two games so that we have enough faith to buy the next one.

Explain why they would bother to work on a sequel if they were going to release it into a broken engine? They wouldn't. They need (and are working on) to fix CoD in order to get sales for BoM. Noone would by BoM if there are no fixes, performance patches for CoD that they have promised.

Rather than assuming there is no patch (making things up) wait and see what the next patch brings. If there is no next patch, there is no BoM.