The Last Patch Didn't Fix The Game

[Chivas]

Unfortunately you will have to buy the Sequel to make COD better. Shyte happens, but its still a very cheap investment. Almost everything they are working on the make the Sequel better will also make the Channel map better. Never-mind all the community and third party addons that will improve the Channel Map in the Sequel.

For selfish reasons I want to thank everyone in the west for ignoring the bad reviews, yet still purchased COD, without your support there was no chance we would have seen the recent patches, or the fixes in the next Sequel. If the Sequel succeeds, and the official announcement doesn't change the direction of the development too much, we should see further fixes, and features that will also apply to the Channel Map in all following Sequels.

[Freycinet]

When RoF came out it was extremely limited and ran like crap on most computers and there was a ****storm like you haven't seen before in Russia and outside from hateful whiny complainers... If it was always up to the "glass-half-empty"-people we wouldn't have neither RoF nor CoD, simple as that.

I played RoF a lot until CoD came out. I was actually a staunch defender of RoF back in the difficult early days when so many simmers were delighted to slag and spout hate about the sim, without giving it a chance to improve. I still love it, but unfortunately just have too little time to fly both RoF and CoD. If I had two lives I would be making CoD videos in one and RoF vids in the other! Still buy all the stuff that comes out for RoF, but at heart I'm a little bit more a WWII guy, so my limited time goes to CoD. - Also, I feel that CoD needs a bit more support against the haters, whereas RoF can stand on its own, since it (deservedly) became such a huge success!

I am still amazed at people who don't realise what an ungrateful niche it is to make hi-fidelity flight sims. All the people who work with CoD could do much better making a mindless first-person shooter. CoD is made with huge ambitions, much to big for the development budget, as history has shown, but I'd rather have an ambitious sim that only over time will fulfill its potential (just like Il-2 Classic and RoF) than a small, limited game without growth prospects.

[Fearless_1]

Originally Posted by Chivas

For selfish reasons I want to thank everyone in the west for ignoring the bad reviews, yet still purchased COD, without your support there was no chance we would have seen the recent patches, or the fixes in the next Sequel.

You're welcome. I was one of them. I spent $800 in computer upgrades to play, what I thought, was going to be near fantastic and still getting better.

I believe 1C was going in the right direction making patches but still left us with an unfinished product. It is not expressly stated that the game will never be finished on the box, and that's the reason I want a refund, or a finished game.

I love what was attempted, but hate the result. In the end, cases like this prove that buyers like us need consumer protections against something like this. 1C is truly showing itself to be a horrible company to have both forced the early release of this game and then pulling the plug on it. Not to mention Oleg Maddox lying about his involvement in the game. I remember a SimHQ interview with Oleg and he said the release version of Rise of Flight was not very impressive. I found out he was right and realized that his involvement in Clod meant it was going to be a real gem. Of course it ended up the other way around. The whole concept of what a train wreck the scenario surrounding this game has been is almost unbelievable.

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by Fearless_1

The only excuse 1C and the guys have to drop support of this game is bankruptcy, nothing else.

In due time, after BoM has bombed.

[bongodriver]

With the behaviour of some people on this forum I expect that is something they wish for.

[MB_Avro_UK]

Originally Posted by Fearless_1

Friday update anybody?

1) The AI is on par with Il-2 1946 unmodded.
2) Coop doesn't work
3) Radio commands do nothing
4) Animations on the 3D model are jerky
5) Campaigns aren't very good
6) Epilepsy filter still exists, option needs to be removed and files permanently deleted

The list is not all inclusive. I payed real money for this game and 1C hasn't delivered. Where's the next update? Surely you can't be serious when you say the last update was final. It might have been the final release candidate for THAT patch, but you just brought this game to release candidate level. A year late, lacking in gameplay value, needing improvement, under developed, and company likely taking undue profits from this software.

Go ahead and give me a heads up when you decide which improvements will be next. The answer 'none' or 'pay for Moscow' aren't acceptable.

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by Fearless_1

The answer 'none' or 'pay for Moscow' aren't acceptable.

You'll have to go about being disappointed, then, since those ARE your only options.