Patch news

[Targ]

Originally Posted by =XIII=Shea

Nike-it i purchaced from steam,but steams says that it will unlock tomorrow(31) at 6.00pm,why is its being unlocked at this time instead of 12.01am?
thank you

More time for a patch maybe!

[Nike-it]

Originally Posted by Targ

More time for a patch maybe!

I'm sure it's not the reason.

[JG52Uther]

Its the joys of steam,telling us when we are allowed to play our games...

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Its the joys of steam,telling us when we are allowed to play our games...

Hahah, true that

The only advantage this would give me is that i can possibly have my relative in the UK e-mail me the activation keys when he receives my collector's edition, so i can download it from Steam instead of waiting two days for it to arrive in the mailbox.

Originally Posted by Meek

Steam won't be made optional, no, not ever, you might be able to crack it, but you would sacrifice multiplayer, anti-cheat, cloud backups, automatic updates and may or may not be legal in your country.

There are perfectly good reasons to dislike Steam, but "misinformed person said something that one time" is not one of them.

The majority of the PC gamer base uses Steam, and of all publishers Ubisoft is the least likely to listen to a wingey minority.

The epilepsy filter is perfect too, since it allows flash-sensitive epileptics to play computer games. If it's good for someone then it must be good for everyone, right?
See what i did there? The shoe is on the other foot.

All those things you think i "sacrifice" are things that i won't use anyway. The only thing i'm interested in is multiplayer which is not exclusive to Steam anyway (the manual says so).

So, i actually sacrifice nothing if i bypass Steam, as long as i can get updates in the form of stand-alone, self-extracting executables. And the best thing is, 1C doesn't even have to host those and pay for the bandwidth, there's a lot of fan-sites all over the place hosting patches for IL2 already, same thing would happen with CoD.

Long story short, the "steam is the only way" rhetoric is something i don't buy. Steam is just something extra for people that like certain features, it's far from a necessity.

And that's why if i can bypass it on my collector's edition i will. It will make my installation leaner and with less dependencies on other software, which is something i try to do with every game i buy

To tell you the truth, if the publishers don't solve this the community will on its own. It's not hard to bypass Steam, neither is it hard to issue non-Steam versions of Steam patches wrapped in a custom installer. All high profile games get cracked but the versions pirates actually prefer are the Steam versions, because they are the easiest ones to crack and the easiest ones to use patches with even when they are cracked.

Steam bypass will happen anyway, all i'm saying is that it's better if the publishers realize this and give us an official option. If not, there's unofficial ones and it's not illegal in my country to do what i want with the software i buy, as long as it's done for personal use.

I just want some tech-support or feature (call it what you want) from the publishers, instead of having to rely on pirates to provide it. I mean, i'm a legitimate customer, it's highly ironic if pirates are better qualified to help me than the guys who get most of the money i pay for the collector's edition, don't you think?

[JG301_HaJa]

Unfortunately you can't bypass it. It will force itself onto the HDD even if you don't like it
and I know I don't but I've come to terms with that in order to play this game (if it will
be playable) I must put this Steam worries behind me and just turn off all and everything I
don't want from it

[ice_crusher]

does this patch also fixes this problem with the launcher?

[Kankkis]

We don't know yet.

I think patch is out in couple of hours, if luthier means moscow evening

[sfmadmax]

wooho.. great news, GTX580 here i come

[hc_wolf]

Hi all,

I am in Melbourne Australia and Luthier Epi pen has been jabbed into my Steam account with success.

I was getting 10-18fps in a single mission over the water attacking bombers. Now I am getting 25-35 fps on Medium settings 1980x1080.

Sli still not working correct. When it is on I get black screens and menus do not show unless my mouse moves over the words. So for now switch SLI off.

Still need to upgrade to an i7 this weekend i think.

I am not sure if it is my game or not, but it seems that the graphics (even turned full on to very high) do not reflect that in the game. It is like the lods or actual high graphics settings do not take effect on screen so if I pause the game and look at a flack gun on ground the model looks like it is drawn in very low detail and not very high detail.....

Maybe this is to be fixed in a patch on the 1st of April..

Anyway... I can fly on medium settings now but of course fps dip to 2fps when you shoot up a plane or 5 bombers decide to change course.

Love your work at 1c. Well done Luthier and Oleg. Can't wait for this to be optimized.

my pc (Maybe below par for this game????) But I can no way see how I can even get a still frame to look as good as the images on other videos or the Dev diary video. any clues??

42' lcd at 1980x1080 native
Q6600 @ 4ghz
2x evga 285gtx sli
evga i780 MB
128gb ssd
win 7 64bit ultimate
8gig ram

all latest drivers and win7 performance is rated 7.0