Post made by Jason at Sim HQ

[kendo65]

I'm with Furbs on this one Blackdog.

That's how I remember it too

It wasn't all as clear as you're implying. Hindsight has made it seem much more obvious, but for every issue coming out of the Russian launch it was possible to come up with alternative explanations - I know because I did it. I decided that until I had it on my own PC I couldn't rule out people running with un-optimised settings, below spec HW etc, as reasons for the apparently bad performance. (With hindsight I can see that I did that because most of us had been doing similar for months already - constantly shooting down the opinions of Tree and the few others who picked up that there were possible issues. Trust and faith in the devs was a big factor too. I believed that if we were going to be served what was effectively a beta then they would spell it out)

Are you really saying that you and Tree were singing from the same hymn-sheet prior to the game launch (?!) and that the rest of us were mugs because we hoped for something better, because that's not how I remember it?

Your take on the Spit start-up sound has the feel of hindsight about it too - the obvious way to interpret Oleg's statement is that the sound in the video was a place-holder that would be switched to release-standard sound prior to launch, not that we could expect placeholder sound at launch