Friday Update, Q&A - December 23, 2011

Sutts · #1 12-23-2011, 11:50 PM

Well I'm feeling pretty positive about things and I really don't see where all the negativity is coming from.

Facts....

1. We are getting a sequel, and that is a very good thing. Let's not forget how much we NEED this sim to live on and develop...just like IL2. No one else is going to give us what we crave for with such exquisite detail.

2. CloD will continue to be patched and I'm sure some very nice improvements will arrive in short order.

3. CloD will be reborn when merged with the new title....all the new goodies will magically be available to us to use in the skies over the channel. That is fantastic news...although I didn't doubt that's the way it would be done.

4. The BoM release will be hugely popular with the home market and I'm sure many over here will snap it up too - lots of lovely ground pounding and hopefully vast areas to fly over due to the sparse object density. That's got to be a good thing for the series with a fresh cash injection to make it even better.

I really fail to see why so many are on such a downer? The game will improve and the future looks bright. Just look what they did with the sounds. Now imagine the same job applied to the graphics, FM, AI.......

What we paid for this is NOTHING, ZILCH, DIDDLY SQUAT....compared to what we willingly fork out for PC, joystick etc. Just look how much you can spend on TrackIR alone! Let's get this in perspective before ranting on like it's a defective 30 grand BMW.

Please, give the guys a break and start appreciating what we have and what they're trying to give us (if we let them). Support them. They really are on our side. I'm a programmer and I know how much blood and sweat you have to put into such complex software. It really is incredibly hard to produce something like CloD and with a community like ours it's a real thankless task.

As my favourite character would say...have a little faith baby, have a little faith.

adonys · #2 12-24-2011, 12:06 AM

I'm sorry, but our faith got lost during these 9 months in which we've got basically nothing.

any words on what is the "secret feature which was supposed to make all the competition go screaming"?!!

Skoshi Tiger · #3 12-24-2011, 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sutts

Well I'm feeling pretty positive about things and I really don't see where all the negativity is coming from.

Facts....

1. We are getting a sequel, and that is a very good thing. Let's not forget how much we NEED this sim to live on and develop...just like IL2. No one else is going to give us what we crave for with such exquisite detail.

2. CloD will continue to be patched and I'm sure some very nice improvements will arrive in short order.

3. CloD will be reborn when merged with the new title....all the new goodies will magically be available to us to use in the skies over the channel. That is fantastic news...although I didn't doubt that's the way it would be done.

4. The BoM release will be hugely popular with the home market and I'm sure many over here will snap it up too - lots of lovely ground pounding and hopefully vast areas to fly over due to the sparse object density. That's got to be a good thing for the series with a fresh cash injection to make it even better.

I really fail to see why so many are on such a downer? The game will improve and the future looks bright. Just look what they did with the sounds. Now imagine the same job applied to the graphics, FM, AI.......

What we paid for this is NOTHING, ZILCH, DIDDLY SQUAT....compared to what we willingly fork out for PC, joystick etc. Just look how much you can spend on TrackIR alone! Let's get this in perspective before ranting on like it's a defective 30 grand BMW.

Please, give the guys a break and start appreciating what we have and what they're trying to give us (if we let them). Support them. They really are on our side. I'm a programmer and I know how much blood and sweat you have to put into such complex software. It really is incredibly hard to produce something like CloD and with a community like ours it's a real thankless task.

As my favourite character would say...have a little faith baby, have a little faith.

+1
Knowing there will be continued support for the series is the best Christmas present I'll get this year!

RCAF_FB_Orville · #4 12-24-2011, 12:23 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJDTu...all&playnext=1

Its just a joke people, calm doon. Yet strangely, it has the ring of truth, as is oft the case.

It's only a game, too. Merry Christmas one and all. Drive safely. Heed 'cats eyes'. Eat Mince pies. And be Jolly.

Cya in the new year.

ACE-OF-ACES · #5 12-24-2011, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sutts

Well I'm feeling pretty positive about things and I really don't see where all the negativity is coming from.

Facts....

1. We are getting a sequel, and that is a very good thing. Let's not forget how much we NEED this sim to live on and develop...just like IL2. No one else is going to give us what we crave for with such exquisite detail.

2. CloD will continue to be patched and I'm sure some very nice improvements will arrive in short order.

3. CloD will be reborn when merged with the new title....all the new goodies will magically be available to us to use in the skies over the channel. That is fantastic news...although I didn't doubt that's the way it would be done.

4. The BoM release will be hugely popular with the home market and I'm sure many over here will snap it up too - lots of lovely ground pounding and hopefully vast areas to fly over due to the sparse object density. That's got to be a good thing for the series with a fresh cash injection to make it even better.

I really fail to see why so many are on such a downer? The game will improve and the future looks bright. Just look what they did with the sounds. Now imagine the same job applied to the graphics, FM, AI.......

What we paid for this is NOTHING, ZILCH, DIDDLY SQUAT....compared to what we willingly fork out for PC, joystick etc. Just look how much you can spend on TrackIR alone! Let's get this in perspective before ranting on like it's a defective 30 grand BMW.

Please, give the guys a break and start appreciating what we have and what they're trying to give us (if we let them). Support them. They really are on our side. I'm a programmer and I know how much blood and sweat you have to put into such complex software. It really is incredibly hard to produce something like CloD and with a community like ours it's a real thankless task.

As my favourite character would say...have a little faith baby, have a little faith.

+1

Ctrl E · #6 12-24-2011, 12:37 AM

Luthier,

With utmost respect, I find your assertion that you were doing us a favor by continuing support for this game seven months after release quite insulting.

You could make this argument if the game worked anything like as promised on release, but we all know it did not.

I fear recent developments have done far too much damage to the brand of this developer for many of us to support you on your next promised venture.

Given the developer's recent track record I cannot find it in my heart to believe BOM will ever be released, nor that CloD will ever be fixed.

I hope I am wrong.

I hope you can work things out. But I remain deeply disappointed and disillusioned.

jayrc · #7 12-24-2011, 12:57 AM

Thanks Ilya and Team

Have a Happy Holiday

Chivas · #8 12-24-2011, 01:13 AM

Merry Christmas Luthier and team

Happy to hear your still working on COD and the sequel.

hiro · #9 12-24-2011, 01:53 AM

I was so happy for this update. I still am, despite the "was"

Thanks for the update!!

I got laid off earlier this week, yeah merry christmas. 2 years ago was looking at the same thing. out of all my friends only 1/4 are working. out of those working, 95% one has seen a raise or bonus in 2 years. the others are in places that are impervious to the economy (or are rich and balling like Kim Kard)

So its bad.

I saw some the answers given . . . and wow the negativity is rolling fast, I think by page 2 or 3 the complaints were starting to surface, no wait it was page 1 !!

Anycase I realized that the devs had taken a major hit with ClOd. The economy really bites here in the US. And it probably does across the pond. Its a good they have enough to work on a sequel, and if they know it will sell fast locally to generate some cash.

Have to understand, there's that element of working from scratch (Oleg's gone, and well the code he had, he probably took)

But the game is rolling. Guys and gals, we will have a successor worthy of IL-2 in a few years.

I know many aren't going to be patient but once the arcade of world of planes and world of plane craft, and world of war plane wears off, and rise of flight has zeppelins and now the word war I guys get to laugh at the ww2 guys and the ww2 simmers in anger (well justly so since red baron of years ago was gone . . . and Il-2 glory days came )

everyones going to turn back to here, to Il-2 COD and its successors.

Remember Christmas is about lots of things and be thankful this season.

Woot and we are getting the communication we asked for. it may not what we want to hear but . . . we getting some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWUYYSijfvo

ATAG_Dutch · #10 12-24-2011, 12:49 AM

Personally, I'd happily pay another £100 to have all the current AI 'planes flyable plus a Fairey Swordfish, together with the new graphics/engine, new sounds/engine, fully functioning comms, full weather systems, merchant shipping, a few Royal Navy battleships, cruisers, subs and destroyers, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prince Eugen, Bismark and some U-boats. And of course all the FM's overhauled, AI included. Navigation and landing lights would be good also.

That would mean paying about £200 altogether for 'Storm of War - The Battle of Britain' (Ibought 2 CE's of 'Cliffs of Dover') and it'd be worth it. I think I'd be happy with that.

I don't feel like spending diddly-squat on BfM at the moment.