BoBII discussion thread

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Ah, as I expected..

A post developer mod and not part of the A2A product for sale. Thus all my orginal statments still stand

And this even highlights my statments..

That the focus was on OFFLINE such that it took them years after the inital release to include (mod/hack) ONLINE into the game.. And even after all that time and effort it is still 'funky' ONLINE play..

Which only shows how much effort (amout of resorses) is required to get ONLINE in at release time and done right..

Like CoD has done.

It is not a MOD or a hack. The BDG team are unplayed, but in close contact with the A2A team who took BoB2 under their wing. It is an addition to the sim which is neither official nor unofficial.


But I don't see what relevence any of this has to do with comparing CloD's offline experience to BoB2. If Oleg and co had chosen to make CloD online only, then fair enough, but the fact is they haven't, and we were previously told that CloD's AI, comms system etc would be in a league of their own. Well they're not, sadly. BoB2, however, excels in these areas and has a campaign which has now only been equalled by ROF (albeit being buggy initally). As a simmer, I am happy to have a lot of choice, but I compare each sim together because they are all developed towards the same goal: realism.
The resourced used for offline play don't even impact on the offline experience. If the technology and engine BoB2 used was as efficient as Il-2's was, there is every reason to consider an online system being created as good as Il-2's. It just isn't capable of that.

What this does show, however, is that olf technology can be tuned and optimized to achieve something incredible. CloD is new technology! It is capable of achieving what BoB2 has for the offline user easily! I didn't expect CloD to actually achieve what Oleg said it would, but I KNOW that it can. And BoB2 (along with Il-2) is worthy comparison for what it should aim towards.