CO-OPs again...

[Chivas]

I agree coding expertise has delayed major mission building, but also documentation and game engine optimizations need to be completed before COD will really fly. Hopefully the next patch will optimize the game engine enough that more people with the necessary coding expertise will want to become involved in major mission building. If the new series does survive long enough for optimizations, documentation, and SDK the community can take over, but at a much slower pace than if the developers were still involved.

Originally Posted by Chivas

Hopefully the next patch will optimize the game engine enough .

Now where have we heard that before? Seriously 9 months on and we are still hoping. I admire your faith lads truly i do, mine had gone completely before release

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Now where have we heard that before? Seriously 9 months on and we are still hoping. I admire your faith lads truly i do, mine had gone completely before release

And yet you're still here...

[EAF331 Starfire]

Originally Posted by IamNotDavid

And yet you're still here...

Well, I bought the game. Used a lot of time in the FMB. Flown a bit.
Right now I am looking to see how long I should wait before I buy a new grafics solution. My GTX260 will barely give me 29fps in COD.
Keeping a thread in mind is a way of telling that there still are a need for a specific change.
The reaction from the staff here are helping me judge how urgent such a purchase is

[EAF331 Starfire]

but I do look forward to the next release for IL-2

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Now where have we heard that before? Seriously 9 months on and we are still hoping. I admire your faith lads truly i do, mine had gone completely before release

Now if that were true hopefully you would left along time ago.

[EAF331 Starfire]

My 2 cents...

COOP in COD are still nothing than a DF server with COOP interface. The inability to to halt the mission time and read the briefings before the time starts.

I tried the "Idle" trick and made a recording; It showed that when the server is started the aircraft more or less fell from the skies. A/C and TIME was not frozen.

I read the complain about the feeling of mission being scripted with COOP. But this is excatly the feeling I want when I do my training missions. Mission were my pilots starts in the middle of the action so we can train the same subject again or again in order to make it muscle memory. Somthing we use a lot in EAF. This feature saves a lot of time.
I would love to do it the old fasion way as they do it in the USN, USAF or USMC but none of my pilots get paid to use real fuel in a real live aircraft. Which is why I want the old style COOP back. It would also make it easier and more temting for the SEOW folkes to adopt the SEOW campaign for COD.


BTW I would like to thanks the SEOW and HSFX folkes for their work all those years

[Blackdog_kt]

First of all, let's not get confrontational among ourselves over something that is not directly in our hands.

With that being said,

Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

in the high times of IL2 coop onlinewar flying, the waitingtimes in the Hyperlobby slots were actually quite short very often.

one has to mention, 9 months after IL2 releasecthere was no online war running. it took its time to organizice them, and they improved a lot during the time. perhaps some can remember the manual reports in the debriefing screen in the first IOW
Open Coops were flown alot after release, BBury's Valley of Death anyone But without the working Hyperlobby, all this would not have been possible. Il2 online playhad a lot of benefits because of a 3.party tool. cant imagine what would have happened without the HL.
The UBI.com lobby was crap, IIRC i was there once and than never again.

I will wait what the community is able to do online with this software in , lets say, 2 years after its release.....
in the moment the online possibilities of the software and the scenario of the BoB is boring for me.

Pretty sound arguments. A lot of people are expecting a newly released sim with not much in the way of 3rd party tools yet, to be what IL2 was after a couple of years of 3rd party involvement.

I'm not much of an onliner and mostly used Coops to train a mate who was returning to flight sims. When i wanted to fly online i always joined one of the objective based DF servers to get the best of both worlds: there is a mission to win and tasks to achieve, but there's also enough fluidity to ensure unpredictability and no waiting times.

I think the only thing needed for CoD is two switches: synchronise spawn times and no respawn. Then whatever we have will be able to work like an old-style coop which to be truly honest, would be most beneficial for arranged squad matches and squad training.

For an on-going online campaign with some sense of dynamic nature built in, the old coop interface is a bit long in the tooth frankly, as it would miss the opportunity to use certain appealing capabilities of the new engine.

Slapping up a quick and dirty training scenario for training people? Perfect. Making detailed scenarios that want to ensure the players follow a specified mission plan? Perfect. Making an online war? Workable but far from what can be actually implemented.

Mind you, i'm not saying the coop interface is not needed. What i'm saying is that sticking to it will limit the things we can do in the long run. It is needed, but mostly to bridge the gap until we get the really cool stuff happening.

Long term, i'd rather prefer a situation where a supply system is implemented (this means scripting), so that hitting targets has an effect on the enemy's ability to fight back. Then, depending on difficulty settings we could have respawns, limited respawns, no respawns or even virtual lives (eg, resettable stats and a counter on how many lives a player went through during the current campaign).

Even more, we could limit the ability of players to switch sides and even positions in a multi-crew aircraft. That's the reason these features exist in the difficulty options.

If i was running a more relaxed campaign i could allow people to come and go as they please. If i was running a more regulated campaign, i would have people register for a certain team for the entirety of the campaign through the server's forums, so that they can't get intel by simply joining the other team. Then i would have two sub-forums, one for each team, where they could plan their actions and operations without the other side having access to them.

This way (especially if dynamic/moving targets were scripted) players would have to actually fly recon/armed recon sorties to locate targets, instead of briefly hopping to the other team, taking off and making notes of the defences for the airfield they spawned at, switch back to their own team and plan a sortie to attack it.

If we wanted to take this further, we could even make it so that players sign up for a specific task or squadron for the entire campaign (eg, fighters or bombers), or even a specific crew position for the really hardcore crowd (like flying the entire campaign as a bombardier).

What this would need is a forum interface where the players sign up for their preferred team/task/etc and a parser adding that information into a script that controls what the players are allowed to do when actually connecting to the server.

The possibilities are endless and i thought up most of it within a week of release, just by looking at the difficulty options and wondering "now why would they have an option to limit this and that?".

Have some imagination people, we just have to wait for scripting to evolve or the SDK and manuals to be released.

The good thing is that since i'm now studying computing i'm getting to grips with how objective oriented programming works and C# is pretty similar in structure to most of the OOP languages. The bad thing is that it won't be before summer that i'll have the time to possibly sit down and code something

The best thing is that we already have people working on it, see Jimbop's link:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28559

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Mind you, i'm not saying the coop interface is not needed. What i'm saying is that sticking to it will limit the things we can do in the long run. It is needed, but mostly to bridge the gap until we get the really cool stuff happening.

Ageed 100%

[HR_Naglfar]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Have some imagination people, we just have to wait for scripting to evolve or the SDK and manuals to be released.

This.

Unfortunately the people here seems to lack a lot of imagination and patience