Friday Update, February 24, 2012

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Force10

As they said, it might not make it into the sim.

I think you missunderstood.. I belive they implied it may not make it into CoD but it will surly be in one of the sequals to it

[Ctrl E]

For the love of god. Please just fix the sim. I don't care about tanks. I bought a flight sim, not world of tanks.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

Bohemia has released Take On Helicopters and want to incoporate the fm into Arma 3.

That is good news..

And if 1C takes that same aproach.. That would be great imho! Get your foot in the door with tanks by offering up something that is not as detailed/realistic as it could be.. Make money.. Than if your in the black you can go back and add some polish to those items which in turn should bring in more people

All in all this aproach is about the only way I see a flight sims staying in business from this point forward.. Becuase as much as we flight simmers may hate to admit it.. Flight sims dont have a big ROI!!

[DoolittleRaider]

Originally Posted by LUD

I am really concerned about some possibilities...

I wonder what will happen when you still have a limit of 60 online players, and 59 of them takes the ground slots
...

I would be ecstatic! That is what is known as a "target-rich environment" for an aggressive and skilled FW-190, P-47, or IL-2 ground pounder!!!!

[II./JG1_Spies]

Thank you for the update. It is good to know that the developers are working hard in this tank simulator, it will be useless for most of the community but it is a great feature.
Any chance of us getting the Mercedes-Benz W125 ?

Please fix the game instead of adding new features. I still can't play for over than 45m without the game crashing.

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

For the love of god. Please just fix the sim. I don't care about tanks. I bought a flight sim, not world of tanks.

+1

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

This is the same discussion we had about clickable cockpits and extra CEM options a few years ago: most people argued against it with a passion ("LoLWut?! FSX in MY combat sims?")I and now they like and use the features because they are done in a clever, optional manner. Don't like CEM? You can turn it off. Don't like click-pits? Press F10 to disable it and map everything to your HOTAS.

But if you don't have a HOTAS and only a simple stick and keyboard setup, clickpits let you control a higher fidelity representation of the aircraft without needing a 2nd keyboard for all the bindings, you just keep the critical stuff mapped to stick and keyboard and use the mouse for the rest: essentially it let the developer up the ante in terms of realism without skewing the playing field depending on the player's peripherals. But most people were too blind to see it back then as well.

It will be like this with ground combat too. Don't like it? I don't drive it.

But somewhere down the line, the majority will be happy to zoom around, patrolling over hedgerows in Normandy in a bombed up P-47 and listen on TS for that CAS request from a friendly Sherman tank battalion that's been pinned down by 2-3 Tigers, swoop in and take them out and enjoy the added layers of gameplay it offers.

Deja vu

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by II./JG1_Spies

Thank you for the update. It is good to know that the developers are working hard in this tank simulator, it will be useless for most of the community but it is a great feature.
Any chance of us getting the Mercedes-Benz W125 ?

Please fix the game instead of adding new features. I still can't play for over than 45m without the game crashing.

I'm sure the tank modeller will get right on programming the core engine of the game. Do you know anything about software development at all?

[Chivas]

Thanks BlackSix

All the new features are going to make for a very immersive combat flight sim. There are no worries of everyone selecting a tank even if they wanted to as that would be defined by the server. Even furbs suggestion that he would remove all the trees etc so he could get a clear shot with his 88 wouldn't be possible as the amount of trees would also be defined by the server.

The work on the ground war features implies to me that the developer is confident that the air combat issues will be addressed, and it also implies the development is on more stable financial ground than I thought.

[Vonte]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I'm sure the tank modeller will get right on programming the core engine of the game. Do you know anything about software development at all?

As long as 45mins, count yourself as lucky. If I last more than 15mins in game before Launcher exe crashes me I feel lucky !!!!!!

Regards