Cliffs of Dover Is Still The Best Simulator.

[addman]

It's too good to ignore but not good enough to keep you playing, it lacks substance.

[fruitbat]

You've still got it Avro

[=FI=Scott]

I'm from an old IL2 squad and we haven't played CoD together once. There are too many issues with it. From a single player perspective it is painfull to see something that can shout at you how good it could be and then ctd or hit you with bugs to the point that you quit out with frustration.

Personally the only game that I can remember that had such a torrid infancy was Falcon 4. In its day it looked great and... well... you could just see what it was capable of. The problem I see is that Falcon 4 developed in a time where flight sims and combat sims commanded a big market sector and now they dont. CoD just doesn't have the slack Falcon had and thats a fact. Add to that CoD comes from the IL2 family of sims which pretty much blew the competition away and CoD as it stands couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding (old Yorkshire phrase-sorry !)

I want CoD to be something that my squad, the Fighting Irish, will want to play, but week in, week out it's 'we are almost there, it will be great' just doesn't cut it any more. To me it is put up or shut up for CoD.

I know that (i) the CoD Templar Knights will blast this post and (ii) I don't give a (fill in your profanity of choice)

[salmo]

Originally Posted by =FI=Scott

... <snip> I want CoD to be something that my squad, the Fighting Irish, will want to play, but week in, week out it's 'we are almost there, it will be great' just doesn't cut it any more. To me it is put up or shut up for CoD. <snip>...

I tried building a simple mission today. Just a red HB & 2 blue enemy Ai flights & no scripts, but every time I ran it in FMB I got a CTD. This is simply unacceptable for a professonaly produced computer game.

I'm of the same opinion as FI=Scott. We've heard urges for patience, and phases like 'we're working on it' or 'we're nearly there' for over 6 months now. I fear that the next patch (if it comes before BOM), will offer a small improvement in fps for some in the community but not address many of the critical bugs in the game. Anyone noticed how we get pics & info of BOM, but NO information on any of the critcal (non graphical) bugs in COD being fixed?

Quite frankly, (1) the next patch needs to improve gameplay to the extent that it re-engages public interest in the game, & (2) BOM would have to be exceptionally 'clean' & work well right from the start, otherwise IMO the COD franchise is dead.