"Friday" Update, April 28, 2012

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by Force10

Maybe these are the folks that were the silent majority waiting patiently for the sim to be fixed, but have run out of patience. Or are you thinking I should re-post your tin foil hat pic?

There are a ton of quiet people who come here every week to check.

A lot of us. Soon, I think.

[Grove]

Originally Posted by TUSA/TX-Gunslinger

There are a ton of quiet people who come here every week to check.

A lot of us. Soon, I think.

S!

...and here's one, waiting more and more impatiently for The Patch. Even thought this is my first post here, I have been flying the original Il2 series from the day 1 it appeared and kept flying it for almost a decade - many of those years online.

CoD was SO eagerly waited for years, that it's hard to describe how it felt when it first came out. I never bought it... and to be honest, was sure that it wouldn't never succesfully gather ppl flying like the original one.

But couple of weeks ago, I heard about this "soon" (yep, two weeks) coming patch that would eventually make this sim worth it - so I bought this game via Steam - and immediately read about these new problems and that the release of The Patch was postponed.

I speak only for myself (and this is no ultimatum or anything)... I like flying CoD. It has tons of potential to become THE sim of the decade. Game works pretty well (for me) and I really enjoy flying online. It felt like in the old days (lack of pilots is alarming). Some of my squadmates are propably coming back too and we really have high expectations. Every game has it's lifespan, how much do we have afford to use it like this?

No intentions to piss on anyones cereals...just wanted to come out and give my 2 cents. Thanks for the dev's for this sim, it's a good one- we all hope it'll become a great one.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by TUSA/TX-Gunslinger

There are a ton of quiet people who come here every week to check.

A lot of us. Soon, I think.

Out of all the folks that I flew IL2 with, and there were a lot of us, only myself and one or two others bother to come here, even just to have a peek.

Those of us who post here, myself included, are the tiniest minority of players.

Most of my Pig buddies have truly given up on the sim. They all see the potential here, but the majority think it will never be fixed, nor will there be a sequel. Most think that 1C will shortly pull the plug as the funding is certainly not infinite.

I don't agree, but lots of people on the outside now feel this way.

I hope Luthier and team prove them wrong, and moreover, I hope they can do so quickly, as the clock is ticking on peoples patience.

[=FI=Scott]

Its a similar story with the Figting Irish Squadron. Lots of anticipation and enthusiasm for picking up the sim but as a squad we have yet to fly CoD once. There are a few that play offline and I gave online a go a couple of times but overall it has died a death.

I think we could get a few together if the next patch made it faster and more stable but until then its IL2 and RoF. I too can't see how this can go on indefinitely, its fingers crossed but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the rug was pulled at any time.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by =FI=Scott

Its a similar story with the Figting Irish Squadron. Lots of anticipation and enthusiasm for picking up the sim but as a squad we have yet to fly CoD once. There are a few that play offline and I gave online a go a couple of times but overall it has died a death.

I think we could get a few together if the next patch made it faster and more stable but until then its IL2 and RoF. I too can't see how this can go on indefinitely, its fingers crossed but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the rug was pulled at any time.

The Pigs, Fighting Irish, and other squads will always be welcome to fly on the ATAG Server (patch or no patch). Feel free to contact us if you could use a squad Teamspeak channel (passworded or not -- your choice). No fee or charge whatsoever -- we just want to shoot you guys down!

[Damixu]

It's a good thing they have spotted the bugs and crushing them as we speak. I myself I'm looking forward to see the bright future of this long lasting series of aviation simulation par none. I barely can wait to have the next sequel on the eastern front airplanes... My small wish is to include the Finnish Winter War and the Continuation War scenes and planes to the set please.

Thank you 1C, keep up the good work!

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by Damixu

It's a good thing they have spotted the bugs and crushing them as we speak.

And there's the big fallacy. There is no "crushing" of bugs. It's not that people got hostile towards the dev team from the outset. They have done their best, time and time again, to identify bugs in CoD, with every conceivable help they could provide (crash dump files, screenshots, descriptions etc.) plus defending 1C from unjust criticism - myself included. Parade example: My oft-cited issue about radio communication, which, when missing, relegates the game to a technology demonstrator/multiplayer-only game.

But it got apparent that there was no real effort to fix the game. Sure, there was some shotgun-style random attempts to fix individual things but most time, it seems, was spent on some obscure 'rewrites' of different things, creating huge, new bugs in the process that made the situation even more unbearable.

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by Redroach

There is no "crushing" of bugs.

Nice to know you are on the inside and actually know what is going on in the development office.

All official communication is just made up?

Saying false things like this doesn't help anyone at all. You have no evidence to back you up so don't bother.

[=FI=Scott]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

The Pigs, Fighting Irish, and other squads will always be welcome to fly on the ATAG Server (patch or no patch). Feel free to contact us if you could use a squad Teamspeak channel (passworded or not -- your choice). No fee or charge whatsoever -- we just want to shoot you guys down!

Your invitation is much appreciated and as soon as I can get the lads to join in we shall take you up on it. Roll on the patch and some good news for CoD.

[No601_Swallow]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Out of all the folks that I flew IL2 with, and there were a lot of us, only myself and one or two others bother to come here, even just to have a peek.

Those of us who post here, myself included, are the tiniest minority of players.

Most of my Pig buddies have truly given up on the sim. They all see the potential here, but the majority think it will never be fixed, nor will there be a sequel. Most think that 1C will shortly pull the plug as the funding is certainly not infinite.

I don't agree, but lots of people on the outside now feel this way.

I hope Luthier and team prove them wrong, and moreover, I hope they can do so quickly, as the clock is ticking on peoples patience.

This is pretty much my feeling. From my Sqn (Tangmere Pilots), most of us got the collector's edition on the day of release. For one crazy day, many of us even posted pics of ourselves on our forum proudly holding our newly delivered boxes. Feels a bit embarrassing now. But I'm with you, El, a lonely voice among the sarcastic comments among my sqn-mates, hoping Luthier will prove me right.

(We do occasionally get together to go on the ATAG server for an hour - although our 3-times-a-week-il2 schedule makes this infrequent at the moment, because many of us totally get the potential (and I love flying the planes). But our basic inability to get our own server going reliably (and we're not Noobs to this stuff) means we'll never do it regularly until we can do something as basic as throwing up a coop (COOP!!!) server and flying off together to fight something!)

My fingers also remain crossed, though.