So do you think the 'BIG' patch for Clod will be released at the same time as BoM?

[Tavingon]

I guess it will come slightly before so everyone is 'warmed up' for the grand release of the sequel!

[grawl]

I think it should be released before the announcement of the sequel, so that everybody's head get a bit cooler and it does not get downed in flames.

[trademe900]

The bottom line is we defrauded so long ago and still to this day have not got what we have paid for.

I will not go near BoM purely on a matter of principle.

[Whiski]

They can release 5 new titles if they want, I won't be spending any money on any new release until CLoD is fixed.

How can I have faith in a new product if the old one was just, well....just bad and incomplete?

[robtek]

Of course the "big patch" will be released asap, so the engine can be tested ad nauseum before the sequel is official announced, which didn't happen yet.

All this talking about the sequel is talking about unlaid eggs until the official announcement.

And rewarming the bad press from the beginning for the nth time is pathetic at least.

[Force10]

Originally Posted by robtek

so the engine can be tested ad nauseum before the sequel is official announced

The "nauseum" comes from us having to pay to be Alpha and Beta testers without our knowledge at the time

Originally Posted by robtek

All this talking about the sequel is talking about unlaid eggs until the official announcement.

I guess maybe the devs shouldn't keep posting screenshots from it if it bothers robtek to talk about it?

[=CfC= Father Ted]

They absolutely have to have CloD working to a reasonable degree before releasing BoM. I'm not saying that just as a disgruntled customer either: their entire market must be aware of the problems with CloD, and none of them is going to buy a new game with the same engine without some sort of proof that it'll work. Therefore CloD must be seen to be working before BoM is released.

[skouras]

Originally Posted by robtek

Of course the "big patch" will be released asap, so the engine can be tested ad nauseum before the sequel is official announced, which didn't happen yet.

All this talking about the sequel is talking about unlaid eggs until the official announcement.

And rewarming the bad press from the beginning for the nth time is pathetic at least.

agreed..

[von Pilsner]

Patch first then official announcement of new game (the MMO).

I don't know if it is gonna work like the old IL2 series anymore, I would expect the MMO to be a completely separate game and not an expansion to CloD (using same engine, but I doubt it will integrate into CloD).

Once the MMO is out it will take all of MG's time to maintain that so I doubt we will get a stand-alone (non-MMO) BoM now...

This is all speculation, of course...

[Codex]

Well its not official news but Phat mentioned in another thread the team has another "year or 2 of funding" so I'm tipping more smaller incremental patches rather than a big one. I wouldn't be surprised if we see CloD merged into BoM or vise-versa when BoM is ready.