Weather/Terrain effects. Surely this is the minimum we expect for CloD or the Sequel

[kendo65]

The plan is to get the weather working for the sequel, and as COD will be merge-able with the next instalment the weather (and other improvements + updates to the engine) will be usable in COD too.

So, we'll get it, but it's going to be a waiting game.

I'll also speculate that when they introduce cloudy/overcast, stormy, etc conditions that they will have to tweak and 'recalibrate' the lighting settings - and this should mean that the current slightly over-dulled, pastel effect for COD's perpetually bright sunny skies will be redone and improved as well.

And as the Russian Front will have both winter and summer conditions they will also have to re-work and fine-tune the current always-high icing settings for clouds. So no more icing up flying through British summer clouds.

In fact, since coming to terms with the probability that most of what I want will be supplied in the sequel I have been enjoying a near-Buddhist state of contemplative tranquillity regarding the current state of COD and no longer care about Beta and Steam patches.

[Allons!]

Originally Posted by kendo65

The plan is to get the weather working for the sequel, and as COD will be merge-able with the next instalment the weather (and other improvements + updates to the engine) will be usable in COD too.

I bet 20,- € that they wont get the weather fixed in the sequel without new and bigger problems and i severely doubt that CoD with its /(%$§ engine will be mixable with the great new engine everybody there is talking about.. but we will see..

[David198502]

....im the bookie

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Allons!

I bet 20,- € that they wont get the weather fixed in the sequel without new and bigger problems and i severely doubt that CoD with its /(%$§ engine will be mixable with the great new engine everybody there is talking about.. but we will see..

They are changing the engine now, right in front of our eyes, with each beta patch, so the process is already underway.

I'm not sure I'm ready to take you up on the bet though......there will need to be tremendous work done to get the originally-planned dynamic weather system optimised enough to be playable without sending fps crashing through the floor again.

Add in the planned MMO and improvements to the net code required for that and it looks like a very tall order.

And given the time taken to get the engine revamp to final Steam release quality, it is difficult not to conclude that something will have to give.

(I suspect it will be the MMO. Maybe put back to the 2nd sequel...?

They have been just too damned ambitious with this whole thing. Putting off driveable tanks and MMO until the basics are done is surely the most sensible choice.)