Poll- Still flying Clod?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by bladeracer

Certainly, it has _some_ very cool touches, but for me there's zero immersion or gameplay value.
Yes, it may well have developed into something even half as good as IL2, but any game can only do that from a solid base that keeps people playing it to begin with.

Do you play online or offline? I've never got into the stock campaigns, but apparently there is some fairly good third party campaigns both paidware and for free.

I normally go online at ATAG using teamspeak and if there are a few people online 20-30+ is quite common. Even with 270ms ping rate I get much better responce and less warping than I get in the original IL2. The Scripted missions are really good especially the ones with radar plots and the Refuel and rearm.

On special events they can get 100+ online at once, though the mission objects normally get blitzed and they are short matches.

Edit - just saw your post about on-line - dissregard comments where appropriate.

[bladeracer]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Do you play online or offline? I've never got into the stock campaigns, but apparently there is some fairly good third party campaigns both paidware and for free.

I normally go online at ATAG using teamspeak and if there are a few people online 20-30+ is quite common. Even with 270ms ping rate I get much better responce and less warping than I get in the original IL2. The Scripted missions are really good especially the ones with radar plots and the Refuel and rearm.

On special events they can get 100+ online at once, though the mission objects normally get blitzed and they are short matches.

Never, I don't have time to set aside for dedicated game playing. My flying happens with lots of other activities at the same time and extensive use of the pause button

[bladeracer]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Edit - just saw your post about on-line - dissregard comments where appropriate.

You disagreed about my view of the game earlier, do you stand by that even if you could only play CloD offline?

I have flown online, and even enjoyed it. But mainly it seems to be twelve-year-olds that want to shoot, get hit, respawn, shoot, get hit, respawn, etc, ad finitum - not my idea of flight or history.

[ElAurens]

There was no pause button in history either.

Just saying.

In any case, this bickering is pointless.

The game is dead. I don't care how many people fly it currently, it's as dead as a door nail. No chance for further support, no expanding of theatres of operation, no new aircraft, nothing.

It's a pity, this is true, as the flight experience is unmatched by any other props and machine guns sim. But it's now just a dead end and a sad footnote in the history of computer gaming.

[bladeracer]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

There was no pause button in history either.

Just saying.

That's right, there weren't any computer simulations either...

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by bladeracer

You disagreed about my view of the game earlier, do you stand by that even if you could only play CloD offline?

I have flown online, and even enjoyed it. But mainly it seems to be twelve-year-olds that want to shoot, get hit, respawn, shoot, get hit, respawn, etc, ad finitum - not my idea of flight or history.

If there was no online I'ld be exploring the 3rd party missions and campaigns in more depth. From all accounts the desastersoft addons are excelent. The scripting in CoD gives the mission builders a lot of flexability.

I spend most of my time in the Blenhiem trying to avoid fighters and I find that the low down detail and variety of objects available for mission builders is great.
It's a pitty we didn't get a chance to expand into other theatres where mud movers would have more prominence.

Cheers!

[Sokol1]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

The scripting in CoD gives the mission builders a lot of flexability.

Sames possibilities of "dinamic battle", from server "Battle of France" (in Beta):



Sokol1