Friday the 14th Development Update

[Chivas]

Its very good news to hear, that COD will continue to be improved thru the merging of Sequels. The funny thing is people who complain about having to buy a Sequel to improve COD would probably have bought the Sequel anyway. I fully understand being pissed off about the beta release of COD, but your monies help make it possible that COD can be fixed and new theaters added. BUT that depends on the development fixing and optimizing the game engine and features for the release of the Sequel.

I was very concerned that the development would run out of capital and we would never see COD fixed. The next COD patch should make some improvement, but the fact it will be merged with the Sequel will make a huge improvement in new features, and fixes to the AI, Commands, FM, DM, FMB, GUI, Animations etc etc. These fixes will allow the community and third parties to build far more historic missions and campaigns. The future could be very bright for COD and all the Sequels, if the development manages to fix the new game engine.

People MUST remember that the Sequels are just new maps and missions. Most work and improvements to the game engine and its features apply to ALL theaters including the English Channel map.

[jermin]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The next COD patch should make some improvement, but the fact it will be merged with the Sequel will make a huge improvement in new features, and fixes to the AI, Commands, FM, DM, FMB, Animations etc etc. These fixes will allow the community and third parties to build far more historic missions and campaigns.

I'm confused. You talk as if you are the head of the development team, not luthier.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by jermin

I'm confused. You talk as if you are the head of the development team, not luthier.

You don't have to part of the development team to point out the obvious. The theaters are just maps, all of them using the same game engine and features. Any improvements to the game engine and features should apply to ALL maps.

Originally Posted by Chivas

You don't have to part of the development team to point out the obvious. The theaters are just maps, all of them using the same game engine and features. Any improvements to the game engine and features should apply to ALL maps.

lol, Chivas you have missed the obvious with this game for the last 30 months!! You kept telling us how good it would be, and then you kept telling us how they would fix it... the simple truth is we pointed out the obvious it was you who couldn't see it.

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The funny thing is people who complain about having to buy a Sequel to improve COD would probably have bought the Sequel anyway...........

Chivas, you are correct, people would have bought the sequal, however we/they have been burnt once so will now either wait for good reviews before buying or cut their losses and move onto something differant.

I think what will hurt though is the lack of coop content as most squads prefer this form to going onto D/F servers (I know ATAG and others have a work around but thats not the point is it?), especially those with no interest in the Eastern Front

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by kristorf

Chivas, you are correct, people would have bought the sequal, however we/they have been burnt once so will now either wait for good reviews before buying or cut their losses and move onto something differant.

I think what will hurt though is the lack of coop content as most squads prefer this form to going onto D/F servers (I know ATAG and others have a work around but thats not the point is it?), especially those with no interest in the Eastern Front

You neglected to quote my suggestion that people will only buy the Sequel if the game engine is fixed.

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by Chivas

You neglected to quote my suggestion that people will only buy the Sequel if the game engine is fixed.

Sorry, I thought that was a cert

[Robert]

Originally Posted by kristorf

Chivas, you are correct, people would have bought the sequal, however we/they have been burnt once so will now either wait for good reviews before buying or cut their losses and move onto something differant.

I think what will hurt though is the lack of coop content as most squads prefer this form to going onto D/F servers (I know ATAG and others have a work around but thats not the point is it?), especially those with no interest in the Eastern Front

Not sure if I'll have to go as far as waiting for reviews. There were tell tale signs before the release that indicated an incomplete game. Luthier's "Drop a Bomb on Me" video of him flying a 110 over water should have been an indicator, lack of improved engine sounds, no skirmishes but a few highly polished movies are another. If the development process follows the same path so close to the release of the sequel I think we can safely say that the sequel won't be up to standards. On the other hand if we do see honest* representations of developemnt with honest improvement I'll buy. It may seem like a long shot to some but I'll take the risk if I see good updates and progress.

*I'm not trying to indicate dishonesty on the teams' behalf, but there were clues that had me sctratching my head, and I know there were others who looked at late development with askewed glances of disbelief.

Personally, I'd like a RATA over the snows of the eastern front.

Good luck crew. I'm sure you're aware of the thin ice on which you stand. You have the time to make something we all hope to have on our hard drives.

[Storm of When]

If he doesn`t turn up and answer the questions you`ll have all the info you need about the sincerity of the team. They knew it was a disaster area on release, yet they still dropped it on 1000s of loyal IL2 fans, sad thing is unless DCS has a mad influx of people developing WW2 aircraft off their own backs we`re stuck with this as the Gaijin effort was removed from my SSD after the first 10 mins on it. I wish 1C all the best and maybe one day this will be a success as per IL2, but I seriously doubt it given their inability to address the problems that have beset this release from day 1 and before.

[Boandlgramer]

Luthier , Я за вас , Я буду ждать