There are 2 things that can rescue this game:
1) US release (short term) - there is quite a few bucks at stake so they are canceling their holidays
2) competitive pressure from 777 (long term) - I was flying ROF online yesterday and, boy, is this game light years from where COD is now in terms of atmosphere (and it`s becoming better with new content/features). If 1C does not turn COD into masterpiece comparable to ROF before 777 rolls out something in the WWII dept., they`re up for meatgrinder. Competition rulez!
Having said this, kudos to Luthier and team for rolling up the sleeves and getting onto the race. It can only get better.
PLUS: the Moderator over at 1C is now saying `one step at a time` - see ? they`re learning.
Oleg always used to brag that he liked having competition.
IMHO, RoF had a similarly troubled release (with a botched launch that alienated many users, a broken campaign engine that was ridiculously unrealistic, performance and reliability issues as well as lack of optimisation in som areas, the default AI had very imbalanced tactics in some mounts, the landscape has limited historical acccuracy and the modeling of the lewis guns treated them as Vickers...
Basically, RoF was torn at by critics and would have been shredded if it was expected to meet the same expectations some people have for CoD. However, it is brilliant and has progressed tremendously.
