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Oh no, why?

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28174&page=21

Kankkis

Well, that...doesn't sound promising.

WTF??

EDIT: Although someone asked him if there was a risk of the patch being cancelled entirely, or if this was just a delay, and the response was 'just a delay'.

But, whatever the reason is, worked has stopped on it.

A side project with an "all hands on deck" call?

From BlackSix:

Hopefully some good news...

Hardly "official" news...

Since BlackSix is the community manager for the Russian forum and Luthier's communication with the community is kinda... meagre I take that as official as it gets.

I still check in here or in the Banana forum every now and then in the hope of CloD finally becoming enjoyable for me but week, no, month after month I keep getting disappointed.

If we get the Battle for Moscow addon before we get a patch that fixes the most basic problems of CloD I'll be finished with 1c for good.

Para i agreed 100%

That's unfortunate because the patches have made it playable on most rigs with decent vcard ram, what is holding your rig back from playing it?

Or is it gameplay, because there I can sympathise... The AI is limited, stock campaigns suck, user or third party made content takes time to ramp up.

H

I wouldn't think they could proceed with BfM before they fix CoD since it is an expansion based on the same engine it would inherit the faults of the original.

It's the gameplay. Performance-wise the game has been running OK-ish for me since one of the first patches (corei-5 2500k @4GHZ, 8 GB RAM, GTX 470) despite a number of still not fixed technical problems.

But the AI, FMs, lack of working radio commands, lack of working weather system, the bomber controls, the campaign and a host of other issues just make the game not enjoyable for me.

Considering I bought the collector's edition more than 9 months ago I think my frustration with the game and the developers is understandable. But then I'm starting to just don't care any more.

It will be interesting to see what was their reason/s for putting the patch on hold.


Wheels

I kinda got there a couple of years before the release. I stopped waiting.

However, I'm happy now. If one takes things as they are it can be easier

Ah, desire - it leads to unfulfillment, doesn't it?

.

Well it doesn't have to.

It depends how much your expectations are toyed with, or tempered. Which in turn defends on how they are fed.

I didn't get into these games to constantly lower my expectations towards the floor.

Ben

Does not sound good at all at the moment. Why delay/stop on working to get the sim fixed and it`s not a financial or programming problem.
It rally does not sound good at all !! Any body else thinking "lets launch the lifeboats before the ship sinks" theme here ?


Paul

Well, perhaps the current engine is unsalvageable and they have to start from scratch?

Wasn`t the current engine a replacement for the original ? or am i thinking of another sim ?

Paul

Jumping to conclusions doesn't make it so..if you read what is written it doesn't say anything to support the idea that development is halted or that we won't get a patch just a lot of people trying to draw their own conclusions from a few tidbits of info...

Jumping to conclusions, is certainly not the way to go for sure. Blacksix has posted that the halt is 'temporal' so I think its simply a case of watch this space and Thanks for at least letting us know. Communication is what we all wanted after all.

This more than anything is why the internet is a pitfall for a lot of people. One or more people draw the wrong conclusion or just like to stir things up with their heavy handed criticism and they make a statement that others take as fact and then is followed by angry forum threads denouncing the product and saying they've been ripped-off and wanting to rile everyone else up as much as they can. Others looking for true information because they are researching a title to purchase see these posts and thinking they must be legit also spread the word so the title ends up being killed by the lack of sales do to basically false information. I bought the title and I bought it because I wanted to see for myself fully knowing it might not run on my machine. In fact people told me what I had wouldn't be able to, and without any tweaking and setting my axis I jumped in and was pleasantly surprised to find out you know what? I can run it and not all the criticism is unfounded but it can be made better and probably will be. I don't believe anything I see in the Dev forums unless a Dev is writing it. One vocal person in a Forum thread tweaking about his problem being the end of the game for him doesn't mean he hasn't got an issue, he's just resorted to written kicking and screaming about something he doesn't understand how to fix.
It's hard to sometimes differentiate what is being written by a rational adult and an irrational teen. Not that I think we have that problem here but on the banana boards with translations and guessing they come up with some wild speculation sometimes.

Thats the spirit! CLOD's issues are all the gamers fault and those of us having issues are just spreading false rumors. Well, us gamers and about a dozen gaming review sites.



Yes, we all know the flight sim crowd is the most ignorant when it comes to computers. We don't know how to troubleshoot anything, we just throw up our hands at the first sign of trouble and go to a forum and start bashing.

It's this kind of "blinders on" thinking that is killing flight sims. Just because a few people can run a sim decent, the rest of us must be morons that don't know what their doing. Nice.