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Just thought I'd ask again since it's been awhile.

Andy, Crash, anyone had contact with Steve? Should we just give up.

I know the folks from Rage took a lot of hits, but no word for months sure doesn't help.

oh well...

I hope there's SOMETHING..and hopefully before the supposed add-on. I'v mostly postive onthe game, but it could really use a fix or two (or three ) before the add-on comes out.

One hit too many, I suppose. Ain't free speech great!

Andy

Freedom's just another word for...oops wrong board.

Freedom without responsibility, respect, and courtesy can lead to folks writing whatever they choose to, then explaining it away by saying it's their right.
Then all of us suffer/deal with the consequences.

I don't mean to start up the flames/heat again. I just really wondered if anyone had heard something.

'nuff said.

TurtleHawk's out. Gone to blow some stuff up!!

Andy,
Why in the world would you blame your visitors for the brakes being put on a EFT patch? Assuming there was really a plan for a patch in the first place.

Is Rage really that thin skinned that they didn't expect to see a select few complain about things. Software producers should know by now that 5% of the customers make 90% of the complaints.

Freedom of speech wasn't the direct cause of anything. The mighty dollar is the reason things get done or not.

Well if some people's vocal complaints about Typhoon is the reason there is no patch; then that action just validates those complaints even more.

If there isn't going to be a patch then Rage should just come out and say so and be done with it. (Typhoon wasn't their baby..so what do they care probably)

Heck I like the game; but I don't want to be sitting around waiting for support and a patch that's never going to come.

There are two issues here. Whether or not a patch is in the works...and why hasn't more been said about it on this forum.

I don't know squat about a patch one way or the other.

My remark was aimed at the second issue. I can't speak for Rage, Steve Hunt, or anyone else...but my bitch and whine meter got pegged long ago.

Andy

I totally second that Andy!



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It looks like Rage isn't the only one with thin skin.

FWIW I don't reckon Rage are going to release a patch - maybe not even a carrier ops addon.

Andy posted a screenshot of the carrier ops addon ages ago - maybe he can tell you about it? (I'm guessing he was beta testing it).

I emailed that demo joystick util I did that seemed to have throttle working in DX8 to Steve H to have a look at almost a month ago - no reply.

Naturally he doesn't have to reply, and he probably is a little p*ssed off with me and some other people who were fairly vocal in this forum, but if you're in this business you have to accept critism and fix things - if there are problems. I'm not talking about the weapons issues and things people don't like, I'm talking about real bugs - throttle, wait between missions, planes flying through mountains etc.

More and more games developers are scrapping PC games and going for consoles? Why?

* You get it working on a Dreamcast and you know it will work on every other dreamcast in the world - no compatibility problems so less work
* You can't fix bugs after you've RTM, so you can wash your hands of it afterwards

Cheers,
Manteau

Andy with all respect...we've been naughty boys so we won't get any info here? Oh please..

I can understand somebody exaggerated, but can you please post where we can find more info on the subject?

My poor Typhoon is all covered with spiderwebs

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Manteau

I don't do beta testing...although Typhoon could have benefitted from a little more attention to this area.

Andy

-dot-

I don't know where more info can be found. Everything I know, you know.

As may have been obvious by now, Leon and I have exited stage left. We have two major disappointments...one, Rage came up short in the product support/communications area...and, two, the waters got muddied up here by a few who didn't seem to know when enough was enough.

Just to put things into a different perspective, if I could. Much of the appeal of air combat flight sims seems to come from those players who want to feel a sense of kinship with the "real thing". I completely endorse this. The sole reason I stay in this hobby is because of the many, super folks out there that want to share part of what I did.

But just for the record...the kind of pissing and moaning that you all have seen here would not last for a second in a real fighter squadron. So, for the vocal few that didn't know when to call it quits, while you may have had your day here on the Internet, had you been in my real world squadron, I would have thrown your sorry asses out on day one.

Many want "realism"...is that real enough?

Andy

I don't know where more info can be found. Everything I know, you know.

Copy that. Thanks, appreciated.

""Just to put things into a different perspective""

I got your point Andy but there's no need to take it as a personal matter.
I am not sure I am following you on one point , do you mean the discussion would have ended a lot sooner if you where the CAG of the squadron? I may be naive, but I thought that the whole spirit here was to find a way to improve Typhoon, giving RAGE ideas to work on, being a "public" forum you end up having people expressing their opinion in different ways.

On one point I totally agree with you "Rage came up short in the product support/communications area"...leaving you alone to take the heat I would add.


"Many want "realism"...is that real enough?"

Don't know do real pilots have so much to complain about their planes, weapons, wingmans, Missions, Tactics, Strategy ?

I hope (I'm sure) not !

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-dot-

This isn't "personal" with me...call it something like "professional", if you want.

CAG...that's a Navy position!! But it would have been a great job!

Certainly, differences of opinions are allowed in the real life fighter community. And, when it comes to expressing them, in a mission briefing or debriefing, rank doesn't count...everyone gets their say.

BUT...there is a limit...and that limit is when people are seen as "whining" as compared to arguing a point. When a point is argued, a consensus is reached...or the most knowledgeable person weighs in...and there the matter is closed.

If the arguer wants to continue the issue...particularly if the issue is associated with him on a personal level...then that person runs the great risk of being labeled a "weak dick" or a "pussy".

Now, let me say I realize this is stern language, but I often hear folks wanting to know "how it is"...well, this is how it is. Picking up a label like that is tantamount to professional suicide in fighters. A guy can be the most incompetent A2A or A2G pilot in the squadron, but he'll be OK as long as he doesn't whine about it.

Am I being fair in holding forum posters to these standards...maybe, maybe not. But at least you know where I'm coming from.

Andy

Uh-Oh....sorry! WHat's the equivalent of a CAG for USAF? Squadron Commander? ( forgive the ignorance)

"Am I being fair in holding forum posters to these standards...maybe, maybe not. But at least you know where I'm coming from.""

Great! LOL! Got your point!

I am also sure that you will agree in some of the complaints made about EFT like the one made by one of your squad best A/G pilot about Brimstone's targeting system.

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OOOps I'm starting complaining again! LOL!!!! Ok forget about that Sir!
Let's go kick some Migs!



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-dot-

CAG (Commander Air Group, or something like that) is one step above Squadron Commander...he's the overall supervisor of flying squadrons on a carrier (as I understand it). The USAF equivalent would be a Colonel position called DO, Deputy for Operations.

I was the squadron equivalent, a squadron operations officer, a Lt Colonel position.

I thought most of the comments regarding weapon performance were unnecessary once the rationale for this performance was explained.
As I saw it, the gripe was made...the explanation was given...that should have been the end of the story. Further complaining proved nothing.

Andy

Fair enough Andy.

But I've got a friend that works in EB here in Dorset. He says the return rate Typhoon has had is unbelievable. When people were asked what was wrong with it, e.g. wouldn't work, graphics problems, etc, most of them replied "didn't like it" or "can't kill anything in it".

Now that's only one store, and I don't know the whole picture throughout the UK, but maybe a lot of people don't like it and maybe it would have been worth changing certain things?

Cheers,
Manteau

EFT/Rage shot itself in the foot by marketing the game as a "litesim" and the fact that anybody could pick it up and start shooting!
This is where the problem lies.
People *did* exactly that -pick it up and shoot, but they missed what they shot at!
Since this was aimed at a "mass" audience of people that had never played sims and those that had, the result was those that hadn't didn't want a lecture as to why their Brimstone had just gone underground!?
Or why their Meteors kept missing targets 9 out of 12 shots etc at *silly* ranges of 1 1/2 to 5 miles out!
The fun element was *lost* from that moment on.

Look at the fun factor in USAF -you could practicaly guarantee a missile hit *every* time or tone it down if you wanted it harder!

As for the "seasoned" simmers that played it EFT?
It was far too scripted and the poor ending totaly destroyed any want to replay it-it's almost as if they ran out of ideas as to how to end it?.. i mean an A/G rocket weapon being used to *try* and destroy a *future* 2015 nuclear bomber!! Sorry, the words "lost the plot" come screaming out at me..

Also by replaying it you quickly found out that the whole scenario repeated it's self,in the *same* places on the theatre map!) You could even "stalemate" the game by destroying the Russian landing craft and the game wouldn't advance!

Sorry, the "fans" were begging and willing to throw their money at Rage and Rage BLEW IT!

Nobody's fault but their **own**
Play Max Payne and you would think that Rage and Remedy were brother's!

Tracer

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[This message has been edited by Tracer[formerly of CS] (edited 08-22-2001).]

OK..here comes the griping. Not again!

Though I will agree on one thing, the manual to the game should have given more information about weapon usage. Probably would stopped people from trying to use Meteors at targets 1 1/2 to 5 miles out. Come on Tracer..why you trying to use Meteors on targets that close anyway?!

As it turned out you had to learn weapon parameters on your own. Once you did, you could get Meteors to hit 75% of the time. (under the right conditions). But if you're going to stick complex (if not 100% accurate weapons) in a lite sim, you got to keep provide the player with the instruction manual.