No surprises



Dec 23 update



Weather is new code apparently

Bwahahahahahaha! While it's cool to have an answer how they are planning on doing it, you're going to have to shell out more money to get the features that were supposed to be in CloD. So evidently both sides were right on what was going to happen.

bring it on i say, i will buy it, still cheap kicks as far as i am concerned!
any word on when they are planing to release the first addon?

Cheers
Craig

Yup, bring it on!

The second sequel will hopefully deliver what is promised for the first sequel (i.e. BoM)

Maskirovka.....again.....

I am not bothered about the situation with 1c and all the talk of BOM at the moment,I was so disapointed like everyone else when COD was released I drifted away to ROF and the DCS collection which keep me very busy !
If I was interested in the air war over Moscow I would be literally licking my lips in expectation but being from the UK and what has happened to COD I really can`t drum up any enthusiasm at all.
Sorry guys just my view.


Paul

Posted by Luthier in the latest update thread.

"Hey folks,

I see that these answers led some folks here, and most of the folks on my favorite sukhoi.ru, to read between the lines and see my answers to specific questions as indications of larger-scale abandonment of the project.

That's not the case at all.

I answered specific questions and didn't touch on the larger effort. It remains the same. Sped up graphics, launcher errors, improved FM, etc, all of that is in progress as previously stated.

We are trying to pull off a very difficult balancing act with developing a new game and supporting an old one at the same time. Pretty much no one does that. Most large developers simply release games, support them for a month at the most, and then switch to new paid content regardless of the state of the game. We are however trying not only to patch up major issues, we're working on improving things that generally work - and we're doing that for free seven months after release. We are doing that by trying to parallel tasks as much as possible and improving CoD while developing a sequel.

That is however simply not possible with some features. In some cases that's a question of limited resources. We cannot make a new flyable for CoD because that means one less flyable for the sequel. With other tasks it's simply a matter of time. Some of the changes we're making are so sweeping, they're scheduled to be completed very close to the sequel's ship date. The animation for example is such a huge task with so many facets that we can't just take it, turn it into a half a gig patch, and release it for CoD a month before the release of the sequel.

And to make sure to drive my main point across. We are still working on improving CoD. No one's abandoned it. There will be patches. My answers about things in the sequel were meant for those specific features. Please don't try to read between the lines!"

One wouldn't have to, if communications were less enigmatic, much clearer. Will they never learn? They've been in this game long enough.

The developer has a long history of communicating with their customers, but that exactly what has caused much of the problems, between the Russian to English translation, and peoples inability to differentiate the difference between what they are trying to accomplish and a promise.