CloD community update 2011-01-23

[Wotan]

Edit: sry guys can't change the topic

BlackSix over at the 1C forum has posted a very short update on development:

We are actively working on a patch, there is some progress in optimizing graphics. However, the resulting performance data and information about changes in the near patch we will publish when we are 100% sure of the result, please wait.
Also, this Friday we'll post some screenshots of the new aircraft from the sequel.
Thank you for your understanding and expectation!

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29295

 

[mondo]

Sequel? Eastern Front expansion?

Was really hoping they'd do a med one, with aircraft carriers and whatnot.

 

[Wotan]

They have to garner their home market - or what's left of it. I'll buy it, if they fix the CloD problems with ai, radio and coop. Sadly I don't see that happening in the near future, if at all.

 

[Leimboy]

I totally agree Wotan. They'll have a hard sell of their sequel considering the state Clod is in.
BUT! If they fix everything and all reports of the sequel is positive I am willing to forgive

 

[HaJa]

The most omportant thing to fix is the horrible graphics engine.
It scales terrible and my cards wont go over 35% load which renders
the game almost unplayable under some conditions.

 

[Wotan]

Just buy an Nvidia card or tone down the graphics.
Performance is not an issue for me. Gameplay is.

 

[mondo]

The performance is questionable though. I've got a 580GTX superclocked, 2600K@4.7Ghz, 16GB RAM (a 4GB Ramdisk for caching), OCZ Vertex 3 SSD etc and it sometimes runs really well, then runs really very badly for no real reason I can put my finger on, other than there is obviously something its trying to render which is really poorly programmed or optimized.

The last patch seemed to sort it out but it screwed up the shadows. They're all meshed, which is the only way to described it, like the really crappy low detail shadows on IL2..the original one.

Actually my greatest disappointment was the level of detail on the ground, specifically the towns and coast shape. Its shockingly poor, especially when you live there and can fly over it in other sims and recognise things.

The Swale, Medway (where Chatham is, one of the core RN ports) and that area is terribly rendered. Its horrible. Its not recognisable. Who ever did it needs to be put in the Gulag. Its sloppy.

 

[Wotan]

Nice rig you got there, mondo!

The long awaited development update info is here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29368


Nothing new in there for CloD. Just Luthier lamenting how complicated everything is. No ETA for the patch, nothing what will be fixed in it, etc ... at least you get to see some renders of the Rata.

 

[mondo]

Here, I wrote a condensed version for everyone:

"We're trying to fix stuff but also working on a sequel, my project management skills are probably terrible as you've guessed because I cannot even give you the vaguest of dates, the first sign I might be incompetent at leading a project of this nature.

Here is a Soviet plane which at least is keeping our 3D modellers occupied while the rest of us eat pickled vegetables when we should be fixing stuff".

Did I miss anything?

 

[Wotan]

Nice writeup

 

[Wotan]

Nice writeup, spot on

 

[Leimboy]

LOL @ mondo. Although I'm afraid you're quite right

I only feel sadness for what could have been when I see the screenshots of the 'new' planes.
Hopefully they will manage to make a real good simulator like they first envisioned, but I give it the same chances I give myself for winning the top prize of the lottery...