Recent community feedback

There's been an interesting discussion at SimHQ looking at ways to expedite release:

Suggestions for a faster Combat Release

Good suggestions and comments there. We'd always planned a flexible a feature list that could be trimmed from the tail backwards to meet the projects 18 month expected overrun. Shaving off extensive features like the Hellfire launch system would work in our favour for releasing a demo/trial. The Hellfire system isn't (often) deployed in the theatre, sometimes yes. The pioneers of near full game demos, Interplay's Descent, ID's DOOM is still a good model for us. They followed the most important rule of showbiz (and applies to gaming), "leave them wanting more".

I've been reading all the suggestions and will be reviewing plans with the whole team at the end of the week.

With MTADS you can't see the join, no wait.

An alternative tack is to release a 'mini-game' using the current technology, such as an MTADS trainer which I can take a stab at guessing how that works. It's not hard to extrapolate a reasonable level of functionality from laughably Photoshoped press-images of the system (above).


Thank you

It's also been quite humbling to read the messages of support. The whole team have worked hard given such scarce resources. Imagine what might have happened with even a tenth of the money spent your typical AAA game wrap party (SONY blows huge amounts on those in London).

ADs M2 model in outline