Love it & Hate it

[jfarrow]

I've been playing DG for just under a month now. Been lurking on this forum for just as long. I love the game. I really do. The cat and mouse of sending out TF's to try to catch the weak enemy while at the same time not being caught by a superior foe is something I have never had to deal with in any other game I've played. It's truly unique to me & I've been enjoying it immensely.

There are 2 things that have soured me on this otherwise enjoyable game. The bugs and the lack of information (read.me) on patches.

I have little time to play the game let alone be a beta tester. Some of the bugs that have cropped up are true campaign killers and I thought that I was buying a game that was finished. I am an avid gamer & have honestly have never been in this situation before. Off this week & want to play DG but don't want to waste the time when I feel that I should wait on a patch that will finally finish the game.

It's great that patches have been provided frequently but inexcusable that there isn't a read me accompanying the patches. How am I to know that the bug I just encountered is thought to have been fixed already?

I'm sorry that my first post comes across as negative. I am only writing because I want to see improvement & I'm honestly wondering if I'm the only one who feels this way about it. The truth is, I want to play the game without campaign killing bugs. I expected that when I purchased it. I don't have the leisure time to start a new campaign from scratch each time a patch is released and frankly, I don't think I should have to.

I'm sure the natural question that comes to mind is: "What bugs?". Every bug I've seen has already been posted about in this forum. I'll go into the details if it matters but what I'm really looking for is a patch level when I can start a campaign and play it all the way through. I'm not *****ing just to *****. Hell, I'm a lurker. I've been drawn out because I've enjoyed the game so much between the bugs and want to play the whole campaign. Pisses me off that I've got a week off and don't want to play because of the bugs.

If anyone from the dev team is reading please include a patch read me in the future so we can tell what is expected to be fixed with the patch.

Thanks.

PS - Thanks much to the posters on this forum. I didn't know scratch about this conflict before buying & have gained a lot of info from all the lurking. Not to exclude anyone but especially appreciate the frequent posts by Bullethead & all that take time to post AAR's. Please keep sharing. Thx.

[mbv]

Quite a few of us have asked for patch readme's and it is a perfectly valid request. Other than a few lines in a post from L'empereur though the dev's don't seem to be keen on this for some reason.

Bullethead is indeed a living library isn't he. I am constantly amazed at how thoroughly he delves into the minutiae of the game and always comes up with something new I had never realised before.

[Dogbert]

I agree completely... also, kinda afraid that when the time comes and I can play a complete campaign without crashes or weird behaviours, I'll be sick and tired of the game.

[Shanghai Slim]

Lurkers Unite!

The lack of readme's for patches is indeed dismaying. I've been playing pc games and working in the IT field since, well since the IBM PC, and I think I can safely say it's an expected standard.

The lack of readme's is especially disappointing considering how easily it could be remedied. I mean, the folks writing the patches must have a task list they are working from, how much trouble could it be to post it to these forums or something?

Like jfarrow, I love this game and want to again thank the Storm Eagle team for fufilling my dream of a serious pre-dreadnought-era sea sim. Some polishing around the edges will go a long way in turning a great game into a magnificent game.

[BlackVoid]

I am holding off for the same reasons. I stopped playing DG and will wait till its patched up to an acceptable level. I come the forums every week and check if the game is ready or not. At this point I feel it is still too buggy. With no multiplayer campaign I feel that replayability is limited, so when I start a campaign against the AI, I want to play that with a finished game and not a beta.

And the no readme policy for patches is really annoying.