Very well...
Since there was no list of fixes/additions released with the patch (or anywhere else that I could easily find) I'm going by what I've noticed. Okay, YES, they mention the multiplayer thing. Whoop-de-flippin'-do. I could not care less about multiplayer.
- No sound when missiles are launched.
- No impact sound on fuselage from enemy gunfire or when hit by missiles.
- Cockpit sounds muffled to the point of almost being nonexistent.
- Missiles fall to the ground LONG before they reach their range limit.
- Training tracks not viewable
- No ENGLISH audio for radio comms!! <--- This alone makes the patch completely useless to me.
- Campaign progress reset to zero
- Video performance decreased significantly... random stutters and pauses.
- All options and controls reset to default. (Yeah, it's not a big deal if you saved a control profile, which I did, but it would have been simple courtesy if the patch readme would have mentioned that this was going to happen.)
The only improvement I saw with this patch is the slight change to the colors of the trees, which looked good. It would have been nice to at least have a changelog so I can compare it and see if those changed indeed worked. If there is one and I missed it, then my bad, but I've been here looking for it, I've Googled for it, and I would have certainly thought that the readme that came with the patch would have had one. Just logical thinking, not?
Before you start on a rant about how one or two or more of those things I've listed above are SUPPOSED to be that way for whatever reason... it doesn't matter. To ME, these are things that lessen the experience for me and make me NOT want to play it. Okay? This is just a user giving his two cents and saying that what ED thinks are improvements are actually DECREASING my enjoyment of the sim. So, you guys said that you wanted to know what the problems were before you could make changes, well, there you go.
Point is, if this patch did something to improve the sim (other than the trees), I didn't see it, and what I DID see were the items I listed above.
Fair enough? Thanks.
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