Is Time-Compression above 2x ever coming back?

[Dusty926]

First off, I wouldn't mind to have higher time acceleration available for people who want instant action. To each their own or something along those lines.

 

But seriously, this part here needs a little perspective.

 

Do you think, people who choose fly their missions on 1x time are not having fun?

If someone only enjoys the action part, fine. For others, however, it is fun to actually experience the entire flight, to disable the HUD and navigate to the target and back instead of blindly following a giant yellow waypoint marker floating in the air.

And I highly doubt that the real life pilots were thinking: "omg I want to get to the action as fast as possible, I want dogfights and enemy aircraft swirling around me and shooting at me 'cause fear of death is friggin awesome!"

I don't mean to attack you in any way but it's always funny to me if someone implies that people who fly something "full real" don't want to have fun.

 

 

Sorry but that's just not true. I've been following the project from the very first announcement back in December '12 and LOFT clearly stated in one of the very early development diaries (long before anyone could purchase anything), that they wanted to go for "a game as well as a sim". BoS was never intended as a purely hard core sim.

If you thought, that it was, at the time you purchased it, supposed to be a hard core sim - well that's another story...

Nah, I think they're having a great time.

 

The problem is, I'm not, and it seems many others aren't either. Also, I never said pilots wanted to get to the action faster IRL, I merely hypothesized that they too didn't find find the flight to the battle that engaging.

 

I never intended to put down full real players. If they have fun, hey, more power to them, but I'm not having fun, and I would like a solution as to the cause of that.

 

By the way, I'd like to ask for a little more respect next time. It's easy for me to treat other opinions with the greatest of respect, but I will only do as such if they respect mine.

[I/JG27_Rollo]

I don't really see how providing a contrasting opinion is disrespectful to yours but it might have come across unintentionally brusque.

(The last paragraph in my post wasn't addressing you btw.)

 

I fully understand the need to cut the uneventful flight time short - back in the day I wouldn't have played that much EAW if it didn't have the "skip to action" button. (Which for whatever reason was uncomfortably close to the "bailout" button but I digress...)

Nowadays, full real navigaiton and enjoying the scenery is preventing me from finding any part of the flight boring.

What I tried to hypothesize was that pilots were probably also busy navigating, looking around, not being sure if they return and thus not really bored either (unless maybe we're talking 7h flights across the Pacific).

[=VARP=Cygann]

 

What I tried to hypothesize was that pilots were probably also busy navigating, looking around, not being sure if they return and thus not really bored either (unless maybe we're talking 7h flights across the Pacific).

 

Probably because they were able to meet (or spawn in our case) other planes outside of the action zone.

 

Also do note that people asking for time compression or anything related to these unlocks are not looking for more realism, in fact they are looking for opposite, more fun. It won't be much fun to have realistic missions for 4 hours and never see a thing but clear blue sky. We have enough of full uncompressed time in real life, and lets not waste that real life time on doing nothing (it is doing nothing when you just go from A to B in straight line in a computer game, might as well stare at the sun for similar effect ).

 

This is more fight simulator then a study one. So I don't see anything wrong in people asking to jump into action without unneeded clutter, time waste and xp grinding. Those are cheap tricks that should remain with those games with monthly fee that need artificial means to stretch that little content they offer until next expansion. This game do not need such things, unless 777 aim to turn it into MMO grind game at the end to compete with WT sometimes in future for same audience. But if that would be true, it would mean we were lied to when we backed this project thinking it will be a bit more like original IL2, just improved. 

[FlatSpinMan]

"By the way, I'd like to ask for a little more respect next time. It's easy for me to treat other opinions with the greatest of respect, but I will only do as such if they respect mine."

 

I see no problem in the post in question.

[I/JG27_Rollo]

And as I said, I wouldn't mind to have more time acceleration options back for those people. I never claimed that this was a bad thing.

 

Indeed, there's no action besides the mission route but since it might be a limitation of the engine we'll have to deal with it by sticking roughly to the given path. But we're quite a long way from 4h missions aren't we?

My longest campaign mission in BoS so far took close to 40 minutes. The first ~10 mins I climbed above the Stukas I had to escort, enjoying the sunset, the rolling clouds, the sun glaring in the snow and the shadows of the tree lines, altogether illuminating the frozen landscape. Burning villages were passing by below...

Over the target we had Yaks to fight, on the way to the "exit point" we came across a flight of escorted Pe-s and even behind our own lines we would meet yet more fighters and I'm sure we missed some Sturmoviks somewhere.

Not a single moment of that mission was in any way boring to me - I guess I can deem myself lucky to enjoy the flying at least as much as the fighting.

And that one mission, flown with a standard Bf 109 F4 setup - just as 1000s of sorties were flown back then - unlocked me 15mm gun pods and 2 skins which I didn't even aim for. They came just as an extra. I can't for the life of me see a "grind" in that.

 

But I think, I'm derailing this thread too much. I'll happily continue any OT-discussion via PM.

Edited October 29, 2014 by I/JG27_Rollo

[pencon]

First off, I wouldn't mind to have higher time acceleration available for people who want instant action. To each their own or something along those lines.

 

But seriously, this part here needs a little perspective.

 

Do you think, people who choose fly their missions on 1x time are not having fun?

If someone only enjoys the action part, fine. For others, however, it is fun to actually experience the entire flight, to disable the HUD and navigate to the target and back instead of blindly following a giant yellow waypoint marker floating in the air.

And I highly doubt that the real life pilots were thinking: "omg I want to get to the action as fast as possible, I want dogfights and enemy aircraft swirling around me and shooting at me 'cause fear of death is friggin awesome!"

I don't mean to attack you in any way but it's always funny to me if someone implies that people who fly something "full real" don't want to have fun.

 

 

Sorry but that's just not true. I've been following the project from the very first announcement back in December '12 and LOFT clearly stated in one of the very early development diaries (long before anyone could purchase anything), that they wanted to go for "a game as well as a sim". BoS was never intended as a purely hard core sim.

If you thought, that it was, at the time you purchased it, supposed to be a hard core sim - well that's another story...

Newsflash , this isn't real life , you're not flying a real Plane , and this isn't really ww2 . Not everyone else has the time or patience that you do . If you want evidence scroll the forums . Not many people are enjoying the fact that time compression is limited to 2X . Perhaps you are . Most of us , do NOT like being told we have to spend endless time flying these campaigns which are all the same and neverending in order to enjoy something we paid 100 $ for.Many of us upgraded our systems and bought track ir for this . I bought a gtx 780 (not cheap )and a new power supply for my rig .My friend who I talked into buying this sim , says he NEVER would have bought it , had he known it was going to be like this . I know I'm not alone in my opinion about this unlock business . If you did a poll on this site you'd find that you are in a very small minority as far as enjoying this campaign/unlock setup .The rest of the Sim is awesome but this is really putting a damper on the enthusiasm . Edited October 30, 2014 by 6969pencon

[I/JG27_Rollo]

Newsflash

 

This just in: you've missed the point completely.

If you can find the time to actually read my two posts and try to grasp their context, you'll see that I claimed none of the things, that got you so upset.

Of course, if you're just looking for a fight, go and newsflash somebody else cause I'm not interested.

[BlackBadger]

This is one of the reasons I haven't fired up this game for more than a month now. 

 

None of the arguments against an 8x compression stand up. Not a single one.

 

People will cheat - then make it so that autopilot turns off if enemies are near, say 5km radius for air and 2 km for ground.

 

It's not 8x anyway - that depends on your system and will speed it up at least to 4x on 95% of systems. even that is better than 2x.

 

OR why not the skip to action button as suggested earlier?

 

Oh I'm so disillusioned with this as well as 2 other things. Why can't I turn off SSAO? Why did the devs go out of their way to block it when a workaround was found? Is this a console game or a pc game?

 

And why on earth can't I change my name in multiplayer?

 

And there will be no mods for this game, cause having any aspect of the game modded goes against the dev's beliefs....it's sad

[wellenbrecher]

You can actually finally change your name.

Go to your profile on the BoS website, you can do it there.

[Streiff]

Name in multiplayer will be the same as on these forums. Having one of each is way to complicated.

[Kamov]

If we can't have anything above 2x back at least give us more to do or shoot at in the campaign missions themselves. Not a fan of a long flight in x2 to shoot down a single bomber.

[BlackBadger]

You can actually finally change your name.

Go to your profile on the BoS website, you can do it there.

 

 thank you that is actually very useful! At this rate maybe in another 6 months we'll get 4x compression as an unlock. 

[zippyPerrserker]

Glad someone bumped this thread, played the game again recently to check out Veteran66's mini-campaign (fun) and was bummed to realize that time compression past x2 is even disabled in offline mode.

 

 I really hope they revisit this, both in 'online' and 'offline' mode for single player. It just doesn't make any sense to limit the players choices like this.

 

Add me to the list also of people wanting an option to turn off SSAO. For me personally it's not a performance thing, just hate the gauzy effect it gives the screen in cockpit.

[senseispcc]

I paid the same amount of money for COD than for this game and played more than 700 hours of flight and combat got a box a manual and a map.

Here I paid for one year of alpha testing a game, no map, no manual, no box and there is still hope to play 700 hours of flight. This game is a game of hope.

Edited December 1, 2014 by senseispcc

[Trooper117]

On RoF, WoFF, and all my other games I can use time accelerate... but they still haven't given a reason as to why they cut it down to x2 only.
We know of course what the reason is. It was a spiteful act, and that's all.. and now the dev's took that course of action, they can't actually own up to it or the place will be in uproar again (talk about shooting yourself in the foot).

There is no technical reason as to why this has been implemented, and we all know it... so, c'mon dev's, show a little Christmas goodwill and lift the restriction already.

Or is it bad santa day?

 

 

[Requiem]

On RoF, WoFF, and all my other games I can use time accelerate... but they still haven't given a reason as to why they cut it down to x2 only.

We know of course what the reason is. It was a spiteful act, and that's all.. and now the dev's took that course of action, they can't actually own up to it or the place will be in uproar again (talk about shooting yourself in the foot).

 

There is no technical reason as to why this has been implemented, and we all know it... so, c'mon dev's, show a little Christmas goodwill and lift the restriction already.

 

Or is it bad santa day?

 

I don't know if it was spiteful as much as it caught them completely off guard regarding their future plans for selling BoS in Russia. They would have seen the sheer speed at which people were blowing through the campaign missions using x16, so with their plan to sell the 2 plane cheap version where you have to unlock everything else why would they want to allow people who bought that version to spend  only a couple of hours/days grinding (instead of a couple weeks as it would be using x2) to save themselves $50 or whatever. No one would buy the expensive version because you could grind it out in no time at all using x16. I believe that time acceleration was probably an oversight until it reared its head in the forums into methods to get the grind over and done with as fast as possible.

 

Here is a funny solution: x2 acceleration for the $12 BoS version in Russia, x8 for standard, and x16 for premium...yeah right 

[BraveSirRobin]

I think it was also a fairness issue.  It's not fair to allow people with better computers to blast through the unlocks while people with less powerful computers are left behind.

 

Basically, no matter how you look at it, unlocks were a really crappy idea.

[BraveSirRobin]

I hear what you're saying and I imagine that's the developers justification, but I really don't think fairness is a reasonable explanation.

 

 

I'm just trying to think of it from the developer's point of view.  But unlocks are a terrible design idea and I suspect that this won't be the last example where they feel it's necessary to do something silly as a result.

[BlackBadger]

There's more then one way to remedy the problems that would arise from 8x compression

 

1.) switch off AP when danger is close as mentioned above - elegant, simple and easy to implement - solves all mentioned problems

2.) no combat capability for autopilot - just autolevel or auto fly to waypoint where the AP switches off or switches to next WP.

 

I just don't see why people have their freedom of choice (forced 2x compression, forced presets) taken away for no just reason. It is not fair. This game's potential is throttled by it's own management.

 

As someone else put it: I really wanna like this game but it's constantly being kicked in the nuts by the devs.

[Trooper117]

Well it's already been stated that unlocks will stay, period... if they refuse to re-instigate time acceleration, it's obvious they have 'locked' their mindset and will not take a step back from it.

Time will tell...

[heinkill]

If (if) the future business model includes a possibility to pay to sidestep unlocks, then of course the devs will neither a) remove the unlocks or b) increase time compression and remove the incentive to pay for unlocks.

 

H

[BlackBadger]

If (if) the future business model includes a possibility to pay to sidestep unlocks, then of course the devs will neither a) remove the unlocks or b) increase time compression and remove the incentive to pay for unlocks.

 

H

 

Yes but the solution is obvious and easy. Just put a trigger in that switches off AP automatically when enemies or ground targets are near.  Why hasn't anyone picked up on this? 

[Yakdriver]

because that trigger will make you buy the cheap version instead of buying the sidestep version, to use heinkill's sentence.

[Anw.StG2_Tyke]

Yes but the solution is obvious and easy. Just put a trigger in that switches off AP automatically when enemies or ground targets are near.  Why hasn't anyone picked up on this? 

Because it would be a open minded intelligent solution...

[BlackBadger]

@Yakdriver

 

Why would it? If a trigger like that is present you still can't put it on 8x compression, switch to another program and let the computer grind it for you. You have to be there when the trigger is activated and do the fighting/bombing yourself.

 

The computer won't earn your points for you that is the whole point. You only get to the fight 8x faster as opposed to 2x. I cannot see how that could endanger any sort of business model? Unless they purposefully wanted to make it so tedious and slow that you will eventually give up and buy them. If that was the case they would be following the mobile game freemium market model - which is where thing go down the drain for everybody. I don't do freemium it's a scam.

Edited December 2, 2014 by hnbdgr

[Yakdriver]

I do not know how that affects their business model.

 

 

Well to expand on that thought...
Why did they make a 800x100km map in the first f*** place.
This is a Combat. Flight. Sim.
if you wanna cut thy flying... no taking off... no assembling... no turbo no mixture management... and you get to the enemy within minutes, like less than 5...

is Flying for you?
I do not even use the time compression - only did in silent Hunter III, where i needed time compression 2048, and STILL needed to wait for half an hour to see any action.

 

dunno.
i regret even taking part in this discussion because from my own Point of View there should not be any Time compression or auto pilot at all. I mean... you are 20 miles from your target at worst and can move at 300 mph.
if that is too much, then i would recommend ... whatever. just another Rant from someone who likes FLIGHT Sims. TAKEOFF and CEM Sims. COMBAT sims and not having the Autopilot grind for you.

war thunder is free FFS...

Edited December 2, 2014 by Yakdriver

[wellenbrecher]

Yakdriver, there are people out there who do not want to play the bloody single player mode though and only do it because they feel pressured into doing it by various design decisions. For those a proper time compression would be a heaven sent in terms of enjoyment.

Also what you enjoy is not necessarily what everyone else enjoys, so don't be a judgemental prick about it.

 

And let's not open the can of "but you do not need the unlocks!!!111" again though, if possible.

[BlackBadger]

I do not know how that affects their business model.

 

 

Well to expand on that thought...

Why did they make a 800x100km map in the first f*** place.

This is a Combat. Flight. Sim.

if you wanna cut thy flying... no taking off... no assembling... no turbo no mixture management... and you get to the enemy within minutes, like less than 5...

is Flying for you?

I do not even use the time compression - only did in silent Hunter III, where i needed time compression 2048, and STILL needed to wait for half an hour to see any action.

 

dunno.

i regret even taking part in this discussion because from my own Point of View there should not be any Time compression or auto pilot at all. I mean... you are 20 miles from your target at worst and can move at 300 mph.

if that is too much, then i would recommend ... whatever. just another Rant from someone who likes FLIGHT Sims. TAKEOFF and CEM Sims. COMBAT sims and not having the Autopilot grind for you.

war thunder is free FFS...

 

Well each to their own. I like CEM (own DCS), I like taking off, I like landing, I like fighting, I like navigating in terrain. I wouldn't need any autopilot at all in this game for that, in fact I never use autopilot.  I only use autolevel when flying in a straight line for 50km. It takes me X/2 amount of time with 2x compression. I find that boring. 

 

I have a family with 2 kids. I don't have 4 hours a day to play and do it full real (when it comes to time). That's why there is time compression. That's why the original IL2 had time compression. That's why it's optional to start an engine warmed up or not. To cut out the boring parts. This is a sim but it is also a game. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.

 

You like full real sims? this is a full real sim:

 

 

 

Different people have different needs. I don't see why you're defending the fact that a feature present since 2000 has been taken out on grounds of "you're not hardcore enough". That is boloney. If this game was for "hardcore" simmers where's your clickable cockpits, where's your DCS-like startup? It's not a valid point.

Yakdriver, there are people out there who do not want to play the bloody single player mode though and only do it because they feel pressured into doing it by various design decisions. For those a proper time compression would be a heaven sent in terms of enjoyment.

Also what you enjoy is not necessarily what everyone else enjoys, so don't be a judgemental prick about it.

 

And let's not open the can of "but you do not need the unlocks!!!111" again though, if possible.

 

Well put:

 

- It will increase enjoyment of the game for many people

- It will not affect the enjoyment of the game for the "hardcore"

[wellenbrecher]

That's something I wanted to include and then promptly forgot, thank you hnbdgr.

If you, Yakdriver, enjoy flying in a straight line through a dead landscape for half an hour while not danger of anything, then more power to you.

I would happily 8x through that as it adds nothing to my experience. And it wouldn't affect what you like to do at all.

 

 

In MP at least I have to keep formation with other humans, I have to keep an eye out for unexpected other players jumping me and I am able to just banter with the other pilots to pass the time.

Just before you happen to start that particular argument again. Because that what it is, a non-argument.

 

 

@hnbdgr

Honeybadger? 

Edited December 2, 2014 by [JG2]G3_wellenbrecher

[BlackBadger]

that is the name of the beast 

 

[Yakdriver]

okok, i grant you that. to each their own.

And to me the most... no wife, no kids... and no money. :-P but lots of time...
However...changing again is work. Work costs money. Bad...

 

look at the recent news.

Unlocks are not going away.
Graphic Presets are not going away.

Time compression has been TAKEN away.

Complex engine Startup has been TAKEN away.

32 slots. And only slo...owly (over the next decade?) going up to 64/96/128 again

if i would dig i could find you a few other examples.

Ju-52 as the first AI only Plane after the "no AI planes ever policy..."

and i do not care about ste specific reasons, there are ... reasons. some we like, some we hate, some we are indifferent about.

 

point is...
Stuff gets cut out.

Stuff gets simplified.
 

In that environment... why even bother to ask if you can get anything BACK? Ever? Additional features, please? Have back the fun stuff we saw in the test phase please?
We are on the "declining" slope of choices and features. Not on the "Ascending" one.

 

If you really pushed and squeezed an answer out of the Team today, i would bet you a fiver that the answer is ...


no.

Edit:
It will sound arrogant, or grumpy... or idiotic however, i beg you to not take it as such... arrogance.
But i try to keep in mind the big picture, and that is my immediate conclusion i reached when i red the title.

I apologise for supposing everyone was as "hardcore" as i am.
and again for not being as hardcore as i would like to be...

i am nuts enough to dream of spending 4 hours a day in such a thing, and an extra 4 hours on improving and fiddling with it.

Edited December 2, 2014 by Yakdriver

[BlackBadger]

Well that's pretty impressive.  Kudos on the cockpit I couldn't do something like that even if I was single and had no kids

 

no hard feelings, I realize tensions run high on these forums sometimes.

 

I think I understand your point. It would take time and hence money to change things. And the current trend is not to change things. Maybe you're right, I guess we won't change anything. But we are not employees in a company, or otherwise subjects to an authority in this context. We are paying customers that exchanged money for a product. If features that enable enjoyment from the product get taken away it is our right to voice dissatisfaction and let the devs know through official channels ( These forums among others).

 

One of the reason I'm not enjoying campaign is that the 2x compression was taken away. It was taken away unnecessarily after release and it is unfair to me as a customer. That is a fact. If I can't change anything about it so be it. But here I am letting them know - that they made an error, that to rectify it wouldn't take much and that by rectifying it they would earn brownie points from the community.

 

Peace out Yakdriver, hope things improve in the long run. 

[Yakdriver]

nono, i mean i wish i HAD such a thing. i don't. no space, no cash :-)

i am aligned with you - on the customer part.
but think of it. Even "cutting" or "disabling" elements takes time.

They have one guy on the Keyboard to lead the programming part and a few others to support [external people that might only be part time workers? i dunno].

if they invest money to cut features [temporarily i hope], yet add others, there is a reason for it.
Nothing is unnecessary - everything on their end has a reason and a justification.
Because everything Costs. They have a business to run.

Where in part OUR frustration, and my particular madness comes from is the not knowing the reasons.
We have so many "WTF" moments. So much on our side is not understood.

 

take a look at the La-5.
the cowling system was modified.
It was modified again because one of the flaps needed to be adjusted manually for startup.

YET.
all the engine startup animations are there, the manual fuel pump, the electric systems...

SO

why was the complex startup removed? Why are we back to the stone age with the simple "E" command? That stuff rocked! That was difficult! that needed your attention!

and yet The startup system of the LA-5 gets more complex.

The generic answer is: There is a need to simplify.

and remember: everything Costs. Everything must have a reason or a justification. They have a business to run.

 

For the Moment, and i am speaking out of my butt here...
for the moment this game needs to run on all machines for all customers that buy it.
no crashes due to teh software

no low FPS.

no exploding computers.

no CTD's.

no epilepsy filter. (and so forth... )

 

12$ starter version. Russian Pockets empty.
old computers over there. Expensive hardware.

Once it runs...  in fall 2015, when all the low-end customers have replaced their computer...
Then, and only then can such features be brought up again.

 

Until that time... We might lose another feature or two.

Until that time we will deal with it. Or not, and drop verbal Bombs on Metacritic.
But getting stuff back... for the forseeable future i see nothing.

I try to keep my spirits up though, and hope i am wrong.
after all, we have seen quick reactions to problems that have occured (TrackIR)

I urge you, as much as i can, to "deal with it" - not in an arrogant manner, but to extract as much enjoyment as you can from BoS.
Do the grind if you want the 37mm for the LaGG.

Do it. Grit your teeth - i did it too. Negativity hasn't brought us (as BoS players) anything but bad vibes. bad vibes among ourselves, bad vibes from the team.

People getting banned for continued negativity and frustration...

and hope that this month brings a good outlook for 2015.

as you say - hope things improve in the long run.
And hope you have gotten your unlocks asap - The IL-2 in particular gets really useful with better options.

Edited December 2, 2014 by Yakdriver

[BlackBadger]

ah, well I'm sure if you work towards it you'll make it happen with that cockpit. To have one like that one day would be nice! People from far and wide would come to look at it . From experience: Start working on it now while you don't have kids, work goes much easier when there's no one screaming behind your back

 

You mentioned some good points. Perhaps they will bring some features back but who knows. we will wait and see. I will be coming back to Il2 BoS periodically to see where we are. But this whole thing taught me a lesson. Never buy Early Access again. Doesn't matter what game or company. It's just not a very economic way to do it and the rewards - other then the golden medal below my avatar - are non existent. And the disappointment and expectations are just too much. Steam sales all the way from here.

 

Edited December 2, 2014 by hnbdgr

[Yakdriver]

Yep - keep coming back, that's the right thing to do.

A) Nobody works their butt off for a year just to throw it all away after two months post release.

 

They didn't program all these goodies , just to lock them out FOREVER. remember. reason, justification, and a business to run.

No time is wasted. None has been wasted. some of the handcuffs can come off again.

B) some of the game updates have massive hints in them, and we are short of an announcement of what lies beyond the current horizon.

 

Early Access had me doubting as well - i usually look at the product i buy.

I doubt i will do it again with any other type of product besides this one.

Whatever they put up next, my wallet is likely to be opened as an early access dude.
Craving for  more. Much more.
and overall satisfied with what i got -

 

[walter55]

In the Wester hemisphere people usually decide with their wallet, whenever they look at merchandise they are interested in, "suck it up" type advertisement generates mostly negative consumer response, often dramatically effecting revenues generated. That's in the west mind you!!

 

Cheers

Walt

[Yakdriver]

well there is no other thing to do...
besides discourage other people to buy and refusing to buy in the future.

and i encourage each any everyone to evaluate the purpose of a 100 dollar bill.

 

with BoS, people boought a promise.
That's not people are used to buy... promises.

 

[johncage]

In the Wester hemisphere people usually decide with their wallet, whenever they look at merchandise they are interested in, "suck it up" type advertisement generates mostly negative consumer response, often dramatically effecting revenues generated. That's in the west mind you!!

 

Cheers

Walt

doesn't really work in the game industry, or the film industry, or much of the entertainment and sports industry. bread and circuses will keep seeing customers because people are desperate for it.

 

some people are just more selective than others. some developers/directors have vision and originality. but overall, it's not getting better and for every guy who votes with his money, 5000 others will be voting the other way. losing battle.

[BlackBadger]

This topic needs a bump. As much as I want to enjoy SP, the lack of at least 8x time compression is a serious drawback for me. 

 

Can this be brought back now? There are no real reasons for it not to....

[Original_Uwe]

I see no reason why not. 

Add is its unplayable, and particularly offensive given the amount I paid for it.