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Freycinet
06-07-2014, 11:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6u4JxgE2S4

Easily the best air combat sim vid I've ever seen. Fantastic job on teamwork, script, camera, sound effects, flying, editing, score, well, everything really. Despite running over half an hour it didn't feel a minute too long, which is quite something for a sim movie.

The climax is a Hurri take-off scene which is just ridiculously epic, but there are so many wonderful, fleeting scenes that it would be wrong to single out just one.

I loved that the Hurri played the starring role on the British side, as in the real BoB. I loved that the formations were spaced out historically correctly. I loved that planes were realistically damaged and didn't blow up like petrol cans. All the flying was a good deal lower than in the real BoB, but that was ok, because it showed off the landscape to good effect. A few clips should not have been in (dancing radar towers, weirdly spinning Me-110 going down), but those small glitches just underline the superb quality of all the other clips and the production as a whole.

I did my share of movies, so I know what a huge job this movie must have been: it does not show though, because it is so expertly made that it looks natural and effortless. Kudos for an amazing viewing experience.

Freycinet
06-07-2014, 11:52 PM
Hmm, don't know what happened to the formatting there... Oh well.

archermav
06-08-2014, 01:11 PM
Brilliant film, really shows CloD off well.

SharpeXB
06-08-2014, 04:05 PM
It is a beautifully made video and indeed CoD has come along way. Unfortunately the first thing I notice despite the amazing model making and graphics is still the terrible lack of antialiasing in the sim. TF needs to make fixing that their highest priority.

major_setback
06-08-2014, 05:51 PM
It is a beautifully made video and indeed CoD has come along way. Unfortunately the first thing I notice despite the amazing model making and graphics is still the terrible lack of antialiasing in the sim. TF needs to make fixing that their highest priority.


It's been done. Antialiasing is available in the game:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=184820




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SlipBall
06-09-2014, 07:03 AM
It's been done. Antialiasing is available in the game:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=184820




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The cable still looks just awful bad, that is the problem that I hope can be fixed one day

MB_Avro_UK
06-09-2014, 07:24 PM
Superb! The best I've seen so far.

One suggestion. The Hurricane take-off may have been better earlier in the video?

Hearing the human voices, gave it a sense of immediacy and realism.

Well done, all :)

Best Regards,
MB_Avro

Feathered_IV
07-26-2014, 01:49 AM
Tremendous effort. I really wish the actual game voices sounded like that. AI speech is by far the worst I have ever heard.

He111
08-11-2014, 05:48 AM
Fanastic Video, pity the game cannot be reborn with a major financial backer.

Here's dreaming :D

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He111
08-11-2014, 05:51 AM
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jamesdietz
08-27-2014, 04:02 PM
Positively ripping ,old boy!

92 Sqn. Philstyle (QJ-P)
09-29-2014, 04:58 AM
Any news on the new forthcoming vid to report chaps?

Richie
11-12-2014, 07:46 PM
What I know is the guys who fly IL-2 sims consistanly make better Air War movies than Hollywood ever could in a million years....Redtails, Pearl Harbour...HAMMER DOWN :)

JG52Uther
04-24-2015, 08:00 AM
Bumping this, for anyone who hasn't seen it! Still one of the best Cliffs videos ever made IMO!

Osprey
05-05-2015, 10:57 AM
Amen, unbeaten. There are contenders but they are always short, this is a 30 minute epic :)