Then please, enlighten us all with your prescient foresight. Let me guess, you also believe that Hobbits are real, and Tolkien portrayed a genuinely credible version of pre-history.

How could you possibly know whether or not 'Cliffs of Dover' is designed to meet the technology of tomorrow?

Oh shit. That sounds like raaaaaid, doesn't it? :(

That was rude, I apologize.

No worries Doggles, and no need to delete the post. :)

It's just that I don't think any of the users of this software can confidently say that it was a 'timely' release, or otherwise.

Try running IL2 '46 on a celeron processor with 256mb of RAM and onboard graphics. Then come back and say 'the engine is not optimised'.

FSX with loads of add-ons still taxes my system. The software is always ahead of the hardware. Who's to say that this is not the same situation (apart from Ubi's marketing dept)?

Software hardly ever goes ahead of hardware unless you are 5+ years back on your hardware. Devleopers know they grab a bigger market by not having tomorrows specs on new games. CLoD is no different, its just not good.

If anyone needs proof (from a consumers point of view) of how crappy the CLoD engine is, load it up, on a decent PC, and still watch the microstutters, and other such messes. Watch flak freezes. Watch trees "spawn" in.

Seriously...what else do you need? Compare it to RoF, or DCS even.

You can fool yourself into thinking the engine is ahead of its time, truth is, it isnt very good.

If the devs actually make it long enough to release another game, lets hope they figure out how to make this engine work without taking away everything.

As far as the answers go...does it really surprise anyone that "Ill be back later to answer them" didnt happen? How many times can people keep getting lied to, strung along, broken promised, and hoodwinked until they finally say enough? According to some people here....quite a while I guess.