I think you're wrong, we saw working chutes in Igromir videos such as this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKDW9...ayer_embedded#

great work guys... thanks for the continued updates and the photorealism

So good to have expert members of long standing explaining things to us.

Im afraid not. Ive been a long time fan of IL2 and knew about this release when it was annouced a few years ago.

I have been a long time lurker of this forum as you will see from my join date.

Have we actually had an OFFICIAL statement about what aircraft are flyable? Come on 1C/Ubi.....

To me, screenshots mean nothing. It doesnt tell you anything about the game other than how it looks (it does look nice!)

I think a few people are frustrated, waiting this long for a game and a few weeks before release being told features have been removed/postponed with no substance to any of the information being provided by the devs.

Maybe i am a whiner...But I also think I have a level head. As for the argument about Il2 1946 being amazing ergo this title MUST be....Total BS. Again i refer to Sileny Hunter. SH3 was amazing...SH5 was pants.

That is all.

LOL Nice compilation. :)

A bit rude, for all you know there may be issues, not sure what length of member, I mean, membership has to do with it :rolleyes:

Silent Hunter III was far from amazing to me, it had a whole range of bugs on release and was short of important features (just remember the 1024x768 max resolution), then dropped by the developers to sell you the same game (and the same bugs) again with parts IV and V. Sorry, no comparison to Il2 for me.

I don't find it unreasonable to expect that Maddox Games can produce a great flight sim a 2nd time. How good it is in the end will be decided once we have it in our hands - no amount of videos, development notes or PR will change that anyway.

I imagine they are working like crazy to iron out the bugs and fix all that needs fixing.

If they have to stop work just to make a video (as Oleg said a few weeks ago) then I won't be surprised if we have to wait a few weeks for a decent video from a present build.

Carry on the good work chaps!!

all very nice indeed!

however the complete absense of human representation in the game other than the aircrews is something that in my opinion, the artists of 1C should re-consider.

putting it plainly is an utter bummer ...

anyway ....

best regards

I think it's a good time to tell what actualy is in the game, not what didn't make it into it. And I'm not thinking about release announcement (full of errors). Some screens looks great, others look mediocre. There is no single one video up to date captured on decent rig showing something more then 1-2 min of flying over water.

I've already pre-ordered CE but right now, I have to honestly admit that I'm begining to wonder if I didn't rushed this decision. I'm not even sure if I can get my money back if I cancel this pre-order, but if I woun't see/read somthing solid about content/performance/new features within 2-3 next weeks I will check what I can do about this pre-order.

I'm sorry if that sounds like whining but I just wanted to share my (and probably some others) doubts about this long awaited title.

I'm not telling I woun't buy it eventually, I probably will, but with current PR policy I'm begining to lean toward waiting for reviews and forum opinions before I open my wallet. Please make me really want to buy it first day!

PS. I really don't understand how things showed in 2006 as a main features of the game woun't be available on the realease almost 5 years later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OWQ55n8ig