This is a stupid thread. How's that for an opinion?

I'll keep it on my drive for a while, but I have a feeling that the new sim is going to make '46 look and feel pretty dated. If this is so I can't see myself spending much time at all with the old sim.

il2 was the best combat flight sim ever... though I haven't run it since I reaslied something was not right, this was ten months before the revelation the sim had been hacked.

I'll run SoW/ CoD without hesitation and hope a PTO add on is created in the future.

Unless they force us to use publisher servers, how do think that's gonna work without a server like HL?
(HL is a server(!) not just a progi)

An inbuilt game search function which has to ping all the CoD servers on the planet?
Ppl with low-end systems, slow internet(or both) would love such a feature...

Short on harddisk space? :-P We're in the Terabyte age ;-)

I give IL2 another 10 years at least ....

as i mostly fly bombers nowadays in on IL2 servers (COOP online war flying seems almost dead it looks like :( ) i will most propably switch to CoD totaly very fast.
Depends on the online offers :D i dont fly offline at all.
but i guess some very nice, high qualitiy online servers with some good missions will appear very fast :)

and i realy hope, and i actually expect it (!), that the bomberflying in CoD will be more demanding (engine management, bombsetting settable in flight, better damagemodell of "targets" ) than in IL2 :)
Ju88, He111, Ju87, Br.20, Blenheim IV , there is something to choose from ;)
and i hope the number of flyable bombers will grow ! Flyable Wellington and Do17 are demanding.

No it's not, it's just a server browser. If the game has one built in like just about every other game since about 1997, it won't be necessary any more. It's supposed to be on Steam, so that right away eliminates the need for HL.

I suspect I'll keep IL2 around for some time for the greater variety of scenarios, but like a few others, I suspect also that BOB will be so superior in immersion, that it'll be tough to go back.

Have to agree, when IL-2 was released I just couldn't go back to Jane's WWII Fighters and EAW, the feel of flight and the general high fidelity of IL-2 was just too great to refrain from.