+ 1 here. Good choice!.

I stand corrected, they are supplying patches but nothing seems to change. I still can't find a place to land my 109 on the BOB map, which makes the sim a non-starter for me. Its too bad as this was the perfect opportunity to draw more people from the IL-2 community because of COD's problems, but I still prefer to fly the old IL-2 than WOP, as are most in the sim community, maybe War Thunder will be different.

Yeah, then again as a die-hard group ponder, a good landscape really is important. Not sure how good the WOP ground looks when close up though.

Have to say that the comment about the low planes being nicely visible is correct. If CloD could borrow that effect, I would be a very happy bunny.


In almost every other aspect though, CloD appears visually superior. The in-cockpit shots in the first video are so far from CloD's photo-realistic cockpit interiors, that it's embarrassing.

In the landscape, it appears that the trees radiate green light, making everything green. Damage model appears 1-dimensional. And the flames are just yuck.

I've just finished reading "Gun Button To Fire" by Tom Neil, a Hurricane pilot during the BoB. He writes a lot about how hard it was to spot other aircraft even a few thousand feet apart. They were regularly in the right place for an interception but went home empty handed having simply failed to spot the enemy who cruised on by a few thousand feet below.

Spotting is different from maintaining visual contact. IRL, it is surely hard to detect / spot aircrafts, since most of them are camouflaged and blend easily to the environment. But once spotted, you can follow it easily. In game, it's just too much easy to have aircrafts which can turn on stealth mode and sneak away.

Agreed.

perhaps you guys will enjoy this movie i recently made for the movie competition, its quite aesthetically pleasing ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OX0B...feature=colike

Great Movie....I can definitely see the new IL-2 engine being used by the movie industry especially as the sim engine is refined and other CGI effects are added by the movie maker.

hey, good video, but its too long, this kind of videos, no story to tell, only well filmed good looking sequences, should hit a climax way faster, in about 1 min, and be over in the second one. 6 mins, and 4 mins till the climax, its too long, and im afraid, boring.

cheers :)