Personally I am kind of tired of the "6 years in development" point as well. It is kind of a straw man argument as at least some of that time was spent on: 1) research, 2) calculating physics of DM and FM, 3) modeling. It's not like they spent all 6 years just ad hocking a preexisting engine and adding in some figures like most games these days do. It is stuff that takes time and real research to get right. They built something completely new from the ground up, and that in and of itself takes a lot of time and effort. They built a complex flight physics engine, a dynamic light engine, a rendering engine, many detailed aircraft models. The entire southern Britain, and North Eastern Europe. They didn't just take the quake 3 engine and tweak it some for their purposes.

This was literally reinventing the wheel, but with complex physics thrown into the mix. Da Vinci had the idea of the first powered flight machine in 15th or 16th century, but the first viable powered flight machine wasn't until the Wright brother's in the 20th. The physics recreated in this engine are monumental.

I'm agree with you , But sorry physics is very bad ... lot of thigns are not realistic.

It's a niche market that requires years of development. We're lucky there's even a new game we can help beta test.

agree it is good, it is fair ... But they sold a game ! I don't see in the box, in the manual, etc.... "Thank you to have bought an ALPHA / BETA of our game" .

Lol.
If they want beta tester they could chose in the forum people, and work with them, and if then need monay ask people to donate to them and ubisoft to help them to.

So this is not a new game , this is not a game yet ! this just a things with air plane and in futur you will be abble to drive car and boat.

if i understand this an alpha/beta of a single game wich regroup car simulator, train simulator, ship simulator and flight simulator ? ...

I dream to see this game be good as first il-2 , but at each game on CoD , i think it is not possible.

No one pointed a gun at your head. If you were expecting no problems at the release you were a little naive.

Of cours i was not disturbing by having problems in the release. But i have not problems, the game is a problem !!
And this is not a release, but an aplah or beta of the game.

This is very different ,i'm a fan boy of il-2 1946 , but for CoD ... i can't believe the game that the game is the new il-2. :(

It's in it's most infantile state we must give it time to grow and mature. It is hard to raise it from this state, but so is parenting, However; in this state we get to help push it in the direction we want to see it grow. It is far from ideal, but it honestly gives us, the hardcore simmers, the ability to control the direction it moves. I am disappointed at it's current state as much as most here, but I see the advantages too.

yeah i'm agree. SO i don't understand , why they are making perfect car, boat or train ... which the realistic aspect of flight hasn't been improve !
I think il-2 CoD is not a sim of car/train/boat , but his main goal is to have the most realistic flight.

And actually we don't have it , except some of point which are very good and interesting, i still prefer to fly on il2 1946, and i'm sad to feel like that.

I should prefer to play on il2 CoD.

Considering my system is pretty old , and I get into the 40fps over water , and about 10 over land I can see it running really well after a few patchs or tweaks.

They are fixing the game. I doubt that complaining is going to speed that process up.