Well I'm impressed with the CE
 

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...1/DSCN1490.jpg

Very good quality, compared to other CE or LE of other games I've bought.

The pilots hand book is going to a lot of use over the next few hours ;)

Well done guys.

Congrats, It looks very nice indeed. Can't wait to get my hands on mine :)

Thanks :grin:

Is it possible to get this in the US?

WOW!!!

Where did you get it from?

Well, I still haven't got mine yet (UK).

Neither have I (uk).

Bloody post office has delivered my copy to the wrong house and country! :mrgreen:
Enjoy your Collectors Edition!

The registration key allowed me to install but not to play. ghave you been able to start the game.

i picked mine up yesterday (Australia) it's installed, just waiting on steam activation.

Craig

Our aussie cousins get their copy first?

they deserve it , dont they ? ;)

Oh whilst on the subject of the CE, does anyone know the dimensions of the map, as I'm planning to frame mine once it arrives?

Did our Aussie cousins get the calendar?

nah, the calender is a pure russian affair.. the rest of the world gets the spitfire manual instead.

you have no decision between girls and Spitfire ;)

I thought so but one of the mods mentioned that it would be available with all CE.
I'm not too bothered, would have liked to have kept the cover as a poster :(

I want, I want, I want.......;)

The Australian version is labeld as "Manufactured in Australia IL2: Cliffs of Dover ANZ" (just above the Bar Code on the paper sheet on the back of the box) It may account for the early delivery to stores

Cheers!

its called a chart

Thank you for that, unfortunately in my military training it is known as a map as in map & compass. Charts are something men in suits use for powerpoint presentations...oh and sailors too.

ah damn, i thought they scrapped the spit manual and the other stuff for the collector's edition, i saw a video of just a simple dvd box which was a little thicker because of the map that was included.

does anyone know if this is in any way possible to get in the europe? netherlands in particular?

I think so, can you order from Amazon in Germany? If so, here's a link for the CE.

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004...pf_rd_i=301128

Yes i can, but aren't all books and installation and game itself in german?
thanks for reply

Presumably yes: Sprache: Deutsch, Deutsch


Thats why i didnt order from amazon.de The manual will be most definately be in German and I don't know if this game will have options to set to different language. We all know germany dub all movies and stuff so don't count on it.

pff nog 2 dagen... duurt wel lang :p

Groetjes/greetz

My typing fingers were in gear before my brain, sorry about that. :(

are you sure, because i cant imagine that they really made different language versions for the CE, it's pretty expensive to make make 5 different collector's editions, all in different languages.

printscosts, translators etc.

if there was just 1 version, it would be cheaper for them + i would have bought it, now im stuck up with the regular steam version.

it's so dumb imo to translate a game.

The Ubi and 1C Colelctors Editions are different as they are made by two different companies.

The the Op, many thanks for taking the time to post.

I eagerly await mine now.

I sure like the map.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I want that! :)

But probably I will go after Russian download version, money, availability . . .

I'm sorry I was incorrect. I just came across this:

So the ingame language is selectable. But offcourse the manual will be in German and so on. As we have seen the german manual flying across this forum a few days back. Also pictures of the german dvd cover have been posted today and thats in german also.

The map border is 52cm wide x 45.5cm high, there's a varying rough cut edge to the map beyond this border between 0-1 cm the edge is unfinished so a bit fraying alround. That's the map in the UK version (which was actually sent from Germany!)

Zapp, why are you posting instead of getting the thing working??

You're studying the map???!!!:confused::grin:

http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?tit...80%99s+Edition

EBGames Australia has them ... I noticed this on the cover sleeve ...

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...3-30183531.jpg

Same for me. But getting home today I found a new CD-Key had been assigned to my account and I flying now :)

How about international shipping? say S.Korea?

Cheers fella!

You're going to have to email them directly to know. Because they're EBGames, I don't think they ship OS, but again email them and ask, I might be wrong.

Installed my collectors edition when I got home from work and am going through the patching process. It is painfully slow (30 KB/s)! Glad I didn't have to download the full 10GBytes for the game.

Pitty steam didn't give me the option of putting it on my SSD, may have to get another for my steam directory!

Will let people know how I fare!

Cheers!

Hi guys,

Was hoping someone could tell me a bit about the Pilot's Instructions and Spitfire notes. Are they worth having, is the Instructions book just a printed manual or does it go into more detail?

I'm tempted by this, but at £20 more expensive and having no use for the map can't quite make my mind up.

Also the only place I can get this in the UK is the Ubi Shop, correct?

Thanks a lot.

Try this ;)

http://www.overclock.net/ssd/825342-...-your-ssd.html

i made some mistake by ordering them here.... i got 1x Collectors edition from Amazon, and 2x Collectors Edition from Ubisoft shop :D

now i have 2 packed CE's lying here around

The Pilot's Instructions is a printed manual but in 1 of those ring binder type of books, I like it. The pilot's notes are truly something else though, as soon as I saw they were for the Spitfire Mk. I, I knew I wanted the Collectors Edition. I have never seen pilot's notes for the Spitfire Mk. I anywhere, so I appreciate the game more knowing a hole in my collection has been filled.
The only place to buy the CE in the UK as far as I'm aware is the UBI shop.
It's up to you at the end of the day.

Very impressed with the CE. Seen as I cant get the game to work im memorising the Pilot notes for the Spitty.

Thanks guys,

Will give it some thought over today and make the purchase this eve. I always used to get the CEs without a second thought, but in recent years I noticed that I wasn't really getting anything extra in terms of the actual game and rather just paying almost double for some cheap plastic toy that had it not been do do with the game and my need to always buy the 'best' version I wouldn't have wanted anyway. These days I tend to go for what they seem to call the 'limited edition' (extra game content, a nicer box, but not extra stuff/fluff).

The CoD CE leaves me in between the two, there's not a cheap plastic Spitfire model or some such rubbish but some pilot's notes, which I like and a printed manual, which I also like. Had the manual been a 300 page+ beast I'd get it for sure, but again 150... leaves me thinking, is it really worth it? I have little interest in the map, am sure it'll get looked at once and put back in the drawer.

Anyway, sorry for the rambling/boring post and thanks again for your replies.