A well considered reply Lemming, and you taken my post in the manner it was intended (non-offensive, just straight to the point).
On the subject of "dumbing down" you are missing my point and reading what you want to see in to it. BoP is not a PC sim game, its a console "sim" game. There are major differences in how the two are constructed and played. The point I was making is that what you expect of a PC title is not the same as a console title.
The controls were simplified thats all there is to it really. As a PC flight sim player I know only to well that the vast amount of buttons in a flight game will put off 99% of people who try them. The market for full sim games is extremely small, and is limited to the PC.
IL2 may have a fan base but that is never enough to gaurantee a titles success. With the PC game market as stagnant as it is, for the team to make another PC sim game would be suicide for the franchise. And with BoP as it is now, far to many of the former IL2 players would be demanding features from the old title in a PC version of the same game. This would create major problems for the team, as it would be seen as favouring one system over another, especially at a time when even the mighty MS have cancelled the MS flight simulator series due to budgetary requirements.
As for your comment of the kills attained per mission. Its a game, its supposed to be fun first and foremost. While us PC simmers are happy to sit staring at a screen for hours on end scanning for a single black pixel in a blue sky to do a single mission, console players are not. In the same fashion, console gamers dont like games where its simply one or two kills per mission. Thats why the game has such a high kill ratio, gamers want to kill stuff and lots of it!
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Originally Posted by Lemming77
If we're still talking about WWII, why are the camo patterns more effective than they were before? 
Oh wait, brown mixes with brown, yeah, my mistake. |
Oh come now, what colour is the ground in RL? Just take a look at ANY colour photo of a spit and you will see similar colour markings used. THe reason its so easy to see on a the PC game is because the PC game itself is so old that there are no proper lighting effects and the graphics are terribly simplified compared to any modern game ( no offence to dev team, just stating fact). In RL when your flying at 1000 feet its bloody hard to see an aircraft below you if its camo'd, many pilots in the WW2 era went out to a target and simply couldnt find it. Thats as it is in the game.