@ fruitbat
Hi mate, the "Big Week" campaign will start when the new SEOW release is available. There is no certain date on that, but must be soon.
It will be flown at 21:30 CET. Day of week must still be chosen, might be Tuesday or Thursday; maybe we can have more than a mission a week (if number of players exceeds number of available slots, that should be 70), in this case we might fly on Sunday too.
The dedicated bomber pilots of every virtual squads will fly in the Red side.
@ Thor/Stormcrow
I really don't understand the problem about dividing the community. So it seems a bad thing also to have different difficulty settings because it fractures the community.
I'll tell you the last time me and some of my squadmates have fled in a famous public server (the one on the PTO) we did only a sortie: during that flight we saw people stalling on the ground, people ramming each other and a guy flamed by the gunner of a Val (!!!)
Sorry but I have not fun to fly in that way. Why should I enjoy to enter in a furball at 50m? This is supposed to be a WW2 simulator and I like to fly with guys using the right way to fly warbirds (above all they follow the first rule: "watch for your virtual life").
The stock was lacking many things until the game was hacked. Only then IL2 did a great jump ahead thanks to modders and TD.
Realistic bombing (not 100% realistic, but not 10% like it was before), Fw190s with the right gunsight (both the position and the Revi model in the early ones), 6DoF (!!!!), new sounds (I can't wait for new CloD's one) and one of the more important for me, the absence of the "engine radar" (I asked the Dev team about this feature in Clod something like a dozen of times but I've never received a answer).
Sure there are planes made by modders that are jokes (great models but xwing FMs) but there are great one too; some of my teammates are flying also in the FTV and they are created from paper the italian PAN mb339, with ultra realistic flight characteristics... they are developing it since more than a year with the assistance of guys working inside the real PAN).
They have every day a new admission request from guys who DON'T fly IL2 and don't care about WW2 but they buy the game only to fly with the PAN.
Anyway if in this board sometimes I act like a promoter it's because I know there are guys out there who would like to fly the way I do but they don't know where they can fly (if they are like me they look only at the 5% of the HL servers). Some teammates of mine have gone away years ago but they are returning.
So it's not like you think: there is still a big community, only this is "out" from HL.
They manage coops or online campaigns but don't come here to promote this or in the HL chat.
To finish this argument (sorry admin, thank to your patience) I've never ever found a cheater on this game. Your is only a phobia: I repeat that you are losing a great thing. Do yourself a favor: try HSFX or UP at least one time, have an offline fly and give me your feedbacks.
BTW: the majority of the pilots in this community have bought CloD... they have faith in Oleg and Ilya (but not a blatanty religious one as some guys here...) and will continue to support them IF they give them the tools to fly the game in the way all agree to do.
This is my last one.
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Last edited by 6S.Manu; 04-14-2011 at 11:31 AM.
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