Bliss, I am not being critical of the TF group or their efforts, or any individual. The TF "mod" is a good improvement, I applaud it.
I am merely saying what I feel, and why you don't see me online much anymore.
I have been online a few times since your release, and I keep trying to get back into the sim, as I still love virtual flying. But it's still CloD, with the same planes, same map, and same scenario that we have been at for what? Two years now?
I'm not blaming TF, or you, or ATAG for that. It's not your, or anyone else's fault but the original team that failed to deliver for us all.
I am in no way saying that TF should rush out a bunch of new content, I know that is not in the cards. With the level of detail of the entire sim new content is bound to be slow in coming and very small in number.
CloD was simply a bridge too far. Oleg tried to make a very large, mulitple aircraft study sim, ala DCS. Sadly I don't believe it is possible without a budget that would make EA blush. It would have been great if he could have pulled it off, but our genre is just too small, and no publisher can justify the kind of expense necessary to have the level of detail that CloD has, and sell it to so small an audience.
So, what we have is perhaps the best Spitfire I/II and Bf 109 E sim out there.
I'm just afraid that is all it will ever be.
No offense meant.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
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