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Originally Posted by Bobb4
I like the tone of your article, its got just the right tone in sarcasim...
But back on topic here, I have nothing against ROF. Neither their flight model or financial model. I do however have an issue with what they are offering for the price. If they are going to sell add-in's then the base product should be a lot cheaper for what you get. If you read their early blogs they promised a lot including a movie builder, persistant universe. As far as I have seen the game has shipped without a lot of these key components. I also fly for an online squadron and looked forward to ROF, but co-op, massive online maps just are not there.
I have seen screenshots of weather effects so I am assuming posters that say you only get bright sunny days are wrong, but then with so much else missing from what was promised one has to ask will we have to pay for the weather too?
Just pulling your leg on that one, frankly I will judge the rest when I fly it which I hope is in the next week or two.
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My thoughts exactly. At least for my personal taste, there's too many restrictions and an awful lot of things lacking to justify a full-game price. I'll get the demo when its released and see if the experience is good enough to warrant a purchase at its current half-finished state, otherwise i'll just wait for a few months until prices drop.
The original IL2 was limited and had its issues, just like RoF or any other new title for that matter. However, let's make an important distinction here that most people seem to miss or conveniently "forget".
IL2 had most of what you needed to recreate the theater of war in question. RoF doesn't really have it.
Maybe we didn't have a flyable Stuka in the original IL2, but we still had an AI Stuka. RoF however doesn't have an AI Pfalz or AI Sopwith Pup/Camel and Se5a. It's not so much that it lacks flyables, it lacks AI aircraft too, important ones that had a big impact during the targeted timeframe.
It's a matter of branding and delivering what the title says. There are flight sims and there are combat flight sims. When i get a combat flight sim that has a "1917" subtitle, i expect to see the 1917 air war, not two flyable planes and half a dozen AI ones that make up a small percentage of the total. If you can't recreate the theater in question in an adequate manner, it's not a
combat flight sim anymore, but a flight sim of an airshow with a handful of WWI planes.
No amount of FM/DM perfection or eye candy can change that, so until they add at least some more AI aircraft i will say it's incomplete. Of course, that's my personal opinion and others are free to judge differently and buy it. It's ok with me really as both sides will be happy in the end. They will get more hours of flying RoF and i will get a finished product thanks to them financing and beta testing it through its baby steps.
