SlipBall, many aspects of RoF do make me glad I bought it.
But after seeing aircraft after aircraft crash in to the earth from thousands of feet and bounce or just crumple a bit, I'm becoming less enthusiastic about the DM. Oleg had this pegged in his comments on it. It looks to me like they just applied FPS "rag doll" physics to the crash DM. One of the German squads put together a little vid of various aircraft collisions with ground objects. It's like the planes are made partly of rubber. They flew an Albatross head on into a moving train and it just bounced and bent the fueslage a bit. Rubbish. That aircraft should have been totally destroyed.
And after flying the thing almost nightly since I received my copy I'm simply getting bored. Multiplayer does not exist in any way that those of us who have flown IL2 from the beginning understand. I've never been an offliner, but the RoF "campaign" is dull and lifeless, the only thing good about it is the fact that at least the AI will engage you and they don't have super human powers like Oleg's do.
If online were really an option I would be a lot happier.
neoqb really needs to get off their butts and get this sim brought up to a level where one could realistically call it a finished product.
They don't have a lot of time to do this, at least as far as I'm concerned.
They have the basis of a very good and long lived title here, really they do. But they need to fix it. Yesterday.
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