SIM HQ Review of CLOD

furbs · #1 09-03-2011, 12:22 AM

Here... http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_500a.html
Pretty much spot on.

Bloblast · #2 09-03-2011, 01:30 AM

I can agree with this. The colours, AI and campaign are also the main issues for me.

icarus · #3 09-03-2011, 02:28 AM

Fair and accurate review.

NedLynch · #4 09-03-2011, 02:44 AM

I agree with the review all in all, it is honest and fair.

I disagree though with "a dynamic campaign is not a must", yes it is, if you have a decent dynamic campaign you don't really need any cheesy and halfa..ed scripted campaigns.

Also he seemed to have issues with the Hurricane as a stable gun platform, which I do think it is and with the 109's performance ( acceleration and turn/roll rate ), well you do need to fly the plane in a certain way, regard turn and roll rate according to the speed you are at ( there is a corner speed, even included in the meagre manual ) and use prop pitch and elevator trim to get your desired acceleration.

But as I said a very decent and fair review that takes into regard the potential of the sim and future development of it.

Chivas · #5 09-03-2011, 02:55 AM

Its a fair review. If the developers are able to weather this storm and stay in business, the new IL-2 series has the potential to be far greater than the original series ever was.

TUSA/TX-Gunslinger · #6 09-03-2011, 03:24 AM

Very very Fair. +1 to Tom Cofield. Note his system was a Core 2 Duo - ATI 5770.

+1 to SIMHQ for this. I have some small differences of opinion with respect to terrain, Flight model and Damage Modeling compared to RoF - but not enough to comment on.

It's very refreshing to see some sanity in the combat flight simulation universe.

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Gunny

#7 09-03-2011, 07:33 AM

I agree with the review. apart from the Spitfire bit, He cannot of been flying a Spit1 or 1a, The Hurricane Rotol is a lot faster due to the prop pitch not working on the spit.

r0bc · #8 09-03-2011, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

He should have turned more options off, that's a pretty weak system.

Yeah
But its a good review, well done.

T}{OR · #9 09-03-2011, 08:30 AM

Agreed. A very nicely done review.

TheSwede · #10 09-03-2011, 09:21 AM

I like the review as well.

But one thing I noticed was his explanation of the difference between 109 E3 and the E4. According to Tom the E3 got the MG-FF (correct) and the E4 came with the MG 151/20. Wtf?