Two cents from a former lurker

Jungmann · #1 05-08-2012, 10:53 PM

Hi Folks

An old time IL-2 player, and I've been lurking here since COD came out to see which way things would go.

Finally bought it. Understand all the gnashing of teeth and frustration, but I got to tell you, I like it. Worth what I paid, and hoping it gets better.

Running it on an IMAC with a Windows partition. Half a gig video card means pretty low settings--FPS around 15 over land, but I'm trying to massage more out of it.

One surprise--that there aren't more player generated missions and campaigns available, after a year. I really liked some of the old IL-2 campaigns--Battle of Britain, defending Henderson, the Norwegian campaign. Realize we have a limited map, but Rhubarbs, night interceptions? Wish I was experten enough to make them myself.

Going through my learning curve.

One glitch--the blue text for autopilot, gear, flaps, pitch, etc was there, has disappeared. Anybody know why? Is that text covered by a control option I might have hit by mistake?

Thanks for the help. S^ to all. Great to be back.

Jungmann

trademe900 · #2 05-09-2012, 01:32 AM

It is arguably worth the 20USD you pay for it now but certainly not the fraudulent 50euros price tag when it first came out. What a rort!!!

Sternjaeger II · #3 05-09-2012, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Jungmann

Hi Folks

An old time IL-2 player, and I've been lurking here since COD came out to see which way things would go.

Finally bought it. Understand all the gnashing of teeth and frustration, but I got to tell you, I like it. Worth what I paid, and hoping it gets better.

Running it on an IMAC with a Windows partition. Half a gig video card means pretty low settings--FPS around 15 over land, but I'm trying to massage more out of it.

One surprise--that there aren't more player generated missions and campaigns available, after a year. I really liked some of the old IL-2 campaigns--Battle of Britain, defending Henderson, the Norwegian campaign. Realize we have a limited map, but Rhubarbs, night interceptions? Wish I was experten enough to make them myself.

Going through my learning curve.

One glitch--the blue text for autopilot, gear, flaps, pitch, etc was there, has disappeared. Anybody know why? Is that text covered by a control option I might have hit by mistake?

Thanks for the help. S^ to all. Great to be back.

Jungmann

Hi Jungmann, so it does run on iMacs with a 512MB video card!

Some time ago I posted a query for a friend who has a similar setup but wasn't sure whether it would run on his machine, I'll pass him the info then, thanks. I take it you have the latest version of the patch, how bad are the graphics settings?

Jaws2002 · #4 05-09-2012, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by trademe900

It is arguably worth the 20USD you pay for it now but certainly not the fraudulent 50euros price tag when it first came out. What a rort!!!

Actually to me it's exactly the oposite. My game worked ok from the begining on my older rig. Once I built a new PC, I had no performance isues and the game looked stuning.
To me, that game I bought over a year ago was worth the money I paid for it. This one we have now isn't worth the 20 bucks is selling for.
My performance got progressively worse from patch to patch and the game looks very bad now. They butchered everything that looked good in this game and it just puts me off everytime I'm playing.
I have two older instals and the difference is shocking. I just can't understand how could you make a game run worse after you chopped off everything that made it look good.

Jungmann · #5 05-09-2012, 04:24 AM

Sternjager

It does work in a Mac, but in a Windows HD partition. I'm still exploring around, but I'd say close to low end specs. My options are all on medium right now. Wonder if this beta patch is going to improve things.

Jungmann

He111 · #6 05-09-2012, 07:12 AM

I think it's worth $50+ .. works great on my machine.

Why I haven't created any missions is lack of aircraft! I'm half way through 'Death of 141 Sqn' but strange Defiant AI has stopped me dead, plus life gets in the way too.

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Melbourne, FL · #7 05-09-2012, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Jungmann

One surprise--that there aren't more player generated missions and campaigns available, after a year. I really liked some of the old IL-2 campaigns--Battle of Britain, defending Henderson, the Norwegian campaign. Realize we have a limited map, but Rhubarbs, night interceptions? Wish I was experten enough to make them myself.

I can recommend the campaigns that you can buy from Desastersoft. You can download Demos of both "Wick vs. Dundas" and "Channel Battles" which already have quite a few missions. And they add a career system CloD ist missing so badly.

Alexander

Ze-Jamz · #8 05-09-2012, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Jungmann

Hi Folks

An old time IL-2 player, and I've been lurking here since COD came out to see which way things would go.

Finally bought it. Understand all the gnashing of teeth and frustration, but I got to tell you, I like it. Worth what I paid, and hoping it gets better.

Running it on an IMAC with a Windows partition. Half a gig video card means pretty low settings--FPS around 15 over land, but I'm trying to massage more out of it.

One surprise--that there aren't more player generated missions and campaigns available, after a year. I really liked some of the old IL-2 campaigns--Battle of Britain, defending Henderson, the Norwegian campaign. Realize we have a limited map, but Rhubarbs, night interceptions? Wish I was experten enough to make them myself.

Going through my learning curve.

One glitch--the blue text for autopilot, gear, flaps, pitch, etc was there, has disappeared. Anybody know why? Is that text covered by a control option I might have hit by mistake?

Thanks for the help. S^ to all. Great to be back.

Jungmann

20USD? Bargain

Sternjaeger II · #9 05-09-2012, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

20USD? Bargain

Yeah mate, one would think so, but it's kinda crazy considering that the game itself is going for $14.99 atm and a few weeks ago it was a staggering £4.99!!!

Madfish · #10 05-09-2012, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jungmann

One glitch--the blue text for autopilot, gear, flaps, pitch, etc was there, has disappeared. Anybody know why? Is that text covered by a control option I might have hit by mistake?

Hey there. It could be related to this: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...ht=remove+text

Try to check if it works for you. Make a backup copy of the file first though in case anything goes wrong