Rise of Flight - To buy or not to buy?

[Coen020]

Hey guys,

like all of you i'm waiting desperatly for Storm of War/Cliffs of Dover/Battle of Britain/ Il-2 Sturmovik ... 2?

And like all of you il-2 is one of my favorite sims, but, i want to try something else for a change -> so Rise of Flight Iron Cross Edition.

I probably should not ask this at the forums of an entirely different game but, since we probably have the same taste i was wondering if ROF ICE is any good?

played the demo, which i liked but would really appreciate your input.

[Qpassa]

wtf, you should ask in their web. Its like ask in their web to buy IL2 lol

[Robert]

Go for it. Why?

It's fun.

The feeling of flight for a simulator is pretty realistic (FOR A SIMULATOR on a HOME PC)

WWI hasn't been covered in a while.

Jason and crew are fleshing out the game quite nicely.

777 Studios on occasion have sales on their aircraft of ~ half price.

Support the hobby.


I don't fly on line, so someone else will need to address that.

I don't find the DRM invasive - though I'd prefer not to have it at all.

There is a mode to play off line, but that's for quick missions and not campaigns. The latter's statistics are stored on line.

No other negatives have affected me.



If you decide to get it read the forums on installation if you're using Windows 7. I'm on XP and have no issues. Someone better informed can point you in the right direction.

I say go for it.

[lbuchele]

It´s a great game, only make sure you have a good VGA and a quad core fast CPU.
ROF doesn´t run well on dual cores.

[JG53Frankyboy]

you liked the demo, you like furballs between fighters, your PC is good enough:
buy it....................

just dont expect the deepth of gameplay that are possible with IL2. Its 95% a fighterpilots game verus other fighters.
even the announced offline career mode will not change much in this.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Buy it. Development team is adding new careers etc. so the game will cater offliners better too. I like it very much.

[mazex]

Adding to the chorus... Buy it. I bought it day one after waiting for years but in the first versions I did not like the flight model that was too "twitchy" and felt rough, but now after a number of patches it's really the only other sim that gives me a believable feeling of flying accept IL2 or course (and I have been flying IRL for 25 years). The new dogfight mode with airfields that can be captured is a lot of fun - but an accessory that you really need for full appreciation is TrackIR (a lot of wings covering you view )

Buy it. Is a stunning well made Sim. I fly in RoF's servers like Syndicate almost all night.

[Avimimus]

Read here:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3168395

Here for the DRM scheme:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3118866

[zauii]

Indeed buy it, its an excellent ww1 combat simulator, and defiantly on par with the other hardcore simulators out there such as IL2 even if the depth doesn't go as far.