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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 03-29-2011, 06:05 PM
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Default UK CE Box delivery came today!

I just got 3 copies of the UK Collector's Edition (not all for me) delivered today in a big box, they left it at my neighbour's house and theyve only just got back home - the delivery has come from Germany by DHL, but I live in the Uk so it confused me when the DHL delivery ticket left in my letterbox just said '1 box left at No 1 - sender - Germany' (real helpful), I'd paid for the express delivery as its the same for 3 as it is for 1 copy.

Very surprised as my Ubishop order just says being processed or whatever.

But, nevertheless YABBADABBADOOO!
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Old 03-29-2011, 06:09 PM
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OI one of those is mine, you greedy swine...

I know posted the same on ubizoo.

Just out of interest whereabouts do you live, hope mine arrives tomorrow apparently you can play straight away with it no steam lock
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Old 03-29-2011, 06:13 PM
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Still waiting for mine. I want to touch it....I may kiss it. But I'll stop there.
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Now that really pi@@ed me off after being told mine would not be dispatched until after release day???
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Old 03-29-2011, 06:24 PM
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Now that really pi@@ed me off after being told mine would not be dispatched until after release day???
You should get it on or before the release date, the forum manager came back with the good news
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Now that really pi@@ed me off after being told mine would not be dispatched until after release day???
Steady Kris, after all, you'r almost a Tangmere Pilot
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Old 03-29-2011, 07:48 PM
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No booking tomorrow off if it does work
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Old 03-29-2011, 08:41 PM
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Now that really pi@@ed me off after being told mine would not be dispatched until after release day???
RAF33 pilots get it a day earlier, with a free bar of soap on a rope.
sorry had to say that kris lol.
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Old 03-29-2011, 09:36 PM
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Well it activates and works. made a new Steam user (as my old one gets used on my sons pc a lot); installs from DVD then when you run it it fires up into your Steam account and downloads a fairly big update, took a while, so watched the England match for 20 minutes

Frame rate is all over the place at the moment, but we've all heard why so wont go into all that, just hope the updates/patch coming by the end of the week maybe will make big improvements.

There's an absolute ton of control keys, not many with a default setup, just the familiar il2 ones for views, bail out, padlock fly-by etc.

Sound quality is variable, guns in the Hurricane sound oddly boxed in but loud, comms radio is difficult to hear and I havent seen any volume adjust for that, the audio setup is a little sparse apart from speaker selection, unless I'm missing something.

I havent really played about with the settings, it defaulted to my desktop resolution (1920x1200) and medium settings - my spec:

Q9650 @ 3.7Ghz, 4Gb ram, Zotac Amp 480GTX, SB X-Fi, Win 7 64bit

Changing the graphics settings requires a restart to take effect, I know most games require this these days, but it restarts through steam so takes a while, unlike il2.

I set it to very high just to see how it looked, my poor pc wondered what I'd hit it with its very early days, after such a long wait following the development for nigh on six years, I'll take a deep breath and accept waiting a bit longer to see it sorted, I remember thinking in the friday updates ' give it me now, I dont care that its got bugs' well, careful what you wish for!

PS: The CE box is very nicely done, the spiral bound handbook has a really thick front/back to it, it would have been nice to see a list of available controls, like the old keycard in all the versions il2, not checked to see if there's any pdf's on the disc etc.

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Old 03-29-2011, 06:54 PM
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OI one of those is mine, you greedy swine...

I know posted the same on ubizoo.

Just out of interest whereabouts do you live, hope mine arrives tomorrow apparently you can play straight away with it no steam lock

I live in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, it was UPS not DHL that delivered - sorry, sent 28/3/11 so that's actually pretty good going, I'd say.
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