ok... who switched my B-17's armour for papier maché?

[House MD 221B]

seriously.... I wanna know... they could sustain MASSIVE amounts of damage, they've landed without tails, without nose cones, without 3 out of the 4 engines.


so why oh why does it fall apart as soon as a few bullets clip it.

I've tried arcade, realistic, AND simulator, and on all 3 its punishment threshold is that of a scared anaemic vole!

the bomb loads are awesome, the flight model is perfect, the model is great, the gunning turrets are great (APART from the fact the upper turret cant face forwards and neither the upper or ball turrets can shoot vertically up or down)

this stinks of lazyness on the developer's part... IL-2 on the PC was all about realism and accuracy... did they think we wouldn't notice? what the hell.

and i'm not just talking about this, there are SO many aspects of the game that just reek of "5 to 5 on a friday"... IL-2 was a pillar of the PC flight sim world, it was brilliant to the last detail... did they think that PC users dont own consoles? that we wouldnt catch on?

but back to the B-17... please PLEASE as part of DLC turn it into the plane it was manufactured to be... not a card-board cutout replica. and PLEASE for the love of god add an auto-feather option, so that as soon as 1 engine goes the entire plane doesnt instantly lose control or explode.

otherwise as MANY of you know i love this game, its beautiful, and its the best the console will probably ever see for this era of flight.

but the developers either really sold out for the publishers (ala front cover of the box) or just couldn't be bothered to produce the same level of quality for the console as they did the PC. I get there arent as many buttons, that fine, but like i said make auto-feather etc. we wouldnt mind automated systems, so long as they are there to begin with.

anyway rant over.... im understandably pissed that after 8 hours of strike matches the ONE plane i wanted is less than the historic aircraft it's meant to be. Just needed to vent, and hopefully a Dev will see it and perhaps consider some options for improvement.