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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 04-19-2011, 11:56 AM
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There are so many entirely polar opinions here, I feel I need to fill some of the middle ground with some nice grey...

In response to "no games are released for the future" and/or "I can play any game on my PC" - there are plenty of games which are released with very high settings which eclipse what the PCs of the time are capable of. Crysis. GTA IV. FSX. Metro 2033. IL2. All these titles had settings, which (at the time of release) when set to the maximum, would cause severe performance issues. Some still do. I'd love to see someone play Metro 2033 at 1920x1200 with max settings on a single card system. Maybe a GTX 590 would scrape through... 2015 is hyperbole; he's just making a point.

I'm not excusing the performance issues on lower end machines - and it's true that the mid-range set will be the largest demographic, and they are working on, and have been working on performance issues and fixes. The game will continue improving as they work through bugfixes - I do think that a lot of development time has been spent on historical accuracy/modelling, and that more time could be spent on performance - but to a certain extent we've got to remember that the dev team's hand may well have been forced by powers higher up than themselves.

It's not like they've been doing "nothing" for the last 5 years, far from it. But for one reason or another, the devs have been given a shorter time frame and a reduced deadline which has resulted in them not being able to finish all the work they intended to do - we can wait, we can play the game as it is, or, erm, we can moan about it on the internet.

I just wish I wasn't drawn into these conversations quite so easily.

Damn my fence sitting, reasonable argument producing mind.
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