Where are the game elements in this sim?

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Originally Posted by GnigruH

If there's a competition, RoF is winning it atm.

RoF also has a 2 year head start mind you, and it was just as demotivating to play at release. I'd say even more useless than CloD at release because of the initial performance issues, useless multiplayer, poor-designed gui and quick mission system and few planes to fly. Now it's good, but to me it's more like flying in a painting with all the effects and artistic colours etc.

On the OP topic, I find the simulator more of a sandbox atm. You can set up stuff, test it out, fly, swap planes during missions, practice shooting down super AI rolling buggers. The lack of a dynamic campaign spoils it for my part. Broken multiplayer is testing my nerves though as I'm mostly an onliner. Can't wait to get into a server again and fly versus some human pilots with human behaviour That's where the sim really shines IMO!

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I mean, even Il-2 wasn't really a burner in terms of immersion between missions... no fancy rendered/acted sequences (at least SOMETHING when you were awarded medals/promotions; Battlehawks 1942 already had that with people gathering on your CV and your CO handing you the medals. The "Missing Man" formation in Falcon AT when you die is something else than just texting "Red has been shot down/killed", too.), very conservatively designed menus and simple .tga loading screens with nothing blinking, texting or anything like that. I figure that would take relatively little effort (excluding big-budget rendering/acting, of course), yet add greatly to non-flying immersion. Thus, Il-2 was very simplistic even in 2000 terms, yet CoD v.Alpha2 easily gets below that.
Meh, at least the drawn loading screens look reasonably well.

The more I think about it, the more it annoys me even with respect to Il-2 1946 >.<. Is RoF worth its money in that regard, as well as with respect to realism?