Cliffs of Dover Is Still The Best Simulator.

[Raggz]

I never use kids language but i just have to now. This thread is EPIC, lol!

[smink1701]

Originally Posted by MB_Avro_UK

Hi all,

In my experience of both simulation and real life flying, Cliffs of Dover outranks all.

And by far.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

CLoD is beautiful to behold, especially the cockpits...but while some pieces are very nice the product is so flawed right now...ridiculous AI, limited features, vibrating shadows, on and on and on and on...I can only enjoy for about 10 minutes doing some sightseeing and marveling at the 109 flyby sounds. But then I get bored and on to ROF or FSX. CLoD is the best WW2 combat flight sim but it's not a better overall product than ROF or FSX, IMHO.

[Tone71]

Originally Posted by smink1701

CLoD is beautiful to behold, especially the cockpits...but while some pieces are very nice the product is so flawed right now...ridiculous AI, limited features, vibrating shadows, on and on and on and on...I can only enjoy for about 10 minutes doing some sightseeing and marveling at the 109 flyby sounds. But then I get bored and on to ROF or FSX. CLoD is the best WW2 combat flight sim but it's not a better overall product than ROF or FSX, IMHO.

Agree. CLoD just hasn't pulled me in yet as much as RoF or DCS A10-C, although my sightseeing tends to be done in a Spitfire I've never flown anything in real life, so I can't comment on how it compares to that; I hear X-Plane 10 is pretty good in that respect.

[addman]

It's too good to ignore but not good enough to keep you playing, it lacks substance.

[fruitbat]

You've still got it Avro

[=FI=Scott]

I'm from an old IL2 squad and we haven't played CoD together once. There are too many issues with it. From a single player perspective it is painfull to see something that can shout at you how good it could be and then ctd or hit you with bugs to the point that you quit out with frustration.

Personally the only game that I can remember that had such a torrid infancy was Falcon 4. In its day it looked great and... well... you could just see what it was capable of. The problem I see is that Falcon 4 developed in a time where flight sims and combat sims commanded a big market sector and now they dont. CoD just doesn't have the slack Falcon had and thats a fact. Add to that CoD comes from the IL2 family of sims which pretty much blew the competition away and CoD as it stands couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding (old Yorkshire phrase-sorry !)

I want CoD to be something that my squad, the Fighting Irish, will want to play, but week in, week out it's 'we are almost there, it will be great' just doesn't cut it any more. To me it is put up or shut up for CoD.

I know that (i) the CoD Templar Knights will blast this post and (ii) I don't give a (fill in your profanity of choice)

[Das Attorney]

edit: nvm

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by MB_Avro_UK

Hi all,

In my experience of both simulation and real life flying, Cliffs of Dover outranks all.

And by far.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

I have a little real flying experience and lots of flight sim experience, but I do think IL2 CoD will eventually pan out to be one of the best flight sims of all time, its almost there IMHO and I have high hopes for the forthcoming patch.