Russian Version Playability Review

[JG14_Jagr]

Ok, using google translate and the Russian forums I was able to get my Russian version running. I have an MSI P67A GD65 Mobo with an i5 2500K OC'd to 4.2G. 8 Gigs or RAM and an ATI 6970 from XFX. All in all a very good gaming system. The game defaulted to all high settings.. its in easy mode and I cannot read enough of the settings to fix that but no matter.

Yesterday I was able to get a Hurricane free flight training mission going and I was very disappointed.. pauses, low FPS, it basically did not seem as though it would be possible to fly in a crowd of planes and actually play.

Today I got an update through steam of about 68 Meg. I was able to disable the anti epilepsy option and I put in some other settings from the 1C Russian site and the Sukhoi site.

I was able to select a single mission, Hurricane against a series of He111's in more of less a head on over water. I selected 9 He111's and 1 wingman.

The graphics were 1920X1200 with a mix of high/med/low settings.

I have a couple of text or communications boxes on the screen that I cannot figure out how to disable but I doubt they do much othr than annoy me.

I loaded the game and ran it and it was just like IL2 at high res with better graphics.. I do not have the FPS numbers but rolling and turning, firing, smoke effects etc.. I never saw a single slow down or pause of any kind.. not 1. I was amazed because it was 100% different from my experience in the training mission.

What it proved to me was that the game is not screwed at the core level, its going to need work to get where I want it, but I think it will be successful once people get the settings figured out and the first patch or 2 is added..

overall Im very optimistic.