What is the worse thing in this sim series in your opinion..

[Monty_Thrud]

The weakest points for me are:-

1] Weak AI

2] Aircraft sounds

Apart from that, excellent

[FPSOlkor]

1. No fear for AI.
2. Crashing in the forests and getting killed in plane explosions - about 1\3 of all pilots who made a forced landings in the forests were alive. Exploding midair in an airplane did not mean getting killed either.

[Bloblast]

Things to improve in BOB

1) AI
2) Offline campaign
3) Rendering of distance

[1.JaVA_Platypus]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Now this is not a gripe fest.. perse.. I am a diehard 1C simmer... I cant even get into other sims.. they just bore me... but this sim as great as it is.. is not perfect...


So what's your beef?

Frankly, I feel exactly the same. I allready had Il-2 Forgotten battles before I tried CFS 2 (yes 2, not 3) The only good part about CFS 2 was the carrier landings, everything else felt really really boring I played CFS2 for maybe a week or so. And the took away the carrier landings in CFS 3 too.

Well, here is my top three.

1.Sound
2.Bomber AI
3....uhhh.... It makes every other flight sim looks crappy

1.I hope no-one blames me for nr.1 in the light of recent 'events'. Even in Il-2 v1.0 I never really got the philosophy behind all of the sounds in game. I mean, the M$ series of flight sims all had recordings of the real aircrafts engine, or believeable substitutes for years! So the technology was allready there and proven. Anyone remember the fading sound when you pushed the 'pause' button? And how the volume slowly came back to full when unpausing? Even that, we don't have anymore.
2.Bomber AI. Especially bombers like A20C, B25 and similar. Most of them will not make a nice and level bombrun when they are supposed to. These problems seems to be with only bombers with fixed forward firing armament.
3.Il-2 is the standard for Combat flight sims today. It took this title from the M$CFS series (IMHO) It has been for some years and it will give this title away probably to Sow:BoB. Period.

[Jughead]

IMHO the best WW2 flight sim is just dated. Its 7 years old and I still play it nearly every day. Bring on SoW!

[Chivas]

Fighting Spits that have there flaps mapped to a slider in the Hota section. Spits and some other aircraft didnt have combat flaps or any other setting inbetween.

That option to have flaps on an axis should never been put in the sim.

I would also like to see an option for changing the pop up distance of objects and smoke.

IL-2 series is a classic and I expect the SOW series to set the new standard in combat flight sims.

[Kira1985]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Do you use the profiling software? If not then you need to. Consider an 8 button joystick... take one button make it CTRL... that will turn your 8 button stick into a 14 button stick... You will have buttons 1-7 and then buttons 1-7+CTRL.. Your probl,em is not really a sim issue.... but a setup issue.

Both hands on the stick? No, thanks.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Kira1985

Both hands on the stick? No, thanks.

You dont flyh with your hands on the throttle? Even when I used a lone MSFFB2, before I got the HOTAS bug... I kept my l hand on the throttle..

[FLY]

1.) Character models are pretty bad. Would be nice to see better animated pilots/characters (humans) and overall more realistic looking characters. Especially in the bombers the character graphics are bad and have not been upgraded since original IL-2.

2.) Buildings/scenery. These must be redone in the next IL-2. Way too primitive looking. But not so detailed as to hinder framerate.

3.) Music. More selections and overall better music score would be nice.

4.) Realtime cloud movements. Clouds that actually MOVE and cast their respective shadows would be brilliant.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by FLY

1.) Character models are pretty bad. Would be nice to see better animated pilots/characters (humans) and overall more realistic looking characters. Especially in the bombers the character graphics are bad and have not been upgraded since original IL-2.

2.) Buildings/scenery. These must be redone in the next IL-2. Way too primitive looking. But not so detailed as to hinder framerate.

3.) Music. More selections and overall better music score would be nice.

4.) Realtime cloud movements. Clouds that actually MOVE and cast their respective shadows would be brilliant.

Bear in mind that this sim is 6 years old.. the engine is 10 years old.. I think it is Pretty good in that respect.. At least here you can put your own face in the pilot.. LOL.. I thought that was so cool.... As good as the AI si thyey are my biggest beef.. When I tell my wingman to cover me or help me or attack enemy he should go for the one closest to him.... but too often they pass up the one next to them to go after the target I am on and I wind up getting nailed.... Oh well... Oleg said BoB's AI will be better...