So where is all the new players?

AndyJWest · #1 07-21-2011, 04:06 AM

Where is all the new players? I expect that most of them 'is' playing offline, fiddling with control settings, and flying through Tower Bridge like us Euro's did (only with less graphic stutters). Fortunately, most of them won't have noticed that St Paul's is missing, though they won't have the pleasure that us South-East-Englanders have of flying over home territory, to see how accurate it is - which amounts to 'near enough, if you are dogfighting at 5000 ft, but don't expect to find your own street, unless you live in Bucks House'.

They will also be trying to figure why the landing gear in a spitfire is called an undercarriage, except when it is called a chassis, and why the RAF lined up their hangers end on - before realising that it was so you could fly through the lot.

The rivet-counters amongst them will have no doubt noticed that it is actually possible to count rivets on a Bf 109 wing in flight, but not to fly it without sideslip at the same time - probably authentic - and the really adventurous will be flying that darned Italian fighter thing just out of curiosity. Actually, I expect a few of them will be contacting long-lost cousins in the 'old country', just for help with translating the instrument panel.

So, they 'is' doing what the rest of us did, only later. Who said that CloD wasn't historically accurate?

Mr_Steven · #2 07-21-2011, 04:31 AM

^^^ Best post ever!

hiro · #3 07-21-2011, 05:49 AM

new players are trying to

A) build a new pc to play

B) getting the game to work

C) Getting the game to work

D) trying to get the game to work

E) playing the game

F) playing the game

G) wait a week, you'll hear the fallout increase unless a patch is around the corner that fixes majority of the main issues

H) throw d/L time . . . you'd be surprise how many in america have 92K/s speed d/l (yes that does exist)

I think all the whining boils down to how good IL-2 1946 is, and how glitchy this release was compared to il-2 of 2001 . . .

And how everyone was waiting for this massive awesomeness, but only to experience fail

But history is shown sometimes the biggest fails of man lead to the most awe inspiring and beyond cool, history changing outcomes.

furbs · #4 07-21-2011, 06:26 AM

Steam tracks SP and MP...lets check the stats here...

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

COD isnt even on the list.

Though WOP was up to 389.

#5 07-21-2011, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by furbs

Steam tracks SP and MP...lets check the stats here...

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

COD isnt even on the list.

Though WOP was up to 389.

After release in Europe I was checking it every day. I was just curious if it will go up or down... The most ppl in one time was around 600(but MP was not working), around 900 total... Then it started to slide down every single day. Jumped up on first and second patch and then - right to the toilet, where it is until this time...