What do I like the most in CloD - today!

[drewpee]

I love how after many hours (Adding up to weeks) I can still be surprised by some thing I've never seen before. The first time my chute fail was one. Another was getting caught low and slow over my base in a spit with two 109s on my tail. My engine was fried and I was kissing the stall. I was only 20 feet off the deck and and one of the 109s in frustration had slowed to my speed. I saw a radio tower just in front of me and wondered if I could sucker the 109. I lined up the tower and at the last moment pulled back the stick. I only just got over when the nose dropped. I regained level flight and looked back.

The 109 lifted his nose to go over(he would stall if he tried to turn) but to late and cut through the tower. The tower broke in two where his wing hit then he and the tower toppled to the ground. It ended with a beautiful explosion. I laughed so much at my cleverness that I didn't even mined his wingman finishing me a few seconds latter.

S! fellow pilots and S! 1c.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by vranac

Also as a big fan of the old il2 I would add that FM is much,much more realistic.
Feel of inertia is fantastic,I got a feeling that I'm flyin something
that has 2 or more tons.
Earlier when I was jumping between two sims old Il2 seemed like flying RC model.

That's one of the first things I realised when playing it as well. In Il2 particularly the FM felt as if you were the actual plane, whereas CloD feels like you're actually a person in the cockpit flying the thing. As you said as well, everything has a great sense of weight that Il2 never had either.

[kendo65]

The incredible cockpits combined with the clickable controls, the amazing depth of what has been modelled in the game (in many cases for the very first time e.g. ammo loadouts), the lighting and how it looks over the Channel looking back towards the White Cliffs.

[bw_wolverine]

Couple of things for me:

I love the damage model. It's second to none in the air combat sim world right now, I think. I absolutely love how connected it feels to the aircraft. I can take damage, look out my starboard side and see I'm trailing smoke and then scan my guages to find out what it could be. I keep the damage notices turned off for this reason (I highly recommend!). You get such a good feeling of being in that aircraft when things are going wrong...assuming you get time to assess what's going wrong It needs some tweaking, sure, but even in its current state I believe that, yes, it's the best going.

I love that, despite the problems with the game, there is a whole group of players trying to get on with it and make it work. Mission designers working around the problems. Players making adjustments to their strategies to take into account the problems. Plenty of people not giving up on what is clearly a classic in the rough. Salute to them! You know who you are.

I love the ships! I never thought this would be something I love about a flight sim, but it's true! Just watch a ship get bombed and sink and you'll be amazed that they've put that level of detail in for a combat flight sim. Masts and stacks come exploding off, great fires, the listing of the ship, the water coming up around it - it's quite something. Makes me want to be a bomber pilot! Almost.

I love the feeling you get after a combat you survive by the skin of your teeth, coming out on top. Bullet holes in your wings and a fuel leak from your tank, but you got the guy and you're heading home. It's a thrill that very few games know how to replicate and might be unique in many ways to combat flight sims. Cliffs of Dover has this feeling many times a night for a lot of us. Very few games offer that reward for playing smartly. Almost every time I get shot down, I can point to the reason why and 9 times out of 10 its because I did something I shouldn't have or didn't do something I should have. There are those instances where superior equipment or superior skill will always win out, but in those cases I usually feel that I knew it wasn't my fight to win and I shouldn't have engaged. It's rare to get a game that offers that much fairness to a player in nearly every situation.

[KG26_Alpha]

As a mud mover.....

It has to be the blast effect of the bombs, ground objects trains, aircraft, vehicles being moved and or lifted by the bombs effects throwing them around
The shipping going evasive when I'm dive bombing, and the effects of the damage modelling and sinking.

Black Death track has a nice moment in it where some Hurris are blasted upwards & backwards on the airfield.




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[Manu22]

For me, it is this thread... After so much #$%...

What I like the more is to fly in formation, you can stick 10m-75m easily with you other partner with only a little adjustement on the CEM (pitch) and adjust slightly the throttle. Actually we are able to fly in tight formation, only with 109 for the 110 we need spread the formation of a minimum of 50m (because of the lag with bi-moteur).

Un grand merci à tous ceux qui particpent à notre communauté !

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Couple of things for me:

I love the damage model. It's second to none in the air combat sim world right now, I think. I absolutely love how connected it feels to the aircraft. I can take damage, look out my starboard side and see I'm trailing smoke and then scan my guages to find out what it could be. I keep the damage notices turned off for this reason (I highly recommend!).

How do you disable the damage notices?

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by Insuber

How do you disable the damage notices?

Close the info window.

[louisv]

Pulling the trigger and watching the bullets hit hard and the effect on the enemy...
Sooooo satisfying !

Only in CoD

[Insuber]

Ammo belting is wonderful! And the damages seem to be related with the ordnance that you loaded! Also, I absolutely love the possibility not to load tracers ... as it was in RL ...

I had a blast last weekend, when approaching on my E-3 a Spitfire climbing unaware during an engagement with another 109. I started fire from 300+ m with the MG loaded with Beobachtung - no tracers. I saw the "quick flashes" on the left wing, and the Spit contiunuing to climb, as if the elevators were disabled. When at short range I gave a burst of the cannons, loaded with a mix of incendiary and tungsten grenades, to see the Spit nose bursting to flames. The Spit stalled and then went down with a black smoke trail. A parachute deployed close to the sea. Mythical!!!!!!!