4.09 Sugestion: FM locked and sound open.

[jermin]

Cheating by cracking file.sfs file has been seen online before 4.07, whether you believe it or not. IL2 isn't as hard to crack as you think. Even Starforce can be cracked. Every popular game should spend a bunch of time to deal with cheating issues. But we haven't seen any game companies stop making games because there is cheating in them, right? I have said it before and I would like to say it once again: Modding the game does not necessarily mean cracking the game. It depends whether this "mod" is made with CHEATING in mind. Obviously this sound mod isn't. We cannot forbid modding just because somebody uses it's bug to cheat, just like we cannot stop eating because of a hiccup. It's not the modder(food)'s fault. Modding is good for the game, just like eating is good for us. Think about other games, e.g. Battlefield series, Half Life series, Call of Duty series, LockOn, FS seires, CFS series, Flashpoint, Falcon 4, Silent Hunter. Mods make these game more popular, versertile and give them much longer life. I just dont understand why some people are so excited about the sound mod, shouting here and there, as if they finnaly find a decent reason to accuse someone shot him down in a "overmodelled" plane cheating. I can say that most of those who are very nervous about the sound mod are inexperienced players, because PWNers just don't scare cheaters.

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

Originally Posted by jermin

Cheating by cracking file.sfs file has been seen online before 4.07, whether you believe it or not. IL2 isn't as hard to crack as you think. Even Starforce can be cracked. Every popular game should spend a bunch of time to deal with cheating issues. But we haven't seen any game companies stop making games because there is cheating in them, right? I have said it before and I would like to say it once again: Modding the game does not necessarily mean cracking the game. It depends whether this "mod" is made with CHEATING in mind. Obviously this sound mod isn't. We cannot forbid modding just because somebody uses it's bug to cheat, just like we cannot stop eating because of a hiccup. It's not the modder(food)'s fault. Modding is good for the game, just like eating is good for us. Think about other games, e.g. Battlefield series, Half Life series, Call of Duty series, LockOn, FS seires, CFS series, Flashpoint, Falcon 4, Silent Hunter. Mods make these game more popular, versertile and give them much longer life. I just dont understand why some people are so excited about the sound mod, shouting here and there, as if they finnaly find a decent reason to accuse someone shot him down in a "overmodelled" plane cheating. I can say that most of those who are very nervous about the sound mod are inexperienced players, because PWNers just don't scare cheaters.

thank you for driving on a road already taken.

[Monty_Thrud]

Agreed. Offliners=gamers. Onliners=Simmers. And yes, mods are welcome to online players as well. But what we're talking about here are hacks.

That is the biggest load of rubbish posted on these forums.

It's foolish comments like this, that split the Offline and Online community.

[Ploughman]

I'd be interested to know what, if anything, is planned for the Il-2 engine after its development by Maddox etc., is discontinued. There are a few planes I'd still be willing to pay money for, more light bombers, Blenheim, Wellington, B-26, , a Spit XIV and so on. There's a few more $ in the old girl yet, at least out of my wallet.

[wgvette]

As an offliner I can almost understand the argument in saying that the hack doesn't hurt anything, but only almost!

I have no interest in adding the sound or any other unofficial mod to my game. Several posts talk of IL2 being a dying game or that the mod breaths new life into it.

While I have only been playing the game for a couple years, I find it hard to believe that every possible thing to do in the game has been done.
More likely the boredom of the game comes from doing the same old thing with it. With all the flyable aircraft and different maps, there has to be something left untried. I of course could be very wrong, but I don't think so.

One last thought...How many pilots during WWII; do you think got bored going out on yet another patrol, or wished for a different sounding airplane after a hundred different missions???

[Baco]

Originally Posted by wgvette

One last thought...How many pilots during WWII; do you think got bored going out on yet another patrol, or wished for a different sounding airplane after a hundred different missions???

Real WWII didn´t fly more than 2 years in all.
I have been flying Il-2 series for more than 5 now...

I love patroling, I even love flying cargo from point A to b.
Il-2´s FM is so satisfying that just flying is grate.
That is why getting transports and recon planes is such a treat.

And Yes I hate that it had to be this way. But they are here and I can´t turn my back on them.

[Baco]

Originally Posted by Ploughman

There's a few more $ in the old girl yet, at least out of my wallet.

You can say that aggain. If Olleg or RRG or someone conected to Oleg was to put all the mods on an add-on, Not prefect them but leave them as they are, and make them "legal and maybe secure for the comunity". Oh I would pay money all right.