The news about RRG from Oleg

[robtek]

There it is again
This thread is hijacked for the old online vs offline campaign.
plz stop that and start a extra thread if you feel the need to say your thing about that.

[brando]

I'll go back and quote Robert from Page 1

"I'll buy and play both. If it flies and can shoot me down I'm there. 1916 - 1952 It makes no difference when."

'Hear hear' from here. I hope both sides of this crazy online offline divide are well represented and fully functional in wherever IC Maddox or RRG takes us next.

I'll accept any posting, anywhere

Brando

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Robert

I'll buy and play both. If it flies and can shoot me down I'm there. 1916 - 1952 It makes no difference when.

Exactly.. I learned my lesson about that kind of silliness with IL2.. If it is a good sim, which coming from 1C I see no reason why it wouldn't be... I will have it the day it is released.

As for the online offline thing... I also have no doubt that the SoW series will be better than this one... online or offline.. and right now, in this sim ... I enjoy both.... immensely. Until 1C proves otherwise my money is theirs for any flight sim they produce ... sight unseen. I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever on any level that whatever comes after this will be better. Anyone who doubts that just needs to fire up IL2 1.0.. then fire up IL2 4.09b1.... and tell me it wont be better... if it can go from there to here on the same engine.. imagine what an entirely new engine will be like... and mind you.. what we have here is a taste of SoW... look at the Slovakia, Odessa, Bessarabia and the last MTO maps ...... and tell me you don't need a napkin.

[Beebop]

Originally Posted by Viking

...most Americans and non Europeans will find little or no interest in the BoB scenario, ...

As an American I am VERY interested in BoB. Before I discovered IL-2 I played all the BoB campaigns in European Air War several times and hardly anything else. All my quick missions were BoB oriented. As a child my first plastic model was a Spitfire as it was the coolest looking WW II kit on the shelves to my eye. Don't underestimate American's interest in what was truly one of the most heroic struggles of WW II.

Originally Posted by na85

I think people aren't interested in BoB because it's a tired concept that's been done many many times, ad nauseum.

Ad nauseum? Most have done a decent job and at least to me I find them fun to fly. But then that's just me.

Although I will most likely play IL-2 for some time after the release of BoB, until more theaters and aircraft are put in, I will still buy it as soon as it's released and again take to the skies to defend England from the Nazi menace.

My 2 shillings worth.

[Flying_Nutcase]

If it needs confirming, it's the quality of the sim, not the theatre of war, at least within reason. Most of us would be more than happy to fly the non-digitised jets of the Korean War, just as we enjoy flying for Finland against the Russians, for Russia against the Germans, for Germany against the British, etc etc.

IL2 on the Russian Front became successful because of the quality of the sim. Storm of War will surely do the same. It won't matter how many BoB sims there have been or anyone's innate interest the battle. If Storm of War brings flight sims to a new level, the masses will follow.

[Avimimus]

Just what I was thinking.

[Bobb4]

I first got hooked on a flight sim called Red Baron (the original dos game), way back in the day. Since then I have bought almost every single one, be they helicopter, jet or space.
Nothing has compared to IL2 in the WW2 era and nothing is quite as good as Lomac (lockon flaming cliffs) post prop (and before I get flamed again this is only my opinion). But that said I always did like Rowan's Mig Alley, the conscept not the execution. Always thought they missed the boat, so jets over Korea in a brand new sim sounds cool.