Dreaming about CloD surviving for 10 years...

[mazex]

So, now that IL2 4.11.1 is released more than years after version 1.0 and we can spend some time with that while waiting for the patch I realized what a dominant number one on my personal "best game ever list" that game is!

Just think if the Grail patch will fix CloD somewhat so they can start working on more content and earn some money - and get that SDK out on the market etc...

So let's have some positive dreams about CloD in ten years instead of whine about the fact that the patch is not here yet...

<dreammode>

We have 200+ flyables in CloD and the game is as stable as IL2 is these days... Including all the ones we have in IL2 today but with all the four engine bombers too (c'mon we are dreaming right?)

A bunch of large maps of territories around the world like:

* The original and refined BoB map that is extended all the way to Berlin...
* A number of russian maps
- The north including the Baltics, Leningrad and Finland
- Center from Poland to Moscow
- South with the black sea to Stalingrad
* Northern Africa with Malta etc
* Italy for a late war scenario
* A map with Northern Australia covering the "Slot", Rabaul etc...
* A bunch of the more interesting Pacific islands...
* Singapore
* Burma
* Civil war Spain
* And more...

Awesome dynamic single player campaigns with clever AI that can also be used for long running Co-op multiplayer...

Dozens of multiplayer modes including:

* A real ongoing war where you can act as both pilot, tanker or commander with a map that shows what is reported by recon flights and radar...

* Some silly ones like "capture the field" like in Warbirds where you could drop paratroopers in a Ju-52 or DC-3 to capture a field after taking out the ground defences

* Combined arms with 100+ ground vehicles and boats that can be used to capture enemy territory etc... Maybe focused on some choke points where tanks are spawned near the objectives in some smart way...

* Air racing and aerobatics in a bunch of modern planes

Updated graphics engine running DirectX 15 completely fluid...

</dreammode>

It's not impossible...

[5./JG27.Farber]

I can never got back to IL2 FB... It feels terrible compared to CloDo.

[ATAG_Doc]

10 years?? Holy cow! Just hearing that is like being handed a 10 year prison sentence from a judge. Racing though the mind a decade of reading this rubbish!! ARH!!

[danjama]

Man, imagine the whining....ten more years of this!? No thanks! They would have to get everything perfect, first time, every time!

Saying that, I'm simply enjoying imagining some of my favourite aircraft in the CloD engine. I think the FW190 would be absolutely fantastic, as energy management is absolutely vital, but useful when done well. Another of my favourites is already in there, in the form of the Wellie, but it's not flyable. Thanks for that 1c.

I also cannot wait for the Western Desert campaigns.

[fruitbat]

Mazex, I dream also that this may happen, but then i wake up and see this mess, my faith wanes by the day.

[ElAurens]

A P40 of either type, Hawk 81 or 87, modeled with the fidelity of this sim will be heaven for me, closely followed by a Ki-61.

[swiss]

Ki61-isnt that one of worst planes in the game(unless u znb very disciplined)?

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by swiss

Ki61-isnt that one of worst planes in the game(unless u znb very disciplined)?

I've never thought so.

But I don't choose my favorites by how they perform in the game.

Only gamers do that.

And Luftwhiners.

[BH_woodstock]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

A P40 of either type, Hawk 81 or 87, modeled with the fidelity of this sim will be heaven for me, closely followed by a Ki-61.

p40..my favorite plane of all time.i cannot wait to see the p40 cockpit in Dover.One of the most under estimated planes in il2.

what was it that enabled IL2 series to become what it is today and survive all these years is a better question.That is what Cliffs of Dover deserves imo.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I've never thought so.

But I don't choose my favorites by how they perform in the game.

Only gamers do that.

And Luftwhiners.

Luftwhiners? your talking about a plane that uses a copy of the DB601 and was inspired by the HE100D.....