I haven't missed the point. He thinks that not implementing DX11 will make CoD so soul-crushingly disappointing that it will reach back in time and also make IL-2 less enjoyable to play. Am I close?

Why is it that there are several people here who are bullying and giving others a hard time?
If we were all having this conversation face to face, things would be much different I assure you.
Those bullies would be generally much more polite and much more careful to choose their words.

The sky is falling... or is it me.

Regardless, the deed is done. Whining and questionable chit chat isn't going to change a thing. Hooray! Hooray! the BOB COD is days away.

I remember looking at those shorelines with the movement of the surf several years back. We were all excited at the news, and that has been five or more years ago.

Give me and everyone else a break.

Rejoice, we are getting an updated WW2 air combat flight simulator. Oleg hasn't taken the easy route to the console and dumped on PC users.

Wings of Prey isn't bad, it just isn't an IL2 or COD quality product. What if Oleg had decided to build console appps only in the future. I say our genre of simulation game would be a thing of the past, unless you want to fly jets.

Oleg is very competent and has excellent techie staff members. The COD will be the benchmark sim upon release (as is) and it will progress beyond that.

Come on get happy, we are going to have a ton of enjoyment with the COD.

I can just visualize taking off from Biggin Hill with a team of rowdies to take on the Luftwaffe over dover.

10 days left, and counting !!! My one-oh-niner will rip apart your spitfeuer Nearmiss !!! I just can't wait that moment mate !!!

^well said nearmiss...

and in the spirit of getting happy, I thought id share this...

the other day whilst reading all these threads about technical "issues/non-issues" and "release date madness" I paused to think about the game on a whole... and I realized something.

For the first time I will fly the planes in the game just to purely fly them... I've never done that with the old IL2 or any of the expansions. I've always had to have a combat mission set up... the act of just flying was never really enough... But this game I feel will be so detailed and have so much character with each plane that I will surely find myself just "taking one up" and enjoy the view and the experience.

just like the vid a couple weeks back... a tigermoth in the evening sky... i cant wait.:)

I have a feeling this game will mean more to me than IL2 ever did.

I've always enjoyed the offline game the most. I can't tell you how many times I would play the scenario through in outside views, in AI mode just to watch the combat action I'd setup in a mission.

This kind of enjoyment will take a quantum leap with all the great visuals and new FMB tools.

I feel bad for the Brits who buy this game. Imagine the disappointment when they take their Spit for a ride over their house and realize that Oleg didn't get the colour (sp?) right? I would be crushed.

Dowding would be proud of you:grin:

My thoughts exactly! I've never gone scenery surfing in IL-2 but I'm sure I will do a lot of that with CloD. Take-off from somewhere in France and navigate to an airfield as far on the outer edge as possible.

25th or 31st.. god knows, but it's close mates, it's close!

Id just be interested to see if its even there at all... my grandparents had a house about 2-3 miles south east of Biggin hill... surprisingly enough i didn't find out about this interesting fact until about a year ago!

My mom was like oh yeah "we used to hear the hurricane and spitfire fly around every year for the memorial flight... unmistakable engine sound".....

And my Fathers parents lived in Sevenoaks not that much further away!

UGH so jealous!:evil: