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Originally Posted by Biggs
^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. |
If they get the feeling of flight as close as RoF we're indeed in for a treat. For some it will be a rude awakening though. Flying full real in Il2 was hard at first. In CoD it could be pretty hard for a flight sim novice to just get a plane of the ground, let alone fight with it in full real. I'm just going to start with the Tiger Moth and see how that does in basic flight manouvres, then a Hurricane and Spitfire. I'll keep the 109 in the hanger untill I get a good feel for the inflight behaviour of the sim. Hate crashing on landing time and time again.
I think some of the critics that we have here among us have forgotten about the joys of a nice dawn patrol in a well simulated enviroment. Realize, it's 2011, being ticked off because you're not getting the award winning simulator of the year 2021 is silly. Someone here had pics of one of the 1991 sim that I really enjoyed then. Chuck Yeagers Air Combat. I stood in awe in a computer store watching that demo for 20 minutes on a 486@ 66mhz. I Would've never enjoyed that game had I known at that time what Il2 would look like in 2001. CoD has me giddy like that again, to the point that I'll buy whatever it takes to run it properly. Watch CoD get released, read the reviews and comments on the forum. Make up your own mind and pull the trigger, or don't, if you're not happy with what's offered.
Despite whatever might be "wrong", according to a few very vocal forum members, this is going to be the premier kick *ss WW2 flight simulator for some time to come.