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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway
Let us be honest, a great slab of the work invested into CoD involved getting the maps historically correct, the airfields historical and attempting to get the 40's feel and look historical for the period but that all turned out to be of no interest to the majority of players, or at least the majority posting on forums.
In the end it turned out what people really wanted was the ability to showoff their elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics and who cares about historical accuracy.
The new sim sounds like it will be awesome for showing off elite gaming skills in an online 3D flying FPS with awesome graphics without to much attention to historical detail mucking up the online game balance.
Sounds to me that people are getting exactly what they have been asking for.
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I can't agree with that. Historically correct maps? Barely, not considering the data available, its more like one of those simplified maps from a tourist guide. Historical airfields? No, just airfields put mostly in the right place with some correct runways (and too many unuseable runway surfaces). The attempt to make it look and feel like the 1940's fell short of making it feel like the BoB or historical basically due to the poor FMB which is why offline and basic on-line campaigns are naff. On-line campaigns are now only beginning to feel like the BoB because of the amount of work put into them by some of the dedicated members of the community, not easy when it calls for extensive complex scripting. The poor FMs don't help it feel historical or like the BoB either. They got close to getting it right then jumped ship.
What do we want? Most guys I meet on line want realism not FPS.
Awesome graphics? Yes I'd go with that for CoD, it is a big step forward but BoS will be Dx9. Can Dx9 deliver CoD-standard grapics? The RoF graphics don't impress me. In this respect CoD raised the bar.
My worry is that we will get exactly what we
haven't been asking for. We can only wait and see.