Is anyone tense?

[K_Freddie]

I'm relaxed... Oleg can take his time
I have my cash ready for the 'upgrade'...

[proton45]

I have been hang'in cool and loose for months and months now...

I find each and every up-date to be exciting and thought provoking...mostly (probably) because I'm hanging loose with the whole "SoW" deal. I don't even check out the Friday up-dates til afternoon...or sometimes even the evening.

BUT...I have to admit that some of the resent screen-captures have me drooling with anticipation. This weeks cockpit grabs look amazing !!!! They almost look too good to believe...in fact, a few years ago I would have been screaming "FAKE" !!!

[Madfish]

@Freddie
Is that why your sig is saying: "A new Freddie is coming soon..."? :p A new computer perhaps?

But yeah, overall the last years I've been haning in there as well. But I found my old "Chuck Yeagers Advanced Flight Trainer" a few weeks ago and it made me want to fly sims again. IL-2 is neat but compared to what Birds of Prey delivers it's just way behind, technically. Mods can help a tiny bit but especially vegetation, weather effects etc. just can't be compensated for. :p

[SEE]

Originally Posted by Madfish

@Freddie
.....IL-2 is neat but compared to what Birds of Prey delivers it's just way behind, technically..........

You gotta be kidding!

[Madfish]

Originally Posted by SEE

You gotta be kidding!

Hell no I'm not!

Just watch this and tell me if you know of any mod that can replicate this awesomeness in IL-2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zocgs2VjXY8

Huge amount of vegitation, terrain elevation with fitting, relatively crisp, textures. On top of that this amazing shading and weather effects, sounds, great city / object detail etc.
Maybe I'm wrong and there are mods out there that can do the same in IL-2 but I didn't find them yet and in fact modding can be a pain in the butt as I've experienced.

@Oleg
I agree with you on all the points. To be honest I never played BoP because of them.
The worst thing really was the coloring. And the cover image! With 3 or 4 spits ganging up on that poor little Ju 87!

However, I still love things like foliage, shading etc. They really make a BIG difference. That's some of the stuff I'm really looking forward to in SoW:BoB and that can probably not simply get added as a mod to the IL-2 1946 edition.
Weather and athmosphere make a game "athmospheric". Pun intended. Also all that ground detail is very amazing and makes the game immersive. For example all those little villages etc. - they look as if they'd belong there and it kind of makes the fighting more intense.

I'd always prefer IL-2 over IL-2 WoP and BoP. But personally I think that even mods can't keep up with the engine development at the core anymore. So I'm looking forward to the new game and in fact IL-2 has an honorable age anyways. If the fanbase embraces the new title with the same enthusiasm I'm sure it will be awesome.

[322Sqn_Dusty]

Great! Indeed Il2 has grown to a size with planes seldom seen.

But tense? No way..i'm not tense..... Achiel!!! where are my pillsssss!!!!!!

[Ltbear]

well, waiting is apart of life, you wait for many things. Just dont let the wait become part of the waiting so you are waiting more on the wait than the wait it self.....this dosent make sence i know but that is how i wait.....




Eve online is my wating place i can wait....

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by Madfish

Just watch this and tell me if you know of any mod that can replicate this awesomeness in IL-2.

I had a hard time recognizing anything in the first half of that video. The HDR effects which make the sky white and the cockpit black are hideous. And the overcast cloud layer is a mess - couldn't even figure out if it's above or below the plane from the looks alone. Add to that the strange mecury rain and you have a good example about how not to create immersive effects.

At least the second part showed some better scenes; the forests arestunning and the ground textures are simply very well done (even after being filtered to oblivion and back). Although I'm still feeling that the maps aren't to scale; seems the landscape moves too slowly. Hard to say though without playing it myself, which I care even less about after this video.

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

I had a hard time recognizing anything in the first half of that video. The HDR effects which make the sky white and the cockpit black are hideous. And the overcast cloud layer is a mess - couldn't even figure out if it's above or below the plane from the looks alone. Add to that the strange mecury rain and you have a good example about how not to create immersive effects.

At least the second part showed some better scenes; the forests arestunning and the ground textures are simply very well done (even after being filtered to oblivion and back). Although I'm still feeling that the maps aren't to scale; seems the landscape moves too slowly. Hard to say though without playing it myself, which I care even less about after this video.

I would second that. Two words came to my mind watching the video; DARK and overdone.

I've never been in a plane on an overcast day where I couldn't see the instrument panel because of shadows. It looked more like the video was taken at night with a full moon and no instrument lighting.

The forests were nice though.

Splitter

[philip.ed]

I'm tenser than a choir boys bum.