Rise of Flight - To buy or not to buy?

[bf-110]

The game looks awesome,like an WWI Storm of War.
Will see if I can find this one.

Heard it came from a ***ing IL2 team that decided to split from the game.

[Coen020]

thanks for all replies, you guys convinced me thats for sure.
still having some hassle with a voucher for a amazone-like website
so i can get it for more then half the price

i can play the demo with everything on maximum on a decent fps (1920 x 1080) but then again there are no missions in the demo with 20+ planes, so still keeping my fingers crossed.

Do i correctly understand that the iron cross edition has a lot of planes included that weren't in the initial release however there are still planes that can/must be bought as dlc?

thanks, and hope to see you online in rof (see you in my gunsights that is)

[Robert]

Eight FLYABLE planes verses the original FOUR that came in the original RoF. I'd check the RoF website store for clarification though.

I'm sure there will be a sale again where extra planes can be purchased for half price. ALL the planes are available as AI. So flying the Handley bomber is out unless you buy it, but you can fly against it no matter if you own it or not.

If you already have the demo installed (which appears you do) ......

http://riseofflight.com/en/store/demoupgrades

[Ctrl E]

definately buy it. the aircraft are works of art. and the damage model is amazing. i find il2 very hard to play after RoF. it really shows its age.

[smink1701]

I would pass. I would agree with many of the positive comments I've seen here but I never find myself wanting to play the game. FM is still very twitchy and it is very hard to shoot someone down. You spend most of your time chasing someone in circles. Might be realistic but also a bit tedious. Now...for some real fun and something totally different, I would suggest MS Flight Sim X Gold Edition. I find the missions quite addictive.

like im listenin chicks talking about IL2 when it came out...sorry guys couldnt resist....btw, there will be some FM and DM tweaks and it is still the best FM on the market...some planes are off (IMHO only one considerably) and will be fixed, but most flight models are very close to data they have (orig docs and tests), As you know or dont know, we have way more data available for WW2 planes. Also 777 Studios team introduced new features never seen in any sim up to date...the list is long (some could be seen in news section of the ROFs homepage)....

combat sim market is small, ww1 niche even smaller....I dont expect you all to like ROF but I know one thing....Im having fun with ROF as I used to (once) with IL2.....yeah, Im with IL2 from beta release....

I wish all the best to Oleg and team and cant wait for his new hit...

[Feathered_IV]

It's a fantastic sim with new content being added all the time and a dev team that listens to it's customers and keeps them informed.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

definately buy it. the aircraft are works of art. and the damage model is amazing. i find il2 very hard to play after RoF. it really shows its age.

Without going into why, my thoughts are the exactly the other way arround.

Very nice ac moddels but the rest?


It cracks me up thinking about that threadh over at HQ about the Handly Page with 75(ish)% of its wingarea shot of and RoF more or less proved it would actually would fly irl since it did so in the game (or some nonsens to that effect) A user actually had to prove there was a fault in the model that needed correction before they did anything about it.

Anyways, im sure the OP knows if he would like it or not, since he allredy tried the demo (i think) and its not like the annual budget would go down the crapper if he didnt after bying it (unless he wants to buy ALL the planes that is, hihi....just kidding...maby)

[Chivas]

If your a combat flight simmer you must have it in your collection. I enjoy the game but I'm more a WW2 combat flight simmer. Cliffs of Dover...IL-2 Strumovik will be taking up all my flying time.

[WTE_Galway]

RoF originally shot themselves in the foot with a limited plane-set on first release and an intrusive unpopular DRM, negatively effecting initial sales.

They have fixed those issues and seem to have recovered from the initial setback.