Simulation or Shoot-em-up?

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Originally Posted by DogTailRed2

I've been a fan of IL2 and waiting for this game for sooo long.
Being playing for about a month and I can't decide if COD is a genuine sim or a glorified Shoot-em-up.
To be a simulation you need to accurately depict the scenario, environment you are trying to model. I can't fly successfully over land due to FPS issues so I air-start over the channel. I'm in an aircraft that doesn't sound or fly like a front line fighter. I'm presented with radio chatter which sounds like a bad rap recording while I watch my AI steam into a bomber formation (with hyper-drive) and expend all their ammo in a single pass. I love the way 1-11's do snap wing overs when attacked. That's if they don't collide with their wingmen that is.
Then it's my turn to try and I find, due to control lag, I'm porpoising all over the sky and at the critical moment when I've actually got the hun in my sights I get the most almighty stutter and then he's gone.
So this is why, to me, COD is a Shoot-em-up because more and more I'm just setting up scenarios where I can fur-ball for a bit of fun rather than trying to immerse myself in an epic battle. In fact, sad though I say it, I'm flying COD less and less.
COD has no immersion or atmosphere. The Battle of Britain sim it aint.

Put your system Specs in your Signature under User CP.

I fly the Hurricane Bomber Intercept Mission quite a bit as a fps benchmark. When I first started using it I wcould not believe that all the AI was swooping in on the bombers and I was barely able to close on them..

Then I learned how touse CEM and properly adjust the PITCH on my Hurricane and now I get there first.. He111's are pretty damned maneuverable, I've not seen the snap roll..but I've seen a lot of avoidence measures and a fair number of collisions.. I lit up the cockpit of an He111 then the ghost plane flew into another He111..on replay the crew was dead.. I thought that was pretty cool..

Watch the BoB movie and watch the Hispano He111's when they maneuver...they are fairly sprightly.. remember they are similar to a B25 or B26 rather than a B17 or B24.