IL2 and Sound Modding

[DuxCorvan]

I'm not even an onliner. I have not played online in years. I'm an offliner, and I understand better than anyone the progressive offliner frustration about the way the development took since AEP.

My gripes about the hack/mod of the game are mainly three:

1) Solidarity with the online community who may be completely destroyed if those hacks ever gets to be a common and widespread tool for cheaters -I don't mean honest users of the mods, I mean real cheaters that aren't surely here but will sooner or later take any chance to spoil the fun for others. We all know that kind of person/kid exists.

2) Real concerns about HOW it was hacked, and the legitimacy of anything done against the will or without the consent of the right owners. Really. And for your information, no, I'm not an hypocrite: I don't have any illegal download of music or films, not any other similar thing. I paid for everything I have (Which doesn't mean I agree with the legal system concerning intellectual property -but I obey it). For me, it having not the official blessings, is a no-no. And I say it being in another game's mod team myself. 'Europa Barbarorum' for RTW anyone? But that game has been freely modable from the start -with explicit permission from the developers- and different mods are incompatible online.

3) Serious doubts about the consistency, quality and compatibility in the long term of the plethora of mods that will eventually be made, making really hard to distinguish the ones that are really good from the zillion of weird tweaks and half-assed projects.