I feel dirty

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by kakkola

Hey Banned,
How old r u?9-10 maybe?Do me a favor instead of flying from a chair go fly for real.....

So what aircraft do you fly in real life?

[Von Crapenhauser]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Why do you people always make it a case of 'either/or'? Honestly, this is how flame wars start.

You can happily have both on your HD. I welcome a quantity of games in this genre, no matter which audience they cater for. With all due respect, CloD's current audience appear as naive as some of the children being flamed here.

Hopefully CloD will continue to improve, with the lost features added back, and new ones included to keep me interested.

I agree clod can be and will be awsome offline one day,so i switch between clod and Rise of flight atm a sim which is nearly perfect,just odd crash now and then.
Still blow the dust off IL2 1946 now and then too.
Theres room for all.

[LoBiSoMeM]

I tried the "beta thing" too.

It's a really cool air combat GAME, with some nice options to add more "simulation".

Great visuals, performance and playability. Easy controls configuration too.

It's more "Battlefield" approach. IL-2 Cliffs Of Dover is another thing.

In terms of presentation is much better than CloD, and it's a "finished" product, even in beta stage. Nice piece of software.

But the "beta thing" is really nice!

[FS~Phat]

I just dug out all my old COD updates going back to the 1st patch.
I ran blackdeath and a quick dog fight on all of them noting particular points and graphical qualities.
Wow it really has come a long way. Graphics, Smoothness and oh... the sounds we now take for granted! I think they've made the right compromises to get to where we are now. Only a few more graphics to add back in and maybe another lighting change as I quite liked the better contrast in the earlier patches but the cartoon colours were'nt quite right, but I think they've probably washed them out too far the other way now. Aircraft visibility was better in the first couple of patches and then it went down hill until the latest patch. I still think they need to work on the washed out colours and general hazy look of the game but it really is miles and miles better than it was at release.

It still has some way to go, but I dont think any other WWII flight games will ever challenge it for the game play vs simulation vs graphics balance it has achieved, even if it didnt get much better than it is now.

I dont want COD to become a kiddies Air-Quake but I would love to get some more players online! Maybe after a few people try out the other new games they will realise just how good COD actually is.

Anyway as Ive said before, I think these other arcade/sim games will have their market and serve it well. For a lot of us hard core simmers though, I just dont see them challenging the depth of COD modelling, that goes for FM, DM and general graphical details. But they will still be wildly successful just the same, and good luck to them. They cater to a different crowd. (PS...and when they get bored of it they can come join us!)

[Ze-Jamz]

Is good to have choices.no point rubbishing it in here

Lets just hope it stays like that, we have a choice..I'd certainly hate being made to play something else I didn't really like just because its the only half decent ww2 Sim out there

S