Could 6-DoF ever be available in 4.2 if players could forgive small Graphics issues

[klem]

Do I detect movement here? Perhaps even a degree of agreement?

"6DOF has a place in IL-2 but with restricted movement and not as implemented by UP"

"Some 4.10 rear views are basically not too good and need looking at"

No-one wants mickey mouse solutions. In fact what most posters here want is something closer to reality than we have even if its not as "helpful" as some UP solutions. Limited 6DOF may not give a huge advantage in viewing but it will add to the individual aircraft capabilities and greatly improve the immersion over the head fixed in a frame.

Wouldn't it be better for TD to focus on clearing some of these long standing issues rather than continue to expand the game including, and possibly extending, the existing faults?

This isn't a TD bashing excercise, they are doing great work, it is perhaps a question of TD priorities.

When CoD comes out many of us in the flight simming community will be looking at, among others, CoD, IL-2 vanilla, IL-2 UP, FSX, X-Plane (yes I know FSX and X-Plane 6DOF has complete freedom of body movement) and only one of those doesn't have 6DOF. We know why, IL-2 was a leading edge game 10 years ago and still is to some extent but the views aspect hasn't been brought up to date. It will be hard to persuade many many people to go back to IL-2 vanilla after CoD with its 6 DOF (even those not too interested in it now that haven't tried it), I think they are far more likely to consign vanilla to history and go to UP. What will further TD work be worth then? Will many people be interested in new developments then in IL-2 without 6DOF?