So what's good with this game then?

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

I've been doing a bit of whining recently, but the good bit for me is still the overall feeling of 'being there'.

It's hard for me to describe, but the overall atmospheric ambience of CoD when you're sitting in the cockpit is unequalled anywhere, including all the REX, VFR, GEX addons for FSX. For this reason, I always fly with the canopy open.

You look around at the sky, your wing, you lean out to check the colour of your exhaust flame, you check your gauges, then spot the enemy and dive to the attack.
Then you realise that shooting them down is difficult, as it must've been IRL, the rear gunner pops one in your engine and you have to crash land in the undulating landscape with its various types of highly detailed vegetation (although the tree issue is well known).

A couple of months ago, I said I could 'almost smell the air' and I stand by that view.
So in spite of my recent whining, I just can't leave it alone.

This and the new CEM...i haven't touched IL2:1946 ever since i installed CoD, despite all its problems.

After getting one of my buddies back into flight sims with IL2 (he was a falcon4 flier back in the day) i talked him into trying CoD. He recently bought a copy and we were talking today over a glass of iced coffee. Besides day one impressions, i asked him what he thinks of it now that he's had some time to get to grips with it.
He said: "i don't know why, i can't quantify it, but despite any possible inaccuracies and bugs this sim feels like being there, it just feels right for some reason".
We also concluded that a large part of this is how the myriad of smaller details are done: viewing the burning incendiaries in slow motion, the intermittent belching of fire from one of the exhaust stacks corresponding to a damaged cylinder, all that stuff is there but it's subtle and not overdone.

This gives it all a much more dynamic feeling and with the new DM a much more varied visual and gameplay experience. You pump a spitty full of Mg17 rounds and he flies along with a minor leak and then all of a sudden you can see him start streaming two more smoke trails, go up in fire and dive for the drink without further action on your part, but it all happens in a very natural-looking way and not in a hollywood "look at me, i'm an oversized explosion" style.

[flyingblind]

Some of the bolt heads, particularly in the hurricanes have Maddox Games embossed on them.

[baronWastelan]

No more huge hit on FPS when looking towards large towns.

Building pop up at much further distance (compare looking at Folkestone from Hawkinge in Il-2 1946 mod map).

Makes much, much better utilization of latest video cards and quad-core CPU's.

Cockpit animations.

No more B.S. "CEM" that gives you a "engine overheat" message, where you then open radiator fully, and magically engine is "normal" and like brand new; repeat ad infinitum.

Airfield AI that puts a runway marker out automatically so you see the correct runway to land on.

Merlin engine sound (with mod, and yes it's better than Il-2 sound mod)

Motorways and railways with curves!

Clouds move with wind.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

No more B.S. "CEM" that gives you a "engine overheat" message, where you then open radiator fully, and magically engine is "normal" and like brand new; repeat ad infinitum.

Yes, this one. IL-2 is approaching unplayable for me now simply because of the much-improved CEM in CoD.

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by jimbop

Yes, this one. IL-2 is approaching unplayable for me now simply because of the much-improved CEM in CoD.

Same

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Pluto

...good question asked in the wrong moment because right now there is nothing good about it, neither offline nor online.

Offline so many things are missing (battleships etc.,...) the campagnes and single missions are boring and made in a sloppy and negligent way, online its not better. You only have warping planes and missing sound.
All in all its no fun !

Maybe you ask that question again in a few months when they will have patches to fix the crap. Normally you expect patches to fix bugs and stuff, here you have the opportunity to watch how patches cause other crap, (example - proppitch 109) so better wait, maybe half a year until the worst will be hopefully ironed out.
At the moment you better go and play "fishing simulator", that is probably more fun!

Im surprised you have warping planes online unless you have issues with your provider, I can play on servers where my ping is 500+ and I see no warping at all, in fact it is very smooth online IMO.

Oh, I dont think Battleships were in the Channel during BoB, would have been a good way to lose the fleet, but some destroyers would be nice.

Now back on topic, I enjoy the way damage is always slightly different, the CEM keeps you with something to do and is a test in combat situations, cockpits are spectacular, and personally I think the overall graphics are damn good, for me they are on a par with ROF, but the long range viz is much better than ROF, although hopefully this will be fixed for ROF soon as well, so many intricate details, only downside is so much is still just promise, but if they ever fully unlock all the apparent features this will be awesome and its always nice to be in on the rocky begginings of something that becomes awesome

[Sauf]

Well said Tiger, the glass is indeed "half full".

[Pluto]

... yes I do have warping planes and not just me and not just on one server. It happened on Syndicate as well as on the Repka server. On every server that has many pilots. Only on the ones where almost noone is flying there is no warping and sound cutouts!

It is not my provider who causes the warps and sound cutouts ! Oh and by the way - for me the "glass is not half full" considering what I have got as "collectors edition" of this sim !!! A nice cloth map and a manual do certainly not comfort me over the modest quality of the sim itself !

And again, back to what was asked, what is good about this sim?
Much ! But the things that are not good are outballancing the whole thing at the moment ! I only hope that will change after the US release. But at the moment it is no fun playing it.

My opinion, like it or not,...

[FG28_Kodiak]

Very impressive Explosions, looks like real.

[robtek]

Well, it has already been said often:
Opinions are like a**holes, everybody got one, and nobody wants to see the other ones!