Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

jamesdietz · #1 06-06-2013, 11:07 PM

The exterior model looks very good huh?

Dano · #2 06-07-2013, 12:17 AM

Nice to see the pilot model looking around, very cool

klem · #3 06-07-2013, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jamesdietz

The exterior model looks very good huh?

To be honest it has an instant "Rise of Flight" and "IL-2 1946" feel about it. Maybe it's because it was filmed using Fraps but it plays at 720HD and the textures seem very 'flat' and lacking detail. The cockpit detail is especially poor. As I said this may be due to Fraps but I wonder if 777/1C would release a preview that wasn't at its best.

In-game screenshots would be interesting.

My apologies I just found this:
http://forum.il2sturmovik.net/topic/...diary-part-ix/
but it still doesn't seem to be on the same level as the CoD cockpits.

Buster_Dee · #4 06-07-2013, 10:56 AM

I've always had the impression that this team would dial things back a bit to make sure everything works at release. I agree the pit is a little less detailed, but I must add that the sense of height, space, and cold is spot on, and the pit doesn't really lack anything when working with those other qualities. The vid strikes me as having well-balanced parts--well, sensory-wise of course.

There's something right about how it wanders in the air a bit, and it's nice to see the proper "leaning forward" posture of the pilot figure.

Fjordmonkey · #5 06-07-2013, 11:01 AM

Meh. Until I see some real, tangiable videos posted by the BoS-team, I won't bother with even getting slightly excited.

SlipBall · #6 06-08-2013, 07:37 AM

No one should expect the new sim to viral Clod...it was proven that most people are unwilling to do a serious and necessary upgrade. Clod at release demanded a strong rig and that was to be expected. The mistake was that 1C should have been honest and stated a realistic system requirement on the box.

klem · #7 06-08-2013, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by SlipBall

No one should expect the new sim to viral Clod...it was proven that most people are unwilling to do a serious and necessary upgrade. Clod at release demanded a strong rig and that was to be expected. The mistake was that 1C should have been honest and stated a realistic system requirement on the box.

As things turned out I have to agree but I don't think 1C expected it to go that way. I understand why 1C tried to build something that would be capable of running on a 2GHz DX9 rig as well as on PC specs still not achievable even now but it seems you can only stretch a piece of elastic so far before it breaks. Oleg always said it would take a rig capable of running IL-2 1946 "very well" just to run CoD on low settings but in the event they were unable to do that.

vranac · #8 06-08-2013, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SlipBall

No one should expect the new sim to viral Clod...it was proven that most people are unwilling to do a serious and necessary upgrade. Clod at release demanded a strong rig and that was to be expected. The mistake was that 1C should have been honest and stated a realistic system requirement on the box.

Exactly.

But my friend was running CloD with cheap AMD x2 and 9600gt 512MB.
On low 1300 resolution and low to mid settings, he had stops because of low VRAM but it was playable.
Other one had gts250 1GB (9800gt renamed) and had good experience.
Those cards were 3 generations old when CloD came out.
Some pilots were also discouraged by the posts of some fans of another sim,
like "this is terrible, it want run on my gtx580" so they didn't upgrade.

Sokol1 · #9 06-08-2013, 03:29 PM

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but it still doesn't seem to be on the same level as the CoD cockpits.

Well, 777/1c never promised equal or surpass CloD cockpits level/interation, its initial proposal is just a new version of IL-2 (2001 - not 1946), with graphics, FM and DM updated.

We need create realistic expectations according to these proposals to avoid a new "Clod drama".

Sokol1

Chivas · #10 06-08-2013, 05:15 PM

As much animosity as I have toward the BOS developers for their part in COD's demise I would never underestimate their capabilities. I think their 109 cockpit is very good, and would expect them to be able to tweak, add, improve, rewrite the ROF game engine to make a decent combat flight sim, just as Team Fusion is tweaking, adding, improving, rewriting the COD game engine. Both will have their problems, but that's just part of the evolution of the genre.