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

[zapatista]

90$ is a very steep price to pay for participating in the RoF-BS development cost, particularly since you dont actually endup getting a fully finished game that gives you a couple of years of gameplay till the sequel is released.

instead you'll be expected to keep buying new elements like planes, vehicles, maps, scarfs, map building tools and SDK's etc. and that is not just a choice of adding elements you might not need/want, in order to be competitive online the RoF-BS sales model will push you to keep buying newer better planes if you want to have the hope to have a fair chance in online encounters.

the promo video also reminds me of the misleading promo video's from some MS products, with the end product not being represented in the video content (in sales terms this is referred to as the "bait and switch approach"). their map also is empty and bland (snow snow and more snow, no ground detail or significant amount of ground objects). looks very console/arcade to me, more war thunder style then anything even close to what we already have in CoD at the moment.

all by all, no thanks !! we already have much better in CoD then what RoF-BS is trying to peddle, and i wont be paying 100's of dollars over the next months to find out any different

[Hooves]

Yes, you have demonstrated, that pre ordering is not for everyone. But for those of us that want to support, and have the money to do so, its a great way to get involved early.

Though I understand your stance, many of your claims are just flat out false. But getting into an discussion with you about anything has seemed more like talking to a brick wall. I hope that you can have enough respect to let others make up their own minds from the information available, rather than the majority of your made up offensive rants.

[startrekmike]

Originally Posted by zapatista

90$ is a very steep price to pay for participating in the RoF-BS development cost, particularly since you dont actually endup getting a fully finished game that gives you a couple of years of gameplay till the sequel is released.

instead you'll be expected to keep buying new elements like planes, vehicles, maps, scarfs, map building tools and SDK's etc. and that is not just a choice of adding elements you might not need/want, in order to be competitive online the RoF-BS sales model will push you to keep buying newer better planes if you want to have the hope to have a fair chance in online encounters.

the promo video also reminds me of the misleading promo video's from some MS products, with the end product not being represented in the video content (in sales terms this is referred to as the "bait and switch approach"). their map also is empty and bland (snow snow and more snow, no ground detail or significant amount of ground objects). looks very console/arcade to me, more war thunder style then anything even close to what we already have in CoD at the moment.

all by all, no thanks !! we already have much better in CoD then what RoF-BS is trying to peddle, and i wont be paying 100's of dollars over the next months to find out any different

I don't get it, I mean, you keep saying over and over how bad it is, how you will never buy it and how CloD is literally the second coming compared to BoS and yet you still feel compelled to post about how little you like it over and over.

We get it, you don't like it, move on with your life as all this anger towards something you have not even tried must make you tired and bitter in general.

[Feathered_IV]

He'll do a complete backflip later. Just watch.; )

[AbortedMan]

I don't understand what the problem is...why are some people acting like CloD and BoS are two different girls that you want a relationship with but one will dump you if you choose the other?

They're video games, very similar video games...if you enjoy one, you'll undoubtedly enjoy the other...and no, they won't get mad and uninstall themselves if you play the other. You're only shorting yourself if you have stick to some made-up "loyalty" to one because you think it's helping for whatever delusional made-up reason. I don't know about you, but I never play a game 100% of the time, even if it's in its hay-day. Take War Thunder for example; horrible simulator, horrible game...but it does do some things right. When BoS comes out, sure, I'll play BoS a whole helluva lot, but I'll still play WT a bit...it's part of the reason why I have a HDD that's larger than 5GB.

If you don't like it for whatever reason, cool, don't buy/play it. Why get mad about it and talk about it as if you made it yourself with your own blood, sweat, and tears, especially when you haven't even played the other? Silly.

With some of the logic I see in this thread, most of the people with their panties in a differ should, by their way of thinking, still be playing Atari's Pong since it's the true predecessor to CloD/IL2 and they need to stick to the true roots of the game.

[Robert]

Looking at the hand held camera video with Loft displaying various lighting features on the fuselage and cockpit, I can't help but say, "This is Direct X 9?" Impressive.

[major_setback]

I like the pilot wiping his brow at 4.23 minutes, on the second video just before Loft zooms in to the close view.

[major_setback]

Another video with Loft showing lighting etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYwh...Od0xyJYPEw9EOA