oleg, you better hurry, RoF is releasing a ww-2 sim next

[Skoshi Tiger]

[QUOTE=Robert;82928]Is it right to compare IL2 with RoF? Times are certainly different and in this economic market it's tough to give away as much as Maddox/UBI did.

The difference between the two (and I think is a valid point) is that there was a fully fleshed out game with IL2. You could take on different roles dependant upon the plane you chose. There was more than two planes listed. There were more maps. As far as I remember online worked from the get go. IMO RoF isn't a complete game.... yet.

TBH. If SoW:BoB were to come out at $100.00 I'd buy it. If I add up what would be necessary for RoF to be what I'd consider a complete game I'd probably pay the same amount as I'd pay for BoB and I'd be happy to do so if all the features and planesets were included and functional. [\QUOTE]

Of course you can compare the two, but you need to take into account the extensive expansion and development that occured to IL2 AFTER it's release.

Hopefully ROF will show enough potential to get enough suport from the FS community to develop into a truely comprehensive WWI flight simulator. (Or at least keep ME amused until SOW is released )

Originally Posted by Robert

In time I'm sure it will get to the point where IL2 was upon it's release (or to where I think RoF is a complete game) but two planes and one map and non-working online are a little light for my tastebuds.

One of the big complaints people have about IL2 is the size of the maps. ROF has put it all on one map. Supose you can't please every one! Hmmmm!

ROF - "On one map of 125 000 km2 the military conflict between Germany, Austro-Hungary and France, England, Italy, the USA and Russia take place."

From what I've read they already added another two flyable planes That get installed through the patching process.

Originally Posted by Robert

With that said even SoW seems like it will have more features out of the box than RoF. We can all ONLY guess as to why the diparity of releases, but I'd hate to set a precedence for incomplete releases just to make more money upon completion or to allow unfinished buggy games to go out the door to unsuspecting simmers.

How long has ROF had it's website and blog up? Concidering that we are in a niche market and mainly enthusiasts are going to buy the game, I think that most people know the situation or will at least read the box cover. Do you want a warning label on the box in inch high letters? "WARNING- This Combat Flight Simultation contains 4 flyable aircraft, you may experience a level of disapointment if you expect more!"

Check out DCS Black Shark. At the moment there is only one flyable helio. The precedent has already been set, a long time ago. Flight Simulator (before micro$oft got involved) had only one plane I believe. No one complained because they knew the the situation.

My big concern is the online validation every mission and the patch updates. I still remember playing Company of heroes the first time and took about 3 hours to install the patches before I could run the silly game and get into my first mission.

Until my copy of ROF arives I don't know how intrusive it will be?

Cheers