Rate it now .. as it is!

[Nil]

Just an on/off switch for the unlocks would make me give it an 8.5.. you can't even play without unlocks in offline mode for gods sake!?!
One really despised and not very well thought out business 'plan' that can prevent this from being the huge hit it deserved to be.
'I dislike it and it affects my interest in the product. (412 votes [42.61%]' The consumers have spoken!
FMB end Dservers are coming, that we already know, and they worked on a really tight schedule (so tight that they already are 6 months late already, and people don't work for free (even in Russia))!

I even taken a break from the time period, and now have SHIIIGWX 3 Gold on standby.. and play my really old copy of Dangerous waters, with the superb RA mod.. so now it's nuclear subs and beer, instead of WWII and beer. But I'm impulsive, on the borderline (or even far over it) to ADD. And will re-review it when the 'evil' unlocks are gone. If they don't disappear.. I'll use Tunngle to play my old sub-sims in multiplayer, still considering that I got my 100$ worth out of this sim from every little friday update and for being a part in the process.. and hopefully being a part of the process of removing the unlocks, by being a loud but reasonable complainer.

[Czar66]

I gave it a 6. As multiplayer is still in primitive form, saddly; we are needing badly a dynamic career with fixed aircraft. We have the feel of flight, but not the feel of being a flesh and bone pilot.

 

Abandoning completely the current campaign format would be a fresh move, actually.

 

I'm confident this title will get out of me a 9/10 in one day but not today.

[SYN_Mike77]

For me at least the newest version (1.004) seems to have stopped the ctd's in the campaign,  I am now free to continue the grind for unlocks.  However, the online servers remain locked at 32.  So, I rerated the game up to a 6 from a 5. 

[SYN_Mike77]

been flying more the last few days and am starting to really like this game, even in SP campaign I am having a good deal of fun. So, I went back and changed my rating to a 7. Now if they can up the serever numbers and let us set our own graphics I will be perfectly happy. I don't even care about the unlocks anymore.

[Nil]

I do! I want to go 190 JABO on the Russians..(1 time in 50, but I want to be able to)), but that means I'm forced to do something I really don't want to do.
The game/sim have so much potential, so why destroy it with the U-word, and the levels?!

[dburne]

Changed my rating to a 3, no longer play BOS.

[SYN_Mike77]

So the server numbers have been raised and so has my score for the game.  Back to an 8.  I don't even care about unlocks anymore.  Give us custom graphic settings and I'd give it a 9.

[JG1_Lipfert]

I have given it a 6, based on the fact that my squad dumped it. I am not flying it, the unlocks and target audience are bipolar in my opinion. I am however waiting to see how it develops over the next few months. Also you have to factor in the total marketing release fiasco, a vibrant supporting group of players turned caustic overnight after funding the development cycle and then being totally ignored by the Dev team.

 

Perhaps over Christmas I will have the time to put it through it's paces and that might cause me to adjust my score.

 

S!

[SvAF/F16_Goblin]

I voted 7 due to :

1 Unlock decision that carries over into MP

2 Forced SP Campaign

3 No possibilities to set up a server

4 No ME/FMB

5 No possibilities to adjust graphics

[=LD=Hethwill]

After all i've seen so far and a bit more beyond the veil.

 

I will stick with Oddball Eight and add a half point

 

++ Excellent visuals at High and Ultra

++ Very good and credible flight mechanics

++ Air combat immersion 

++ The Best... SP/MP potential with Mission Editor

+ Very detailed world

+ Very good damage mechanics

 

~ Decent Campaign layout - as in chapters

~ Interesting quick missions SP generator

~ Uncomplicated Difficulty settings - Fixed for Online SP, Custom for Offline SP, Custom for MP server side setup.

 

- Missing Custom graphics options: at the very least Ambient Occlusion on/off ( some chips have real issues with this )

- Missing Community tools: DServer

- Missing Community tools: ME

- Missing immersion options: Knee Pad map

- Missing immersion options: Radio Comms ( request landing/request takeoff/etc )

 

[Solmyr]

I'm seriously asking myself how can 12 persons could have rated it at 1/10..... >< Rageous little boys that can't accept to be a little patient for sure...

 

Meh.. It's Christmas, anyway...

Edited December 7, 2014 by Solmyr

[Nil]

The 8 beats the 7's now! Seems like people learned to live with it?
I continue my boycott.. I earlier promised to never touch it again when the 75'th person voted they like the challenge ,, and they are now 78.
But I had fun during the AE, and still consider it to be money well spent, even thou I will not use it until unlocks are gone!.. (and have to admit grining like hell to get a hat in a combatgame.. 15 hours+)

[jeanba]

veteran66's campaign gertaly improves the game, I wish there were more like this to raise my note to 8

[Nil]

5.8 on metacritic now... and only 3 'professional' reviews that average 76.6

[JtD]

6.6 average right now in this poll.

 

I think a lot depends on if you expect the Battle of Stalingrad or just half of it when you buy it. I recall my severe disappointment when I learned about the summer/autumn half of the battle being omitted. I was recently reminded that folks new to the title are similarly disappointed.

[Nil]

I can't re-rate it myself, since I don't even have had it installed since more then a month ago, as I just stopped caring about it totally.. same as the devs do about our complaints!
But it's a really solid platform to build addons to.. at the same time I don't even bother to play it..even put the joystick on a shelf, packed in a box, so it's currently 'unratable' for me

(And 6.6 is really really bad compared to what it might've gotten!)

Edited December 19, 2014 by Pigmachine

[Nil]

It's weird how you claim not to care but you've posted about BoS' failings three times in the past two days.

I drink a lot

[Lusekofte]

I drink a lot

 

LOL.....

 

well I hope you reconsider, your boycott will not help. I started to like online flying at Sndicate server and I am quite sure you would too.

Give the game a second, third and four chance at some time you will like it 

[Lusekofte]

I have not re voted, but I voted 7 at first, then I considered to put it on 4 to 5, now I enjoy it very much, but objectively I rate it 6 to 7. It still lack ME and it should be possible to have a ROF like campaign and career play. 

The planes are very sensitive to the physics applied to them, the same physics that is giving this game a unique feeling, I think they are too light somehow. But it is not a problem for me.

There are a great possibility for a good 9 + later in development in my opinion

[ST_ami7b5]

I have not re voted, but I voted 7 at first, then I considered to put it on 4 to 5, now I enjoy it very much, but objectively I rate it 6 to 7. It still lack ME and it should be possible to have a ROF like campaign and career play. 

The planes are very sensitive to the physics applied to them, the same physics that is giving this game a unique feeling, I think they are too light somehow. But it is not a problem for me.

There are a great possibility for a good 9 + later in development in my opinion

It's about the same with me ATM...

[Noe]

8 - Cenários e missões muito repetitivos, mas acredito que vai melhorar e muito...

[Nil]

Bought new Cpu, mobo, ram and GFX-card.. to take up my former simracing career again, when I'm not sneaking around in a submarine.
Just to prove that I can be at least as stubborn as the devs.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

You show em Piggy!

 

It's still a 7 but should improve with FMB and other goodies in a few weeks.

[Original_Uwe]

Gave it a one, only because there is no zero.

Edited January 24, 2015 by forsale

[5th-GIAP_Sytov]

I enjoy BOS for what it offers now and in the future.  Thanks Devs for all that you are doing and will do down the road.  Much appreciated over here...

 

[Trooper117]

Still at a 5 here... I'm waiting to see what the latest news and updates bring.

Couldn't give a crap about the unlocks anymore, sick of hearing about them, but if they don't do something about the campaign or single player experience it will still remain a 5.

[voncrapenhauser]

Unlocks nearly all done, so not an issue with me anymore.

At this time I would say 7 1/2, honestly a better campaign with more variation would get it a better score.

 

Fingers crossed for the future.

[Nil]

When ded-server and FMB is out I'll rerate mine.. and add a little for the anticipation of upcoming IL-2 BoM.
Currently I don't even have it installed, so it wouldn't be fair to change rating for me.

Current news 10+
Unlocks removed 9

Skins still locked 6
Ded-server TBA

FMB TBA
FM's TBA
DM's TBA
How it run with my 'new' computer TBA
Overall TBA

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

Rated up to 8/10. Solid stuff, but so many problems. It's depressing how fun this game can be and yet it's held back.

[Spinnetti]

Looks great, but a long way to go until its as fun as IL2 (modded).... I don't really play it much as is.

[JtD]

I just changed my vote from 4 to 7 to take recent progress into account - many details, and of course the mission editor as the big feature. Still not perfect, but impressive progress since release. I'll probably uprate again once we get the non-winter maps. Keep going.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

 

Would at least be 9.5 with custom graphic options, custom skins, FMB, without unlocks (in MP and QMB at least) and with some improvements of the campaign mode.

 

+1 and I would give it 20 out of ten if there was a lobby or pager system in the server selection room + co-ops (the latter is less important providing we could see players online and communicate with them)

 

I gave it 7. It looks and feels the part but at the moment is lacking a little.  

[Finkeren]

In light of the recent updates I'll have change my initial verdict to an 8/10. I still think BoS suffers from some bad design choices and a lack of content, especially SP, but the sim itself is really top-notch now. There are still details that could be added, but they are so minor, that I'd consider the sim practically complete now.

 

8/10 is propably the highest I'll be able to score it before we have substantial 3rd party SP content developed and a fleshed out MP with a larger player base. 

[71st_AH_Hooves]

Upped my rating from a 6 to an 7.  FMB and announcements of a future are a sign for the future.  Loft giving back features he randomly removed would give it a 8.  And adding new features, such as some sort of VR support (HTC vive or OSVR) would take it higher.

[Rjel]

I upped my vote from 7 to 8 based on the last couple of updates. Right now, BoS is running exceptionally well for me. Several hours of flight time over the last couple days without a glitch. I believe too, based on some recent movement such as the unlocks, shows some willingness on the part of the developers to accommodate at least some of the communities' requests. Based on this and the recent developers diaries leads me to believe the future looks brighter than it did six months ago. 

Edited March 21, 2015 by Rjel

[6./ZG26_Emil]

I upped my vote from 7 to 8 based on the last couple of updates. Right now, BoS is running exceptionally well for me. Several hours of flight time over the last couple days without a glitch. I believe too, based on some recent movement such as the unlocks, shows some willingness on the part of the developers to accommodate at least some of the communities' requests. Based on this and the recent developers diaries leads me to believe the future looks brighter than it did six months ago. 

 

Might not be the place to discuss this but am I wrong in assuming that only founders or premium members can remove the unlocks? 

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Premium and upgraded standard - with both aircraft purchased.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Premium and upgraded standard - with both aircraft purchased.

 

Right....so there wasn't really any willingness on the part of the developers to accommodate the communities dislike of that system. If I make an online mission for my squad with fixed load outs some of them cannot play it until they've done the unlocks.

 

This is the sort of stuff that holds my rating down. 

[JtD]

Or buy the Fw and La.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Or buy the Fw and La.

 

Or let people play a game/sim they've paid for in the way they would like to rather than be forced to grind tens of identical missions just so they can fly with the rest of their ONLINE squad?

 

I'm not a hater of the sim I fly it alot and there is loads to love but the forced game play and lack of very necessary 'sim' features hold it back.