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The king is not dead - "Rebirth" of the original IL2


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upcoming v4.12 patch:

 

 

When I look back...2001....I was young and so excited about this sim which, then, looked much different than today....Its still the king of the hardcore sims...The only one in "hardcore" genre with massive MP...Its not all about shiny graphics and super uber (but sometimes not so accurate hehe) FMs and DMs....

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Outstanding job indeed! So well done ... As we say in my country, hope is the last thing you should loose. You help it to be so. Keep it up.

 

The Kursk video tells it all about the great effort involved. And the taxi lights are a great innovation. IMHO it does not necessarily affect inmersion. The marks on the ground are postponed Santa's gifts, ein?  :biggrin:

 

Just a heartfelt thank you.

 

AA_Engadin

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IL2 is perfect.
 
No bugs
 
Many Many maps
Over 200 Planes
Ground vehicles fight each to other ( You can fly missions , Ground Air Suport )
Online coops
Online Wars, with persistent world  (I play over 10 years many online wars like SEOW )
Customizable Pilots
Customizable Skins
Thousands of static objects
Hundreds of ground vehicles and tanks
A loot of ships

 

 

 

 

Hnd has surprises :D

 

 

 

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The King is doing quite well. I spoke to him this morning hefore I left the house..  This is why I feel that CoD and RoF are yardsticks on modern day features but as far as overall features to make BoS agreat sim.. IL2 should be the most used yardstick. 

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Time will tell BC.

 

Currently hardcore sims are all about features, visuals and new planes. Lack of critical FM revisions or essential fixes in 777?

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One thing that the original Il2 experience tells me is that any sim needs to be successful and in development for about 10 years to reach a level of maturity and content to compete with something like Il2.

My initial experience will the original IL2 was very disappointing. It just wouldn't run acceptably on the computer I had at the time. It took until Pacific fighters was released before I revisited the series (with a new computer that could actually run it) before I found out what I was missing and I went back and bought all the preceding installments of the series.

 

In my opinion the ability to merge installs was a key point in the success of the original IL2 series. It became a one stop shop for all my simming needs. All the theatres, planes, campaigns missions all in one place. Upgrades to the game engine were upgrades to the entire series.

 

When CoD came along I accepted that it was time for a refresh of the series and I was willing to accept a reduction in the plane set, maps etc because I never looked at the Cliffs of Dover as a standalone Simulation. I looked at it as that first IL2 at release, except this time it worked on my PC and it had me looking forward to another 10 odd years of further development and expansions. Unfortunately that official support was not to be. C'est la vie!

 

I expect I will buy BoS at release (I???

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IL2 didn't run great on my rig when I got it. The truth is it doesn't have to run great it just has to run well enough to keep it's users engaged. If it does that..if it is built insuch a way that someone with a 5 year old rig can still enjoy it with some tweaking and  someine with a one year old or better rig can really enjoy it it will do well. 

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IL2 didn't run great on my rig when I got it. The truth is it doesn't have to run great it just has to run well enough to keep it's users engaged. If it does that..if it is built insuch a way that someone with a 5 year old rig can still enjoy it with some tweaking and  someine with a one year old or better rig can really enjoy it it will do well. 

 

With this I completely agree.

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btw, maps are from SAS mods and there is a chance it will be included in the V.12....fingers crossed...they are beautiful

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BMA_FlyingShark
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Hm...Caspar from Team Daidalos said no new maps for 4.12 but they are planned for the future.

 

~S~

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