Some beta patches are available via torrent or direct download.but as far as I know official patches are only available through Steam.

Sorry I can not help with where to buy.

This does not seem to be correct. EB games / gamestop around me will not have it any time soon.

Why has the USA release been pushed back again? I have been more than patient with this over the years, but this is getting insulting. Now we get it over a month after the rest of the world? What is the purpose of that?!?

Release moved to 24 May, 2011. What a drag. But that's ok man I had to interrupt my funding of new controller toys for this to purchase a birthday gift for someone close to me- if i didn't lets just say I wouldn't have any peace while CoD'ing. And with this new release date I'm pretty sure I'm going to be really close to being ready for its release. I hope.

I understand that Clod is now available for d/l from Direct 2 Drive.

http://www.direct2drive.com/1/10572/...Dover-Download

They need to polish it. There is some work left to to be done
I've downloaded it, and flown it, I see the great potential in this new game.
However, if it isnt perfect when N.A. gets it, it may not prosper. Buy it from a foreign source such as Justflight.com if you want to help with the game development, is my suggestion.
Personally I don't think its ready, however it is Very Close :O)

Has anyone received a shipped notice from amazon.com?

Their site does not mention preorder and has April 26th as the date.However in fine print it does say "Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks."

I preordered from Gogamer and it was cancelled today. Anyone else have this problem. I can reorder now, but it's about $10 more expensive. Stinks like fish to me....

Just got an e-mail from Amazon:

"We wanted to let you know that there is an unexpected delay with your video game order you placed on April 21 2011. Unfortunately, we are unable to ship the product(s) as soon as we expected and need to provide you with a new estimate of when they may be delivered:

"IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover"
Estimated arrival date: May 12 2011 - May 20 2011

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this delay."

Forget the pre order... Just go to Justflight.com buy it.. using credit card etc.... get the download registration code... go to steam download an install the Game game... Then Fly it.
It is still in Beta stage in my opinion, however, If you really want to fly it, and you feel that you can input some usefull feedback. During the process...
We all Win! :grin: For me it was $45 Canadian. The Patches are coming in the same way the old IL2 game pushed them out..often! And as a bonus, one doesnot have to install manually, install them. Steam does these upates for you.
I have no problem playing Beta tester, if it will help this distribution.......PATIence will allow a tree to grow.
The oposite, wellll think about it Bro. The BHig tree gets chopped off at the Root. I would never wish this to happen as I feel that distro has gone far towards reallism and It should have a long happy Gestation. I believe that the reason for the delays is that information is coming in daily. and they want to make the Gold edition as clean as possible.
Patience Brothers and sistrs



All the Best

Are you saying that Steam will allow you to download it in US prior to Steam's release?