What is wrong with me? Four things:

1) People who tell me what to think
2) People who tell me what to say
3) People who tell me what to do
4) The Merlin external and flyby sounds

The first three problems I have comes from marrying an American. She got me into this freedom of expression thing which annoys those who know better than me how I should conduct myself. The last problem is my British ancestry, in which the sound of a Merlin engine is in our genes and in our blood which can be very annoying to flight simulation developers.

Other than that, everything is just hunky dory, mate! :)

You know Snapper, your the spiting image of my uncle Fred!!

I take that as a compliment! It's an honour resembling any relative of yours, Furbs. :)

The American influence has absolutely ruined me. As a Canuck I'm obliged by our Constitutional law to be unfailingly polite and blandly agreeable about everything except hockey and beer. Thirty-three years of Yankee independence of thought, word, and action have castigated me from my well-behaved friends and family......not to mention a number of fellow forum members! LOL

I use to have a Canadian wife. I left her in Peterborough.

I think your manners are still in beta because they are not good. I hope you can work on this and that we will see an improvement with a patch for your mouth.

Their cockpit sound of the 109 is very good.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JXK...el_video_title


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBrZH...el_video_title

Exactly, and IMO i think the new sounds are amazing, MAN people are very demanding for a game that cost 50 bucks on steam, it should be like 500 bucks for the in sane quality you're after.

Or a thousand bucks. Or free, like RoF -- which have excellent engine sounds. The Merlin sounds in Cliffs of Dover are not amazing. They don't even sound like Merlins. Earlier sims reproduced the iconic Merlin engine sounds very well -- Jane's World War Two Fighters which came out at the turn of the century, for example.

We're not asking for insane quality, but if you're going to do something, then it should be done right. Some of us have been anticipating this sim for over seven years, and The Battle of Britain is near and dear to our hearts. It was the sound of Merlin engines overhead that gave hope to the Brits down below that a handful of pilots -- "The Few" -- were keeping the Nazi jackboots from marching up Whitehall. What I honestly believe is that the 1C devs do not understand that, as well as many fellow forum members here that have no emotional roots in the significance of that 1940 turning point in history.

The only way I can make a comparison is listening to Roseanne Barr singing your favourite song on karaoke night. Well, maybe not that bad -- but close! :grin:

I don't like it, my seat doesn't vibrate quite right and the octane of the fuel being used in the sound effects of the game is clearly 98 octane when it should be 130, obviously!


Meanwhile when will those lazy bastards mail me my free set of joysticks for the plane's in the game, the exact replicas of the cockpit, and the rack which sits behind me so when I get shot down I get shot through the chest.


Nah, in all honesty, once they get rid of those gaps in the sound as you rev up, I will be so goddamn happy. Just listening to the 109 (in game) makes my heart swell! Congrats on the brilliant job.

RoF free? Good luck doing anything usefull online for example with the "free" version. ;) Most of the RoF fans have spent insane amount of cash on the game, far more than CoD costs.

And the sounds, well, its quite easy to get away with engine sounds from WWI since almost no one knows how they should really sound like.


BTW. Luthier and team are trying to make a game representing BoB (as close as possible) NOT to make sure every "Brit" get the "right" emotions/feelings when playing it, the two are worlds apart imo when it comes to amount of work involved. Sry if im being blunt.