Good news ;) thanks for reading my comments. I really respect that.

Spray and praying with 2 small caliber machine guns just isn't the same as spraying and praying with 8, like the Hurricane or Spitfire.

The original IL-2 for PC game out over eight years ago, the graphical fidelity on the aircraft models is much, much worse than what we've seen from BOP so far.

Look at these screens for example: the first one from IL-2 1946

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...5030440333.jpg

It's an La-5 or La-7, right. Here's the closest BOP counterpart I could find.

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen003.jpg

Note the low resolution textures and low polygon model of the IL-2 1946 model, it looks horrible when compared to the high quality BOP model/texture. Notice how much more detail there is with things like the exhaust of the engine leaving a mark on the fuselage, and weathering of the wings. Really no aspect of the game's visuals can be compared fairly to an eight year old game.

Also, wasn't the original IL-2 made by a completely different developer? I don't know if 1C has the rights to assets made for that game.

About your suggestions overall, the reason I don't think they're that useful is because making new aircraft variants with different armaments, different textures, is a TON of work and expense, and to be entirely honest, completely unnecessary expense and work at that. Developers don't have unlimited time and money. They decided to make a model/texture of this Spitfire with this paint scheme and that armament, they aren't exactly going to make another one just because a few people would kind of like it.

Considering how few quality combat flight sims there are (I can't think of ANY other than the original IL-2, so less than 2 in 10 years including this game), it's not as if there are other games doing more than IL2 BOP or something. There aren't any other games anything like it in development at this moment, at least that we've heard about.

looks so good, if its not edited, or high rest better than in the game

Wow i never even thought to compare the two, thats quite a significant difference between the two and it really shows off how far the IL-2 brand has come

Thanks for that

I don't understand why they would bother trying to depict period specific battles if they don't care about the period specific planes? They've obviously made a mistake or they're holding the correct planes ransom as DLC content.

It's unfortunate either way...

What, one of the developers himself telling you exactly why they chose the plane models isn't enough? They said they have to choose a balance between historical accuracy and gameplay.

The game is neither an encyclopedia or a time machine. I have no clue why some of you continue to not grasp this simple fact.

Yes, I'm sure they accidentally made the wrong variant of Spitfire, wasting dozens of hours of work and thousands of dollars because they didn't check the Wikipedia article carefully enough.

/sarcasm

Oh, and didn't Anton just say why they chose the variants? I thought so.

Perhaps for you it is. If technicalities this minor disturb you this much, I shudder to think of how constantly angry you must be at the world in general :D

bf109 G6/U4 = 30mm cannon in nose of the plane which = Amazing accuracy as apposed to leveling up wing cannons for the perfect shot.

Please tell me anton that the BF109G6 with the cannon in the engine is in the game !

Marchochias, give it a rest.

You are wrong :)

Haha! ;)