Il-2 Cliffs of Dover b. 2011 - d. 2012
 

Spitfires, as they appear in my imagination. According to Ilya, this looks completely wrong; they're your babies after all, and if you want to trash them, no mere mortal can stop you.

Thanks Kristorf, checkmysix and Shado for the skins!

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6...02in111c-1.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6.../102in111b.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6.../102in111f.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6.../102in111e.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6.../102in111g.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d6.../102in111h.jpg

erm... ?!? Is this about the skins? Well, exactly for this reason, there ARE skins to change. Everyone can have his/her own Spitfires!

I don't understand the OP

Got no idea what he's talking about either :confused:

Agreed.

The only thing stopping skin DLs online are the server hosts.

Maybe he's talking about the poorly optimised weathering layer. Those shots are all fairly old I think.

Yes, the weathering is stuck on atrocious. :(

I'm glad that at least you are able to see the difference between properly displayed skins and the currently "poorly optimised weathering layer", as you tactfully describe it.

These shots were made by me yesterday in the latest steam version of CloD, after I rolled back a "bob" data file to the version with the original "weathering" effects. One could easily see from the kristorf skins I used, according to the date he made them available for download, that my shots would have been made no earlier than 06-20-2012.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=197

Sorry for the bad news Blennydude: not everyone can have them look like this. Luckily for the vast majority, they can't tell the difference anyway.

They are nice skins.

But I think the sentiments of the OP lie in the thread title and I'm curious as to why he is still here.

"Il-2 Cliffs of Dover b. 2011 - d. 2012"

Add another to the long list of people prematurely predicting the death of COD. They've all been wrong for the last five years and I would suspect they will continue to be wrong as long as the game engine keeps evolving. It appears the Sequel will include the Channel Map which will benefit from all the feature improvements in the next release. It will be interesting to see what changes/additions are made in the developers plans with the pending announcement.