Originally Posted by SYN_Bliss

nats,

The only thing I can guess is that you are new to the IL2 series. The great campaigns of old IL2 were produced by the community. The great campaigns of IL2COD will be produced by the community.

As far as immersing you into BOB, the FMB is there to recreate any situation you want. Unlike ROF, you are not stranded with small object and aircraft limitations in a mission. This is one of the few, if only, game engines in a flight sim that is only grounded by the hardware you run. For all criticism you give to IL2COD, especially talking about the immersion of feeling like you are part of the war, it's amazing that you praise ROF as much as you do, because the last thing you can do in ROF is simulate being part of WWI. Just take a quick stroll to the trenches (NML) and you'll find them empty. If the only thing you did in a ROF mission was fill the trenches up with the same number of AAA that was historically there, and didn't add one other object to the mission besides the plane you are flying, the mission wouldn't even load. This is regardless of your hardware.

That is much more of a concern to me (the game engine) than it's current un-optimized state, bugs, or FM that will get fixed in IL2COD. We've been waiting for 2 years (ever since the purchase of planes in ROF) for an FM fix for many of the planes. Instead of fixing the planes we have paid for they keep creating add on's and new planes to sell. I'm sorry, but that is complete crap IMO. These guys will actually have the game fixed, long before they try to sell you something.

The dead horse has been beatin to death. It's quite clear this sim was released or forced out the door early. But it's also quite clear that it is being supported and will get better. As I've stated before, as far as immersion and sim engines go the possibilities for IL2COD, will be endless.

It's also quite clear you never played ROF at launch. 4 planes, a master browser that crashed every 5 minutes, coop only mode that you were lucky to get 5 minutes of flying in before you crashed or got disconnected back to desktop, all of this while waiting 20 minutes in the 1st place just to be able to fly.

I do like ROF as a combat sim, but as a WWI sim, it's far from it.