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Originally Posted by M1sF1rE
I wanted to love this sim, but I'm not a hardcore purist like many in this forum.
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And that's exactly why you prefer WoP. There's nothing wrong with it, it's a matter of personal taste.
For example, what you say about the tracers i find it to be generalizing a bit. They are excellent as to what criteria? They are movie like, if you want it to be like that then they are obviously going to be excellent for that purprose.
If another set of criteria was applied we could say they are certainly not looking like the real thing...i've fired 20mm AA cannons in real life, guns that are very similar to those found on WWII aircraft, and CoD's tracers are the most faithful rendition on a computer screen up to this point.
What i'm trying to say is, people can and should have their own opinions. We just can't expect everyone to agree when we describe things with definitive and superlative terms like "excellent" or "the worst ever" (or say something subjective and then stamp the word "fact" in big fat capitalization at the end of the sentence, like someone else did a few posts down
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It's importnat to say what each feature is good/bad for, because there's not a single way that's best for everything and there are a lot of different sets of criteria that can't be satisfied by a single implementation
In short, WoP is a very good dogfight game, it focuses on dogfights so the maps are small and aircraft management is minimal. CoD is part of a different gaming genre that tries to recreate more of the experience on flying an aircraft, so it carries along more demands.
I think that comparing the two just because they feature aircraft is like comparing lions to panthers, sure they're in the same family of animals but they're definitely not the same kind.
Personally, i prefer seeing things looking closer to how they are in reality even if that means they will be less impressive. If i want a hollywood experience i will spend time on another game, but in a simulation i prefer things to be real-life believable even if that makes them more boring.
I think a big part of the gnashing of teeth with CoD is just that, a lot of people picked up IL2 through WoP and have similar expectations, so they totally gloss over the huge part of gameplay that lies within the more difficult realism settings in the sim. I fly with all the engine management and temperature effects on, so i get much more impressed with CoD than i get frustrated. If people fly in relaxed difficulty settings and miss out on 50% of the gameplay the sim has to offer, then it's obvious they will get bored fast and start noticing the negative aspects more.
As for flaming, it's not people who say "i prefer impressive over realistic" that get flamed, they just have a difference of opinion, so i don't think anyone will flame you. Usually it's the people who try to convince everyone that impressive always equals realistic that attract the flak. Cheers