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Stormcrow, there is truth in your statement
We were told to expect something better and above IL-2. And there was no doubt because we knew the dev team had already several years of experience from IL-2 and would use lessons learned to create something even better. But something happened along the way and we got CoD at it's current state. So for sure there were may upset fans because of this.
Only thing we can wish is that Luthier and his team can pull together CoD and with it's sequels/add-ons bring up to the place it was planned to be, the new benchmark in WW2 flight sims.