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Originally Posted by philip.ed
It is the new content that is necessary to make it a realistic simulation of the Battle of Britain. At the moment it is a channel scrap.
So OK, let's say the game benefits from engine updates and whatnot, will the radio commands sound any better? Will the RAF decals get any better? Will there be any more flyables? No, is the answer. Posts from Luthier reveal this. No more flyables have been planned: no additional content, as you point out, has been planned.
This is abandonment. As an offline user the game is barely what I expected. I fly BoB2 more for the enjoyment. Yes graphical changes are lovely, but for me not in the right places. Chivas, again you are selective in your approach. Graphical changes will not make the landscape any better. No nice hedgerows or anything. England and France aren't Russia.
I'm sorry Klem, but that argument doesn't hold water. The pre-conception up until months after release was that CloD would be the first in a series of expansions. With the team's dedication to accuracy (and my e-mails with Oleg show this) I had every inclination the team were going to deliver something unbeatable; I didn't think they'd release it, patch it so it worked (with one graphical rewrite and a few patches benefiting i and adding to the game) and then leave it. From their past attitude to achieving the best, it is abandonment of this aspect of the series. They're leaving the game to never improve it again. With your suggestion in mind, if you had a child but never promised to care for it, it wouldn't be abandonment if you walked out on it. That's ridiculous. When you attempt to produce something and don't see it finished, it is abandonment whether you want to admit it or not.
I'm happy for them to work on BoM, but their position would be a lot more credible if they had CloD polished to the gem it could be, with the relevant Sim-HQ second look review saying how far the sim has come along.
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"Chivas, again you are selective in your approach. Graphical changes will not make the landscape any better. No nice hedgerows or anything. England and France aren't Russia."
I'm being selective?? Its you that being selective. I mentioned alot more than Graphical changes. As far as graphical changes go, there will be map making tools that should allow people to update the COD map, if that doesn't happen modders will change the map anyway with removal of trees and the addition of hedgerows. As far as aircraft go, and skins go there are enough aircraft to make historical missions for COD now, and you will be able to add other aircraft and skins as they become available thru the sequels, third parties, and modders.
IF the new IL-2 game engine is fixed. In a few years you will not recognize COD, just as BOB WOV slowly got fixed with the developers Merlin Engine, BDG group, and modders. The new IL-2 engine has the capability to far surpass anything in BOB WOV except for playing as the head of Luftwaffe or RAF which most people don't want to do anyway.