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Originally Posted by Feathered_IV
I thought so too initially, but apparently it is going to be much more involved than that.
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Yes you are correct.
I understand they bought the rights to use the old IL2 flight model when they released the original WoP.. this is being built on with more detailed damage models, more simulation options but still not quite up to the level of COD.
I have to come to think of it as fitting in between the old IL2 and COD and I think it will suit a wider more casual gamer audience, with enough fidelity for us more hardcore players to give it a run when we dont have the time for the hardcore SIM.
As we all get older most of us have less time so more importance is placed on gameplay than simulation. So I think it will have its place as a balance between SIM and satisfying casual game play. If you watched some of the Alpha videos in simulation mode you can see the DM are less sophisticated but it has certainly improved on WoP. The thing that disturbed me most about WoP was the poor engine sounds and over simplified FM. These are now reportedly a lot closer to the old IL2 with perhaps even better engine sounds than both IL2 and COD.
I see it as a good thing that War Thunder will start a new era and incubator for casual WWII flight'sim' gamers that will eventually want to try something a bit harder and go for IL2 COD and its subsequent sequels.. by witch time, all of the first couple years dramas of COD will hopefully be long forgotten...
Remember most of us got our grounding in the MS CFS series (or even earlier) so perhaps a large proportion of us wouldnt have discovered or had the patience to learn to Fly IL2... I still remember the newbies joining servers and asking "how do I take off without crashing?"
oh those were the days!
