The unfortunate turth

[d.burnette]

Well as for myself, my wait has not been quite as long as many of you.
I was heavily into IL2, first with FB, then with the AEP followed by PF. Then eventually I got 1946 to make it easier to have it all together. Most of my flying was done offline, but man did I ever have many, many enjoyable hours with it. I remember quite well, it was the reason I purchased Track IR - never will forget that first flight in IL2 with my new Track IR device...

I followed the development of the sequeal with great anticipation. Then time kept going by and going by, and nothing. Then a change of my position at work took me away from simming much for a while. Then I got more back into it, and started checking out what then was knows as CLOD. This was after the Russian release but before the release in the states.

After reading up on the forums, I decided to hold off. Then after the release here in the states, and reading up some more, I decided to hold off longer. Then about 7-8 weeks ago, reading about this new patch, I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger and purchased it through Steam. The first couple of weeks I spent off and on mapping my controls, building a joystick file for it , for my Cougar HOTAS. I have only flown about 3 hours in it, mainly in the quick missions, then I decided to hold off and wait for this new patch. Performance was "ok", but I decided to just wait and see what the patch brings before really getting into it heavily.

I can certainly understand the frustration many must be feeling. I have to admit, after seeing an update a couple of weeks ago, I fully expected the patch that would be released , to be much further along than apparently what it is now, based on what I have read here. I myself, just do not have the time to spare to go through the efforts of testing this alpha patch release and providing the feedback to help, if I did I certainly would. But it will remain in a holding pattern for me, until probably it is an official patch updated through Steam.

I really don't view it as I have anything to lose. I would love to have the glory of the sim available to me that most hope CLOD will be. Yes, I paid full price on Steam, but it is not really that much money - I have certainly spent more and gotten far less. I do hope they get it to where the majority would like to see it, and if the sequel proves to be very good I will not hesistate to get it as well, but I will wait like I did with CLOD to be sure it is.

In the meantime I have other good flight sims to entertain me while I wait, granted not a good WWII sim like I want more than anything, but I will patiently wait to see the end result of this latest patching process, and hope for good things for all...