Well, I've just had the best 2 hours of offline flight simming I can remember...

[CherokeeFreedom]

I have great hope for this sim. For me, to date, it is the most immersive sim flying I have ever enjoyed. Flying in-cockpit alone would sell me on CloD. That is where my sim work is done and I am mostly concentrating on the enemy in my sights. Any negative points I might notice are minor and much like those that have long been associated with other sims. I came to realize long ago in IL2 46 that these points no longer took my focus away from the joy of flying with others. That is my starting point in Clod. It saddens me that the great group of fellows I fly online with are put off by all the negative comments that have been made public and won't buy it. I do hope that this will change in the next few months as the bugs are sorted out and then all of us can join online again while flying Clod.

There is no doubt in my mind that some of the bugs mentioned to date might be distracting when they seize focus from gameplay. But, I do wish everything could be kept in perspective, good and bad. It seems that so far it is primarily the bad news that is made public, almost as if there are some of us who wish for this spectacular sim to fail. At my age, 70, this might be the last great sim I ever have a chance to fly. I want it to succeed.