Graphical aspect preference ROF vs COD and other stuff

[=CfC= Father Ted]

Originally Posted by zapatista

lets see, compared to CoD, the RoF-ww2 reskinned game[/B]
- wont have the level of cockpit detail
- wont have the same detailed plane damage models
- wont have the same complex engine and aircraft system modeling
- wont have the same realistic advanced flight models (which has been THE great strength of the il2 series and has built its reputation)
- wont have anywhere near the same amount of flyable aircraft
- wont be able to have the same high aircraft count in the air, either human flown or combined with AI
- wont be able to handle 100 players on a online server with additional high counts of AI planes at the same time
- wont have anywhere near the same amount of static ground objects (buildings etc)
- wont have anywhere near the same high amount of ground AI activity and active ground objects, be this moving collums of vehicles, trucks/tanks, AA batteries or civilian traffic
- ...... and the list goes on and on.............

Where your logic fails is that for a lot of people who bought the game, CoD had none of those things either, because it wouldn't run properly. It's pointless to hark on about RoF/WW2 hybrid as a backward step, when there were never any forward steps. Sure, 1C wanted to make this amazing, complicated, beautiful sim, but in reality they didn't.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by =CfC= Father Ted

Where your logic fails is that for a lot of people who bought the game, CoD had none of those things either, because it wouldn't run properly. It's pointless to hark on about RoF/WW2 hybrid as a backward step, when there were never any forward steps. Sure, 1C wanted to make this amazing, complicated, beautiful sim, but in reality they didn't.

But then there are people like me who's only issue I had with the COD was the constant whining when I visited the forum! ( some things NEVER change ) Like all sims (Including ROF - can you remember what it was like before their performance patches????) it had issues that for the most part were solved by the developers.

There seams to be a lot of ROF fans who will buy BoS even if it is ROF with the minimum amount of development to get a WWII theater going. Good on them I am glad that they are enjoying their sim.

I would class myself as one of the people who would have bought the IL2 Sequel even if it was just the CoD engine with the minimum ammount of development to get the theatre working. I enjoy COD that much.

For me 1CGS will have to put in a reasonable amount of effort into their development to make a worthy successor for the Il2 series.

The ground war in particular will need a lot of attention.