Just wondering, do you think that IL2 Sturmovik (original)was way ahead of it's time?

[Mysticpuma]

Currently, we are lead to believe that there are a lot of place-holders in CloD from IL2 (the original), which, when you consider it was started 10-years-ago, makes me wonder if the technology of the Sim was far in advance of what could be expected?

If you consider CloD is still using (in it's current condition) place-holders from the original IL2 then it has stood the test of time incredibly well.

I have updated mine with the latest HSFX 5.01 patch to include many new effects and aircraft, and these will far sustain me while myriad bugs are fixed in CloD.

That withstanding, the original IL2 has to be one of the most (for it's time and still) advanced pieces of programming in a Decade of all games, not just flight-sims?

Hopefully CloD will achieve this height of quality at some point, but I can't see myself uninstalling IL2 + the many expansions (The Last Days, Battle over Europe, Ostfront) and nor forgetting the skins and Missions that are so bountiful.

So was/is the original IL2 really ahead of it's time?

Cheers, MP