Should 1c finally be concerned about competition? Eagle Dynamics "Flying Legends".

[Verhängnis]

Originally Posted by danjama

http://forums.eagle.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=164

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We all had such loyalty for 1c, and I am certain we all believed this was the one release that could not possibly go wrong or wreck that loyalty. That's all been shattered for much of the community. How do you feel about the ED Legends series? It has the potential to be everything we ever wanted, especially if it's relatively scaleable and has a good dynamic campaign and online options. [...]

Thought I would underline the key words in that paragraph. Because as far as I can tell, CoD has the potential to be anything aswell, and the series has even turned out to be more than we wanted.

1C is still the top, because now that we have all bought their broken product, we now expect it to be fixed so we get what we paid for. So in the end 1C CoD is still the top.

...Besides, who wants to fly a Mustang?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Verhängnis

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...Besides, who wants to fly a Mustang?

without a 190' to shoot down!!!

[Conmane]

It's easy and cheap enough to get both of the games, and then see which one you like best. Atleast I don't always trust other people's opinions about games, I have to try them myself.

Sure, I'm probably going to end up playing one more than the other, but I don't think bying the other would have been a waste of money or time.

Uh... Just my 2 cents I guess.

[ATAG_Doc]

+1 goes to the dude above.

[Sven]

Meh, I like the DCS series, but I never play them for long.
The online experience of player vs player in CoD MP is just so much more attractive and rewarding to me and never gets old even in 1946.
I might just buy it, but I'm not a big fan of the Mustang, hope they add an oponent ( FW190D/Me-262 )

[Sternjaeger II]

well I suppose it's all down to what people look into a flight sim.
Does the DCS Mustang look promising? Hell yeah! Will it actually be the beginning of a serious competition? It's too early to say.

It will be down to the level of detail of the plane, the quality of the flight model and damage model, the overall feel of realism it gives you once you're inside..

It's a bit risky to develop such a project and leave it without something to shoot at, I suppose they'll use it as a benchmark and decide what to do from there.

As for the landscape, if we could combine the level of detail of CloD with the colour palette of DCS stuff, we wouldn't have to go out anymore!

[Wolf_Rider]

Gotta keep in mind though that The Fighter Collection (which Eagle Dynamics are very much a part of) is an aviation museum and they have a few of the old warbirds (airworthy) in their stable, of which, the P51 was a small ED project, which grew in size enough to warrant release in its own right.


The thing of the P51 must have a target and adversary is pure "kill fixation" from those who have no concept of what the original project was and no appreciation for a study sim.... no appreciation whatsoever, and consideration that a museum can exist in an electronic format..

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Gotta keep in mind though that The Fighter Collection (which Eagle Dynamics are very much a part of) is an aviation museum and they have a few of the old warbirds (airworthy) in their stable, of which, the P51 was a small ED project, which grew in size enough to warrant release in its own right.


The thing of the P51 must have a target and adversary is pure "kill fixation" from those who have no concept of what the original project was and no appreciation for a study sim.... no appreciation whatsoever, and consideration that a museum can exist in an electronic format..

But if you go back to the original topic which is "Should 1C finally be conserned..." you need to compare the two sims on a single playing field. COD is a combat flight sim.

If we are discussing if 1C should be concerned then we have to judge the Mustang sim on that field. It doesn't matter how good a study sim it is, until there is a decent plane set and a contempory environment for it to operate in it's usefullness as a combat sim will be limited.

Also as a single flyable plane combat flight sim, how good will DCS's AI be as an opponent??

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

The thing of the P51 must have a target and adversary is pure "kill fixation" from those who have no concept of what the original project was and no appreciation for a study sim.... no appreciation whatsoever, and consideration that a museum can exist in an electronic format..

well if that's the purpose, I doubt you'd find something more accurate than the A2A projects.

[danjama]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

The thing of the P51 must have a target and adversary is pure "kill fixation" from those who have no concept of what the original project was and no appreciation for a study sim.... no appreciation whatsoever, and consideration that a museum can exist in an electronic format..

That's slightly arrogant. It is possible to appreciate a study sim, and hope that it becomes more. It's also possible, I suppose, to have a study sim, as well as a combat sim in one package, as ED have shown with their other projects.