Hardware, software and the future of flight combat sims.

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

I was flying on ATAG Last night. 112 people at one stage flying in COD. At my 280ms ping I did not notice any warping. It was absolutely fantastic!
This is THE benchmark for any Combat Flight SIM Multiplayer experience.
I wait in anticipation to see if further titles in the IL2 series can match this performance.
Way back when ROF was released I expressed a concern about the limited player limits in the title. The ROF community immediately shot me down because apparently there were NO large scale air combats over the Western front and the places that I read about them were lying.
I stopped posting in that community shortly after.

That's PDG with no warping.. I hope that some of whatever makes that possible in CoD can be implemented in BoS.. but I have yet to fly CoD online as I just got it working offline with my upgrade.. It isn't bad I am still trying to tweak my settings.. I have some issues but i think they may be more settings related.. so I am trying to work through them before I even get online.

Originally Posted by SlipBall

You must have read me wrong, I am not at all against ROF. I'm just saying that ground pounding will require something to pound.

.. and for Stalingrad .. a lot to pound.. When I think about all this.. this whole new thing.. I think of sims other than CoD and RoF and even when I think of IL2 I can't help but look at it all as a cumulative kind of equation.. as in why they can't get some of the things that were right in all these sims and kind of work them into a viable product.

Originally Posted by startrekmike

CloD is a good sim, if anyone tries to tell me it is not, I tell them that they are wrong but I also think it is wrong to assume that it is the best, it is not and it really should not be used as a example for future projects as it really has it's annoying issues that should never have been there in the first place.

When I want to fly a quick mission in CloD, I have to set up one of the pre-builts so that it can be opened in the editor, open it in the editor, alter the plane types, AI (for all the good it does), change the ammo belts to my customs and then I can click play.

With IL-2 1946 and ROF, I can pick my map, my plane, the enemy, if I want a airstart or a ground start (I loathe air starts) and even alter my loadout, no fuss, no muss. I think this is a good example of why CloD should not be held up so high that we fail to see it's flaws, it is a good sim but the new IL-2 would be wise to steer clear of it's mistakes.

I play both, I enjoy both, I hate this feeling that I get in this forum that I have to choose a side because I have already chosen both.

My sentiments exactly..

Originally Posted by addman

I don't think CloD sold a million but please provide me with a link to that source though.

P.S Here's a link to vgchartz, they aren't 100% accurate and I'm not sure if they include digital sales but usually it's pretty close to the mark.

That's an interesting link.. so is that 300k ?