Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

In more than ten years of flight sims, I've never seen such a positive and unanimous reaction from the community. Quite incredible. There's hope for us yet.

Well Jason rules with an iron fist over there ...I will certainly give it a try though

[arthursmedley]

On Monday evening I'll be firing up my '109F4 and taking it for a spin.

[Sokol1]

Sokol1

[MB_Avro_UK]

Is that car an early version of the famous Triumph Spitfire? Its turning circle is WAY too over-modelled.

Not fair on the 109 pilot IMHO.

Many thanks for posting

Best Regards,
MB_Avro

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

ooooo my dears, how your critical standards have fallen and how the same old CoD-trolls who could never say anything positive about CoD are now lapping everything up that shines and glitters in the RoF-BS marketing spiel !!!!

that night time chocolate-cockpit with its little christmas lights and moody lighting effects might look PRETTY, but IT DOESNT LOOK REAL and it does not simulate what the cockpit of a historical ww2 aircraft would look at night with its instrument lighting on ! (and yes, i have seen the real item).

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by zapatista

ooooo my dears, how your critical standards have fallen and how the same old CoD-trolls who could never say anything positive about CoD are now lapping everything up that shines and glitters in the RoF-BS marketing spiel !!!!

I think this guys got a question for you Zap.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=41077

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Well Jason rules with an iron fist over there ...

lol exactly !

if you try and have some honest questions or are even slightly critical of ANYTHING related to the RoF-BS project at their forums it gets instantly deleted and people get banned for repeatedly doing so. if you say anything perceived by their mods as being in any way negative it's removed instantly, giving to the casual or uninformed visitor to their forum a misleading impression that all is well. the main other RoF forums are also filled nowadays with disgruntled users complaining about the current state of that game, so it doesnt bode well for the future of RoF-BS

and they also heavily censors any type of normal discussion on important missing features, like: no coop, no offline content (it is strictly online only and requires a net connection), their pay2win strategy with a perpetual trickle of releases of uberplane addon aircraft so only the ones with deep pockets can win online with better aircraft, lack of end user new map making and complex mission making tools, no end-user and 3e party made new content etc...., all of which can only be described as trying to create a misleading impression of the lack of importance of some of these missing features, lack of overall content of a ww2 battle that was a huge ground based slogfest between 2 major armies (just look at the landscape previews, it is empty lifeless, and dead), their hidden pricing and sales policies, and the pay2win sales model being used.

even worse, some of their moderators and marketing drones are shouting insults at posters in other forums as well (while masquerading as "normal forum users" and not identifying themselves as stakeholders), trying to plant misleading information and manipulate the discussions to give it positive spin and drum up prospective new (uninformed) customers

not exactly a business style that inspires confidence

[Feathered_IV]

The Freidrich looks rather nice. The more detailed ground handling makes it a bit of a handful on takeoff and landing. Too much throttle while taxiing will have the unwary turning a full 360 very quick. So nice to be back over a patch of the motherland though.

[SlipBall]

interesting shots, thanks ...that unlock list looks as though it may be long

[Feathered_IV]

Just had a quick look, only the 20mm pods if you scroll down. Perhaps they'll add some other stuff later when they are out of alpha.