Il-2 MODs

[Furio]

For what I’ve seen, AAA modders have made a serious attempt to maintain a reasonable loyalty to the game. In my opinion the quality of some of the mods is quite high. But the real unanswered question is: what impact such hackings will have on the whole, and on long term?
In my opinion, the list is: lower profits and investments, longer development times, higher prices for the end products, and possibly lower quality than technically achievable.

[Thunderbolt56]

I'm not a cheater. Never have been. I have the Unified Installer and Switcher and there are some really interesting things in the package. For me, the whole reason is THE MAPS. Some of them are absolutely stunning. The flyable B-17 is cool and there are a number of other little things that are quite well done.

I stayed away from all of them for a long time and, IMO, when the Positives start to outweigh the negatives, it's a good time to take a peak. Up to now, I still fly online exclusively with 4.08m, but when there are only maybe 4 servers I'd fly (and their numbers are thinning a bit too), I have very little to lose to check out the mods.

I won't defend the original hacker(s) and won't even defend the mods. They are what they are and trying them out is still a choice each individual can make. The truth is, the sky isn't falling, and taking the blue pill won't make you a bad person just like not taking it won't make you a better one.

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

I'm not a cheater. Never have been. I have the Unified Installer and Switcher and there are some really interesting things in the package. For me, the whole reason is THE MAPS. Some of them are absolutely stunning. The flyable B-17 is cool and there are a number of other little things that are quite well done.

I stayed away from all of them for a long time and, IMO, when the Positives start to outweigh the negatives, it's a good time to take a peak. Up to now, I still fly online exclusively with 4.08m, but when there are only maybe 4 servers I'd fly (and their numbers are thinning a bit too), I have very little to lose to check out the mods.

I won't defend the original hacker(s) and won't even defend the mods. They are what they are and trying them out is still a choice each individual can make. The truth is, the sky isn't falling, and taking the blue pill won't make you a bad person just like not taking it won't make you a better one.

excactly , this is what i was trying to say in the first place. Well said

[Chivas]

I basicly quit flying IL-2 on-line when the mods came out. The mods weren't the main reason, it was just one more nail in the coffin as I was getting bored with the game anyway and ready to move on to SOW.

Out of curiosity I downloaded the unified installer, Canons BOB beta map, and Biggin hill campaign. The mods were interesting, but buggy, as expected from beta's. I'm also very interested in seeing the release of 352'nd BOB map.

I do get a laugh out of some forum members at AAA who declare that the community doesn't need Oleg's team anymore. The people actually doing the modding have even more respect and realize they wouldn't have anything to mod without the developers years of hard work. It seems that the only detractors of Oleg's work are those that couldn't find their @ss with both hands, let alone develop anything themselves.