Awesome game!

[SigSwat551]

Yes, an awesome game indeed. God it's good to live in the HD era: 46" LCD, Hori EX HOTAS and IL2 BoP! Some noteworthy moments so far:

Two days ago i watched a national geographic documentary about the siege of Berlin. It showed the use of the Berlin airport as a repair station for damaged FW190's up until the last days of the war. It also explained the charactaristic shape of the airport: it also functioned as a kind of 'arena' in order to host big events organized by the nazi party. Berlin was defended by three gigantic flak towers (flak bunkers) capable of firing a maximum total of 80.000 AA rounds per minute.

When playing IL2 BoP yesterday i was playing the last campaign missions taking you to Berlin. First i was impressed to see the characteristic airfield being present in the game, exactly as shown in documentary. While the mission progressed i was wondering if the flakbunkers were in the game too. Shortly thereafter the mission ordered me to destroy the bunkers . The bunkers were shaped after their real life counterparts: AWESOME.

I had my first online experience today. I hosted a dogfight game on SIM mode. One guy joined. He couldn't get me of his tail and i had multiple hits on him. His plane was already smoking and when i was going for the kill the guy crashed his plane. This happened three times in a row. Because of the crash i didn't get registered kills. This needs to be fixed ASAP as it takes the fun out of MP. This evening i will be playing online again in SIM mode. Hopefully the experience will be better.