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Originally Posted by Rose
Nice vids. Let us know how it is Dowly! Also, what is Track IR and Vector Expansion?
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Just gave it a quick try and I got lots of CTDs. Tho, I read that patching it up to the 2.06, 95% of the CTDs are gone.
+ Sounds are just plain awesome! You hear the über cool flyby sound when someone passes you and can immediatly identify it as Luftwaffe or RAF plane by the sound. The weapon SFXs are perfect to my taste. If you dive, your engine starts to stutter, nice touch. The flak sounds quite good too, scary kind of as it should be.
+/- Campaign. AFAIK, you can only play as strategic commander in the campaign, designing sorties etc. You can however jump to a plane that is on the mission to fly. But it seems there's no pilot campaign (need to check the manual).
+ Scale. The combat can get abit chaotic at times. Had 30+ & 70+ german bomber&escort flights coming my way on the campaign. At times, the skies are black with planes. Really.
+ AI!!! In BoBII the AI really flies the plane. It doesnt do same things over and over again like in IL2 for example. Every fight is different and the enemy is quite lifelike.
+ Ability to save recordings from the missions like in IL2. Tho, the recording goes out of sync quite often. Lots of times I've seen my plane shoot nothing while watching the recording.
+ Radio traffic is very good and has much more variety than in IL2. You hear chatters like "This is 2. I'm losing power! I think my engine had it!". Very immersive.
+ Good training missions where you get to practice take offs, landings, formation flying etc.
- Engine. IL2 looks better for most parts, but still I get crappy performance when near fires & smokes. I think I need to test other drivers first to be sure if it's the game or my drivers.
-/+ Difficulty. The AI is ruthless and shows no mercy. They gang up on you if they get the change and are quite hard to get out of your tail. I think this is one of them flightsims where TrackIR is very helpfull. When the air is black with planes, you cant let your guard down until you are safely landed. I like the difficulty on this one, but for newbies it might be a tad too hard.
Cant say much more at this point. I really wasnt expecting TOO much of this, but I'm glad to say I was very happily surprised by it. The graphics are abit oldish on some parts, like the terrain, but IIRC there's High res terrain mod out there.
Now, all I need is tons of BoB documentaries.
