Disclaimer:
I do not have the game, I hope to get it in the future, but this is gathered from what I have read and watched on the interwebs.
First off...I hope and pray that this forum never gets the wars between the pro and anti-Oleg factions that I've seen on many other forums.
That said, my hopes for CloD have risen slightly. It's a good looking sim, the cockpits are pure pron, absolutely beautiful. The damage modelling also looks good, and the flight models are pretty good too apparently.
In regards to that video with the Bf110, I can only presume that realism settings were turned down, however, again, this is something I cannot be sure of.
There are a lot of bugs, the primary show stopper was the initial non-support of quad-core CPUs, turning the whole thing into a CPU munching slideshow which was only playable with two aircraft over water at best. The latest patch seems to have improved things a bit, but it's still pretty stuttery which is not good for a horse which is fresh out of the stable. I think that this has somehow been rushed out, which considering it's had six years...I dunno, BUT providing that the company doesn't get tits up from the initial bad press (because it is going to get a lot of low marks because of the performance issues I suspect) I think that they will fix this to the point where it will be playable.
Now, my other bugbears, sound and environment. Well, it's still Olegs world, the graphics are beautiful but colours look a little off in places, particularly the grass. The Sound....yes...the sound...well, the lawnmowers are back but they appear to have been upgraded slightly, it's not quite as terrible as stock IL2 sounds but it's not that brilliant either...this is something I expect will be modded fairly rapidly.
Radio chatter sounds...well, I haven't heard much of it to be honest, I don't think anyone has dared to put too many friendly aircraft in the air :haha: But the one guy I have heard sounds like what we call a 'Terribly Terribly' aka a right stuck up posh git, so that's about right, I just hope that the voices of the wingmen are a bit less Etonian.
It's rough, it's a rough diamond but make no mistake it is a diamond and within six months I reckon it will be quite playable, and within a year it will be getting to 1946 level in terms of mods and campaigns.
It is a sad state of affairs that quite often the public have to fix various aspects of a game, but that's how it goes.
I will definitely be getting this...but probably not for another six months to a year I'd wager. The price will have come down, the patches will make it playable and mods and missions will be out to make the whole experience a bit more as it should have been from the off.
I look forward to reading more about this, from other forums and indeed from the chaps here when you get your copies. I presume Raptor and Dowly are still getting theirs on release?
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