Il2 COD Tsunami
 

the latest Il-2, Cliffs of Dover, and has been released and as expected a flame war has hit SIMHQ forums like a Tsunami.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph..._Of_Dover.html

They have hived off DRM discussion in a separate forum and Tom Cofield has started banning posters for the first time in 2 years.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3254283

Having lived through the SH5 insanity last year, I don't envy Tom's job for the next 3 months. I'm glad I am just a spectator this time..:arrgh!:

I played IL2 years ago. Seems the arguments over flight characteristics of a pixel plane still goes on. :doh:

Someone predicted a helluva flame war, I was going to amble over there later and watch them burn myself. Glad our little section of flightsimming isn't like that...I think Hunter would hold Freisler courts and put Raptor in charge if they did. Then the blood would really flow. :haha:

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Oh yeah, I remember those in the "Ubizoo". I still have some of the classic threads stored on my computer for amusement and could probably name some of the loudest individuals off the top of my head. ".50 cal is underpowered, it should be as powerful as the 20mm cannon", "Tiger tanks can be destroyed by bouncing .50 cal rounds from the road to their soft bellies", "Spitfire is so overpowered", "P-51 won the war".

Ah. Memories.

There was some combination of at least three of these on every page when I still visited there. "Cows come and cows go, but the bull never leaves..." fits pretty well as far as the Ubizoo goes. (there were some good threads and discussion there, though)

Trim on a slider! Fw-190 bar too high, The Hurricane is Uber, Oleg is biased he made Russian planes better and German worse.

People really said that? That's just too much:haha::haha::har:

Biggles...you would be amazed at the personalities on the forums and how characteristics of a friggin pixel plane are like the real thing. I had to walk away! Plus I got tired of adjusting this and that on the X52 stick.

Hey man it's the truth :stare: Just try taking out one of the La's against ANY German fighter!

Heh, I get vibes from the Over Flanders Fields forum...you know, the place that talks slack to anyone who isn't playing 100% realism :nope:

You got the idea then! :yep: Everything is uber 'cept the pixel plane they like to fly. It's fur real...flown one myself I did. Yup!

Not much humor either...I can't believe noone has made a Beatles joke in this thread yet! :shifty:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...3253090/1.html

Or maybe it's just me that's just too much of a Beatlesfreak:haha:

Actually, the .50s were underpowered, as was clear to all when we could look inside and see how they were modeled vs other rounds. I used an early mod that simple belted the .50s properly with API, and they were considerably more effective vs jap planes (not so much vs german as you'd expect).

Wonder if the new one corrects the problem where a 20mm round flips your plane on its back like it does in il-2.

And I thought the SH5 s*** storm was bad. Well, can't say that the CoD problem wasn't brewing for some time. It's usually a bad sign when the series creator leaves.

I was stoked a while back about Storm of War (whatever it is now). What's the DRM deal.