Pacific Fighters...pfft.....

[ALF]

From all accounts the PF flight model is utter total 100% blue ribbon first place political add qulifying BS.  Fighters pretty much never stall, and the aircraft that are the most twitchy and hard to fly can accept full deflection on the control surfaces with no ill effects.

avoid PF, DO NOT SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF CRAP.

[thebest1]

waffle make sure the graphix are turned up all the way befor you say things!

[maik]

PF Has nice Eyecandy, but IMHO FM got worse. Tie fighter is gettin closer and closer.

For the Graphics, new Perfect settings have on my system at least a major hit on FPS. Still Don't now what everybody likes about those IL2 cockpits so much. Visibility in those Planes, esp. LW, just su.... and instruments are usually close to unreadable.

Also Single trees may look nice, but the Pancake Woods even worse.

Only think that still make me yawn are those incredible weather effects.

[eilif]

i got the il2/fb/aep/pf going now, i cant find hardly any multi player rooms tho, most just have the il2/fb/aep. guess ill have to wait till more get it. the designated pf room s never have anyone in them.  As far as graphics go i get better graphics with aces high because ah uses the hardware better,  a pentium 3 ghz computer is recomended for pf. i got 1.6 ghz, the game plays like a slide show when im trying to land on the cv. I think track ir works better in aces high too. i cant even look over my nose for deflection shots in il2. tho the gunnery is totaly different in pf, to the point where i cant hit worth beans. all in all pf rocks in one player and is lamer in multi, as usual. Compairing the two is sort of like compairing apples and oranges ug bad metaphor. Ah is a MOGG il2 isnt its designed to be a classic one player game with the multi thrown in there. i think oleg realizes the importance of a streamlined multi playing system and is moving more towerds that in the latest patches, but he simply can only go so far in that direction because he would have to rebuild the game from the ground up to make it do what ah can.  

in the end i find both games fun to play, i just get sick of compairing them because they are so different in intent. ah is ground breaking il2 is aces of the pacific for the new age, btw aces of the pacific is my favorite game of all time, you just cant re make a game like it.  

ug someone shoot me for writing so much.

oh and on further notice, i think target ware is the middle ground between ah and il2. if you want graphics and game play this is the game! well will be when its in its final release. Im getting sick of the fm table system that aces high and il2 use, tw uses a real physics engine that i think will be the new bread of flight sim ground work.  tw also has better graphics than il2 hands down.

[Supr]

One of the things I dont like about the IL2 series is the lack of "auto-climb"  It may be gammey but I dont like to have to "Fly" the plane all the time.  I like to set auto pilot on climbout and then minimize the game and surf the web for a few mins then return to the game and once at altitude look for a fight.

Just my opinion.

[Langford]

Hey waffle,is ya dont want PF i will take her in  a sec,i can buy it too lol:D

[Suave]

Janes WWII fighters deserves a lot of credit since that's where most of IL-2 comes from. I just noticed the other day that even the auto pilot works exactly the same. I think that's why I'll probably never buy the games myself. I haven't played pf yet, but in FB the sun seems a bit ridiculous, and I allways thought lens flare effect in a game was a dumb idea.

[Pongo]

I like the posters point.
Because AH2 uses much larger textures then any IL2 decendent. Things like the wings look way way better on updated planes.
And what is it that we see when we play? THe wings the cockpit framing...the tail feathers...
But the atmoshphere in IL2 just eats up AH2. THe mist in the valleys. the sun the clouds. In external view it looks way way better then AH2. But looking at your wing in a new skin like the camo jug 25s...AH2 looks fantastic.
And the ground terrain in AH2 while not as pretty from a post card stand point, is way way better from a tank game play stand point. There is no comparison at all.

AH2 is doing just fine...
But I will buy and enjoy PF.

[Dennis]

Originally posted by Suave
I haven't played pf yet, but in FB the sun seems a bit ridiculous, and I allways thought lens flare effect in a game was a dumb idea.

You can turn the lens flare off.


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[Sp4de]

Waffle. About difference in AH2 And PF Skin's-AH2 and PF defaults both blow. But like AH2 PF also has custom skins.

[aSTAR]

Like I've said in a previuos POST, I have PF just 3 days old and willing to sell it for $20.00 + postage USFunds.
Not my cup of tea.

[Heretik]

What's the point of comparing a boxed sim to an MMO?  Seems like apples and oranges to me.

On a semi-related tangent, anyone remember Pacific Strike? I loved that game so much, a flight "sim" with characters and a plot... all in glorious 2d sprite graphics.

[nopoop]

Not to be a fanboi but some of you are overlooking the obvious. The terrain here is pretty much a placeholder.

What can be done with skins, will be done with terrain.

Have a new guy around the office too.

Some will be very much surprised what's comin in the terrain areas.

I won't be

[Langford]

hey A star,if i buy it from u,or can i,would u do the shiping and stuff,i will buy it for 20!

[aSTAR]

NO dice LANG