Time for some screenshots from that OTHER sim....

[LLv34_Snefens]

I think the cockpits will NOT be clickable, you will control all from your keyboard I think. The handles, throttle, stick etc will move tho along with different cockpit lights (fuel warning for instance)

Oleg stated the reason for this was that since it is too cumbersome to use in dogfights it wouldn't pay off using time programming it.
Anyone who have tried the fighters in B17-2 (very nice cockpits in those too btw) will know how irritating it is to HAVE to use clickable cockpit in flight.
For instance dropping tank. You got a button on keyboard for this, but no key to change fuel tanks. You need to press Ctrl+P to go to pan views, scroll down to cockpit, find the fuel tank selector knob, click it with mouse and press ctrl+p twice to get back to snap views.

Not that practical when you just have spotted the enemy and need to get rid of DT fast and start manouvering.

[HABICHT]

IL2 will simply RULE the sim market.

only thing making me little worried is the
GREAT east-front scenario. we all know, that the USA is a huge market for sims. but most
us-simmers only want their f.. p51's (sorry).
but, there are NO ponies. so, to all us-simmers, would you fly above the east-front??

oleg maddox is doing an outstanding job. he holds the contact to his "il2" community very
close. asking him question via email are
really fast answered.

hope IL2 in not flopping in sale numbers.
we all know, sims are on their way down. everywhere we can only see this dammed shooters and C&C clones.

pls buy IL2..and do not copy it. think of our
sim future!

HABICHT
XO III./JG54 "Grünherz" IL2

[Ripsnort]

Limited multi-player though correct?  Would like to see this one go on a global server with arena's up to 200-400 people.

[Ripsnort]

 

Originally posted by HABICHT:

 we all know, that the USA is a huge market for sims. but most
us-simmers only want their f.. p51's (sorry).
but, there are NO ponies. so, to all us-simmers, would you fly above the east-front??


HABICHT
XO III./JG54 "Grünherz" IL2

With all due respect, have you purchased CFS2? and if not, is it because it has no German iron in it?  

[JimBear]

I for one am (and have been for a year) looking forward to flying the Eastern Front War in IL-2. As it is now, you can find me flying H2H over Finland or the Russian front. My appreciation for the Me-109 has really grown lately and fighting against Yaks or LA-5s. AH in a historic match up with correct terrains is the cats meow  

[Staga]

Touche, Rip.
I have CFS2 and B-17 II.
But not on my HD anymore....  

[Ripsnort]

 

Originally posted by JimBear:
I for one am (and have been for a year) looking forward to flying the Eastern Front War in IL-2. As it is now, you can find me flying H2H over Finland or the Russian front. My appreciation for the Me-109 has really grown lately and fighting against Yaks or LA-5s. AH in a historic match up with correct terrains is the cats meow  

Same here, hosted several 'Russian Front 2' HTH sessions.

[LLv34_Snefens]

The fact that there will be missing a bunch of the "classic" warbirds in an eastern war sim might very well be one of the big reasons it has taken so long before we finally will see one. Other factor might be hard accessible data, but with archives opened this is not so big aproblem anymore (for russian speakers  ).

And it is a fact that some people won't buy it because of no Mustang or Lightning. Found some statements no more than a week old:

"Yeah but i am not going to buy that game becase I am not really interested in Russin Fighters but the graphics are nice."

"hm Fly Russian planes, Fly a few German planes, but no Spit or Temp in the game.  Ok Graphics look great but I hate Russian planes and I hate German planes(to fly instead). So my Vote is NO"

Last one is actually a German guy I think.
But having said all that I think that IL-2 WILL make it. For every of above comments I have seen at least a dozen(americans) saying that they have already preordered it.

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Ltn. Snefens
RO, Lentolaivue 34
My own homepage

[Staga]

Theres really not going to be any Runstangs Or niki-dweebs?
sounds quite good to me. LoL  

[This message has been edited by Staga (edited 12-11-2000).]

[mrfish]

hubba hubbaaaa  

[Mark Luper]

Looks cool to me. Of course I always liked the P-39  

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MarkAT

"It is not the critic who counts,
it is the man in the arena..."
Teddy Roosevelt

[Pongo]

If the game delivers on its promised and displayed quality and features. People will buy it. If they are Mustang fans they will clamour for a Mustang friendly theater(or add them to the existing theater)
Obviolsy the GPW has to be covered and some light shone on that largest of tactical air battles. But Oleg is extremely unlikly to walk away from a western version of this game.
There is certainly no other boxed game out there that can even take a nip out of a AH addiction. Although Airfix Dogfighter is not bad.

[easymo]

 Im American, and im not that picky. If it has a prop and the guns work, im there.

[funked]

I sent Oleg an email a while ago, telling him to hurry up so I can give him money.  

[HABICHT]

rip, sorry for language.
i don't have cfs2, right. i even don't have
cfs1.
should i tell you, which game banned me most
my time in font of the computer?
it was "aces of the pacific".
i LOVED the corsair and bearcat there :-).
(..err what i said???..dammed outted me :-)
btw, thinking of b17-2. b17 (1) was very nice. found the navigation one of the finest
things in the game. but my version was extremely buggy. mentioned in manual (me262, me109,me163) but only thing a ever saw was me110 and fw190. and i think, i NEVER had escorts.
i thought of the lack of us players, because
in the il2 forums, mostly european are found.

hope it all ok again rip?

greetings
sebastian"habicht"schweizer